Abstracts tagged "remission"

Abstract Number: 1242 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Impact of Smoking Status on Remission in Hidradenitis Suppurativa
Amil Agarwal ¹, Marissa Mangini ¹, Derek Jones ¹, Catherine Hood ¹, Richard Amdur ¹ and Victoria Shanmugam², ¹The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, ²George Washington University, Georgetown, DC
Background/Purpose: Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) is an inflammatory disease of the apocrine sweat glands characterized by recurrent abscessing inflammation. The molecular drivers of HS are poorly…
Abstract Number: 1282 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Female Sex Is a Risk Factor for Failure to Achieve Remission in Polymyositis
Prasanth Lingamaneni¹, Carrie Richardson ², Soumyasri Kambhatla ³ and Augustine Manadan ², ¹John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL, ²Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ³John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago
Background/Purpose: Adults with polymyositis demonstrate wide variability in responses to treatment, and the risk factors for failure to achieve remission in polymyositis are largely unknown. …
Abstract Number: 1340 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Patterns of Sustained Remission and Subsequent DMARD Tapering in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis: Data from the Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort
Maria Powell¹, Vivian Bykerk ², Orit Schieir ³, Marie-France Valois ⁴, Susan J. Bartlett ⁵, Louis Bessette ⁶, Gilles Boire ⁷, Carol Hitchon ⁸, Edward Keystone ⁹, Janet Pope ¹⁰, Carter Thorne ¹¹, Diane Tin ¹² and Glen Hazlewood ¹, ¹University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, ²Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City, NY, ³University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, ON, Canada, ⁴McGill University, Montreal, Canada, ⁵McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁶Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada, ⁷Sherbrooke University, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, ⁸University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, ⁹Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹⁰Western University, London, ON, Canada, ¹¹Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON, Canada, ¹²Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, Canada
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment emphasizes aggressive titration of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) with the goal of achieving disease remission. This often includes the use…
Abstract Number: 1442 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Comparison of Sustained Clinical Remission And/or Low Disease Activity Rate Between Rapidly and Gradually De-escalation of Abatacept in Rheumatoid Arthritis
MASAOMI YAMASAKI¹, ¹Shin-Yokohama Arthritis and Rheumatology Clinic, Yokohama, Japan
Background/Purpose: However biological DMARDs (bDMARDs) and treatment strategies have improved the outcomes of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), it is unknown who can taper or stop bDMARDs…
Abstract Number: 1557 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Secukinumab Effectiveness in 1134 Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis Treated in Routine Clinical Practice in 11 European Countries in the EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network
Brigitte Michelsen¹, Daniela DiGuiseppe ², Anne Gitte Loft ³, Manuel Pombo-Suarez ⁴, Herman Mann ⁵, Ziga Rotar ⁶, Florenzo Iannone ⁷, Tore Kvien ⁸, Maria José Santos ⁹, Kari K. Eklund ¹⁰, Bjorn Gudbjornsson ¹¹, Catalin Codreanu ¹², Sema Yılmaz ¹³, Johan Askling ¹⁴, Carlos Sánchez-Piedra ¹⁵, Karel Pavelka ⁵, Matija Tomsic ¹⁶, Fabrizio Conti ¹⁷, Joe Sexton ¹⁸, Helena Santos ¹⁹, Nina Trokovic ²⁰, Thorvardur J Love ²¹, Ruxandra IONESCU ²², Yavuz Pehlivan ²³, Michael J. Nissen ²⁴, Gary Macfarlane ²⁵, Irene van der Horst-Bruinsma ²⁶, Stylianos Georgiadis ²⁷, Lykke Midtbøll Ørnbjerg ²⁸, Cecilie Heegaard Brahe ²⁸, Merete Lund Hetland ²⁹ and Mikkel Østergaard ³⁰, ¹Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet Glostrup, Denmark/ Hospital of Southern Norway Trust, Kristiansand, Norway/ Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway, ²Clinical Epidemiology Division, Dept of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet,, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, Århus, Denmark, ⁴Unit Research, Spanish Society of Rheumatology, Madrid, Spain, ⁵Institute of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague 2, Czech Republic, ⁶UMC LJUBLJANA, DPT. OF RHEUMATOLOGY, LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, ⁷Department of Emergency and Transplantation , Rheumatology Unit, University Hospital of Bari, Bari, Italy., Bari, Italy, ⁸Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Dept. of Rheumatology / University of Oslo, Faculty of Medicine, Oslo, Norway, ⁹Rheumatology department, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal, ¹⁰ROB-FIN registry, Department of Medicine, Helsinki University and University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, ¹¹Centre for Rheumatology Research, Landspitali and Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, ¹²Center of Rheumatic Diseases, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania., Bucharest, Romania, ¹³Division of Rheumatology, Selcuk University School of Medicine, Konya, Turkey, Konya, Turkey, ¹⁴Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ¹⁵Research