Three Cases of Previous Smokers with Rheumatoid Arthritis Who Did Not Respond to Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors Were Treated Successfully with an Anti-Interleukin-6 Receptor Antibody

We report three cases of previous smokers who did not respond to TNF inhibitors but who responded successfully to an anti-interleukin-6 receptor antibody (tocilizumab (TCZ)). Case 1 is a 63-year-old woman whose smoking index was 200 and had been complaining of polyarthralgia since 1996. She started...

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Autor principal: Iwata, Yasuo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4310487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25648415
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/806725

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4310487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25648415
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/806725

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