Severe systemic sclerosis is a serious autoimmune disease affecting multiple organs including the heart, lungs, kidney, and skin. Between 1997 and 2005, a cohort of 34 patients was enrolled in a single arm pilot study of high-dose immunosuppressive therapy and autologous hetapoietic cell transplantation
In this study there were 21 pairs of subjects, and within each pair one subject received 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP) and one got placebo. The data are right censored.