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. 2025 Nov;60(11):1537-1540.
doi: 10.1038/s41409-025-02684-1. Epub 2025 Aug 27.

Definition of relapse criteria in patients with rapidly progressive systemic sclerosis treated with autologous haemopoietic stem cell transplantation

Nicoletta Del Papa  1 , Myriam Labopin  2 , Manuela Badoglio  2 , Dominique Farge  3 , Jorg Henes  4 , John A Snowden  5 , Julia Spierings  6 , Claudia Iannone  7 , Tobias Alexander  8   9 ; SSc expert panelist group; Raffaella Greco  10
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Definition of relapse criteria in patients with rapidly progressive systemic sclerosis treated with autologous haemopoietic stem cell transplantation

Nicoletta Del Papa et al. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2025 Nov.
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: RG discloses honoraria for speaking from educational events supported by Biotest, Pfizer, and Magenta. JAS declares honoraria for speaking at educational events supported by Jazz, Gilead, Janssen, Mallinckrodt, Actelion, an advisory board by MEDAC, and is a member of IDMC for a trial supported by Kiadis Pharma. TA declares travel grants from Neovii and study support from Amgen. JH discloses consultancy for Miltenyi and Neovii. JS discloses research support from Boehringer Ingelheim and Miltenyi. None of the mentioned conflicts of interest were related to financing of the content of this manuscript. The other authors declare no conflicting interests.

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Fig. 1
Fig. 1. Classification tree for Round 2 Delphi consensus on disease relapse after AHSCT in systemc sclerosis.
Illustration of the hierarchical classification process of disease relapse after AHSCT in systemic sclerosis. Starting from all evaluated criteria, items were first categorized by their appropriateness level based on median scores, then further classified according to their agreement level determined by response range distribution. mRSS modified Rodnan Skin Score, ILD Interstitial Lung Disease, FVC Forced Vital Capacity, DLCO Diffusing Capacity for Carbon Monoxide, CT Computed Tomography, GI Gastrointestinal, CRP C-Reactive Protein, ESR Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate.
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