Abstracts tagged "treatment and pharmacokinetics"

Abstract Number: 2401 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Enhanced Methotrexate Polyglutamation in Japanese as Compared to Caucasian Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Starting Methotrexate
Thierry Dervieux¹, Joel Kremer ², Kelley Brady ¹, Chihiro Takahashi ³, Tsutomu Takeuchi ⁴ and Yuko Kaneko ⁵, ¹Exagen, Vista, CA, ²Albany Medical College and The Center for Rheumatology; Corrona, LLC, Albany, NY, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Keio University Hospital Division of Rheumatology, Tokyo, Japan, ⁵Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Methotrexate (MTX) is an anti-folate prodrug activated to MTX polyglutamates (MTXPGs). Japanese Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients are thought to have heightened sensitivity to MTX…