MAUI, HAWAII – 2017 was a banner year in the field of psoriatic arthritis, marked by a huge bump in the number of publications on the topic along with the approval of three additional drugs, Arthur Kavanaugh, MD, said at the 2018 Rheumatology Winter Clinical Symposium.
“There is a tremendous amount of excitement now in the field of psoriatic arthritis,” observed Dr. Kavanaugh, professor of medicine and director of the Center for Innovative Therapy at the University of California, San Diego.
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Dr. Arthur Kavanaugh
Together with his colleague Eric M. Ruderman, MD, Dr. Kavanaugh highlighted the three new drug approvals for psoriatic arthritis in 2017 – abatacept(Orencia), tofacitinib(Xeljanz), and ixekizumab(Taltz) – and also discussed important recent studies of several drugs already available.