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Does Systemic Sclerosis-associated Interstitial Lung Disease Burn Out? Specific Phenotypes of Disease Progression.
Annals of the American Thoracic Society - 1 Dec 2018
Guler Sabina A, Winstone Tiffany A, Murphy Darra, Hague Cameron, Soon Jeanette, Sulaiman Nada, Li Kathy H, Dunne James, Wilcox Pearce G, Ryerson Christopher J
Abstract excerpt
RATIONALE: Previous studies have suggested that interstitial lung disease (ILD) progresses most rapidly early in the course of systemic sclerosis-associated (SSc)-ILD, and that SSc-ILD is often more stable or even "burned out" after the first 4 years following diagnosis. OBJECTIVES: Our objectives were to determine whether an apparent plateau in pulmonary function decline is due to survival bias and to identify...
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