PMID- 32354573 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210122 LR - 20210122 IS - 1768-3122 (Electronic) IS - 0248-8663 (Linking) VI - 41 IP - 8 DP - 2020 Aug TI - [Illnesses unrelated to systemic sclerosis (IUSS) diagnosed throughout the patient's follow-up in a referral center: A cohort of 200 patients]. PG - 517-522 LID - S0248-8663(20)30103-X [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.revmed.2020.03.001 [doi] AB - INTRODUCTION: Our work aimed to investigate the illnesses unrelated to systemic sclerosis (IUSS), diagnosed among patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) throughout their follow-up in a referral tertiary care center. METHODS: All the patients with SSc followed in the Internal Medicine Department of the University Hospital between October, 2014 and December, 2015, were included. We specifically reviewed the medical records of the patients who exhibited IUSS, defined as an illness that could not be considered as a typical clinical manifestation or as a usual complication of the disease. RESULTS: Two hundred patients were included, and 38 IUSS were diagnosed among 31 SSc patients, over a 4 years median follow-up period. These diagnoses included vascular diseases (26%), heart diseases (21%), neoplasia (8%), infectious diseases (6%), autoimmune diseases (5%), endocrinopathies (5%), and others (24%). The median follow-up time before IUSS diagnosis was two years. Seventeen (45%) of these diagnoses were considered in patients showing suggestive clinical signs. A specific therapy was delivered in 25 cases (66%). Group comparisons revealed that dyslipidemia was more frequent in patients with IUSS (OR = 2.6 [1.1-1.5]; p = 0.014), while no differences were found for the other characteristics. Especially, no association between auto-antibodies specificity and the occurrence of IUSS was found. CONCLUSION: This study focused on IUSS in SSc patients and highlights the need for a polyvalent clinical approach all along the follow up of SSc patients. CI - Copyright (c) 2020. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. FAU - Lepart, C AU - Lepart C AD - Service de Medecine Interne, CHU Hopital Sud, Universite Rennes 1, Rennes, France. FAU - Ardois, S AU - Ardois S AD - Service de Medecine Interne, CHU Hopital Sud, Universite Rennes 1, Rennes, France. FAU - Bismut, M AU - Bismut M AD - Service de Medecine Interne, CHU Hopital Sud, Universite Rennes 1, Rennes, France. FAU - Ballerie, A AU - Ballerie A AD - Service de Medecine Interne, CHU Hopital Sud, Universite Rennes 1, Rennes, France; Inserm, EHESP, Irset (Institut de recherche en sante, environnement et travail) - UMR_S 1085, F-35000 Rennes, France. FAU - Cazalets, C AU - Cazalets C AD - Service de Medecine Interne, CHU Hopital Sud, Universite Rennes 1, Rennes, France. FAU - Coiffier, G AU - Coiffier G AD - Service de Rhumatologie, Universite Rennes 1, CHU Hopital Sud, 16, bd de Bulgarie 35200 Rennes, France; 4 UMR INSERM U 1241, Universite Rennes 1, Rennes, France. FAU - Jego, P AU - Jego P AD - Service de Medecine Interne, CHU Hopital Sud, Universite Rennes 1, Rennes, France; Inserm, EHESP, Irset (Institut de recherche en sante, environnement et travail) - UMR_S 1085, F-35000 Rennes, France. FAU - Belhomme, N AU - Belhomme N AD - Service de Medecine Interne, CHU Hopital Sud, Universite Rennes 1, Rennes, France. Electronic address: nicolas.belhomme@chu-rennes.fr. FAU - Lescoat, A AU - Lescoat A AD - Service de Medecine Interne, CHU Hopital Sud, Universite Rennes 1, Rennes, France; Inserm, EHESP, Irset (Institut de recherche en sante, environnement et travail) - UMR_S 1085, F-35000 Rennes, France. LA - fre PT - Journal Article PT - Observational Study TT - Affections non-directement attribuables a la sclerodermie systemique (ANDAS) diagnostiquees au cours du suivi dans un centre de competence: a propos d'une cohorte de 200 patients. DEP - 20200428 PL - France TA - Rev Med Interne JT - La Revue de medecine interne JID - 8101383 SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Aged MH - Cohort Studies MH - Comorbidity MH - Female MH - Follow-Up Studies MH - France/epidemiology MH - Humans MH - Male MH - Middle Aged MH - Monitoring, Physiologic/statistics & numerical data MH - Retrospective Studies MH - Scleroderma, Systemic/diagnosis/*epidemiology MH - Tertiary Care Centers OTO - NOTNLM OT - Affection non-directement attribuable a la sclerodermie systemique OT - Diagnosis OT - Diagnostic OT - Follow-up OT - Illnesses unrelated to systemic sclerosis OT - Sclerodermie systemique OT - Suivi OT - Systemic sclerosis EDAT- 2020/05/02 06:00 MHDA- 2021/01/23 06:00 CRDT- 2020/05/02 06:00 PHST- 2019/07/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/01/22 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/03/06 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/05/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/01/23 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/05/02 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0248-8663(20)30103-X [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.revmed.2020.03.001 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Rev Med Interne. 2020 Aug;41(8):517-522. doi: 10.1016/j.revmed.2020.03.001. Epub 2020 Apr 28.