Abstracts tagged "tocilizumab and rheumatoid arthritis"

Abstract Number: 2911 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
A Randomised, Open Labelled Clinical Trial to Investigate Synovial Mechanisms Determining Response – Resistance to Rituximab versus Tocilizumab in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Failing TNF Inhibitor Therapy
Frances humby ¹, Maya H. Buch ², Patrick Durez ³, Myles Lewis ¹, Michele Bombardieri ¹, Hasan Rizvi ⁴, Stephen Kelly ⁴, Liliane Fosatti ¹, Rebecca Hands ¹, Giovanni Giorli ¹, Arti Mahto ¹, Carlomaurizio Montecucco ⁵, Bernard Lauwerys ⁶, Vasco Romao ⁷, Arthur Pratt ⁸, Serena Bugatti ⁹, Nora Ng ¹⁰, Felice Rivellese ¹, Pauline Ho ¹¹, Mattia Bellan ¹², Mattia Congia ¹³, Patrick Verschueren ¹⁴, Pier Paolo Sainaghi ¹², Nagui Gendi ¹⁵, Bhaskar Dasgupta ¹⁶, Alberto Cauli ¹⁷, Piero Reynolds ¹⁸, Juan Cañete ¹⁹, Robert J. Moots ²⁰, Peter Taylor ²¹, Christopher Edwards ²², John Isaacs ⁸, Peter Sasieni ²³, João Eurico Fonseca ²⁴, Ernest Choy ²⁵ and Costantino Pitzalis²⁶, ¹Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, ²University of Leeds & NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds, United Kingdom, ³Pôle de Recherche en Rhumatologie, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, UCL Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium, ⁴Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo Foundation, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Pavia, Italy, ⁶University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium, ⁷University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, ⁸University of Newcastle, Newcastle, United Kingdom, ⁹University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, ¹⁰Guys and St Thomas NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom, ¹¹University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ¹²University of Novara, Novara, Italy, ¹³University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, ¹⁴University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ¹⁵Basildon Hospital NHS Trust, Basildon, United Kingdom, ¹⁶Southend University Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, Westcliff-on-Sea, United Kingdom, ¹⁷Rheumatology Unit, University Clinic AOU and University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, ¹⁸Homerton University NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom, ¹⁹Rheumatology Department, Hospital Clínic and IDIBAPS,, Barcelona, Spain, ²⁰Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, Liverpool, United Kingdom, ²¹University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ²²University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, ²³Kings College London, London, United Kingdom, ²⁴Rheumatology and Bone Diseases Department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte; Unidade de Investigação em Reumatologia, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa; Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa; Lisbon, Portugal., Lisbon, Portugal, ²⁵Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom, ²⁶Centre for Experimental Medicine & Rheumatology, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Although biologic therapies have transformed the outlook for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the lack of a major treatment response in over 50% of patients, the…