Tuberculosis among patients treated with TNF inhibitors for rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and psoriatic arthritis in Slovenia: a cohort study.
Žiga RotarPetra SvetinaMatija TomsicAlojzija HočevarSonja PrapotnikPublished in: BMJ open (2020)
The TB IR in the Slovenian patients with RA, AS and PsA treated with TNFi was comparable with TB IRs in TB non-endemic countries with less than a tenth of the patients requiring TB chemoprophylaxis.
Keyphrases
- rheumatoid arthritis
- ankylosing spondylitis
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- disease activity
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- prostate cancer
- chronic kidney disease
- pulmonary tuberculosis
- interstitial lung disease
- prognostic factors
- emergency department
- hiv aids
- radical prostatectomy
- electronic health record