Cardiac & Vascular Severity Scales for Patient with Systemic Sclerosis
Purpose: | To grade the degree of cardiac and peripheral vascular involvement in a patient with systemic sclerosis using the scheme of Medsger et al. |
Specialty: | Immunology/Rheumatology |
Objective: | imaging studies, severity, prognosis, stage, response to therapy, disease progression |
ICD-10: | M34 |
Description: | Systemic sclerosis may affect internal organs in addition to the skin. Medsger et al developed severity scales to grade severity of end-organ damage in the heart, peripheral vasculature and other organs. The authors are from multiple universities in North America and Europe. |
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