Feinberg School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Northwestern Scleroderma Program Northwestern University, 240 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60657, USA.
Nat Rev Rheumatol. 2014 Apr;10(4):200-2. doi: 10.1038/nrrheum.2014.22. Epub 2014 Feb 18.
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.
系统性硬化症患者具有不同的临床表现、对治疗的反应不同，最终结局也不同。对患者进行分类有助于疾病管理。一项新的研究现在提出，具有重叠结缔组织病特征的系统性硬化症患者可能构成一个独特的疾病亚组。
