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    Using adalimumab serum concentration to choose a subsequent biological DMARD in rheumatoid arthritis patients failing adalimumab treatment (ADDORA-switch): study protocol for a fully blinded randomised superiority test-treatment trial

    A substantial proportion of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients discontinues treatment with tumour necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) due to inefficacy or intolerance. After the failure of treatment with a TNFi,...

    Maike H. M. Wientjes, Sadaf Atiqi, Gerrit Jan Wolbink, Michael T. Nurmohamed in Trials (2021)

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    Serum survivin predicts responses to treatment in active rheumatoid arthritis: a post hoc analysis from the SWEFOT trial

    The identification of biomarkers that predict optimal and individual choices of treatment for patients with rheumatoid arthritis gains increasing attention. The purpose of this study was to investigate if the ...

    Adrian Levitsky, Malin C. Erlandsson, Ronald F. van Vollenhoven in BMC Medicine (2015)

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    Early start and stop of biologics: has the time come?

    Despite considerable advances in the management of rheumatoid arthritis, results are still not satisfactory for all patients. The treatment goal in rheumatoid arthritis is remission, and there currently are nu...

    Ronald F van Vollenhoven, György Nagy, Paul P Tak in BMC Medicine (2014)

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    Gender and the treatment of immune-mediated chronic inflammatory diseases: rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and psoriasis: an observational study

    Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and psoriasis are immune-mediated inflammatory diseases with similarities in pathophysiology, and all can be treated with similar biological agents....

    Nienke Lesuis, Ragnar Befrits, Filippa Nyberg, Ronald F van Vollenhoven in BMC Medicine (2012)

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    Sex differences in rheumatoid arthritis: more than meets the eye...

    Sex differences in the prevalence of autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are well described, but the literature is not as clear about sex differences in RA disease course and prognosis. A recent...

    Ronald F van Vollenhoven in BMC Medicine (2009)