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Mycophenolate Mofetil Treatment Reduces the Risk of Treatment Escalation Due to Vascular Complications in Limited Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis: Emulation of a Target Trial From the Italian Rheumatology Society SPRING Registry

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) use in limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis (lcSSc) is relatively uncommon because of the lower fibrotic burden and the predominance of vascular complications. In vitro observations and clinical data from transplanted patients suggest a protective effect of MMF on endothelial function.
Enrico De Lorenzis, Gerlando Natalello, Rossella De Angelis, Lucrezia Verardi, Dilia Giuggioli, Gianluigi Bajocchi, Lorenzo Dagna, Silvia Bellando‐Randone, Giovanni Zanframundo, Rosario Foti, Fabio Cacciapaglia, Giovanna Cuomo, Alarico Ariani, Edoardo Rosato, Gemma Lepri, Francesco Girelli, Valeria Riccieri, Elisabetta Zanatta, Ilaria Cavazzana, Francesca Ingegnoli, Maria De Santis, Giuseppe Murdaca, Giuseppina Abignano, Giorgio Pettiti, Alessandra Della Rossa, Maurizio Caminiti, Annamaria Iuliano, Giovanni Ciano, Lorenzo Beretta, Gianluca Bagnato, Ennio Lubrano, Maria Ilenia De Andres, Alessandro Giollo, Cosimo Bruni, Martina Orlandi, Marco Fornaro, Marta Saracco, Cecilia Agnes, Pier Giacomo Cerasuolo, Gabriella Alonzi, Edoardo Cipolletta, Federica Lumetti, Amelia Spinella, Luca Magnani, Corrado Campochiaro, Giacomo De Luca, Veronica Codullo, Elisa Visalli, Carlo Iandoli, Antonietta Gigante, Greta Pellegrino, Erika Pigatto, Maria‐Grazia Lazzaroni, Franco Franceschini, Elena Generali, Gianna Mennillo, Simone Barsotti, Giuseppa Pagano Mariano, Federica Furini, Licia Vultaggio, Simone Parisi, Clara Lisa Peroni, Gerolamo Bianchi, Enrico Fusaro, Gian Domenico Sebastiani, Marcello Govoni, Salvatore D'Angelo, Franco Cozzi, Fabrizio Conti, Serena Guiducci, Andrea Doria, Carlo Salvarani, Florenzo Iannone, Maria Antonietta D'Agostino, Clodoveo Ferri, Marco Matucci Cerinic, Silvia Laura Bosello, on behalf of the SPRING Italian Registry Collaborators   +77 more
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Comparison of drug retention rates between TNF inhibitors and tocilizumab for Takayasu arteritis: a multicenter retrospective study

Immunological Medicine
Objective. We compared the drug retention rate of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors (TNFi) and tocilizumab in Takayasu arteritis (TAK) as an index of balance between effectiveness and safety in a real-world setting. Method.
Takahiro Sugiyama, Shunsuke Furuta, Taro Iwamoto, Kei Ikeda, Shin-ichiro Kagami, Yasuhiko Kita, Kazuhiro Kurasawa, Shigekazu Takahashi, Daiki Nakagomi, Masaki Hiraguri, Hiroshi Nakajima   +10 more
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Applicability of trials in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis: A systematic review and meta-analysis of trial populations showing adequate proportion of women, but underrepresentation of elderly people [PDF]

, 2018
Objectives: To evaluate whether elderly people and women are adequately represented in randomized controlled trials (RCT) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA).
Boers, Maarten, Buttgereit, Frank, Buttgereit, Thomas, Christensen, Robin, Nielsen, Sabrina Mai, Palmowski, Andriko, Palmowski, Yannick   +6 more
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Anti-Interleukin-6 Receptor Antibody Therapy-Induced Retinopathy in a Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Case Reports in Rheumatology, 2012
Tocilizumab, a humanized anti-human interleukin-6 (IL-6) receptor monoclonal antibody, is beneficial for treating autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Asumi Tada, Noriyasu Hashida, Toshio Tanaka, Kohji Nishida   +3 more
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Tocilizumab as a steroid sparing agent for the treatment of Graves' orbitopathy

