Leflunomide treatment in elderly patients with rheumatoid or psoriatic arthritis: Retrospective analysis of safety and adherence to treatment

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 395-402

  Alivernini, Stefano ^a   Mazzotta, Daniela ^a   Zoli, Angelo ^a   Ferraccioli, Gianfranco ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE 28; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HAIR LOSS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ITALY; LIVER TOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; NAUSEA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; RASH; RELAPSE; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STOMACH PAIN; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ISOXAZOLES; ITALY; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68149144447     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 11791969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-200926050-00003     Document Type: Article

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