STRATEGY FOR DOSE REDUCTION AND DISCONTINUATION OF BIOLOGICAL AGENTS IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS REMISSION

Guidelines for the management of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) envisage that its therapy should be intensified if it is insufficiently effective; at the same time, reduction of its intensity of treatment may be discussed when the set goal has been successfully achieved. The EULAR guideline...

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Main Authors: M. A. Kotovskaya, N. Yu. Nikishina, Yu. A. Olyunin
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Language:Russian
Published: IMA PRESS LLC 2018-03-01
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description Guidelines for the management of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) envisage that its therapy should be intensified if it is insufficiently effective; at the same time, reduction of its intensity of treatment may be discussed when the set goal has been successfully achieved. The EULAR guidelines allow for dose reduction and even discontinuation of biological agents (BAs), especially when performing combination therapy with BAs and disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). However, the strategy for this therapy change has not yet been sufficiently clearly defined. In this review, we would like to raise an issue regarding frank rather than early RA in patients with irreversible changes of the locomotor apparatus, who have received DMARDs and/or BAs for a long time. When remission is achieved, it is more difficult to reduce the dose of the drug or discontinue the latter in these cases than in early RA.
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spelling doaj-art-541dc69b3afb4027a1d51edce7e19c162025-08-20T03:37:53ZrusIMA PRESS LLCНаучно-практическая ревматология1995-44841995-44922018-03-015619910610.14412/1995-4484-2018-99-1062314STRATEGY FOR DOSE REDUCTION AND DISCONTINUATION OF BIOLOGICAL AGENTS IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS REMISSIONM. A. Kotovskaya0N. Yu. Nikishina1Yu. A. Olyunin2V.A.Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology.V.A.Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology.V.A.Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology.Guidelines for the management of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) envisage that its therapy should be intensified if it is insufficiently effective; at the same time, reduction of its intensity of treatment may be discussed when the set goal has been successfully achieved. The EULAR guidelines allow for dose reduction and even discontinuation of biological agents (BAs), especially when performing combination therapy with BAs and disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). However, the strategy for this therapy change has not yet been sufficiently clearly defined. In this review, we would like to raise an issue regarding frank rather than early RA in patients with irreversible changes of the locomotor apparatus, who have received DMARDs and/or BAs for a long time. When remission is achieved, it is more difficult to reduce the dose of the drug or discontinue the latter in these cases than in early RA.https://rsp.mediar-press.net/rsp/article/view/2506rheumatoid arthritisbiological agentsdisease-modifying antirheumatic drugstreatmentremission
spellingShingle M. A. Kotovskaya
N. Yu. Nikishina
Yu. A. Olyunin
STRATEGY FOR DOSE REDUCTION AND DISCONTINUATION OF BIOLOGICAL AGENTS IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS REMISSION
Научно-практическая ревматология
rheumatoid arthritis
biological agents
disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs
treatment
remission
title STRATEGY FOR DOSE REDUCTION AND DISCONTINUATION OF BIOLOGICAL AGENTS IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS REMISSION
title_full STRATEGY FOR DOSE REDUCTION AND DISCONTINUATION OF BIOLOGICAL AGENTS IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS REMISSION
title_fullStr STRATEGY FOR DOSE REDUCTION AND DISCONTINUATION OF BIOLOGICAL AGENTS IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS REMISSION
title_full_unstemmed STRATEGY FOR DOSE REDUCTION AND DISCONTINUATION OF BIOLOGICAL AGENTS IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS REMISSION
title_short STRATEGY FOR DOSE REDUCTION AND DISCONTINUATION OF BIOLOGICAL AGENTS IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS REMISSION
title_sort strategy for dose reduction and discontinuation of biological agents in rheumatoid arthritis remission
topic rheumatoid arthritis
biological agents
disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs
treatment
remission
url https://rsp.mediar-press.net/rsp/article/view/2506
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