What's Next If Initial Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment Fails?
If a standard medication doesn't work to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA), doctors may try biologic drugs. In this video, rheumatologist Paula Rackoff, MD, explains factors to be considered before starting this treatment plan.
Transcript
If a standard medication like naproxen or ibuprofen
doesn't work-- which is often the case for true rheumatoid arthritis-- then we go to something called disease modifying agents, which
are drugs like hydroxychloroquine, methotrexate, leflunomide. And earlier on in the past really recent years,
we've been starting biologic drugs much earlier. And it really depends on what other diseases
a patients with rheumatoid arthritis may have, as those diseases can make treating rheumatoid arthritis
rheumatoid arthritis
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