Long-term use of adalimumab in the treatment of rheumatic diseases

Open Access Rheumatology: Research and Reviews

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-68

  Papagoras, Charalampos ^a   Voulgari, Paraskevi V ^a   Drosos, Alexandros A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adalimumab; Ankylosing spondylitis; Juvenile idiopathic arthritis; Psoriatic arthritis; Rheumatoid arthritis; Tumor necrosis factor alpha

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; CORTICOSTEROID; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; ETANERCEPT; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISABILITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFECTION; INJECTION SITE BLEEDING; INJECTION SITE ERYTHEMA; INJECTION SITE PAIN; INJECTION SITE RASH; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LONG TERM CARE; LUPUS LIKE SYNDROME; MELANOMA; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEOPLASM; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; PRURITUS; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RASH; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REMISSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; SKIN CANCER; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T CELL LYMPHOMA; THRUSH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URTICARIA;

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