Stabilization of Microcirculation in Patients with Early Systemic Sclerosis with Diffuse Skin Involvement following Rituximab Treatment: An Open-label Study

Affiliations

• ¹ Head of Clinics, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, and Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium; vanessa.smith@ugent.be.
• ² Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy;
• ³ Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy;
• ⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;
• ⁵ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium;
• ⁶ Department of Cardiology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium;
• ⁷ Department of Public Health, Biostatistics Unit, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;
• ⁸ Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium;
• ⁹ Department of Internal Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;
• ¹⁰ Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, and Department of Rheumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium;
• ¹¹ Director, Research Laboratory and Academic Division of Clinical Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.