A one-year, phase I/IIa, open-label pilot trial of imatinib mesylate in the treatment of systemic sclerosis-associated active interstitial lung disease

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3540-3546

  Khanna, Dinesh ^a   Saggar, Rajeev ^a   Mayes, Maureen D ^b   Abtin, Fereidoun ^a   Clements, Philip J ^a   Maranian, Paul ^a   Assassi, Shervin ^b   Saggar, Rajan ^a   Singh, Ram R ^a   Furst, Daniel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; IMATINIB; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PREDNISONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; FACE EDEMA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOT EDEMA; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUTROPENIA; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; SCORING SYSTEM; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THRUSH; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PIPERAZINES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PYRIMIDINES; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80155204477     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.30548     Document Type: Article

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