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Determining the Risk Factors and Clinical Features Associated With Severe Gastrointestinal Dysmotility in Systemic Sclerosis.
Arthritis care & research - 1 Sept 2018
McMahan Zsuzsanna H, Paik Julie J, Wigley Fredrick M, Hummers Laura K
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: A subset of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) develop severe gastrointestinal (GI) dysmotility. We sought to determine predictors of severe SSc GI dysmotility and to identify distinct features associated with this phenotype. METHODS: Patients with SSc who required supplemental nutrition (enteral or parenteral tube feeding) were compared to SSc patients with mild GI symptoms in a cross-sectional...
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