Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on October 12, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48(11):1335-1336; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep334
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Registries in rheumatological and musculoskeletal conditions—call for papers
1UCL Division of Medicine, Centre for Rheumatology, University College London, London, UK, 2University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Metroplex Clinical Research Center, Dallas, TX, USA and 3Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Kerckhoff-Clinic, Bad Nauheim, Germany.
Correspondence to: David Isenberg, UCL Division of Medicine, Centre for Rheumatology, University College London, Windeyer Building, 46 Cleveland Street, London W1T 4JF, UK. E-mail: d.isenberg@ucl.ac.uk
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The outlook for patients with various inflammatory arthropathies, notably RA, PsA and AS, has been altered substantially in the past decade by the introduction of biologic agents, in particular those which block TNF-
and also by agents that either block co-stimulation or affect CD20 B cells. Although double-blind control trials involving thousands of patients have demonstrated the effectiveness of these drugs, such as etancercept [1], infliximab [2], adalimumab [3] and newer drugs such as certolizumab golimumab,