Infliximab therapy provides beneficial effects for choroidal thickness increase in patients with active ankylosing spondylitis: A possible mechanism mediating the suppressing of uveitis attacks.
Murat KarkucakMehmet KolaAhmet KalkişimErhan ÇapkınAhmet AyarAdem TurkPublished in: Archives of rheumatology (2020)
By evaluating the posterior eye segment of patients with AS using OCT, this study has demonstrated that active AS patients had higher ChT. The significant reduction in this ChT after infliximab therapy may be mediating the established effective suppressing action of infliximab on uveitis attacks.
Keyphrases
- ankylosing spondylitis
- optical coherence tomography
- end stage renal disease
- disease activity
- rheumatoid arthritis
- ulcerative colitis
- juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- signaling pathway
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- stem cells
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- optic nerve
- smoking cessation