1. Preliminary analysis of the Very Early Diagnosis of Systemic Sclerosis (VEDOSS) EUSTAR multicentre study: evidence for puffy fingers as a pivotal sign for suspicion of systemic sclerosis
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Minier, T., Guiducci, S., Bellando-Randone, S., Bruni, C., Lepri, G., Czirjak, L., Distler, O., Walker, U. A., Fransen, J., Allanore, Y., Denton, C., Cutolo, M., Tyndall, A., Muller-Ladner, U., Matucci-Cerinic, M., Airo, P., Zingarelli, S., Ananieva, L., Desinova, O., Ancuta, C. M., Belibou, C. I., Avouac, J., Becvar, R., Skacelova, S., Beretta, L., Vigone, B., Caramaschi, P., Sabbagh, D., Carpentier, P., Damjanov, N., Simic-Pasalic, K., Distler, J. H. W., Farge-Bancel, D., Hadj-Khelifa, S., Foti, R., Di Gangi, M., De La Pena Lefebvre, P. G., Hachulla, E., Salvador, M. J., Kayser, C., Camargo, C. Z., Kumanovics, G., Li, M., Xu, D., Marasini, B., Belloli, L., Maurer, B., Mayer, M., Mihai, C., Gherghe, A. M., Riccieri, V., Stefanantoni, K., Salsano, F., Rosato, E., Senecal, J. -L., Koenig, M., Senet, P., Frances, C., Sipek, A., Stankovic, A., Stamenkovic, B., Smith, V., Tarner, I. H., Wiland, P., University of Zurich, and Matucci-Cerinic, Marco
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Male ,Anti-nuclear antibody ,Pulmonary Fibrosis ,2745 Rheumatology ,Scleroderma ,Microscopic Angioscopy ,Cohort Studies ,Antinuclear ,Immunology and Allergy ,skin and connective tissue diseases ,integumentary system ,10051 Rheumatology Clinic and Institute of Physical Medicine ,Middle Aged ,Connective tissue disease ,Autoantibodies ,Disease Activity ,Outcomes research ,Systemic Sclerosis ,Adult ,Antibodies, Antinuclear ,Early Diagnosis ,Female ,Fingers ,Humans ,Raynaud Disease ,Scleroderma, Systemic ,Skin Ulcer ,Telangiectasis ,Cohort ,2723 Immunology and Allergy ,musculoskeletal diseases ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Immunology ,610 Medicine & health ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Antibodies ,Rheumatology ,1300 General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,2403 Immunology ,business.industry ,Systemic ,Autoantibody ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,stomatognathic diseases ,Inflammatory diseases Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 5] ,Observational study ,business ,Rheumatism - Abstract
Item does not contain fulltext OBJECTIVES: The EULAR (European League Against Rheumatism) Scleroderma Trials and Research Group (EUSTAR) has identified preliminary criteria for very early diagnosis of systemic sclerosis (SSc). Our aim was to assess the prevalence of each proposed diagnostic item in a large observational patient cohort with Raynaud's phenomenon (RP). METHODS: Baseline data of 469 RP patients enrolled into the Very Early Diagnosis of Systemic Sclerosis (VEDOSS) cohort are presented. RESULTS: 68% of all RP patients were antinuclear antibody (ANA) positive. ANA+ RP patients more frequently had previous or current puffy fingers (PuFi) (38.5% and 23.3%, p
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- 2014