Abstracts tagged "methotrexate (MTX) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA)"

Abstract Number: 473 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Methotrexate, Blood Pressure and Arterial Wave Reflection in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Leena R Baghdadi^1,2,3, Richard J Woodman², E Michael Shanahan⁴ and Arduino A Mangoni³, ¹Department of Family and Community Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ²Flinders Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, ³Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, ⁴Department of Rheumatology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Background/Purpose: Methotrexate (MTX) use has been associated with reduced cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Although MTX has anti-inflammatory effects, there…
Abstract Number: 538 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Multidrug Resistant Lymphocytes of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Are Predictive for DMARD and Glucocorticoid Treatment Response
Jan Piet van Hamburg¹, Sandra M.J. Paulissen², Nadine Davelaar¹, Mieke Hazes³ and Erik Lubberts¹, ¹Rheumatology and Immunology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ²Room Nb-84, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ³Rheumatology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: A large fraction of patients with RA does not respond to treatment with glucocorticoids (GCs) and disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs), or becomes resistant in…
Abstract Number: 552 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Relationship Between Efficacy and Toxicity in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Receiving Methotrexate in Combination with Adalimumab
Gerd Burmester¹, Gurjit S. Kaeley², Arthur Kavanaugh³, Cem Gabay⁴, Daryl MacCarter⁵, Peter Nash⁶, Tsutomu Takeuchi⁷, Anabela Cardoso⁸, Shufang Liu⁹, Hartmut Kupper¹⁰ and Jasmina Kalabic¹¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, ³University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, LaJolla, CA, ⁴Rheumatology, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland, ⁵Coeur d'Alene Arthritis Clinic, Coeur d'Alene, ID, ⁶Department of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, ⁷Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ⁸Torre Oriente, AbbVie, Lisboa, Portugal, ⁹Immunology Development, AbbVie, North Chicago, IL, ¹⁰AbbVie Deutschland GmBH & Co. KG, Ludwigshafen, Germany, ¹¹AbbVie, North Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Combination treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with methotrexate (MTX)+adalimumab (ADA) has been shown to be more effective than ADA monotherapy. However, MTX is associated…
Abstract Number: 577 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Use of Subcutaneous MTX Does Not Prolong the Use of Traditional DMARD in Multi-DMARD Regimens and Has Insignificant Differences in Liver Enzymes Abnormalities When Compared with Oral MTX in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Veteran Affairs Administrative Database Study
Bernard Ng, Rheumatology, U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs- Puget Sound Healthsystem, Seattle, WA; Division of Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Our previous analyses using the national administrative database from Veteran Health Administration showed that RA patient who were switched from oral to subcutaneous MTX…
Abstract Number: 1043 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Enhancing Comparative Effectiveness Research By Combining Observational and Randomized Trial Data to Personalize the Choice Between Methotrexate and Triple Therapy for Methotrexate-Naïve Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Glen S. Hazlewood^1,2, Cheryl Barnabe³, Gilles Boire⁴, Carol Hitchon⁵, Edward C. Keystone⁶, Boulos Haraoui⁷, J Carter Thorne⁸, Diane Tin⁹, Janet E. Pope¹⁰, Daming Lin¹¹, VP Bykerk¹² and CATCH investigators, ¹Institute of Health, Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ³Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ⁴Department of Medicine/Division of Rheumatology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, ⁵University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ⁶Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁷Institut de Rhumatologie, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁸Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ⁹The Arthritis Program, Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ¹⁰University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ¹¹Rheumatology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹²Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered the gold standard for comparing efficacy of treatments, but the results may be less generalizable to clinical practice…