American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2017
Purpose: To describe the effect of tocilizumab in two patients with thyroid associated orbitopathy (TAO). Observations: We present two patients with TAO who could not tolerate corticosteroids and had a reduction in clinical and laboratory markers of ...
David J. Russell, Lilly H. Wagner, Stuart R. Seiff   +2 more
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Building a Framework for Sexual and Reproductive Health Care in the Rheumatology Context: Content and Approaches

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
People with systemic autoimmune and rheumatic diseases (SARDs) are at higher risk than the general population of experiencing adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes such as preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, and maternal and/or fetal death.
Mehret Birru Talabi, Sonya Borrero
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Tocilizumab in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 pneumonia: Efficacy, safety, viral clearance, and antibody response from a randomised controlled trial (COVACTA)

EClinicalMedicine, 2022
Summary: Background: In COVACTA, a randomised, placebo-controlled trial in patients hospitalised with coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), tocilizumab did not improve 28-day mortality, but shortened hospital and intensive care unit stay.
Ivan O. Rosas, Norbert Bräu, Michael Waters, Ronaldo C. Go, Atul Malhotra, Bradley D. Hunter, Sanjay Bhagani, Daniel Skiest, Sinisa Savic, Ivor S. Douglas, Julia Garcia-Diaz, Mariam S. Aziz, Nichola Cooper, Taryn Youngstein, Lorenzo Del Sorbo, David J. De La Zerda, Andrew Ustianowski, Antonio Cubillo Gracian, Kevin G. Blyth, Jordi Carratalà, Bruno François, Thomas Benfield, Derrick Haslem, Paolo Bonfanti, Cor H. van der Leest, Nidhi Rohatgi, Lothar Wiese, Charles Edouard Luyt, Rebecca N. Bauer, Fang Cai, Ivan T. Lee, Balpreet Matharu, Louis Metcalf, Steffen Wildum, Emily Graham, Larry Tsai, Min Bao   +36 more
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A Case of Novel Coronavirus Disease 19 in a Chronic Hemodialysis Patient Presenting with Gastroenteritis and Developing Severe Pulmonary Disease. [PDF]

, 2020
Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly infectious, rapidly spreading viral disease with an alarming case fatality rate up to 5%.
Amin, Alpesh N, Chang, Yongen, Cheng, Timmy T, Choi, Grace, Ferrey, Antoney J, Gohil, Shruti, Hanna, Ramy M, Hsieh, Lanny, Huang, Susan S, Ivaturi, Kaushik, Kalantar-Zadeh, Kamyar, Lau, Wei Ling, Lee, Richard A, Nguyen, Lawrence, Park, Elisa, Reddy, Uttam, Rhee, Connie M, Tantisattamo, Ekamol, Tonthat, Sam, Wang, Brian   +19 more
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Associations of Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity With Frailty Over Five Years of Follow‐up

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective To evaluate whether rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity is associated with frailty both in cross‐section and longitudinally. Methods Participants within the Veterans Affairs Rheumatoid Arthritis (VARA) registry enrolled from 2003 to 2022 were included.
Courtney N. Loecker, Yangyuna Yang, Punyasha Roul, Aaron Baraff, Myra S. Schmaderer, Lani Zimmerman, Kaleb Michaud, Namrata Singh, Grant W. Cannon, Gary Kunkel, Ted R. Mikuls, Ariela R. Orkaby, Joshua F. Baker, Bryant R. England, Katherine D. Wysham   +14 more
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Review of tocilizumab in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

Biologics: Targets & Therapy, 2008
Yasuaki OkudaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Center for Rheumatic Diseases, Dohgo Spa Hospital, Matsuyama-city, Ehime, JapanAbstract: Constitutively overproduced in proliferating synovial tissues, interleukin-6 (IL-6) is deeply involved in the pathology
Yasuaki Okuda
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