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.

May 2024

Adverse events with risankizumab in the real world: Postmarketing pharmacovigilance assessment of the FDA adverse event reporting system

Front Immunol 2023;14:1169735 DOI 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1169735 Epub ahead of print

Shu Y,

Chen J,

Ding Y,

Zhang Q

Shu, et al. identified 37 preferred terms as unexpected AEs following risankizumab treatment, and found 48 AEs with an increased risk of risankizumab-induced AE severity. They also identified that risankizumab signal strengths were significantly higher in eight system organ classes.

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February 2019

Comparisons of Hepatitis C Viral Replication in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Receiving Tocilizumab, Abatacept and Tofacitinib Therapy

Ann Rheum Dis. 2019 Jun;78(6):849-850.

Chen YM,

Huang WN,

Liao TL,

Chen JP,

Yang SS,

Chen HH,

Hsieh TY,

Hung WT,

Chen YH,

Chen DY

Tocilizumab (TCZ), abatacept (ABA) and tofacitinib (TOF) appear to have no major safety concerns for treatment of RA patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections.HCV is an infectious disease which continues to present a major therapeutic challenge for clinicians in treating patients with RA. Previous reports demonstrate that the use of TNF targeted therapies in RA patients with HCV infections appear to have no major safety concerns. During short-term therapy with TCZ and ABA, data has shown ...