Use of Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Therapy in Patients with Concurrent Rheumatoid Arthritis and Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C: A Retrospective Analysis of 32 Patients

Drug Development Research

Volumn 75, Issue , 2014, Pages S42-S45

  Ballanti, Eleonora ^a   Conigliaro, Paola ^a   Chimenti, Maria Sole ^a   Kroegler, Barbara ^a   Di Muzio, Gioia ^a   Guarino, Maria Domenica ^a   Triggianese, Paola ^a   Gigliucci, Gianfranco ^a   Novelli, Lucia ^a   Barbato, Carmen ^a   Perricone, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

anti TNF; hepatitis B; hepatitis C; rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; AMINOTRANSFERASE; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; ETANERCEPT; ISONIAZID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA INHIBITOR; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TNFR-FC FUSION PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPHYLAXIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BLOOD; COMORBIDITY; ITALY;

AGED; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84910066702     PISSN: 02724391     EISSN: 10982299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ddr.21193     Document Type: Review

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