Treatment of early rheumatoid arthritis: A randomized magnetic resonance imaging study comparing the effects of methotrexate alone, methotrexate in combination with infliximab, and methotrexate in combination with intravenous pulse methylprednisolone

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3919-3927

  Durez, Patrick ^a   Malghem, Jacques ^a   Toukap, Adrien Nzeusseu ^a   Depresseux, Geneviève ^a   Lauwerys, Bernard R ^a   Westhovens, René ^b   Luyten, Frank P ^b   Corluy, Luc ^c   Houssiau, Frédéric A ^a   Verschueren, Patrick ^b  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UHasselt   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INFECTION; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; METATARSOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MONOTHERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WRIST;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; JOINTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSE THERAPY, DRUG; SYNOVITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37248999029     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.23055     Document Type: Article

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