Unit, Spanish Society of Rheumatology, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁶Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ¹⁷Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, ¹⁸Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Dept. of Rheumatology, Oslo, Norway, ¹⁹Instituto Português de Reumatologia (IPR), Lisbon, Portugal, ²⁰Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, ²¹Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, ²²SPITALUL CLINIC SFANTA MARIA, Bucharest, ²³Uludağ University, Bursa, Turkey, ²⁴University Hospital Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, ²⁵University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, ²⁶Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²⁷DANBIO registry and Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Centre for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²⁸Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet Glostrup, Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²⁹DANBIO and Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research (COPECARE), Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Centre of Head and Orthopaedics, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³⁰Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Background/Purpose: Secukinumab represents a relatively new approach to treating patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and has shown promising results in RCTs. However, there is a…
Abstract Number: 1684 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Remission and Low Disease Activity State in Patients with Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis and Microscopic Polyangiitis: Prevalence and Impact on Damage Accrual
Paolo Delvino ¹, Federica Sardanelli ², Pascal Cohen ³, Xavier Puéchal for the French Vasculitis Study Group ³, Luc Mouthon ³, Loic Guillevin ³ and Benjamin Terrier³, ¹Rheumatology Department, IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo Foundation, University of Pavia, Vercelli, Italy, ²Department of Internal Medicine , Clinical Immunology Unit of Genoa and Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy, ³National Referral Center for Rare Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Paris Cochin, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) and microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) require glucocorticoids (GCs) and immunosuppressants (IS) to induce and maintain remission. At the era of highly…
Abstract Number: 1822 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
6 and 12-month Drug Retention Rates and Treatment Outcomes in 941 Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis Treated with Secukinumab in Routine Clinical Practice in 12 European Countries in the EuroSpA Research Collaboration Network
Brigitte Michelsen¹, Johan Askling ², Catalin Codreanu ³, Herman Mann ⁴, Anne Gitte Loft ⁵, Manuel Pombo-Suarez ⁶, Ziga Rotar ⁷, Tore Kvien ⁸, Maria José Santos ⁹, Anna Mari Hokkanen ¹⁰, Florenzo Iannone ¹¹, Bjorn Gudbjornsson ¹², Fatos Onen ¹³, Lennart Jacobsson ¹⁴, Ruxandra IONESCU ¹⁵, Karel Pavelka ⁴, Carlos Sánchez-Piedra ¹⁶, Matija Tomsic ¹⁷, Joe Sexton ¹⁸, Helena Santos ¹⁹, Jenny Österlund ²⁰, Alberto Cauli ²¹, Arni Jon Geirsson ²², Servet Akar ²³, Adrian Ciurea ²⁴, Gareth Jones ²⁵, Irene van der Horst-Bruinsma ²⁶, Cecilie Heegaard Brahe ²⁷, Stylianos Georgiadis ²⁸, Lykke Midtbøll Ørnbjerg ²⁷, Mikkel Østergaard ²⁹ and Merete Lund Hetland ³⁰, ¹Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet Glostrup, Denmark/ Hospital of Southern Norway Trust, Kristiansand, Norway/ Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Oslo, Norway, ²Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Center of Rheumatic Diseases, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania., Bucharest, Romania, ⁴Institute of Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague 2, Czech Republic, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, Århus, Denmark, ⁶Unit Research, Spanish Society of Rheumatology, Madrid, Spain, ⁷UMC LJUBLJANA, DPT. OF RHEUMATOLOGY, LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, ⁸Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Dept. of Rheumatology / University of Oslo, Faculty of Medicine, Oslo, Norway, ⁹Rheumatology department, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal, ¹⁰Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, ¹¹Department of Emergency and Transplantation , Rheumatology Unit, University Hospital of Bari, Bari, Italy., Bari, Italy, ¹²Centre for Rheumatology Research, Landspitali and Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, ¹³Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, İzmir, Turkey, ¹⁴Dept of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden,, Gothenburg, Sweden, ¹⁵SPITALUL CLINIC SFANTA MARIA, Bucharest, ¹⁶Research Unit, Spanish Society of Rheumatology, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁷Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ¹⁸Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Dept. of Rheumatology, Oslo, Norway, ¹⁹Instituto Português de Reumatologia (IPR), Lisbon, Portugal, ²⁰ROB-FIN registry, Helsinki University and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, ²¹Universitá di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, ²²Centre for Rheumatology Research, University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Reykjavik, Iceland, ²³Izmir Katip Celebi University, Faculty