Publications

View and download slide summaries of the latest original articles focusing on therapies in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases including rheumatology, dermatology, and gastroenterology. All materials produced by the team are subsequently reviewed and approved by individual Steering Committee members.

December 2023

Estudio comparativo de mundo real sobre la eficacia de los inhibidores de la quinasa Janus en pacientes con artritis reumatoide: El estudio de cohortes ANSWER

Rheumatology 2023 doi 10.1093/rheumatology/kead543

Maeda T,

Okano T,

Ueda Y,

Fujii T,

Hata K,

Yoshikawa A,

Ebina K,

Etani Y,

Amuro H,

Hara R,

Okano T,

This multicentre, retrospective study by Hayashi, et al. found no significant differences in efficacy and safety between tofacitinib, baricitinib, peficitinib and upadacitinib in patients with RA. Predictive factors for resistance to LDA achievement included baseline CRP and CDAI for tofacitinib and baseline glucocorticoid dose, baseline CDAI and number of previous b/tsDMARDs for baricitinib.

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April 2020

Vasculitis IgA como Efecto Adverso de Tofacitinib en Artritis Reumatoide

Intern Med. 2020;59(6):817-821

Itoh I,

Ojima T,

Nephrotoxicity is a key side effect of NSAIDs and DMARDs used to treat RA, while biologics can reportedly cause proliferative glomerulonephritis or crescentic glomerulonephritis. This report reviews a patient on TOF presenting IgA vasculitis as an adverse effect that fully resolved following termination of TOF.Drug induced IgA vasculitis has been previously described for anti-TNFɑ therapies, but this is the first report with JAK inhibitor therapy. This is a case report of a 67-year old woman wit...