Hospitalisations related to systemic sclerosis and the impact of interstitial lung disease. Analysis of patients hospitalised at the University of Michigan, USA

Abstract

Among a large cohort of SSc patients who are followed at a tertiary scleroderma centre, 37.6 % had hospital admissions, while worsening pulmonary hypertension, ILD, cardiac involvement and infectious complications were the major cause of mortality and morbidity.