Current and Emerging Therapies for Rheumatoid Arthritis

A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Immunology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 July 2025 | Viewed by 48

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Department of Rheumatology, Sasebo City General Hospital, Sasebo, Nagasaki 857-8511, Japan
Interests: rheumatoid arthritis; sjögren's syndrome; autoimmune diseases
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Dear Colleagues,

The introduction of disease-modifying anti rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) has enabled rheumatologists to rescue patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from joint destruction. Therapy of RA with DMARDs is still evolving, along with clinical applications of molecular targeted therapies: newly introduced biological DMARDs and targeted synthetic DMARDs, i.e., JAK inhibitors. Considering the present situation in the rheumatology department, we planned this Special Issue, titled ‘Current and Emerging Therapies for Rheumatoid Arthritis’, the aim of which is to disseminate up-to-date knowledge on current and emerging therapies for RA worldwide. We welcome authors to submit interesting papers, either original research or review, on the current topics regarding the advances in RA therapy.

Dr. Yoshiro Horai
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • DMARDs (disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs)
  • boDMARDs (biological DMARDs)
  • bsDMARDs (biosimilar DMARDs)
  • csDMARDs (conventional synthetic DMARDs)
  • rheumatoid arthritis
  • tsDMARDs (targeted synthetic DMARDs)

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