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Stefan Heitmann
Publications - 10
Citations - 1128
Stefan Heitmann is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Internal medicine & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 7 publications receiving 865 citations.
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Mapping and predicting mortality from systemic sclerosis
Muriel Elhai,Christophe Meune,Marouane Boubaya,Jérôme Avouac,Eric Hachulla,Alexandra Balbir-Gurman,Gabriela Riemekasten,Paolo Airò,Beatriz Joven,Serena Vettori,Franco Cozzi,Susanne Ullman,László Czirják,Mohammed Tikly,Ulf Müller-Ladner,Paola Caramaschi,Oliver Distler,Florenzo Iannone,L. Ananieva,Roger Hesselstrand,R. Becvar,Armando Gabrielli,Nemanja Damjanov,Maria João Salvador,Valeria Riccieri,Carina Mihai,Gabriella Szücs,Ulrich A Walker,Nicolas Hunzelmann,Duska Martinovic,Vanessa Smith,Carolina de Souza Müller,Carlomaurizio Montecucco,Daniela Opris,Francesca Ingegnoli,Panayiotis G. Vlachoyiannopoulos,Bojana Stamenkovic,Edoardo Rosato,Stefan Heitmann,Jörg H W Distler,Thierry Zenone,Matthias Seidel,Alessandra Vacca,Ellen De Langhe,Srdan Novak,Maurizio Cutolo,Luc Mouthon,Jörg Henes,Carlo Chizzolini,Carlos Alberto Von Mühlen,Kamal Solanki,Simona Rednic,Lisa K. Stamp,Branimir Anić,Branimir Anić,Vera Ortiz Santamaria,Maria De Santis,Sule Yavuz,Walter Alberto Sifuentes-Giraldo,Emmanuel Chatelus,Jiri Stork,Jacob M van Laar,Esthela Loyo,Paloma García de la Peña Lefebvre,Kilian Eyerich,Vanesa Cosentino,Juan José Alegre-Sancho,Otylia Kowal-Bielecka,Grégoire Rey,Marco Matucci-Cerinic,Yannick Allanore +70 more
TL;DR: Combining two complementary and detailed databases enabled the collection of an unprecedented 3700 deaths, revealing the major contribution of the cardiopulmonary system to SSc mortality.
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Preliminary criteria for the very early diagnosis of systemic sclerosis: results of a Delphi Consensus Study from EULAR Scleroderma Trials and Research Group
Jérôme Avouac,Jaap Fransen,Ulrich A. Walker,Valeria Riccieri,Vanessa Smith,Carolina de Souza Müller,I. Miniati,Ingo H. Tarner,S. Bellando Randone,Maurizio Cutolo,Yannick Allanore,Oliver Distler,Gabriele Valentini,L. Czirják,Ulf Müller-Ladner,Daniel E. Furst,A Tyndall,Marco Matucci-Cerinic,F De Keyser,Alberto Sulli,Carmen Pizzorni,Britta Maurer,Stanislaw Sierakowsky,Otylia Kowal-Bielecka,P. Coelho,G. Riemekasten,Simona Rednic,Ileana Nicoara,Roberto Caporali,Jiri Stork,Murat Inanc,Patricia Carreira,Srdan Novak,Cecília Varjú,Carlo Chizzolini,Camillo Ribi,Eugeniusz J. Kucharz,AT Kotulska,Małgorzata Widuchowska,Jutta G Richter,A. Sipek-Dolnicar,Blaž Rozman,Armando Gabrielli,Gianluca