AS Treatment: Anti-IL17
Early Tx Response Predicts 2-Year AS Outcomes Improvement in first 3 months on secukinumab tied to better long-term response medpagetoday.com Secukinumab Reduces Fatigue in Patients With Ankylosing Spondylitis By Jill…
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Early Tx Response Predicts 2-Year AS Outcomes Improvement in first 3 months on secukinumab tied to better long-term response medpagetoday.com Secukinumab Reduces Fatigue in Patients With Ankylosing Spondylitis By Jill…
Mechanistic rationales for targeting interleukin-17A in spondyloarthritis The term spondyloarthritis (SpA) is used to describe a group of inflammatory autoimmune diseases, including ankylosing spondylitis and psoriatic arthritis, with common genetic…
In patients with SpA unresponsive to NSAIDs, etanercept yielded improvements to 104 weeks In patients with early, active non-radiographic… healio.com A case of glass half-full or half-empty, depending on how…
Efficacy of long-term nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug treatment on magnetic resonance imaging-determined bone marrow oedema in early, active axial spondyloarthritis patients To assess the efficacy of long-term treatment with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory…
A Prescription for Exercise With all the current therapies for ankylosing spondylitis (AS)—anti-inflammatory medications, biologics, dietary modifications, and even surgery in some cases— the consensus among most is that exercise…
International Guidelines Say Use Treat-to-Target for SpA, PsA The 2017 guidelines for treating SpA and PsA incorporate new data strengthening support for treating to target, but one expert worries they…
2016 update of the ASAS-EULAR management recommendations for axial spondyloarthritis To update and integrate the recommendations for ankylosing spondylitis and the recommendations for the use of tumour necrosis factor inhibitors…
The window of opportunity: a relevant concept for axial spondyloarthritis The window of opportunity is a concept critical to rheumatoid arthritis treatment. Early treatment… arthritis-research.biomedcentral.com The window of opportunity is…
Plasma, urine and ligament tissue metabolite profiling reveals potential biomarkers of ankylosing spondylitis using NMR-based metabolic profiles Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an autoimmune rheumatic disease mostly affecting the axial skeleton.…
Radiographic Evaluation of Sacroiliac Joints in Axial Spondyloarthritis — Still Worth Performing? Radiographic evaluation of sacroiliac (SI) joints… jrheum.org The yield of a positive MRI of the spine as imaging…