Impact of the 2019 European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology/American College of Rheumatology Classification Criteria for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in a Multicenter Cohort Study of 133 Women With Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease.
Massimo RadinKaren SchreiberIrene CecchiAlessandra BortoluzziFrancesca CrisafulliCristiano M de FreitasBeatrice BaccoElena RubiniSilvia G FoddaiMelissa PadovanSilvia Gallo CassarinoFranco FranceschiniDanieli AndradeChiara BenedettoMarcello GovoniTiziana BerteroLuca MarozioDario RoccatelloLaura AndreoliSavinio SciasciaPublished in: Arthritis care & research (2021)
When applying the 2019 EULAR/ACR criteria for SLE in a cohort of patients with UCTD, we observed that in up to 17% of cases the original classification could be challenged. New implementation will help to identify earlier patients at higher risk of developing more severe CTD manifestations.