Abstracts tagged "Tofacitinib and vaccines"

Abstract Number: 2393 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Evaluation of Live Zoster Vaccine in a Subset of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Treated with Tofacitinib with or without Methotrexate, and Adalimumab with Methotrexate: Results from a Phase 3b/4 Randomized Trial
Leonard H. Calabrese¹, Carlos Abud-Mendoza², Stephen Lindsey³, Sang Heon Lee⁴, Liza Takiya⁵, Noriko Iikuni⁶, Koshika Soma⁷, Zhen Luo⁸ and Roy Fleischmann⁹, ¹Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, ²Hospital Central, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, ³Ochsner Medical Center, Baton Rouge, LA, ⁴Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), ⁵Pfizer Inc, Collegeville, PA, ⁶Pfizer Inc, New York, NY, ⁷Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT, ⁸Pfizer Inc, Shanghai, China, ⁹Metroplex Clinical Research Center and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Background/Purpose: Tofacitinib is an oral Janus kinase inhibitor for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Patients (pts) with RA are at increased risk for herpes…
Abstract Number: 2609 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Effectiveness of Zoster Vaccine in RA Patients Subsequently Treated up to 19 Months with Tofacitinib
Kevin L Winthrop¹, Ann Wouters², Ernest H. Choy^3,4, Chudy Nduaka², Staci Abramsky², Pinaki Biswas², Lisy Wang⁵, Jennifer Hodge², Irina Lazariciu⁶, Koshika Soma², Christopher F Mojcik² and William F.C Rigby⁷, ¹Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, OR, ²Pfizer Inc, New York, NY, ³CREATE Center, Division of Infection and Immunity, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, Great Britain, ⁴CREATE Center, Division of Infection and Immunity,, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, ⁵Pfizer Inc, Groton, CT, ⁶Quintiles, Saint-Laurent, QC, Canada, ⁷Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients are at increased risk for herpes zoster (HZ), and vaccination is recommended in patients over the age of 50 years,…
Abstract Number: 12L • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Assessment of Immunogenicity of Live Zoster Vaccination (Zostavax®) in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients on Background Methotrexate before and after Initiating Tofacitinib or Placebo
Kevin Winthrop IV¹, Ann Wouters², Ernest H. Choy³, Koshika Soma², Jennifer Hodge², Chudy Nduaka², Pinaki Biswas², Lisa K. McNeil², Sherry Passador², Christopher F. Mojcik² and William F.C. Rigby⁴, ¹Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, OR, ²Pfizer Inc, New York, NY, ³CREATE Center, Institute of Infection and Immunity, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom, ⁴Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH
Background/Purpose: Tofacitinib is an oral Janus kinase inhibitor for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Clinical guidelines recommend using live zoster vaccine (LZV) to prevent…