Clinical and ultrasonographic monitoring of response to adalimumab treatment in rheumatoid arthritis

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-40

  Iagnocco, Annamaria ^a   Filippucci, Emilio ^b   Perella, Chiara ^a   Ceccarelli, Fulvia ^a   Cassarà, Emanuele ^a   Alessandri, Cristiano ^a   Sabatini, Emanuela ^a   Grassi, Walter ^b   Valesini, Guido ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adalimumab; Biological therapy; Rheumatoid arthritis; Synovitis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; DICLOFENAC; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; INDOMETACIN; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NIMESULIDE;

ADULT; AGED; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; ITALY; KNEE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SYNOVIAL BURSA; TENDON SHEATH; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WRIST;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNOVITIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 38149002961     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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