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The Scleroderma Tango: Unraveling the Delicate Dance of Diastolic Dysfunction and Interstitial Lung Disease.

Vivek P JaniMonica Mukherjee
Published in: The Journal of rheumatology (2024)
In this issue of The Journal of Rheumatology , Fairley and colleagues investigated the effects of concomitant left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) in a small cohort of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc)-associated interstitial lung disease (ILD) derived from the larger Australian Scleroderma Cohort Study. 1 Consistent with prior reports, the authors found that patients with SSc-ILD with LVDD experienced dyspnea and reduced survival. In addition, these patients were older, had longer SSc disease duration exceeding 6 years, received treatment with immunosuppressive drugs, and had additional cardiovascular (CV) comorbidities.
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