Abstracts tagged "remission and Biologic agents"

Abstract Number: 525 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Factors Associated with Persistent Drug-free Remission in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Larissa Valor¹, Melanie Hagen ², Michaela Reiser ³, Fabian Hartmann ³, Arnd Kleyer ², Bernhard Manger ⁴, Georg Schett ⁵, Jürgen Rech ⁶ and Koray Tascilar ⁷, ¹Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology. Erlangen., Erlangen, Germany, ²Department of Internal Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, Erlangen, Germany, ³Department of Internal Medicine 3, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Bayern, Germany, ⁴Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Department of Internal Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology. Erlangen. Germany., Erlangen, Germany, ⁵Department of Internal Medicine 3, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, ⁶Department of Internal Medicine 3, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, ⁷Department of Internal Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, Erlangen, Bayern, Germany
Background/Purpose: Persistent drug-free remission of RA is a condition close to “cure” of the disease. Long-term drug-free remission is considered rare and challenging to reach,…