Last Week’s Hot Topic on Scleroderma

Last week’s hot topic on Scleroderma was about the In SSc Study, Pulmonary Fibrosis and Hypertension Linked to Right Ventricular Dysfunction written by Magdalena Kegel.

The article talks about patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) frequently developing problems in the heart’s right ventricle.

This new study from the Leiden University Medical Center, in the Netherlands, found that both pulmonary fibrosis and pulmonary hypertension were independently linked to the disruption of right ventricular function.

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