title: Connective tissue diseases: systemic sclerosis: beyond limited and diffuse subsets?
abstract: Patients with systemic sclerosis present with varying clinical features, have different responses to therapy, and end up with different outcomes. Categorizing patients improves disease management. A new study now proposes that patients with systemic sclerosis and overlapping features of another connective tissue disease might form a distinct disease subset.
authors.affiliation: Feinberg School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Northwestern Scleroderma Program Northwestern University, 240 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60657, USA.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Varga
authors.affiliation: Feinberg School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Northwestern Scleroderma Program Northwestern University, 240 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60657, USA.
authors.forename: Monique
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hinchcliff
mesh_terms: D003240:Connective Tissue Diseases / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D012595:Scleroderma, Systemic / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome