Abstracts tagged "drug treatment"

Abstract Number: 1496 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Exposure-Response Analysis for Mavrilimumab Phase2b Study in RA Patients with Informative Dropout
Chi-Yuan Wu¹, Denise Jin¹, Alex Godwood², David Close³, Lorin Roskos⁴ and Bing Wang¹, ¹Clinical Pharmacology and DMPK, Medimmune, Mountain View, CA, ²Clinical Biostatics and Data Management, MedImmune Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ³Clinical Development, MedImmune Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom, ⁴One MedImmune Way, Medimmune, Gaithersburg, MD
Background/Purpose: Mavrilimumab is a recombinant human monoclonal antibody which neutralizes granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) activity by selectively binding to the alpha subunit of its…
Abstract Number: 272 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Factors Associated with Choice of First Biologic Among Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Combined Analysis from 2 UK Paediatric Biologic Registers
Rebecca Davies¹, Lianne Kearsley-Fleet¹, Eileen Baildam², Michael W. Beresford³, Helen E. Foster⁴, Taunton R. Southwood⁵, Wendy Thomson⁶, Kimme L. Hyrich⁷, on Behalf Of The BSPAR Etanercept Cohort Study¹ and The Biologics for Children with Rheumatic Diseases (BCRD) study¹, ¹Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ²Paediatric Rheumatology, Alder Hey Children's Foundation NHS Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ³Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Hospital, Institute of Translational Medicine (Child Health), University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ⁴Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, ⁵Institute of Child Health, University of Birmingham and Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom, ⁶Institute of Inflammation and Repair, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁷Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: The management of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) has been revolutionised by the introduction of biologics such as etanercept (ETN), approved in the UK in…