TY - BOOK AU - Sabah Gaber Ali AU - Hala Mohamed Raslan , AU - Manal Sedky Abdo , AU - Reem Hamdy A. Mohammed , TI - Serum B cell - activating factor levels in patients with systemic sclerosis : : Correlation with disease severity / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Sabah Gaber Ali , KW - Modified rodnon skin thickness score and disease severity scale KW - Serum BAFF KW - Systemic sclerosis N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation; Issued also as CD N2 - The aim of the present study was to assess serum BAFF levels in patients with systemic sclerosis and to correlate it with disease features , treatment received and disease severity . We can conclude that serum BAFF levels were significantly elevated in patients with SSc irrespective of disease subtype , disease duration or age of patients . This elevation in serum BAFF was significantly related to GIT involvement and MTX ER -