Article
Relationship between clinical efficacy and laboratory correlates of inflammatory and immunologic activity in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 May 1990
Cush J J, Jasin H E, Johnson R, Lipsky P E
Abstract excerpt
Eighteen rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, who had been treated with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) only, were enrolled in a 12-week, open-label, randomized protocol to determine whether clinical responses might be associated with improvement in laboratory measures of inflammation and immunologic activity in RA patients treated with NSAIDs. Following a 2-week drug washout period, patients were...
Topics
- Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal
- Antigens, CD
- Arthritis, Rheumatoid
- Blood Sedimentation
- C-Reactive Protein
- HLA-DR Antigens
- Humans
- Lymphocytes
- Phenotype
- Rheumatoid Factor