Clinical Trials

Scleroderma - Hypertension Study

A two-stage prospective observational cohort study in scleroderma patients to evaluate screening tests and the incidence of pulmonary arterial hypertension and pulmonary hypertension – The DETECT Study

Protocol ID

08-02-105

Protocol Description

The goals of this research study are

To evaluate different screening methods for their capacity to predict and confirm pulmonary hypertension (PH) in scleroderma subjects and
To evaluate the incidence of PH (i.e., number of new cases per year) in scleroderma subjects