Treat-to-Target Strategies in Rheumatoid Arthritis

To the Editor Treat-to-target strategies using disease activity scores are the cornerstone of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment. Dr M øller-Bisgaard and colleagues compared a conventional treat-to-target strategy with a strategy that also incorporated absence of inflammation on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The MRI-guided treat-to-target strategy resulted in similar remission rates and percentages of patients without radiogra phic progression. However, in an exploratory analysis, 46% of the MRI-guided group had used biologics compared with 2% in the conventional strategy group.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research