Abstracts tagged "disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and anti-CCP antibodies"

Abstract Number: 2390 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Prediction of Disease Relapses by Multi-biomarker Disease Activity Score and Autoantibody Status in RA Patients Tapering DMARD Treatment in Stable Remission
Melanie Hagen¹, Koray Tascilar ², Michaela Reiser ³, Judith Haschka ⁴, Arnd Kleyer ⁵, Larissa Valor ⁶, Bernhard Manger ⁷, Georg Schett ⁸ and Jürgen Rech ⁹, ¹Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen Nürnberg (FAU), University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, Erlangen, Germany, ²Department of Internal Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, Erlangen, Bayern, Germany, ³Department of Internal Medicine 3, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Bayern, Germany, ⁴Karl Landsteiner Institute for Gastroenterology and Rheumatology, St. Vincent Hospital Vienna, II Medical Department, Vienna, Austria, ⁵Department of Internal Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, Erlangen, Germany, ⁶Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology. Erlangen., Erlangen, Germany, ⁷Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology. Erlangen. Germany., Erlangen, Germany, ⁸Department of Internal Medicine 3, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, ⁹Department of Internal Medicine 3, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Background/Purpose: Achieving remission is the ultimate treatment goal in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). With the development and wider use of highly effective disease modifying…