Pregnancy mediated improvement of rheumatoid arthritis: Effectof therapy on disease activity and autoantibodies

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 142, Issue JULY, 2012, Pages

  Förger, Frauke ^a   Vallbracht, Inka ^b   Helmke, Klaus ^b   Villiger, Peter M ^a   Østensen, Monika ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b KLINIKUM BOGENHAUSEN   (Germany)

^c TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

ACPA; Pregnancy; Rheumatoid arthritis; Rheumatoid factor

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA INHIBITOR; AUTOANTIBODY; CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE; CYCLOPEPTIDE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PREGNANCY; PUERPERIUM; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; BLOOD; IMMUNOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864535161     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2012.13644     Document Type: Article

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