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Filter by:Scleroderma (SSc) is a rare crippling chronic disease associated with damage of the blood vessels and hardening of connective tissue. It has quite a number of complications including ulcers to the fingers and toes (digital ulcers). Digital ulcers (DU) are a frequent challenge in patients with SSc (PwSSc), as they approximately affect more than half of these patients. Care received by PwSSc DU is varied. Patients with three or more ulcers are considered to have severe disease therefore these patients usually receive expensive treatments and referred to specialist SSc clinics, while those with less ulcers may not receive the same treatments, and only see their general practitioner or local rheumatologist or left to their own means. Resulting in patients developing their own DU managing practices which may be good and some not. Currently, no research has fully identified the needs of PwSSc DU and self-care interventions to support them are lacking. The extent to which DU support needs are met by non-specialist health professionals is unknown. There is lack of literature in co-designing interventions with patients in SSc DU. Developing interventions and pathways for managing DU with patients and healthcare professionals (HCP) will enhance DU care and lessen the burden for the affected patients, a qualitative study is required. Aim The aim of this research is to co-design self-care opportunities and develop improvements in DU care. Objectives 1. to explore how patients with SSc DU are currently managed 2. to understand how they currently manage their ulcers and their healthcare needs. 3. to collaboratively co-design self-care opportunities and improvements in care. Study Methods Experience-based co-design (EBCD) qualitative methodology will be used to conduct the study. 10 HCP and 12-15 PwSSc DU will be invited to participate in consultation observations. Followed by individuals interviews for the HCP and PwSSc DU care and perceptions on unmet needs. The results will inform collaborative co-designing and development of interventions with patients and HCP. The same participants will also be invited to participate in three workshops involving designing, discussion, refinement and finalisation of the interventions. The interventions developed will be ready to be tested or being evaluated once they have been put in place..
The goal of this pilot study is to assess the feasibility of a larger study on the efficacy of mycophenolate mofetil in people diagnosed with systemic sclerosis with mild lung involvement. Participants will be recruited over 12 months at 3 academic centers and assigned randomly to receive either mycophenolate mofetil or placebo, a look-alike substance that contains no active drug, for 96 weeks.
The present study recruits female patients aged 45-65 years with a diagnosis of Systemic Sclerosis according to the EULAR/ACR 2013 criteria and age and gender-matched healthy control subjects. The purpose of the study is to investigate the possible role of Klotho and other cytokines involved in the osteoimmunological control of bone turnover as a possible determinant of the microvascular damage and fibrosis observed in SSc patients
The study is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study of the efficacy and safety of divozilimab in patients with systemic scleroderma.The study will enroll adult patients of both sexes diagnosed with active systemic scleroderma according to the ACR/EULAR 2013 criteria with a modified Rodnan skin score (mRSS) of 10 to 20. In patients having signs of ILD, the Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) should be at least 40 % of the due value. Subjects will be randomized to divozilimab or placebo group.
Scleroderma (SSc) is an autoimmune disease characterized by fibrosis (or collagen deposition) of the skin and internal organs. The extent of skin fibrosis is an important predictor of internal organ complications and increased mortality. Currently imprecise and subjective methods that varies amongst different doctors for the same patient are available to quantify skin fibrosis in patients, by "pinching" their skin and assessing how thick it is; this is the method used to determine the modified Rodnan skin score (mRSS). Skin thickness and the amount of fibrosis can change over time due to disease progression or in response to therapy. In this research, longitudinal measurements will be taken to determine if spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) can detect changes in skin thickness that occur over time in response to therapy or from disease progression in scleroderma patients. This study will compare SFDI with other clinical outcome assessments of skin thickness and fibrosis in scleroderma patients including mRSS, skin biopsy histology, scleroderma skin patient reported outcome (SSPRO), ultrasound, and durometry (durometer measures skin hardness). SFDI information will also be compared with capillaroscopy (allows for non-invasive imaging of the nailfold capillaries) if available from the electronic medical record. If SFDI correlates well with other clinical outcome assessments, it may be used in the future as a rapid, non-invasive tool for monitoring disease activity in scleroderma patients.
Primary Objectives: 1. The primary efficacy objective is to assess the efficacy of 52 weeks of open-label treatment with HZN-825 in participants with diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis, as measured by change from both baselines in forced vital capacity percent (FVC %) predicted. 2. The primary safety objective is to examine the safety and tolerability of 52 weeks of open-label treatment with HZN-825, inclusive of, but not limited to, adverse events (AEs), serious AEs (SAEs) and the adverse event of special interest (AESI), from Day 1 to 4 weeks after last dose.
systemic sclerosis women usually report problems such as stress/depression, fatigue, not deep sleep. complementary therapies may improve the reported problems in those patients
The primary objective of the study is to describe the different phenotyping of pain in systemic scleroderma patients and perturbations of mechanisms of the pain. As secondary objectives, the study aims to describe the importances of overall symptoms in alteration of quality of life and conserve the questions which will be associated in a unique questionnaire in order to evaluate the pain, the fatigue and the sleeping disorders in diffused systemic scleroderma patients.
150 patients of legal age will participate in this project, diagnosed with systemic sclerosis. Patients will be randomly assigned, as will be detailed later, to one of the following three groups: Therapy Group (GT): This group will be made up of 50 patients who will receive cognitive behavioral therapy of coping with stress (online modality) in groups of 10-12 people during twelve sessions Consecutive weekly courses of 1.5 to 2 hours duration taught by psychology professionals. of this mode 4 subgroups will be made. Psychological Support Group (AP): This group will be made up of 50 patients who will receive psychoeducation about stress and its consequences and the specific stress suffered by people with a autoimmune disease such as scleroderma. It will have a duration of twelve weekly sessions. Consecutive sessions of 1.5 to 2 hours in length taught by professional psychologists. In this way they will 4 subgroups. Usual Care Group (CG): This group will be made up of 50 patients who will follow their usual care. Later, once the study is over, they will be offered to participate in coping with stress to the person who is interested.
This study is open to adults aged 18 and older or above legal age who have systemic sclerosis. People can participate if they have a specific subtype called diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis. People with another subtype called limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis can also participate if they are anti Scl-70 antibody positive. Systemic sclerosis is also called scleroderma. The purpose of this study is to find out whether a medicine called Avenciguat (BI 685509) helps people with scleroderma who have symptoms due to lung fibrosis or vascular problems. Participants are put into 2 groups by chance. One group takes Avenciguat (BI 685509) tablets 3 times a day and the other group takes placebo tablets 3 times a day. Placebo tablets look like BI 685509 tablets but do not contain any medicine. Participants take the tablets for at least 11 months. Afterwards, participants can continue to take the tablets until the last participant has completed the 11-months treatment period. This means that the time in the study and duration of treatment is different for each participant, depending on when they start the study. At the beginning of the study, participants visit the study site every 2 weeks. The time between the visits to the study site gets longer over the course of the study. After the 11-months treatment period, participants visit the study site every 3 months. During the study, participants regularly do lung function tests. The results are compared between the 2 groups to see whether the treatment works. The participants also regularly fill in questionnaires about their scleroderma symptoms. The doctors regularly check participants' skin condition and general health and take note of any unwanted effects.