Abstracts tagged "Early Rheumatoid Arthritis and abatacept"

Abstract Number: 554 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
On Drug and Drug-Free Remission By Baseline Disease Duration: Abatacept Versus Methotrexate Comparison in Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
VP Bykerk¹, Gerd Burmester², BG Combe³, Daniel E. Furst⁴, T. W. J. Huizinga⁵, DA Wong⁶ and Paul Emery⁷, ¹Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, ²Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ³Montpellier University, Montpellier, France, ⁴Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands, ⁶Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ⁷University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Patients with RA and longer disease duration generally do not respond as well to treatment with DMARDs as patients with a shorter duration of…