Abstracts tagged "biologic response modifiers and anti-TNF therapy"

Abstract Number: 1500 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Effectiveness of Switching Between TNF Inhibitors in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis: Is the Reason to Switch Relevant?
Santiago Rodrigues-Manica¹, Alexandre Sepriano ², Fernando Pimentel-Santos ¹, Nélia Gouveia ³, Anabela Barcelos ⁴, Jaime Branco ¹, Miguel Bernardes ⁵, Raquel Miriam-Ferreira ⁵, Elsa Vieira-Sousa ⁶, Sofia Barreira ⁶, Filipe Vinagre ⁷, Raquel Roque ⁷, Helena Santos ⁸, Nathalie Madeira ⁸, João Rovisco ⁹, Alexandra Daniel ⁹ and Sofia Ramiro ¹⁰, ¹CEDOC, NOVA-Medical School | Hospital Egas Moniz, CHLO, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, ²Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ³CEDOC, NOVA-Medical School, Lisbon, Portugal, Lisboa, Portugal, ⁴Centro Hospitalar Baixo Vouga | iBemed, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, ⁵Rheumatology, Centro Hospitalar de São João, Porto, Portugal, Porto, Portugal, ⁶Rheumatology and Metabolic Bone Diseases, Hospital de Santa Maria - Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, EPE | Rheumatology Research Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular - Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon Academic Medical Centre, Lisbon, Portugal,, Lisbon, Portugal, ⁷Rheumatology, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal, Almada, Portugal, ⁸Instituto Português de Reumatologia (IPR), Lisbon, Portugal, ⁹Rheumatology, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, ¹⁰Leiden University Medical Center and Zuyderland Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Over the last years, and mostly due to lack of alternatives, it has been common practice to start a second TNF inhibitor (TNFi) in…