Abstract Number: 1045 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Baricitinib, Methotrexate, or Baricitinib Plus Methotrexate in Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Who Had Received Limited or No Treatment with Disease-Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARDs): Phase 3 Trial Results
Roy Fleischmann¹, Tsutomu Takeuchi², Douglas E. Schlichting³, William L. Macias³, Terence Rooney³, Sirel Gurbuz³, Ivaylo Stoykov³, Scott D. Beattie³, Wen-Ling Kuo³ and M Schiff⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Metroplex Clinical Research Center, Dallas, TX, ²Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ³Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, ⁴School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, CO
Background/Purpose: In 2 completed phase 3 studies, baricitinib (bari) improved disease activity with a satisfactory safety profile in patients (pts) with moderately-to-severely active RA who…
Abstract Number: 1538 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Analysis of 30 Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Complicated with Malignant Lymphoma, Especially Methotrexate-Related Lymphoproliferative Disorder
Takuma Tsuzuki Wada¹, Yuji Akiyama¹ and Toshihide Mimura², ¹Department of Rheumatology & Applied Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Iruma, Japan, ²Department of Rheumatology and Applied Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan
Background/Purpose: Recently, methotrexate (MTX) has been considered as the anchor drug in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, it has been reported that MTX…
Abstract Number: 1839 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Risk of Recurrent Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer with Methotrexate and Anti-TNF Use in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Frank I Scott¹, Ronac Mamtani¹, Colleen Brensinger¹, Kevin Haynes², Zelma ChiesaFuxench¹, Huifeng Yun³, Jie Zhang⁴, Lang Chen⁵, Fenglong Xie⁶, David Margolis⁷, James D. Lewis² and Jeffrey R. Curtis⁸, ¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Ryals Soph Bldg., Rm. 517b, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁶Rheumatology & Immunology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁷Dermatology and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁸The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Methotrexate (MTX) and anti-TNF drugs have been hypothesized to increase the risk of a first non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC). Among patients with prior NMSC,…
Abstract Number: 1488 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Clinical Efficacy of Add-on Iguratimod Therapy in Patients with Active Rheumatoid Arthritis Despite of Methotrexate ~a Multicenter Registry Study~
Yasuhide Kanayama¹, Toshihisa Kojima², Atsushi Kaneko³, Yuji Hirano⁴, Nobunori Takahashi², Shinya Hirabara⁴ and Naoki Ishiguro², ¹Orthopedic Surgery and Rheumatology, Toyota Kosei Hospital, Toyota, Japan, ²Orthopaedic Surgery and Rheumatology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan, ³Orthopedic Surgery and Rheumatology, Nagoya Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan, ⁴Rheumatology, Toyohashi Municipal Hospital, Toyohashi, Japan
Background/Purpose Iguratimod (IGU) is a small-molecule antirheumatic drug that was approved in Japan in September 2012. IGU suppressed tumor necrosis factor-alpha-induced production of interleukin (IL)-6,…
Abstract Number: 1448 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Questionnaire Assessment of Knowledge about Methotrexate of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Françoise Fayet¹, Carine Savel¹, Malory Rodere², Bruno Pereira³, Dihya Abdi¹, Marion Couderc Sr.⁴, Sylvain Mathieu⁵, Anne Tournadre⁶, Sandrine Malochet-Guinamand⁶, Martin Soubrier⁷ and Jean Jacques Dubost⁸, ¹Rheumatology, CHU Gabriel-Montpied, Clermont-ferrand, France, ²Rheumatology, CHU Gabriel-Montpied, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ³Clinical research department, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ⁴Chu G.Montpied, Clermont Ferrand, France, ⁵Hopital Gabriel Montpied, Clermont Ferrand, France, ⁶Rheumatology CHU Gabriel Montpied, Clermont-Ferrand, France, ⁷COMEDRA trial group, Paris, France, ⁸Rheumatology, CHU G.-Montpied, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Background/Purpose Methotrexate is the reference treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). It has potentially serious side effects which can be prevented by an improvement in patient’s…
