Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients With Giant Cell Arteritis Treated With Tocilizumab

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Identifier 20180306_nanos_posters_216
Title Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients With Giant Cell Arteritis Treated With Tocilizumab
Creator Vibeke Strand; Sophie Dimonaco; Katie Tuckwell; Micki Klearman; Neil Collinson; John Stone
Affiliation (VS) Division of Immunology/Rheumatology, Stanford University, Portola Valley, California; (SD) (NC) Roche Products Ltd, Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom; (KT) (MK) Genentech, South San Francisco, California; (JS) Massachusetts General Hospital Rheumatology Unit, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Subject Neuro-Ophth & Systyemic Disease (eg. MS, MG, Thyroid); Vascular Disorders
Description Superior rates of sustained glucocorticoid-free remission were shown in patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA) treated with weekly (QW) or every-other-week subcutaneous tocilizumab 162 mg+26-week prednisone taper (TCZ+26) for 52 weeks compared with placebo+26-week or 52-week prednisone taper (PBO+26 or PBO+52) in a phase 3 randomized controlled trial (GiACTA). Improvements in patient-reported SF-36 Physical Component Summary (PCS) score and Patient Global Assessment of Disease Activity were also reported for TCZ versus PBO+52 (1).
Date 2018-03
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Source 2018 North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Annual Meeting
Relation is Part of NANOS 2018: Poster Presentations
Collection Neuro-ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NOVEL http://NOVEL.utah.edu
Publisher Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Holding Institution North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Association. NANOS Executive Office 5841 Cedar Lake Road, Suite 204, Minneapolis, MN 55416
Rights Management Copyright 2018. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
ARK ark:/87278/s6xw8k4q
Context URL The NANOS Annual Meeting Neuro-Ophthalmology Collection: https://novel.utah.edu/collection/NAM/toc/
Setname ehsl_novel_nam
ID 1310552
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xw8k4q
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