Two-year results from an open-label, multicentre, phase III study evaluating the safety and efficacy of canakinumab in patients with cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome across different severity phenotypes


KUEMMERLE-DESCHNER J. B., HACHULLA E., CARTWRIGHT R., Hawkins P. N., TRAN T. A., Bader-Meunier B., ...More

ANNALS OF THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES, vol.70, no.12, pp.2095-2102, 2011 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 70 Issue: 12
  • Publication Date: 2011
  • Doi Number: 10.1136/ard.2011.152728
  • Journal Name: ANNALS OF THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.2095-2102
  • Istanbul University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Objective Longer-term effects of prolonged selective interleukin-1 beta blockade with canakinumab were evaluated in the largest cohort of cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome (CAPS) patients studied to date.