Moroncini,Dominique Farge,C. Durant,Hans P. Kiener,E. Rath,Paolo Airò,Frank A. Wollheim,Nicolas Hunzelmann,Stefano Bombardieri,A. Della Rossa,Laura Bazzichi,Raffaele Pellerito,M. Saracco,Christopher P. Denton,Madelon C. Vonk,F.H.J. van den Hoogen,Nemanja Damjanov,Ina Kötter,Stefan Heitmann,Matthias Seidel,Paul Hasler,J.M. van Laar,Maria João Salvador,J.A. Pereira da Silva,Søren Jacobsen,Margitta Worm,Annegret Kuhn,Tatiana Nevskaya,Evgeny Nasonov,Raffaella Scorza,Henrik Nielsen,Richard M. Silver,Eric Hachulla,D. Launay,Guido Valesini,Ruxandra Ionescu,Daniela Opris,N. Del Papa,Wanda Maglione,D. Comina,G. Udrea,Coziana Ciurtin,R. Ionitescu,C. Mihai,Cord Sunderkötter,Jae Bum Jun,Chris T. Derk,S. Alhasani,L. Alhajjar,Evelien Ton,James R. Seibold,Peter Nash,Luc Mouthon,C. A. Von Mühlen,Brigitte Krummel-Lorenz,P. Eilbacher,Rene Westhovens,E. De Langhe,Miroslav Mayer,Branimir Anić,M. Baresic,F. Stoeckl,Maria Uprus,S. Popa,M. Buslau,B. Granel,Thierry Zenone,Alessandro Mathieu,Alessandra Vacca,Paolo Amerio,T. Tourinho,L. Lonzetti,M. Lemos Lopes,R. E. de Souza,D. Vealex,Paola Caramaschi,Alexandra Balbir-Gurman,Y. Braun,Susanne Ullman,Magdalena Szmyrka-Kaczmarek,Ewa Morgiel,Marie Vanthuyne,M. Meurer,P. Rehberger,Percival D. Sampaio-Barros +127 more
TL;DR: A core set of preliminary items considered as important for the very early diagnosis of systemic sclerosis were identified in a Delphi exercise among 110 experts in the field of SSc.
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Safety and clinical outcomes of rituximab therapy in patients with different autoimmune diseases: experience from a national registry (GRAID)
Hans-Peter Tony,Gerd R Burmester,Hendrik Schulze-Koops,Mathias Grunke,Joerg Henes,Ina Kötter,Judith Haas,L. Unger,Svjetlana Lovric,Marion Haubitz,Rebecca Fischer-Betz,Gamal Chehab,Andrea Rubbert-Roth,Christof Specker,Jutta Weinerth,Julia Holle,Ulf Müller-Ladner,Ramona König,Christoph Fiehn,Philip Burgwinkel,Klemens Budde,H. Sörensen,Michael Meurer,Martin Aringer,Bernd C. Kieseier,Cornelia Erfurt-Berge,Michael Sticherling,Roland Veelken,Ulf Ziemann,Frank Strutz,Praxis von Wussow,Florian Meier,Nico Hunzelmann,Enno Schmidt,Raoul Bergner,Andreas Schwarting,Rüdiger Eming,Michael Hertl,Rudolf Stadler,Michael Schwarz-Eywill,Siegfried Wassenberg,Martin Fleck,Claudia Metzler,Uwe K. Zettl,Jens Westphal,Stefan Heitmann,Anna Laura Herzog,Heinz Wiendl,Waltraud Jakob,Elvira Schmidt,Klaus Freivogel,Thomas Dörner +51 more
TL;DR: Data from this registry indicate that rituximab is a commonly employed, well-tolerated therapy with potential beneficial effects in standard of care-refractory autoimmune diseases, and support the results from other open-label, uncontrolled studies.
