Treatment of resistant rheumatoid arthritis by intra-articular infliximab injections: A pilot study

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 102-103

  Nikas, S N ^a   Temekonidis, T I ^a   Zikou, A K ^b   Argyropoulou, M I ^b   Efremidis, S ^b   Drosos, A A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOKINE; INFLIXIMAB; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT DESTRUCTION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYNOVITIS;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0347320506     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2003.006981     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Gerli R, Lunardi C, Pitzalis C. Unmasking the anti-inflammatory cytokine response in rheumatoid synovitis. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2002;41:1341-5.
2. Brennen FM, Maini RN, Feldmann M. TNF alpha-α pivotal role in rheumatoid arthritis? Br J Rheumatol 1992;31:293-8.
3. Neidel J, Schulze M, Lindschau J. Association between degree of bone-erosion and synovial fluid-levels of tumor necrosis factor alpha in the knee-joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Inflamm Res 1995;44:217-21.
4. Roch-Bras F, Daures JP, Legouffe MC, Sany J, Combe B. Treatment of chronic knee synovitis with arthroscopic synovectomy: longterm results. J Rheumatol 2002;29:1171-5.
5. Maini R, St Clair EW, Breedveld F, Furst D, Kalden J, Weisman M, et al. Infliximab (chimeric anti-tumour necrosis factor alpha monoclonal antibody) versus placebo in rheumatoid arthritis patients receiving concomitant methotrexate: a randomised phase III trial. ATTRACT Study Group. Lancet 1999;354:1932-9.
6. Arnett FC, Edworthy S, Bloch DA, McShane DJ, Fries JF, Cooper NS, et al. The ARA 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum 1988;31:315-24.
7. Ostergaard M, Stoltenberg M, Lovgreen-Nielsen P, Volck B, Jensen CH, Lorenzen I. Magnetic resonance imaging-determined synovial membrane and joint effusion volumes in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis: comparison with the macroscopic and microscopic appearance of the synovium. Arthritis Rheum 1997;40:1856-67.
8. Dreher R, Flaig W, Leitzke D. Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis by intraarticular injections with TNF alpha blockers [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2001;44(suppl):42.
9. Lawless OJ, Pearson L, Malvern O. Monoarticular erosive arthritis following silastic wrist prosthesis: response to intrarticular infliximab [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2001;44(suppl):45.
10. Kellner H, Kroetz M, Schattenkirchner M, Kellner W. Successful therapy of sarcoiliitis in AS patients by intraarticular injection of infliximab [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2002;46(suppl):431.