The 2024 British Society for Rheumatology guideline for management of systemic sclerosis.
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Authors
Denton, Christopher P
De Lorenzis, Enrico
Roblin, Elen
Goldman, Nina
Alcacer-Pitarch, Begonya
Blamont, Emma
Buch, Maya H
Carulli, Maresa
Cotton, Caroline
Del Galdo, Francesco
Issue Date
2024-Nov-01
Type
Journal Article
Practice Guideline
Practice Guideline
Language
en
Keywords
guideline , interstitial lung disease , management , scleroderma , systemic sclerosis
Alternative Title
Abstract
This guideline was developed according to the British Society for Rheumatology Guidelines Protocol by a Guideline Development Group comprising healthcare professionals with expertise in SSc and people with lived experience, as well as patient organization representatives. It is an update of the previous 2015 SSc guideline. The recommendations were developed and agreed by the group and are underpinned by published evidence, assessed by systematic literature review and reinforced by collective expert opinion of the group. It considers all aspects of SSc including general management, treatment of organ-based complications, including cardiopulmonary, renal and gastrointestinal tract manifestations, as well as broader impact of disease. Whilst it is focused on adults with SSc we expect that the guideline will be relevant to people of all ages and expert input and review by paediatric rheumatologists and other relevant specialists considered where the guideline was, or may not be, applicable to young people with SSc and juvenile-onset disease. In addition to providing guidance on disease assessment and management the full guideline also considers service organization within the National Health Service and future approaches to audit of the guideline. The lay summary that accompanies this abstract can be found in Supplemental information 1.
Description
© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Citation
Denton, C.; De Lorenzis, E.; Roblin, E. et al. 'The 2024 British Society for Rheumatology guideline for management of systemic sclerosis', Rheumatology, 63(11) pp. 2956-2975. Available At: https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keae394
Publisher
Oxford Academic
License
© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology.
Journal
Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
Volume
63
Issue
11
PubMed ID
ISSN
1462-0332