Педиатрическая фармакология (Mar 2014)
CLINICAL CASE: USE OF CANAKINUMAB IN A PATIENT WITH SYSTEMIC JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS RESISTANT TO IMMUNOSUPPRESSANTS AND GENETICALLY ENGINEERED BIOPHARMACEUTICALS
Abstract
The article presents a case of successful use of an interleukin-1 monoclonal antibody drug (canakinumab) for severe systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis refractory to treatment with classic immunosuppressants and genetically engineered biopharmaceuticals with a different mode of action. Canakinumab treatment shortly provided reduction in clinical and laboratory parameters of the disease activity, life quality improvement, development of an inactive disease stage and allowed reducing the prednisolone dose by 90% and avoiding intravenous and intraarticular administration of glucocorticoids.
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