of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, İzmir, Turkey, ²⁴University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, ²⁵University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, ²⁶Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²⁷Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet Glostrup, Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²⁸DANBIO registry and Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Centre for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²⁹Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³⁰DANBIO and Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research (COPECARE), Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Centre of Head and Orthopaedics, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Background/Purpose: Secukinumab is a fully human IgG1 monoclonal antibody targeting interleukin-17A. There is a lack of real-life evidence on secukinumab retention rates and treatment outcomes…
Abstract Number: 1282 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Influence of Renal Function on the Velocity of Tophus Resolution and Achievement of Disease Remission in Patients with Chronic Refractory Gout Treated with Pegloticase
Brian F. Mandell¹, Naomi Schlesinger², N. Lawrence Edwards³, Anthony Yeo⁴ and Peter E. Lipsky⁵, ¹Rheumatology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, ²Department of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, ³Rheumatology, University of Florida Health Science Center, Gainesville, FL, ⁴Horizon Pharma, Lake Forest, IL, ⁵AMPEL BioSolutions, Charlottesville, VA
INFLUENCE OF RENAL FUNCTION ON THE VELOCITY OF TOPHUS RESOLUTION AND ACHEIVEMENT OF DISEASE REMISSION IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC REFRACTORY GOUT TREATED WITH PEGLOTICASEBackground/Purpose: Impaired…
Abstract Number: 1453 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Correlation between Clinical and Ultrasonographic Remission? the Effect of Non-Inflammatory Patient-Based Factors on Different Remission Definitions
Ummugulsum Gazel¹, Sibel Yilmaz Oner², Gulsen Ozen³, Yasemin Yalçınkaya³, Pamir Atagunduz³, Haner Direskeneli³ and Nevsun Inanc³, ¹Rheumatology, Marmara University faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ²Rheumatology, Bakırköy Dr. Sadi Konuk Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Rheumatology, Marmara University, School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
Background/Purpose: In this study, we aimed to investigate the concordance of ultrasonographic remission with other remission criteria and to show the influence of non-inflammatory patient-induced…
Abstract Number: 1496 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Sex Differences in the Achievement of Clinical Remission and Low MRI Synovitis Scores in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Joshua Baker¹, Mikkel Østergaard², Carson Maynard³, Michael D. George⁴, Daniel Baker⁵ and Philip G. Conaghan⁶, ¹Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, ²Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet Glostrup Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadlphia, PA, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵Johnson & Johnson, Spring House, PA, ⁶University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, Leeds, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Several prior studies have demonstrated poor clinical responses and reduced likelihood of achievement of remission among women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We aimed to…
Abstract Number: 1930 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Histologic and Transcriptional Evidence of Subclinical Synovial Inflammation in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients in Clinical Remission
Dana Orange¹, Phaedra Agius², Edward F. DiCarlo³, Serene Z. Mirza⁴, Cristina Rozo⁵, Tania Pannellini⁵, Mark P. Figgie⁶, William H. Robinson⁷, Jackie Szymonifka⁵, Vivian P. Bykerk⁵, Laura T. Donlin⁸ and Susan M. Goodman⁵, ¹Rockefeller University, New York, NY, ²New York Genome Center, New York, NY, ³Laboratory Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁴Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁵Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁶Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, ⁷Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, ⁸Arthritis and Tissue Degeneration Program and the David Z. Rosensweig Genomics Research Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients in clinical remission may still develop structural damage that has been attributed to ongoing synovial inflammation, sometimes only detectable…
Abstract Number: 2820 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Sustained Clinical Remission after Discontinuation of Infliximab with a Raising Dose Strategy in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RRRR study): A Randomized Controlled Trial
