Busting the myth of methotrexate chronic hepatotoxicity

V Di Martino, DW Verhoeven, F Verhoeven… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Methotrexate is a key component of the treatment of inflammatory rheumatic diseases and
the mainstay of therapy in rheumatoid arthritis. Hepatotoxicity has long been a concern for …

Comparative efficacy and safety of JAK inhibitors as monotherapy and in combination with methotrexate in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic …

L Liu, YD Yan, FH Shi, HW Lin, ZC Gu, J Li - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background We aim to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of Janus kinase inhibitors (JAKi)
as monotherapy and in combination with methotrexate (MTX) in active rheumatoid arthritis …

Low-dose IL-2 improved clinical symptoms by restoring reduced regulatory T cells in patients with refractory rheumatoid arthritis: A randomized controlled trial

J Wang, SX Zhang, JS Chang, T Cheng… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Regulatory T cells (Tregs) have been found to play crucial roles in immune
tolerance. However, the status of Tregs in refractory rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is still unclear …

Methotrexate in early rheumatoid arthritis: Is the anchor drug still holding?

A Giollo, E Fuzzi, A Doria - Autoimmunity reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Treat-to-target (T2T) is currently the most fashionable strategy for treatment-naïve,
early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. A T2T approach can lead to a complete and drug …

Clinical features of methotrexate osteopathy in rheumatic musculoskeletal disease: a systematic review

N Ruffer, M Krusche, FT Beil, M Amling, I Kötter… - Seminars in Arthritis and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background There is growing evidence from case reports that methotrexate (MTX) therapy
may impair bone metabolism in individual patients leading to low bone mass, atraumatic …

Nanoparticle-inhibited neutrophil elastase prevents neutrophil extracellular trap and alleviates rheumatoid arthritis in C57BL/6 mice

M Liu, S Liu, L Liu, J Xiu, T Zhang, D Chen, M Qiao… - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by inflammation outbreak and joint destruction. As
the main culprit of RA, neutrophils firstly migrated to inflamed joints and aggravate …

Rates and predictors of methotrexate-related adverse events in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: results from a nationwide UK study

AA Sherbini, JM Gwinnutt, KL Hyrich… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Objectives To estimate prevalence rates and identify baseline predictors of adverse events
(AEs) over the first year of treatment in patients with RA starting MTX. Methods Data came …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical prediction models for methotrexate treatment outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

CK Gehringer, GP Martin, KL Hyrich… - Seminars in arthritis and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background In the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), there is a clinical need to
identify which patients are at high-risk of not responding to methotrexate (MTX), or …

Developing and externally validating multinomial prediction models for methotrexate treatment outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from an …

CK Gehringer, GP Martin, KL Hyrich… - Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objectives In rheumatology, there is a clinical need to identify patients at high risk (> 50%) of
not responding to the first-line therapy methotrexate (MTX) due to lack of disease control or …

Drug survival of methotrexate and predictor factors for discontinuation in psoriasis

G Caldarola, E De Luca, M Mariani… - International Journal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Methotrexate (MTX) is a systemic therapy largely used for moderate‐severe
psoriasis. There is a lack of data on its use in daily practice and particularly on its long‐term …