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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on March 7, 2008
Rheumatology 2008 47(5):735-737; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken104
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Imatinib for the treatment of refractory, diffuse systemic sclerosis

P. P. Sfikakis1, V. G. Gorgoulis2, C. G. Katsiari1, K. Evangelou2, C. Kostopoulos3 and C. M. Black4

1First Department of Propedeutic and Internal Medicine, Laikon Hospital, 2Histology-Embryology Department, 3Pulmonary Unit, Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Alexandra Hospital, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece and 4Royal Free Hospital, University College London, London, UK.

Correspondence to: P. P. Sfikakis, 18, Ipsilantou Str, 10676, Athens, Greece. E-mail: psfikakis@med.uoa.gr

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SIR, We report on the beneficial, 6-month compassionate use of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib mesylate (Gleevec) in a 24-yr-old woman with severe diffuse systemic sclerosis of 7 yrs duration. The patient presented in 1999 with Raynaud's phenomenon, followed shortly after by widespread diffuse scleroderma. A year later she was seen at the Royal Free Hospital, having a modified Rodnan skin score of 39 (maximum 51), muscle weakness, flexed hands and evidence of early interstitial lung fibrosis. She received 6-monthly intravenous (IV) pulses of cyclophosphamide, resulting in a decrease of skin score to 30. Subsequently, she . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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