Inceptions Cohort for Juvenile
Systemic Sclerosis (jSSc)
Study sponsor: see website
http://www.juvenile-scleroderma.com
Coordinating center: see website http://www.juvenile-scleroderma.com
Other centers: see website http://www.juvenile-scleroderma.com
Design: Inceptions cohort
Inclusion criteria: Patients with jSSc, with a disease course
less than 18 months with skin involvement and fulfilling one minor
criteria of jSSc according the new proposed classification criteria
(ref Zulian et al). The patient is allowed to fulfill criteria for
other connective tissue diseases, like MCTD, or SLE, but has to also
fulfill the criteria for jSSc. JSSc will be defined according the
new preliminary classification criteria for jSSc.
Exclusion criteria: Patient does not fulfill one major and
one minor criteria of juvenile systemic sclerosis at time of entry
into the cohort
Primary outcome measure: To assess patients with early onset
jSSc prospectively with a standardized assessment method
Recruitment period: Planned follow up period is at least 36
months after the inclusion of the patient into the cohort. Depending
on the flow of the project, eventually an extension of the
observation period is planned.