Intensive intervention can lead to a treatment holiday from biological DMARDs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Tanaka Y;Hirata S;;
drugs2014Vol. 74pp. -
264
y2014drugsintensive
Abstract
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation and joint destruction that causes significant morbidity and mortality. However, the combined use of methotrexate (MTX), a synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (sDMARD) and biological DMARDs (bDMARDs) …