Otylia Kowal-Bielecka, Jaap Fransen, Jerome Avouac, Mike Becker, Agnieszka Kulak, Yannick Allanore, Oliver Distler, Philip Clements, Maurizio Cutolo, Laszlo Czirjak, Nemanja Damjanov, Francesco Del Galdo, Christopher P Denton, Jörg H W Distler, Ivan Foeldvari, Kim Figelstone, Marc Frerix, Daniel E Furst, Serena Guiducci, Nicolas Hunzelmann, Dinesh Khanna, Marco Matucci-Cerinic, Ariane L Herrick, Frank van den Hoogen, Jacob M van Laar, Gabriela Riemekasten, Richard Silver, Vanessa Smith, Alberto Sulli, Ingo Tarner, Alan Tyndall, Joep Welling, Frederic Wigley, Gabriele Valentini, Ulrich A Walker, Francesco Zulian, Ulf Müller-Ladner
The aim was to update the 2009 European League against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the treatment of systemic sclerosis (SSc), with attention to new therapeutic questions. Update of the previous treatment recommendations was performed according to EULAR standard operating procedures. The task force consisted of 32 SSc clinical experts from Europe and the USA, 2 patients nominated by the pan-European patient association for SSc (Federation of European Scleroderma Associations (FESCA)), a clinical epidemiologist and 2 research fellows...
August 2017: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases