RA ℞: B-Cell Depletion
Decreased CD4 T Cells with Rituximab Infusions Rituximab (RTX) is a monoclonal antibody directed against the CD20 antigen on B cells and when administered causes a marked depletion of CD20+…
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RA ℞: T-Cell Co-Stimulation Blockade
A window of opportunity for abatacept in RA: is disease duration an independent predictor of low disease activity/remission in clinical practice? The objective of the study was to examine whether…
RA ℞: Anti-TNF
Key Lessons from the TNF Inhibitor Head-to-Head EXXELERATE Study The EXXELERATE study is featured prominently in Lancet this week. In some ways, this represents a landmark negative trial that rheumatologists…
RA ℞: Methotrexate
No difference in efficacy for MTX as monotherapy vs. combination therapy with other csDMARDs for RA In a systematic literature review informing the 2016… healio.com Is the Jury Still Out…
RA ℞: Corticosteroid
Long-term Low-dose Steroids OK in Early RA Use with DMARDs and for the shortest period and the lowest possible dose medpagetoday.com "Long-term" in this study was up to 5 years,…
RA Treatment Guidelines
EULAR Releases New RA Tx Recommendations Focus is on conventional agents, biologics, and targeted synthetic drugs medpagetoday.com EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis with synthetic and biological disease-modifying…
Monitoring RA Disease Activity
Calprotectin vs Acute-Phase Reactants to Discriminate RA, PsA Activity Calprotectin discriminate disease activity in RA patients receiving tumor necrosis factor inhibitors more effectively than acute-phase reactants. rheumatologyadvisor.com Calprotectin (S100A8/A9) has…
Predicting Rapid Progression in Early RA
New antibody shows potential as prognostic marker in early rheumatoid arthritis Anti-CII seropositivity may identify RA patients with acute but transient inflammation around the time of… mdedge.com The anti-fibrillar collagen…
Treating Early RA
EULAR 2016 Recommendations on Early Arthritis Combe and leading European rheumatologist have published an update to the 2007 European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for… rheumnow.com 2016 update of the…
Predicting RA Development
Predictors of Progression in Early Inflammatory Polyarthritis A substantial, but unclear, percentage of patients presenting with new onset inflammatory polyarthritis (IP) will spontaneously remit, while others may persist and develop rheumatoid…
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