Yoshiya Tanaka¹, Koji Oba^2,3, Takao Koike^4,5, Nobuyuki Miyasaka⁶, Tsuneyo Mimori⁷, Tsutomu Takeuchi⁸, Shintaro Hirata⁹, Eiichi Tanaka¹⁰, Hidekata Yasuoka¹¹, Yuko Kaneko⁸, Kosaku Murakami⁷, Tomohiro Koga¹², Kazuhisa Nakano¹³, Koichi Amano¹⁴, Kazuyasu Ushio¹⁵, Tatsuya Atsumi¹⁶, Masayuki Inoo¹⁷, Kazuhiro Hatta¹⁸, Shinichi Mizuki¹⁹, Shohei Nagaoka²⁰, Shinichiro Tsunoda²¹, Hiroaki Dobashi²², Nao Horie³ and Norihiro Sato³, ¹University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan, ²Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, ³Clinical Research and Medical Innovation Center, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan, ⁴Hokkaido Medical Center for Rheumatic Diseases, Sapporo, Japan, ⁵NTT Sapporo Medical Center, Sapporo, Japan, ⁶Department of Medicine and Rheumatology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan, ⁷Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, ⁸Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ⁹Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan, ¹⁰Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, tokyo, Japan, ¹²Center for Bioinformatics and Molecular Medicine, Nagasaki University, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, ¹³The First Department of Internal Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan, ¹⁴Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan, ¹⁵Ushio Clinic, Osaka, Japan, ¹⁶Department of Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, ¹⁷Utazu hospital, Utatsu-cho, Japan, ¹⁸Department of General Medicine, Tenri Hospital, Tenri, Japan, ¹⁹Center for Rheumatic Diseases, Matsuyama Red Cross Hospital, Matsuyama, Japan, ²⁰Department of Rheumatology, Yokohama Minami Kyosai Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, ²¹Division of Rheumatology Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan, ²²Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hematology, Rheumatology and Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kagawa University, Miki-cho, Japan
Background/Purpose: Infliximab (IFX), a TNF inhibitor, is one of the most widely used biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs. Recent studies indicated that baseline levels of serum…
Abstract Number: 2821 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Dose Tapering and Discontinuation of Biological Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients in Routine Care – 2-Year Outcomes and Predictors
Cecilie Heegaard Brahe¹, Simon Krabbe¹, Mikkel Østergaard¹, Lykke Midtbøll Ørnbjerg¹, Daniel Glinatsi¹, Henrik Rogind¹, Hanne Slott Jensen², Annette Hansen³, Jesper Nørregaard⁴, Søren Jacobsen⁵, Lene Terslev¹, Tuan Khai Huynh⁴, Dorte Vendelbo Jensen⁶, Natalia Manilo², Karsten Asmussen², Per Brown-Frandsen⁵, Mikael Boesen⁷, Zoreh Rastiemadabadi⁷, Lone Morsel-Carlsen⁷, Jakob M. Møller⁸, Niels Steen Krogh⁹ and Merete Lund Hetland¹⁰, ¹Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research (COPECARE), Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Centre for Head and Orthopaedics, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark, ²Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Bispebjerg-Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte, Gentofte, Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁴Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Nordsjællands Hospital, Hillerød, Denmark, Hillerød, Denmark, ⁵Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Centre for Head and Orthopaedics, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁶Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte, Gentofte, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁷Department of Radiology, Bispebjerg-Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁸Department of Radiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Herlev, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁹ZiteLab ApS, Copenhagen, Denmark, ¹⁰DANBIO Registry, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Centre for Head and Orthopaedics, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Glostrup, Denmark
Dose tapering and discontinuation of biological therapy in rheumatoid arthritis patients in routine care – 2-year outcomes and predictors Background/Purpose: A cohort of routine care…
Abstract Number: 2985 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Achievement of Remission in Two Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Inception Cohorts Implementing Different Treat-to-Target Strategies
Vibeke Norvang^1,2, Gina Hetland Brinkmann^1,3, Joseph Sexton¹, Anna-Birgitte Aga¹, Siri Lillegraven¹, Till Uhlig^1,2, Tore Kvien^1,2, Maria Dahl Mjaavatten¹ and Espen A. Haavardsholm^1,2, ¹Dept. of Rheumatology, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ²University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, ³Dept. of Rheumatology, Østfold Hospital, Grålum, Norway
Background/Purpose: Treat-to-target (T2T) has become a key element in the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Several different measures exist to define the preferred treatment target…
Abstract Number: 611 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Influence of Dose Titration of Concomitant Steroid and Methotrexate during Biologic Therapy in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in Daily Practice Based on the IORRA Cohort
Yoko Shimizu¹, Eiichi Tanaka¹, Eisuke Inoue^1,2, Kumiko Saka¹, Eri Sugano¹, Naohiro Sugitani^1,3, Moeko Ochiai¹, Rei Yamaguchi¹, Naoki Sugimoto¹, Ayako Nakajima^1,3, Katsunori Ikari¹, Atsuo Taniguchi¹ and Hisashi Yamanaka⁴, ¹Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, ²Division of Medical Informatics, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan, ³Center for Rheumatic Diseases, Mie University Hospital, Tsu city, Japan, ⁴Institute of Rheumatology, Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: After the introduction of Biological Disease-Modifying Anti-Rheumatic-Drugs (bDMARDs) for the treatment of patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA), clinical remission has become an achievable…

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