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In the Pursuit of Methotrexate Treatment Response Biomarker in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis-Are We Getting Closer to Personalised Medicine?
Current rheumatology reports - 1 Apr 2017
Roszkiewicz Justyna, Smolewska Elzbieta
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Methotrexate (MTX) is the most widely used disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) in paediatric rheumatology and the mainstay in the therapy of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Despite its common use, about 30% of children fail to respond to this medicine that results in potentially irreversible joint damage. RECENT FINDINGS: No clinical biomarker that would predict the outcome of MTX...
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