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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Epidemiology and disease characteristics of systemic sclerosis-related pulmonary arterial hypertension: results from a real-life screening programme |
Author: | Morrisroe, K. Stevens, W. Sahhar, J. Rabusa, C. Nikpour, M. Proudman, S. Hill, C. Lester, S. Rischmueller, M. Walker, J. Nash, P. Ngian, G. Roddy, J. Strickland, G. Thakkar, V. Zochling, J. |
Citation: | Arthritis Research and Therapy, 2017; 19(1):42-1-42-10 |
Publisher: | BioMed Central |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
ISSN: | 1478-6354 1478-6362 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Kathleen Morrisroe, Wendy Stevens, Joanne Sahhar, Candice Rabusa, Mandana Nikpour, Susanna Proudman and the Australian Scleroderma Interest Group (ASIG) |
Abstract: | Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is the leading cause of death in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Annual screening with echocardiogram (ECHO) is recommended. We present the methodological aspects of a PAH screening programme in a large Australian SSc cohort, the epidemiology of SSc-PAH in this cohort, and an evaluation of factors influencing physician adherence to PAH screening guidelines.Patient characteristics and results of PAH screening were determined in all patients enrolled in a SSc longitudinal cohort study. Adherence to PAH screening guidelines was assessed by a survey of Australian rheumatologists. Summary statistics, chi-square tests, univariate and multivariable logistic regression were used to determine the associations of risk factors with PAH.Among 1636 patients with SSc, 194 (11.9%) had PAH proven by right-heart catheter. Of these, 160 were detected by screening. The annual incidence of PAH was 1.4%. Patients with PAH diagnosed on subsequent screens, compared with patients in whom PAH was diagnosed on first screen, were more likely to have diffuse SSc (p = 0.03), be in a better World Health Organisation (WHO) Functional Class at PAH diagnosis (p = 0.01) and have less advanced PAH evidenced by higher mean six-minute walk distance (p = 0.03), lower mean pulmonary arterial pressure (p = 0.009), lower mean pulmonary vascular resistance (p = 0.006) and fewer non-trivial pericardial effusions (p = 0.03). Adherence to annual PAH screening using an ECHO-based algorithm was poor among Australian rheumatologists, with less than half screening their patients with SSc of more than ten years disease duration.PAH is a common complication of SSc. Physician adherence to PAH screening recommendations remains poor. Identifying modifiable barriers to screening may improve adherence and ultimately patient outcomes. |
Keywords: | Australian Scleroderma Interest Group (ASIG) Systemic sclerosis; scleroderma; pulmonary arterial hypertension; screening algorithm |
Rights: | © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
DOI: | 10.1186/s13075-017-1250-z |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1113954 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1071735 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13075-017-1250-z |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 8 Public Health publications |
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