Rheumatoid arthritis

Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Volumn 4, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Smolen, Josef S ^a   Aletaha, Daniel ^a   Barton, Anne ^b   Burmester, Gerd R ^c   Emery, Paul ^d,e   Firestein, Gary S ^f   Kavanaugh, Arthur ^f   McInnes, Iain B ^g   Solomon, Daniel H ^h   Strand, Vibeke ⁱ   Yamamoto, Kazuhiko ^j  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^h BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

ⁱ STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j Institute of Physical and Chemical Research   (Japan)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABATACEPT; BIOSIMILAR AGENT; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; GLUCOCORTICOID; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; RITUXIMAB; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; SARILUMAB; TOCILIZUMAB; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR INHIBITOR; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ALLERGIC REACTION; ALOPECIA; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHOSPASM; CELLULITIS; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COST OF ILLNESS; COUGHING; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DIVERTICULITIS; DIZZINESS; DUST; DYSPEPSIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECZEMA; EPIGENETICS; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FATIGUE; FEVER; GENETICS; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS B; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; HYPERURICEMIA; INFECTION; INFUSION RELATED REACTION; INJECTION SITE REACTION; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTESTINE PERFORATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKOPENIA; LUPUS LIKE SYNDROME; MACROCYTIC ANEMIA; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; MORTALITY; MOUTH ULCER; NAUSEA; NEPHRITIS; NEUTROPENIA; OLIGOSPERMIA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PANCREATITIS; PANCYTOPENIA; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PNEUMONIA; POLYNEUROPATHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; PROTEINURIA; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; PSYCHOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RASH; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID NODULE; RISK FACTOR; SEX; SMOKING; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; STOMATITIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNOVIUM; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUBERCULOSIS; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION; URTICARIA; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VOMITING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; MASS SCREENING; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIGENOMICS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; METHOTREXATE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85041834443     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2056676X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrdp.2018.1     Document Type: Article

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