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He had received oral therapy with prednisolone (5 mg twice per day), hydroxychloroquine (200 mg twice per day), sulfasalazine (1,000 mg twice per day), and methotrexate (MTX) (15 mg per week) for 4 months. The drugs come in two categories: traditional disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) like methotrexate, sulfasalzine (Azulfidine), leflunomide (Arava) and hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil); and, for those who don't respond to DMARDs, biologic agents like TNF blockers adalimumab (Humira), etanercept (Enbrel) and infliximab (Remicade), or the newer biologic One year prior to referral as an inpatient she started receiving weekly injections of methotrexate (increasing the dose from 10 to 25 mg at time of referral), with hydroxychloroquine (2 x 200 mg/d) added after 7 months and sulfasalazine (4 x 500 mg/d) added after 10 months. |
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