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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients at the time of biopsy collection

From: Antibodies against specific extractable nuclear antigens (ENAs) as diagnostic and prognostic tools and inducers of a profibrotic phenotype in cultured human skin fibroblasts: are they functional?

Patients

Subset

Age (years)

Gender (M/F)

Disease duration (years)

Autoantibody

mRSS

Organ involvement

Therapy

1

LcSSc

57

F

12

Anti-Cenp-B

17

Lung (ILD), digital ulcers

ERAs, prednisone

2

LcSSc

62

F

5

Anti-Cenp-B

4

Esophagus

Ca2+ antagonists, PPIs

3

LcSSc

70

M

9

Anti-Cenp-B

14

Lung (ILD), esophagus

ERAs, PPIs, MMF

4

LcSSc

67

F

10

Anti-Cenp-B

5

Esophagus

Ca2+ antagonists, PPIs

5

LcSSc

48

F

8

Anti-Cenp-B

14

Lung (ILD)

ERAs, Prednisone, MMF

6

LcSSc

55

F

11

Anti-Cenp-B

7

Lung (ILD)

ERAs, Prednisone

7

LcSSc

58

F

13

Anti-Cenp-B

17

Lung (ILD), esophagus

ERAs, PPIs, MMF

8

LcSSc

44

F

2

Anti-Cenp-B

7

Lung (PAH), esophagus

Ca2+ antagonists, PPIs, prostanoids

9

LcSSc

66

F

7

Anti-Cenp-B

14

Digital ulcers

esophagus

ERAs, PPIs

10

LcSSc

60

F

9

Anti-Cenp-B

5

Esophagus

Ca2+ antagonists, PPIs

11

DcSSc

51

F

12

Anti-Topo-I

7

Lung (PAH), digital ulcers

Ca2+ antagonists, ERAs, prostanoids

12

DcSSc

72

M

11

Anti-Topo-I

17

Lung (PAH), digital ulcers

ERAs, prostanoids, MMF

13

DcSSc

64

F

7

Anti-Topo-I

17

Lung (PAH), digital ulcers

ERAs, prostanoids, MMF

14

DcSSc

63

M

13

Anti-Topo-I

12

Lung (ILD)

ERAs, prednisone, MMF

15

DcSSc

50

F

6

Anti-Topo-I

9

Lung (ILD), esophagus

Ca2+ antagonists, PPIs

16

DcSSc

68

F

15

Anti-Topo-I

14

Lung (ILD)

ERAs, prednisone, MMF

17

DcSSc

59

F

14

Anti-Topo-I

17

Esophagus

Ca2+ antagonists, PPIs

18

DcSSc

69

M

7

Anti-Topo-I

17

Lung (PAH)

ERAs, prostanoids

19

DcSSc

49

F

9

Anti-Topo-I

14

Lung (PAH), esophagus

ERAs, prostanoids, PPIs

20

DcSSc

61

F

11

Anti-Topo-I

17

Lung (ILD), esophagus

Ca2+ antagonists, PPIs, MMF

  1. Abbreviations: Cenp-B centromeric protein B, ERAs endothelin receptor antagonists, ILD interstitial lung disease, MMF mycophenolate mofetil, mRSS modified Rodnan skin score, PPIs proton pump inhibitors, PAH pulmonary arterial hypertension, Topo-I topoisomerase I