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Resources:    Click on the link at left to go to your desired page:  Introduction  Page 2  Page 3  Page 4  Study 1  Study 2  Study 3  Study 4  Conclusion  Post-Test

Additional reading relating to each study may be found in the following citations.

Study l Citation:  Peter E. Lipsky MD, Desiree MFM van der Heyde MD, E. William St. Clair MD, Daniel E. Furst MD, Ferdinand C. Breedveld MD, Joachim R. Kalden MD, Josef S. Smolen MD, Michael Weisman MD, Paul Emery MD, Marc Feldmann MD, BS, PhD, Gregory R. Harriman MD, Ravider N. Maini, FRCP for the Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Trial in Rheumatoid Arthritis with Concomitant Therapy Study Group.

Infliximab and Methotrexate in Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

1.   Maini RN, Breedveld FC, Kalden JR, et.al. Infliximab and methotrexate in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Trial in Rheumatoid Arthritis with Concomitant Therapy Study Group.
N Engl J Med
2000 Nov 30;343(22):1594-602

2.   Maini R, St Clair EW, Breedveld F, et al. Infliximab (chimeric anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha monoclonal antibody) versus placebo in rheumatoid arthritis patients receiving concomitant methotrexate: a randomized phase III trial. ATTRACT Study Group.
Lancet
1999 Dec 4;354(9194):1932-9

3.   Felson DT, Anderson JJ, Boers M, et al. The American College of Rheumatology preliminary core set of disease activity measures for rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials. The Committee on Outcome Measures in Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Trials.
Arthritis Rheum
1993 Jun;36(6):729-40

 

 

Study 2 Citation:  Andreas M. Reimold, MD

New Indications for Treatment of Chronic Inflammation by TNF-alpha Blockade

1.   St Clair EW, Wagner CL, Fasanmade AA, Wang B, Schaible T, Kavanaugh A, Keystone EC. The relationship of serum infliximab concentrations to clinical improvement in rheumatoid arthritis: results from ATTRACT, a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
Arthritis Rheum
2002 Jun;46(6):1451-9

2. Aurrecoechea E, Blanco R, Gonzalez S, et al. Successful therapy with infliximab in refractory adult onset Still's disease.
Arthritis Rheum
2001;44:S118

3. Kraetsch HG, Antoni C, Kalden JR, et al. Successful treatment of a small cohort of adult onset Still disease with infliximab.
Arthritis Rheum
2001;44:S118

4. Targan SR, Hanauer SB, van Deventer SJ, et al. A short-term study of chimeric monoclonal antibody cA2 to tumor necrosis factor alpha for Crohn's disease. Crohn's Disease cA2 Study Group.
N Engl J Med
1997;337:1029-35

5. Rutgeerts P, D'Haens G, Targan S, et al. Efficacy and safety of re-treatment with anti-tumor necrosis factor anti­body (infliximab) to maintain remission in Crohn's disease.
Gastroenterology
1999;117:761-9

6. Present DH, Rutgeerts P, Targan S, et al. Infliximab for the treatment of fistulas in patients with Crohn's disease.
N Engl J Med
1999;340:1398-405

7. Braun J, Brandt J, Listing J, et al. Treatment of active ankylosing spondylitis with infliximab: a randomised con­trolled multicentre trial.
Lancet
2002;359:1187-93

8. Van den Bosch F, KruithofE, Baeten D, et al. Random­ised double-blind comparison of chimeric monoclonal anti­body to tumor necrosis factor a (infliximab) versus placebo in active spondyloarthropathy.
Arthritis Rheum
2001;44:S153

9. Chaudhari U, Romano P, Mulcahy LD, et al. Efficacy and safety of infliximab monotherapy for plaque-type psori­asis: a randomized trial.
Lancet
2001;357:1842-7

10. Honkanen V, Lappi M, Koskinen L, et al. Infliximab treatment in the refractory chronic uveitis of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA).
Arthritis Rheum
2001;44:
S292

11. El-Shabrawi Y, Hermann J. Anti-TNF-a therapy with infliximab in the treatment of HLA B27 associated acute anterior uveitis.
Arthritis Rheum
2001;44:S123

12. Herve P, FIesch M, Tiberghien P, et al. Phase I-II trial of a monoclonal anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha antibody for the treatment of refractory severe acute graft-versus-host disease.
Blood
1992,79:3362-8

13. Abraham E, Wunderink R, Silvennan H, et al. Efficacy and safety of monoclonal antibody to human tumor necrosis factor alpha in patients with sepsis syndrome. A randomized, controlled, double-blind, multicenter clinical trial. TNF-alpha MAb Sepsis Study Group.
JAMA
1995;273:934-41