rheumatoid arthritis Archives

Real-world treatment patterns for repository corticotropin injection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Howard Busch, George J Wan, John Niewoehner, Parul Houston, Yujie Su, Cassie Clinton, Mary P Panaccio

Article Type

Original Research

Published

25 Mar 2022

This study aims to describe real-world use and outcomes of patients with rheumatoid arthritis prescribed repository corticotropin injection in clinical practice through retrospective analysis of an electronic medical record database.

Granulocyte and monocyte/macrophage apheresis for the treatment of immune-mediated inflammatory arthropathies: case reports

Ana Victoria Carro Martínez, Lydia Montolio Chiva, Montserrat Robustillo Villarino

Article Type

Case Report

Published

05 Nov 2021

We present four clinical reports that illustrate the clinical uses of GMA with the medical device Adacolumn® in patients with different backgrounds and immune-mediated inflammatory arthritis.

Antifibrotic drugs in connective tissue disease-related interstitial lung disease (CTD-ILD): from mechanistic insights to therapeutic applications

Gian Luca Erre MD, PhD, Marco Sebastiani PhD, Andreina Manfredi MD, Elisabetta Gerratana MD, Fabiola Atzeni MD, Giuseppe Passiu MD, Arduino A Mangoni MD

Article Type

Review

Published

15 Jan 2021

This review discusses the experimental evidence and clinical trials investigating the efficacy and safety of antifibrotic drugs in patients with CTD-ILDs and the potential mechanisms of action involved.

Upadacitinib versus placebo or adalimumab with background methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and an inadequate response to methotrexate: a subgroup analysis of a phase III randomized controlled trial in Central and Eastern European patients

Karel Pavelka MD PhD, Zoltán Szekanecz MD PhD DSc, Nemanja Damjanov MD PhD, Branimir Anić MD PhD, Matija Tomšič MD PhD, Vadim Mazurov MD PhD, Marija Maksimovic MD, Orsolya Nagy MD PhD, Jerzy Świerkot MD PhD, Tzvetanka Petranova MD PhD, Tiina Veldi MD, Asta Baranauskaitė MD PhD, Catalin Codreanu MD PhD, Daina Andersone MD PhD, Roy Fleischmann MD

Article Type

Original Research

Published

19 Oct 2020

This post hoc analysis of SELECT-COMPARE reports, for the first time, the efficacy and safety of upadacitinib 15 mg in combination with methotrexate
(MTX) in patients from the Central and Eastern European region with MTX inadequate response rheumatoid arthritis compared with placebo or adalimumab with MTX up to 48 weeks of follow-up.

Clinical trials: their contribution to the efficiency of the clinical management of rheumatoid arthritis

Cristina P Alcañiz Escandell MD, José A Román Ivorra PhD

Article Type

Original Research

Published

23 Dec 2019

This article presents a descriptive analysis of theClinical Research Unit (CRU) at the Rheumatology Department in the University and Polytechnic Hospital La Fe (RD-UPH La Fe), Valencia (Spain), as well as an estimation of the economic impact of conducting clinical trials for the Spanish Health System in terms of avoided costs.