Major pulmonary studies to know

ILD

  • Scleroderma Lung Study I: cyclophosphamide compared with placebo was associated with a modest improvement in FVC
  • Scleroderma Lung Study II: mycophenolate (cellcept) works as well as cyclophosphamide (cytoxan) in scleroderma-ILD 1
  • SENSCIS: nintedanib slowed the decline in FVC as compared with placebo over 12 months, with half the patients in each arm on background mycophenolate mofetil therapy 2

Footnotes

  1. Mycophenolate mofetil versus oral cyclophosphamide in scleroderma-related interstitial lung disease (SLS II) - a randomised controlled, double-blind, parallel group trial ↩

  2. Nintedanib for Systemic Sclerosis–Associated Interstitial Lung Disease ↩