The ACTEMRA-IV data in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) includes 5 double-blind, controlled, multicenter studies. In these studies, patients received doses of ACTEMRA-IV 8 mg per kg monotherapy (288 patients), ACTEMRAIV 8 mg per kg in combination with DMARDs (including methotrexate) (1582 patien...
Some drugs can affect your blood levels of other drugs you take, which may increase side effects or make the medications less effective.Tell your doctor about all your other medicines, especially other medicines to treat rheumatoid arthritis, such as:...
Your healthcare provider should do blood tests before you start receiving ACTEMRA. If you have rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or giant cell arteritis (GCA), or systemic sclerosis-interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) your healthcare provider should do blood tests 4 to 8 weeks after you start receiving...
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (RA) The most common serious adverse reactions were serious infections. The most common serious infections included pneumonia, urinary tract infection, cellulitis, herpes zoster, gastroenteritis, diverticulitis, sepsis and bacterial arthritis. In the ACTEMRA-IV monotherapy clinical study...
The FDA has recently expanded approval for the use of the biologic drug Actemra for patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA), who fail to benefit from first-line treatments like methotrexate. M J. - 《Arthritis Today》 被引量: 0发表: 2013年 ...
If you have systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SJIA) you will have blood tests done every 2 to 4 weeks during treatment. These blood tests are to check for the following side effects of ACTEMRA: Low neutrophil count: neutrophils are white blood cells that help the body fight infection ...
Tocilizumab has primarily been employed in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis, a rare form of aggressive autoimmune arthritis in children. It is usually administered as an intravenous infusion or subcutaneous injection (Source). ...
Actemra for subcutaneous injection is used to treat active moderate to severerheumatoid arthritis (RA). There are many different types of medicines used to treat RA. Your doctor, however, may have prescribed Actemra for another purpose. Ask your doctor if you have any questions about why Actemra...
Actemra was the first humanized interleukin-6 (IL-6) receptor antagonist approved for the treatment of adult patients with moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who have used one or more disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), such as methotrexate (MTX), that did not pr...
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (RA) The most common serious adverse reactions were serious infections. The most common serious infections included pneumonia, urinary tract infection, cellulitis, herpes zoster, gastroenteritis, diverticulitis, sepsis and bacterial arthritis. In the ACTEMRA-IV monotherapy clinical study...