Geriatric Medicine

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Questions discussed in this category

How can we approach tapering or discontinuing biologic DMARDs in patient in their 80s with well controlled rheumatoid arthritis?

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How do you approach selecting biologic therapy vs non-biologic DMARD (such as methotrexate) as initial therapy in patients with new RA diagnosis with significant erosive disease?

This question is part of a collaboration with RheumMadness and is specifically in reference to: NORD-STAR (Østergaard et al., PMID 3742364...

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Do you still plan to offer tofacitinib to RA patients over 65 if they have one or more additional CV risk factors?

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Papers discussed in this category

Arthritis Rheumatol, 2021 Jul

2021 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Rheumatology (Oxford, England), 2023 Oct 19

A real-world 2-year prospective study of medication tapering in patients with well-controlled rheumatoid arthritis within the rheumatoid arthritis medication tapering (RHEUMTAP) cohort.

Arthritis research & therapy, 2015 Aug 03

Sustained biologic-free and drug-free remission in rheumatoid arthritis, where are we now?

Arthritis and rheumatism, 2009 Aug

Prevalence of and predictive factors for sustained disease-modifying antirheumatic drug-free remission in rheumatoid arthritis: results from two large early arthritis cohorts.

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