Early combination disease-modifying antirheumatic drug therapy and tight disease control improve long-term radiologic outcome in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: The 11-year results of the Finnish Rheumatoid Arthritis Combination Therapy trial

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Rantalaiho, Vappu ^a   Korpela, Markku ^a   Laasonen, Leena ^b   Kautiainen, Hannu ^c,e   Järvenpää, Salme ^d   Hannonen, Pekka ^e   Leirisalo Repo, Marjatta ^f   Blåfield, Harri ^g   Puolakka, Kari ^h   Karjalainen, Anna ⁱ   Möttönen, Timo ^j  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Orton Hospital   (Finland)

^d Medcare Foundation   (Finland)

^e JYVÄSKYLÄ CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^f HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^g SEINÄJOKI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^h Lappeenranta Central Hospital   (Finland)

ⁱ OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^j TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT;

ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG COMBINATION; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; FOOT; HAND JOINT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOT JOINTS; HAND JOINTS; HUMANS; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; SULFASALAZINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78049509056     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: 14786362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/ar3060     Document Type: Article

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