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Antivinculin Antibodies in Systemic Sclerosis: Associations With Slow Gastric Transit and Extraintestinal Clinical Phenotype.
Arthritis care & research - 1 Oct 2023
Herrán María, Adler Brittany L, Perin Jamie, Morales Walter, Pimentel Mark, McMahan Zsuzsanna H
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is commonly affected in systemic sclerosis (SSc). A positive association between antivinculin antibody levels and GI symptom severity is reported in SSc. We sought to examine whether antivinculin antibodies associate with measures of GI dysmotility and extraintestinal clinical phenotype in SSc. METHODS: A total of 88 well-characterized patients with SSc and GI disease...
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