Abstracts tagged "drug safety monitoring and repository corticotropin injection"

Abstract Number: 528 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Assessment of Bone and Cartilage Turnover Markers Following Treatment with Repository Corticotropin Injection in Patients with Persistently Active Rheumatoid Arthritis
Roy Fleischmann¹, Daniel Furst ², Erin Connolly-Strong ³, Jingyu Liu ³, Julie Zhu ³ and Richard Brasington ⁴, ¹Metroplex Clinical Research Center and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, ²University of California, Los Angeles, CA, ³Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, ARD, LLC, Bedminster, NJ, ⁴Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, MO
Background/Purpose: Persistently active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by chronic inflammation and bone loss.1 Although short-term administration of corticosteroids (CSs) is recommended…