Non-Invasive Assessment of Micro- and Macrovascular Function after Initiation of JAK Inhibitors in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Panagiota AnyfantiElena AngeloudiAthanasia DaraEleni PagkopoulouGeorgia-Savina MoysidouKleopatra DeuteraiouMaria BoutelEleni BekiariMichael DoumasGeorge D KitasTheodoros DimitroulasPublished in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2024)
Three-month treatment with JAK inhibitors may exert significant effects on microcirculation as assessed with nailfold videocapillaroscopy, whereas macrovascular structure and function appears largely unaffected. Further research toward this direction may add substantial information to the available literature regarding cardiovascular aspects of JAK inhibitors in RA.