antibodies and spondylarthropathy Archives

Abstract Number: 546 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012
The Immunogenicity to the First Anti-TNF Therapy Determines the Outcome of Switching to a Second Anti-TNF in Spondyloarthritis Patients
Chamaida Plasencia¹, Dora Pascual-Salcedo², Sara Garcia-Carazo³, Gema Bonilla⁴, Leticia Lojo⁵, Laura Nuño⁶, Alejandro Villalba⁷, Diana Peiteado⁷, Concepcion Castillo-Gallego⁷, Florencia Arribas², Daniel Nagore⁸, E. Martin-Mola⁹ and Alejandro Balsa⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital La Paz-IdiPaz, Madrid, Spain, ²Immunology, Hospital La Paz. IdiPaz, Madrid, Spain, ³La PAZ University Hospital, RHEUMATOLOGY UNIT, Spain, Spain, ⁴Rheumatology, Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ⁵Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Spain, Spain, ⁶Hospital La Paz-IdiPaz, Madrid, Spain, ⁷Rheumatology, Hospital La Paz - IdiPaz, Madrid, Spain, ⁸Proteomika S.L., ⁹Servicio de Reumatología, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Spondyloarthropathies (SpAs) encompass a heterogeneous group of diseases that primarily affect the axial skeleton and entheses. Although anti-TNF drugs have proven to be effective…

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