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Désirée van der Heijde

Researcher at Leiden University Medical Center

Publications -  764
Citations -  57315

Désirée van der Heijde is an academic researcher from Leiden University Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ankylosing spondylitis & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 107, co-authored 674 publications receiving 48488 citations. Previous affiliations of Désirée van der Heijde include Leiden University & Radboud University Nijmegen.

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EULAR recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis with synthetic and biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: 2016 update

TL;DR: These recommendations intend informing rheumatologists, patients, national rheumology societies, hospital officials, social security agencies and regulators about EULAR's most recent consensus on the management of RA, aimed at attaining best outcomes with current therapies.
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Treating rheumatoid arthritis to target: recommendations of an international task force (vol 69, pg 631, 2010)

TL;DR: In this article, a task force of rheumatologists and a patient developed a set of recommendations on the basis of evidence derived from a systematic literature review and expert opinion; these were subsequently discussed, amended and voted upon by >60 experts from various regions of the world in a Delphi-like procedure.
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American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism Provisional Definition of Remission in Rheumatoid Arthritis for Clinical Trials

TL;DR: It is proposed that a patient's RA can be defined as being in remission based on one of two definitions: (1) when scores on the tender joint count, swollen joint counts, CRP level, and patient global assessment are all ≤1, or (2) when the score on the Simplified Disease Activity Index is ≤3.