Systemic sclerosis and the COVID-19 pandemic: World Scleroderma Foundation preliminary advice for patient management

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Toscana, Italy [email protected].
• ² Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Toscana, Italy.
• ³ Rheumatology Department, Cochin Hospital, APHP, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France.
• ⁴ Unit of Microbiology and Virology, San Raffaele Hospital, Milano, Lombardia, Italy.
• ⁵ Unit of Microbiology and Virology, Università Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Lombardia, Italy.
• ⁶ Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
• ⁷ Unit of Immunology, Rheumatology, Allergy and Rare Diseases (UnIRAR), IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
• ⁸ Rheumatology department, University of Belgrade School of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia.
• ⁹ Department of Translational Medical Sciences and Center for Basic and Clinical Immunology Research (CISI), University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Department of Rheumatology, Royal Free Hospital, University College London, London, UK.
• ¹¹ Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ¹² Rheumatology department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
• ¹³ Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
• ¹⁴ University of Washington, Seattle, Washington DC, USA.
• ¹⁵ Translational Matrix Biology, Medical Faculty, Cologne, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Allergy and Rheumatology, Nippon Medical School Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹⁷ Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
• ¹⁸ Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
• ¹⁹ Ragon Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
• ²⁰ Rheumatology department, Shantou Central Hospital, Shantou, Guangdong, China.
• ²¹ Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China.
• ²² Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy.