Tuberculosis and biologics in rheumatology: a special situation

R Handa, S Upadhyaya, S Kapoor… - International Journal …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
India has a huge patient burden of rheumatic diseases (RD s) including rheumatoid arthritis.
The use of biologics has transformed the treatment paradigm for RD; however, biologic …

Opportunistic infections in biological therapy, risk and prevention

PA Bryant, JW Baddley - Rheumatic Disease Clinics, 2017 - rheumatic.theclinics.com
Treatment of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) with biological therapies has
resulted in substantial improvement in patient symptoms and has slowed the natural …

[PDF][PDF] Recommendations for infectious disease screening in migrants to Western Europe with inflammatory arthropathies before starting biologic agents. Results from …

F Bartalesi, C Scirè, A Requena-Méndez… - Clin Exp …, 2017 - clinexprheumatol.org
Objective Inflammatory arthritis needs infectious disease screening before starting a biologic
agent, however, few data are known about migrant patients, who represent a peculiar …

Analysis of the impact of lung cancer treatment on nontuberculous mycobacterial lung diseases

T Tsuji, K Tsuyuguchi, K Tachibana, Y Kimura… - Respiratory …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Although nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) lung diseases can occur in
association with lung cancer, no study has evaluated the effect of lung cancer treatment on …

[PDF][PDF] QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Test in the Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Arthritis Patients Treated with Tumor Necrosis Factor Antagonists

D Baričevic, S Popović Grle, J Morović Vergles… - Acta Clin …, 2017 - hrcak.srce.hr
The aim of this study was to investigate the role of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube test
(QFT-GIT) in detecting latent tuberculosis in immunocompromised patients before …

Primjena QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube testa u dijagnozi latentne tuberkuloze za vrijeme primjene antagonista tumorske nekroze kod osoba koje boluju od artritisa

D Baričević, S Popović Grle, J Morović Vergles… - Acta clinica …, 2017 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak Cilj ovoga istraživanja bio je ispitati ulogu testa QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube
(QFT-GIT) u otkrivanju latentne tuberkuloze u imunokompromitiranih bolesnika prije terapije …