Case Report of Transverse Myelitis in a Patient Receiving Etanercept for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Etanercept is a monoclonal antibody targeted against Tumour Necrosis Factor-alpha (TNF-a) which is an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and is in cases where conventional disease modifying agents such as methotrexate have failed. Neurological complications of treatment have been documente...

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Autores principales: Defty, Helen, Sames, Edward, Doherty, Teresa, Hughes, Rodney
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3615585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23573450
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/728371
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author Defty, Helen
Sames, Edward
Doherty, Teresa
Hughes, Rodney
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description Etanercept is a monoclonal antibody targeted against Tumour Necrosis Factor-alpha (TNF-a) which is an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and is in cases where conventional disease modifying agents such as methotrexate have failed. Neurological complications of treatment have been documented. We describe a case of transverse myelitis occurring in a 48 year-old lady with RA since 1994 who had been receiving etanercept for four years.
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spelling pubmed-36155852013-04-09 Case Report of Transverse Myelitis in a Patient Receiving Etanercept for Rheumatoid Arthritis Defty, Helen Sames, Edward Doherty, Teresa Hughes, Rodney Case Rep Rheumatol Case Report Etanercept is a monoclonal antibody targeted against Tumour Necrosis Factor-alpha (TNF-a) which is an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and is in cases where conventional disease modifying agents such as methotrexate have failed. Neurological complications of treatment have been documented. We describe a case of transverse myelitis occurring in a 48 year-old lady with RA since 1994 who had been receiving etanercept for four years. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-03-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3615585/ /pubmed/23573450 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/728371 Text en Copyright © 2013 Helen Defty et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Case Report of Transverse Myelitis in a Patient Receiving Etanercept for Rheumatoid Arthritis
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title_short Case Report of Transverse Myelitis in a Patient Receiving Etanercept for Rheumatoid Arthritis
title_sort case report of transverse myelitis in a patient receiving etanercept for rheumatoid arthritis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3615585/
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