Intensive Intervention Can Lead to a Treatment Holiday from Biological DMARDs in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

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)...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tanaka, Yoshiya, Hirata, Shintaro
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Springer International Publishing 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4245498/