Intensifying treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with combinations of traditional disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs among patients with persistent disease did not reduce the need for large joint surgery

Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 424-427

  Kononoff, A ^a   Heiskanen, J ^a   Lumiaho, J ^a   Kautiainen, H ^b   Kaipiainen Seppanen O ^a  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b RHEUMATISM FOUNDATION HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AURANOFIN; AZATHIOPRINE; BLOCKING AGENT; CHLORAMBUCIL; CHLOROQUINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; NATRIUMAUROTHIOMALATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENICILLAMINE; PODOPHYLLOTOXIN; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR BLOCKING AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTHRODESIS; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; HUMAN; JOINT SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ARTHRODESIS; ARTHROPLASTY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37349094333     PISSN: 03009742     EISSN: 15027732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03009740701483055     Document Type: Article

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