Abstract Number: 1131 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Identification of Genetic Variants Associated with Response to Adalimumab Plus Methotrexate in Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis
Alla Skapenko¹, Hendrik Schulze-Koops¹, Viswanath Devanarayan², Kenneth Idler³, Feng Hong⁴, Josef Smolen⁵, Arthur Kavanaugh⁶, Hartmut Kupper⁷ and Jeffrey F. Waring³, ¹Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, ²AbbVie Bioresearch Center, Worcester, MA, ³AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL, ⁴AbbVie Bioresearch Center, Worchester, MA, ⁵Medical University of Vienna and Hietzing Hospital, Vienna, Austria, ⁶University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, ⁷AbbVie Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Background/Purpose: For patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who fail to attain remission or low disease activity after 6 months of methotrexate (MTX) treatment, TNF inhibitors…
Abstract Number: 1040 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Dysregulated Serum Interleukin 16 Concentration Associated with Clinical Disease Activity in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Efficiently Corrected By Immunological Intervention
Atsuko Murota¹, Katsuya Suzuki¹, Yoshiaki Kassai², Takahiro Miyazaki³, Rimpei Morita⁴, Akihiko Yoshimura⁴ and Tsutomu Takeuchi¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ²Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Fujisawa, Japan, ³Inflammation Drug Discovery Unit, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Kanagawa, Japan, ⁴Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: IL-16 is a chemoattractant factor that evokes massive infiltration of mononuclear cells in the synovial tissue in patients rheumatoid arthritis (RA). IL-16 concentrations are…
Abstract Number: 503 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Does a Higher Dose of Folic Acid Reduce Adverse Effects of Methotrexate in Rheumatoid Arthritis? a Randomized Controlled Trial
Varun Dhir¹, Amit Sandhu¹, Jasbinder Kaur², Nidhi Gupta¹, Prabhdeep Kaur¹, Ankita Sood¹, Aman Sharma³ and Shefali Sharma¹, ¹Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, ²Government Medical College and hospital Sector 32, Chandigarh, India, ³Internal Medicine (Rheumatology Unit), Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
Background/Purpose There is good evidence that folic acid 5-10mg per week leads to reduction in methotrexate (MTX) toxicity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, this data…
Abstract Number: 2915 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Effects of Methotrexate on Anti-TNF Treatment in Rheumatoid Arthritis: An in-Depth Analysis of a Prospective Observational Study with Adalimumab
Marc Schmalzing¹, Frank Behrens^2,3, Eva C. Scharbatke¹, Michaela Koehm^3,4, Bianca Wittig⁵, Gerd Greger⁶, Harald Burkhardt^2,7 and Hans-Peter Tony⁸, ¹Rheumatology/Immunology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, ²Rheumatology, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, ³Clinical Research, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Project Group Translational Medicine & Pharmacology TMP, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, ⁴Rheumatology, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, ⁵Abbvie Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Wiesbaden, Germany, ⁶AbbVie GmbH & Co KG, Wiesbaden, Germany, ⁷Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Project Group Translational Medicine & Pharmacology TMP, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, ⁸Rheumatology/Clinical Immunology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Background/Purpose Methotrexate (MTX) is currently the most frequently used drug in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). MTX co-medication can improve the therapeutic benefit of…
Abstract Number: 498 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Patient Experience with Initiation of SQ and Oral MTX
Jeffrey R. Curtis¹, David Mackey², Noam Gerber³, Aseem Bharat¹, Lang Chen⁴, Fenglong Xie⁵, Ben Nowell³, Kenneth G. Saag⁶ and Seth Ginsberg⁷, ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Clinical Immunology/Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Creaky Joints/Global Healthy Living Foundation, Upper Nyack, NY, ⁴Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵Rheumatology & Immunology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁶Immunology & Rheumatology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁷CreakyJoints/Global Healthy Living Foundation, Upper Nyack, NY
Background/Purpose Methotrexate is the anchor drug used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Despite its prominent position in RA therapeutics, its real-world effectiveness may…

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