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Joint and tendon involvement predict disease progression in systemic sclerosis: a EUSTAR prospective study
Jérôme Avouac,Ulrich A. Walker,Eric Hachulla,Gabriela Riemekasten,Giovanna Cuomo,Patricia Carreira,Paola Caramaschi,L. Ananieva,Marco Matucci-Cerinic,László Czirják,Christopher P. Denton,Ulf Müller Ladner,Yannick Allanore,Serena Guiducci,Alan Tyndall,Giovanni Lapadula,Florenzo Iannone,Oliver Distler,R. Becvar,Stanislaw Sierakowsky,Otylia Kowal Bielecka,Maurizio Cutolo,Alberto Sulli,Gabriele Valentini,Simona Rednic,Ileana Nicoara,Panayiotis G. Vlachoyiannopoulos,Carlomaurizio Montecucco,Roberto Caporali,Srdan Novak,Carlo Chizzolini,Eugene J. Kucharz,Anna Kotulska,Franco Cozzi,Blaz Rozman,Carmel Mallia,Bernard Coleiro,Armando Gabrielli,Dominique Farge-Bancel,Sondess Hadj-Khelifa,Paolo Airò,Roger Hesselstrand,Agneta Scheja,Duska Martinovic,Alexandra Balbir Gurman,Yolanda Braun-Moscovici,Nicolas Hunzelmann,Raffaele Pellerito,Lisa Maria Bambara,Jadranka Morović-Vergles,Carol M. Black,Nemanja Damjanov,Ina Kötter,Vera Ortiz Santamaria,Stefan Heitmann,Dorota Krasowska,Matthias Seidel,Paul Hasler,Harald Burkhardt,Andrea Himsel,José António Pereira da Silva,Maria João Salvador,Bojana Stamenkovi,Aleksandra Stanković,Bianca Marasini,Laura Belloli,Mohammed Tikly,L. Denisov,Raffaella Scorza,Merete Engelhart,Gitte Strauss,Gabriella Szücs,Szilvia Szamosi,Carlos De La Puente,Paloma García de la Peña Lefebvre,Øyvind Midtvedt,Torhild Garen,David Launay,Guido Valesini,Valeria Riccieri,Ruxandra Ionescu,Daniela Opris,Fredrick M. Wigley,Viktor Stoica,C. Mihai,Jörg H W Distler,Pier Luigi Meroni,Silvana Zeni,Luc Mouthon,Vanessa Smith,Francesco Paolo Cantatore,Ada Corrado,Susanne Ullman,Line V. Iversen,Maria Rosa Pozzi,Kilian Eyerich,Rüdiger Hein,Jacek Szechiński,Piotr Wiland,Brigitte Krummel-Lorenz,Martin Aringer,Rene Westhovens,Ellen De Langhe,Branimir Anić,Marko Baresi,Maria Uprus,Kati Otsa,Sule Yavuz,Sebastião Cezar Radominski,Carolina de Souza Müller,Sergio A. Jimenez,Joanna Busquets,Sergei Popa,Svetlana Agachi,Thierry Zenone,Alessandro Mathieu,Alessandra Vacca,Lisa K. Stamp,Peter T. Chapman,Cristina Mihaela Tanaseanu,Monica Popescu,Rosario Foti,Silvia Rodriguez Rubio +122 more
TL;DR: Joint synovitis and TFRs are independent predictive factors for disease progression in patients with early SSc and may be useful for the risk stratification of patients with SSc.
