Sat0288 a Systematic Review of Systemic Sclerosis Clinical Trials Since 2005. Lack of Early Disease Targeting, Confusion Related to Disease Duration Definition and Low Level of Incorporation of the New Classification Criteria
Abstract:BackgroundIt is still unknown whether treatment in very early systemic sclerosis (SSc) can affect long term outcomes.ObjectivesTo systematically review clinical trials in SSc during the last 14 years aiming at answering the following questions: 1) how many clinical trials in SSc have targeted early disease and whether treatment of patients with early disease leads to better clinical outcomes, 2) how is disease duration defined in SSc clinical trials and whether data on duration since Raynaud’s onset are provid… Show more
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