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Predictors of Loss of Remission and Disease Flares in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis Receiving Antitumor Necrosis Factor Treatment: A Retrospective Study

Ennio Lubrano, Fabio Massimo Perrotta, Maria Manara, Salvatore D’Angelo, Olga Addimanda, Roberta Ramonda, Leonardo Punzi, Ignazio Olivieri, Carlo Salvarani and Antonio Marchesoni
The Journal of Rheumatology August 2016, 43 (8) 1541-1546; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.160363
Ennio Lubrano
From the Dipartimento di Medicina e Scienze della Salute “Vincenzo Tiberio,” Università degli Studi del Molise, Campobasso; Day Hospital di Reumatologia, ASST Centro Specialistico Ortopedico Traumatologico G. Pini-CTO, Milan; Rheumatology Department of Lucania, San Carlo Hospital of Potenza and Madonna delle Grazie Hospital of Matera, Matera; Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine DIMED, University of Padua; Rheumatology Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia and Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
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