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A gender gap in primary and secondary heart dysfunctions in systemic sclerosis: a EUSTAR prospective study
Muriel Elhai,Jérôme Avouac,Ulrich A. Walker,Marco Matucci-Cerinic,Gabriela Riemekasten,Paolo Airò,Eric Hachulla,Gabriele Valentini,Patricia Carreira,Franco Cozzi,Alexandra Balbir Gurman,Yolanda Braun-Moscovici,Nemanja Damjanov,L. Ananieva,Raffaella Scorza,Sergio A. Jimenez,Joanna Busquets,Mengtao Li,Ulf Müller-Ladner,André Kahan,Oliver Distler,Yannick Allanore,Serena Guiducci,Alan Tyndall,Giovanni Lapadula,Florenzo Iannone,R. Becvar,Stanislaw Sierakowsky,Otylia Kowal Bielecka,Maurizio Cutolo,Alberto Sulli,Giovanna Cuomo,Serena Vettori,Simona Rednic,Ileana Nicoara,P. G. Vlachoyiannopoulos,Carlomaurizio Montecucco,Roberto Caporali,Srdan Novak,László Czirják,Cecília Varjú,Carlo Chizzolini,Eugene J. Kucharz,Anna Kotulska,Magdalena Kopec-Medrek,Małgorzata Widuchowska,Blaz Rozman,Carmel Mallia,Bernard Coleiro,Armando Gabrielli,Dominique Farge,Adrian Hij,Roger Hesselstrand,Agneta Scheja,Frank A. Wollheim,Duska Martinovic,M. Govoni,Andrea Lo Monaco,Nicolas Hunzelmann,Raffaele Pellerito,Lisa Maria Bambara,Paola Caramaschi,Carol M. Black,Christopher P. Denton,Jörg Henes,Vera Ortiz Santamaria,Stefan Heitmann,Dorota Krasowska,Matthias Seidel,Mara Oleszowsky,Harald Burkhardt,Andrea Himsel,Maria João Salvador,Bojana Stamenkovic,Aleksandra Stanković,Mohammed Tikly,Maya N. Starovoytova,Merete Engelhart,Gitte Strauss,Henrik Nielsen,Kirsten Damgaard,Gabriella Szücs,Antonio C. Zea Mendoza,Carlos De La Puente Buijdos,Walter Alberto Sifuentes Giraldo,Øyvind Midtvedt,Torhild Garen,David Launay,Guido Valesini,Valeria Riccieri,Ruxandra Ionescu,Daniela Opris,Laura Groseanu,Fredrick M. Wigley,C. Mihai,Roxana Sfrent Cornateanu,Razvan Ionitescu,Ana Maria Gherghe,Marilena Gorga,Rucsandra Dobrota,Mihai Bojinca,Georg Schett,Jörg H W Distler,Pier Luigi Meroni,Silvana Zeni,Luc Mouthon,Filip De Keyser,Vanessa Smith,Francesco Paolo Cantatore,Ada Corrado,Susanne Ullman,Line V. Iversen,Maria Rosa Pozzi,Kilian Eyerich,Rüdiger Hein,Elisabeth Knott,Jacek Szechiński,Piotr Wiland,Magdalena Szmyrka-Kaczmarek,Renata Sokolik,Ewa Morgiel,Brigitte Krummel-Lorenz,P. Saar,Martin Aringer,Claudia Günther,Branimir Anić,Marko Baresic,Miroslav Mayer,Sebastião Cezar Radominski,Carolina de Souza Müller,Valderílio Feijó Azevedo,Svetlana Agachi,Liliana Groppa,Lealea Chiaburu,Eugen Russu,Thierry Zenone,Simon Stebbings,John Highton,Lisa K. Stamp,Peter T. Chapman,Murray Baron,John L. O'Donnell,Kamal Solanki,Alan Doube,Douglas J. Veale,Marie O'Rourke,Esthela Loyo,Edoardo Rosato,Simonetta Pisarri,Cristina Mihaela Tanaseanu,Monica Popescu,Alina Dumitrascu,Isabela Tiglea,Rodica Chirieac,Codrina Ancuta,Daniel E. Furst,Suzanne Kafaja,Paloma García de la Peña Lefebvre,Silvia Rodriguez Rubio,Marta Valero Exposito,Jean Sibilia,Emmanuel Chatelus,Jacques-Eric Gottenberg,Hélène Chifflot,Ira Litinsky,Algirdas Venalis,Irena Butrimiene,Paulius Venalis,Rita Rugiene,Diana Karpec,Eduardo Kerzberg,Fabiana Montoya,Vanesa Cosentino +172 more
TL;DR: The results obtained through the largest worldwide database demonstrate a higher risk of severe cardiovascular involvement in men and raise the point of including sex in the management and the decision-making process.