Abstract:Background: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is associated with a variability of mortality rate in the literature.Objective: To determine the mortality and its predictors in a long-term follow- up of a bi-centric cohort of SSc patients.Methods: A retrospective observational study by systematically analyzing the medical records of patients diagnosed with SSc in Toulouse University Hospital and Ducuing Hospital. Standardized Mortality Ratio (SMR), mortality at 1, 3, 5, 10 and 15 years of disease and causes of death were… Show more
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