Abstracts tagged "Adverse events and anti-TNF therapy"

Abstract Number: 1852 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Tumour Necrosis Factor-Alpha Antagonists and Alopecia: A Case/Non-Case Study in a Nationwide Pharmacovigilance Database
Johana Béné¹, Guillaume Moulis², Marine Auffret³, Claire Fessier¹, Guillaume Lefevre⁴ and Sophie Gautier¹, ¹Lille University Hospital, Lille Pharmacovigilance Regional Centre, Lille, France, ²Toulouse University Hospital, Clinical Pharmacology Department, University of Toulouse, UMR INSERM-UPS 1027, Toulouse, France, ³Pharmacology, Lille University Hospital, Lille Pharmacovigilance Regional Centre, Lille, France, ⁴Lille University Hospital, Internal Medicine Department, Lille, France
Background/Purpose: Cases of alopecia occurring on TNF-alpha antagonists have been described. Nevertheless, no epidemiological study has been conducted to assess the link between TNF-alpha antagonists…