In studying the effectiveness of infliximab, adalimumab and certoli-zumab for inducing remission in Crohn's disease, the article by Kawalec et al. [1] included a comprehensive series of pair-wise meta-analyses that compared individual biologic agents versus placebo (direct comparisons), but did not study the indirect comparisons of biologics with one another, an issue that can be managed by app...

OBJECTIVE Previous reports of RAPID-PsA (NCT01087788) demonstrated efficacy and safety of certolizumab pegol (CZP) over 24 weeks in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA), including patients with prior antitumour necrosis factor (TNF) therapy. We report efficacy and safety data from a 96-week data cut of RAPID-PsA. METHODS RAPID-PsA was placebo-controlled to week 24, dose-blind to week 48 an...

PURPOSE Although numerous treatment options are available for patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA), a need for effective and tolerable treatments remains for patients with refractory disease who have failed previous therapies and continue to experience tender and/or swollen joints, pain, and disease activity. Repository corticotropin injection (RCI) is believed to produce steroidogenic, ster...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com related cost has increased consistently [3]. At the moment, there are six biological agents licensed by FDA for the treatment of CD (infliximab, adalimumab, golimumab, certolizumab, vedolizumab, and natalizumab, the last two being an anti-α4β7 and anti-α4β1integrin, respectively), and three for UC (infliximab, adalimumab, and vedolizumab), whereas t...

OBJECTIVE To compare the risk of lupus-like events (LLEs) and vasculitis-like events (VLEs) in tumour necrosis factor-α inhibitor (TNFi)-treated patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to those receiving non-biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (nbDMARDs). METHODS Patients were recruited to the British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register-RA, a national prospective cohort s...

BACKGROUND Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) antibodies are currently used in patients with moderate to severe Crohn's disease (CD) who are unresponsive to conventional therapies. Certolizumab pegol (Cp) is one of the anti-TNF-α agents introduced for the management of CD and rheumatoid arthritis. OBJECTIVES The aim of this meta-analysis is to assess the efficacy of Cp in inducing clinical respo...

INTRODUCTION We present the results of real-life tests conducted in adults affected by psoriatic arthritis (PsA) with mild cutaneous involvement to evaluate the efficacy of certolizumab pegol (CZP), an anti-tumor necrosis factor-alpha agent approved in Europe for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and PsA. METHODS Assessments included an evaluation of the Psoriasis Area and Severity Index ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Paradoxically, psoriasis or psoriasiform skin lesions induced or exacerbated by anti-TNF antibodies have been described. Here, we report a series of 13 novel cases featuring exacerbation or occurrence of psoriatic skin lesions induced by anti-TNF antibodies in patients with Crohn's disease (CD). METHODS We performed a systematic analysis of exacerbation or occurrence of ps...

OBJECTIVES Biological DMARDs are widely used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) but their relationship with adverse drug reaction (ADR) is important. RA is now known to increase in incidence and prevalence with age. Our objective was to assess the incidence of severe ADR in the long term, compare safety between the different bDMARDs and identify other possible risk factors for severe...

We report a case of Salmonella septic arthritis detected by ultrasound in a 40-year-old man with rheumatoid arthritis while he was on anti-tumor necrosis factor-α monoclonal antibody certolizumab. An aspirate of his left elbow joint showed Salmonella enteritidis infection that was sensitive to ceftraixone. This was preceded by a brief episode of loose stools following a visit to the Far East. H...