Treatment With Mycophenolate and Cyclophosphamide Leads to Clinically Meaningful Improvements in Patient-Reported Outcomes in Scleroderma Lung Disease: Results of Scleroderma Lung Study II.
Elizabeth R VolkmannDonald P TashkinHolly LeClairMichael D RothGrace Hyun J KimJonathan GoldinPhilip J ClementsDaniel E FurstZsuzsanna H McMahanPublished in: ACR open rheumatology (2020)
Treatment with CYC and MMF improved overall health-related quality of life in patients with SSc-ILD. The relationship between PRO measures and the FVC was relatively weak, suggesting that PROs provide complementary information about treatment efficacy not captured by changes in the FVC alone in this patient population.