ReviewTherapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease2016
Combination therapy with biologic agents in rheumatic diseases: current and future prospects.
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- Janus Kinase Inhibitors Improve Disease Activity and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 24,135 Patients.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Pooled it
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- Role of T cells and cytokines in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis.Biochemistry and biophysics reports · 2025Review
- Patient-Centric Approach for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease in Older People.Drugs & aging · 2025Review
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil Polyphenol-Enriched Extracts Exert Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Effects on Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells from Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A large-scale Boolean model of the rheumatoid arthritis fibroblast-like synoviocytes predicts drug synergies in the arthritic joint.NPJ systems biology and applications · 2023Article
- Combination Therapy for Psoriasis with Methotrexate and Other Oral Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs: A Systematic Review.Dermatology and therapy · 2023Review
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- NKB cells: A double-edged sword against inflammatory diseases.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Review
- Comparative study of the efficacy and safety of tofacitinib, baricitinib, upadacitinib, and filgotinib versus methotrexate for disease-modifying antirheumatic drug-naïve patients with rheumatoid arthritis.Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie · 2021Article
- Sustained Long-Term Retention Rates of Abatacept in Combination with Conventional Synthetic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs in Elderly Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Observational
- Determinants of first-line biological treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Results from an observational study.Medicine · 2021Observational
- Persistence on biologic DMARD monotherapy after achieving rheumatoid arthritis disease control on combination therapy: retrospective analysis of corrona registry data.Rheumatology international · 2021Observational
- Flare-up of cytokines in rheumatoid arthritis and their role in triggering depression: Shared common function and their possible applications in treatment (Review).Biomedical reports · 2021Review
- Treatment Patterns and Costs in Biologic DMARD-Naive Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Initiating Etanercept or Adalimumab with or Without Methotrexate.Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy · 2020Article
- Does biologic survival depend on co-prescribed methotrexate dose in established rheumatoid arthritis? A real-world study.European journal of rheumatology · 2020Article
- Assessments of the unmet need in the management of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: analyses from the NOR-DMARD registry.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2019Article
- Comparison of the Effect of Disease: Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs Alone or in Combination with Biologic Drugs in the Outcome of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.Advanced biomedical research · 2019Article
- Brain Stimulation Differentially Modulates Nociception and Inflammation in Aversive and Non-aversive Behavioral Conditions.Neuroscience · 2018Article
- Cortical stimulation in conscious rats controls joint inflammation.Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2018Article
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Abstract
Strategies in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) based on 'treat to target' aim to control disease activity, minimize structural damage, and promote longer life. Several disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) have been shown to be effective including biological DMARDs (bDMARDs). Treatment guidelines and recommendations for RA have also been published. According to those guidelines, conventional synthetic DMARDs (csDMARDs), as monotherapy or combination therapy, should be used in DMARD-naïve patients, irrespective of the addition of glucocorticoids (GCs). Combination therapies with bDMARDs are also essential for conducting treatment strategies for RA, because in every recommendation or guideline for the management of RA, combination therapies of csDMARDs with bDMARDs are recommended for RA patients with moderate or high disease activity after failure of csDMARD treatment. bDMARDs are more efficacious if used concomitantly with methotrexate (MTX) than with MTX monotherapy or bDMARD monotherapy. Thus, retention has been reported to be longer when combined with MTX. The superior efficacy of combination therapy compared with MTX monotherapy or bDMARD monotherapy could be because: (1) it could help to minimize MTX toxicity by reducing the dose of MTX, thus retention rate of the same therapeutic regimen would become high; (2) anti-bDMARD antibodies are observed at lower concentrations when using MTX concomitantly, so less clearance of bDMARDs
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