Etanercept infliximab

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Avatar m tn Etanercept Study Group. Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. ***@**** BACKGROUND/AIMS: Current therapies for patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) do not achieve sustained viral clearance in most patients, and are associated with severe toxic effects. Our aim was to investigate the efficacy and safety of etanercept as adjuvant to interferon and ribavirin in treatment-naive patients with HCV.
Avatar n tn Can a perispinal etanercept injection help heal severe pain linked to the piriformous muscle?
Avatar f tn Though non steroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAID) and steroids are the gold standard of treatment, more emphasis should be laid on physical and occupational therapy, rest, heat pads and use of assistive devices for walking. Biological response modifiers like etanercept, leflunomide (used less often), adalimumab, or infliximab can be added in consultation with doctor.
Avatar m tn Liver failure occurred in 5 patients, 4 of whom died. The drug Infliximab caused the highest rate of HBV resurgence and liver damage, compared with the drug etanercept in this group. Among core antibody people, with resolved infections: Reactivation occurred in 9 (5%) cases, including 1 patient who died due to liver failure.
Avatar m tn Can anyone tell me if peri spinal etanercept works ? I have had four back surgeries since 2000. The last two were for decompression of the L-4, L-5 and S-1 nerve roots. My third surgery was performed in January 2011 and the last one in July 2012. I am still having pain around my right hip, left calf , left ankle and left foot. MRI and CT Myloegram do not show anything. Help !
Avatar f tn Corticosteroid therapy or medications to suppress the immune system may also be prescribed. Drugs called TNF-inhibitors (etanercept, adalimumab, infliximab), which block an inflammatory protein, have been shown to improve the symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis. I'm going to refer your post to the Hysterectomy Forum, there is a wonderful CL there who will be able to tell you if there is something related to that surgery that could be causing these issues.
1539111 tn?1293014306 Since then he has been under constant treatment. We were given steroid courses, infliximab, adalimumab injections, and now he is on methotrexate every week since 2 weeks. My concern is that this injection is a chemo treatment, which can have many side effects as well as good effects. My son is now nearly 11 years old. His health is deteriorating by the day. He feels weak and dizzy, cannot do activity like playing outside with other children because he feels tired and worn out.
Avatar n tn Hi Just wondered if anyone has/knows about crohns and a fistula and stricture pain and ALSO is having Infliximab?? I have just started the treatment and am waiting for my fistula to heal so I can lead a somewhat normal life. Also I get a blocked stomach feeling every now and them which I assume is from a stricture....I am only 27 and have had this disease for 8 years, my large bowel perforated when I was 21 I had a bag for a year then it got reversed.
Avatar f tn hi i'm 15 and i have crohn's disease. i'm portuguese so i apologize for my english. i'm going to start a treatment called infliximab and i wanted to know if it's ok for me to continue smoking weed. i started smoking weed 10 month ago and nothing changed but i'm scared of starting this new treatment. i don't smoke a lot but i don't know the side effects of the 2 combined. i can't ask my doctor because my mom is always is me.
Avatar n tn This was 270 when the norm is 5 or less. My gastro restarted the mtx, 25 mg weekly, and for the first time, introduced infliximab on the 0-2-4-8 weekly protocol. I think it was after some 6 months or so that I had the infliximab infusion on a Monday, delayed my mtx injection until the next day and had a violent reaction with pruple spots all over my body, very high temperature, nausea, vomiting, diarrahea and a pain up my spine.
Avatar m tn The standard therapy options include intravenous immunoglobulin and plasmapharesis, corticosteroids, azathioprine, cyclophosphamide, etanercept, mycophenolate mofetil, interferon alpha 2a and tacrolimus. Current ones are interferon beta 1a, rituximab, and high dose cyclophosphamide. Your neurologist needs to apprise you of the long-term side effects since prolonged therapy are required. Botox shots are not known to be used in therapy.
Avatar m tn My wife receives Remicade (infliximab) every 8 weeks, recently after fighting a cold/flu she was diagnosed with RCE and has gone through a number of ointments etc from her optometrist. She has another appointment Friday and may be referred to an ophthalmologist for more treatment options. The concern is she is scheduled in the next day or two for a Remicade infusion ( treating UC). Her concern is "will the remicade adversely affect the healing of the eye with RCE?".
Avatar f tn Which is why so many of the biologic drugs used for those conditions, such as adalimumab (Humira), etanercept (Enbrel), and infliximab (Remicade) show promise for HS sufferers." *** Excerpts from "Putting Hidradenitis Suppurativa Into Remission".... "I decided to ask Loren Cordain about HS when I interviewed him at the AHS last summer. He mentioned that he thought HS might have an autoimmune component but other than that, he didn’t have any information.
Avatar f tn s flares, it goes up really high - 6 weeks ago mine was 190 and I needed to be hospitalised for dehydration and to recommence Infliximab. When I had a really bad flare last year, some 6 months after my first resection (right hemi-colectomy) it was an incredible 260 - my gastro treats a lot of Crohn's and UC patients, and he said he had never of a C-RP being so high. IV antibiotics, methotrexate injections and Infliximab infusions brought the level down, but it was touch and go at the time.
369533 tn?1207588462 Treatment consists of surgery like liposuction and medicines like Lurica, infliximab and methotrexate.I am passing you a link where you can get good information about the disease: http://www.dercumsociety.com/symptoms.html Hope it helps.Take care and pls do keep me posted if you have any additional queries.Kind regards.
621770 tn?1243220914 I am participating in a Remicade/Infliximab along with standard care PegInf and Riba and was wondering if anyone out there is too?
Avatar f tn t stop me getting bc, and currently on weekly self administered 25 mg injections, since I switched from 2 yrs of Infliximab. I stopped the infliximab because of severe inexplicable weight gain and have now got my weight back to normal at 120 lbs - I am only 5' 2". Over the years I think I have tried most drugs to keep the disease in remission and now find methotrexate has the least side effects which are tolerable.
Avatar m tn s (Infliximab, Humira) which I started last July, so at least he is current with all new drugs. and....I trust him implicitly. Protein? I have always had to follow a high protein, high carb, low fibre diet, so I tend to eat very little red meat, but lots of fish, chicken and game. I occasionally have calves' liver, because I like it, and it has a lot of iron.
1349026 tn?1276805457 I did get slightly better and managed to put on a little weight (I was on nightly 10 hr tube feeding for 2 months before the surgery) but had a huge flare some 4 months later, again hospitalised for 2 weeks, and started on Infliximab (remicade). I have now been on these 8 weekly infusions (in hospital as a day patient) for almost a year, but my gastro said they will discontinue them in July to see if the Crohn's flares again.
Avatar f tn I was on mtx tablets 25 mg weekly, then 25 mg injections (done at home weekly), but after having some serious flares and surgery (right hemi-colectomy) 3 yrs ago, I was put on Infliximab infusions, every 8 weeks as a day patient in hospital. This caused enormous weight gain and I have just recently gone back onto mtx 25 mg injections which is working okay.