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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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Effectiveness and retention rates of methotrexate in psoriatic arthritis in comparison with methotrexate-treated patients with rheumatoid arthritis

TL;DR: MTX treatment was associated with improvement in disease activity and health-related quality of life in patients with PsA after 6 months of treatment and two-year retention rates of MTX were similar in PsA and RA.
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Switching between TNF inhibitors in psoriatic arthritis: data from the NOR-DMARD study

TL;DR: Twenty–40% of patients had a response on a second TNFi after having failed one TNFi in this LOS, and this observation highlights the need for treatments with other mechanisms of action than TNF inhibition in patients with PsA.
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Reductions in health-related quality of life in patients with ankylosing spondylitis and improvements with etanercept therapy.

TL;DR: Patients with active AS despite conventional therapy have significantly reduced HRQOL across a wide range of domains, and treatment with etanercept therapy significantly improves patientHRQOL, indicating that decrements in HRZOL due to AS may be at least partly reversible.
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The effect of two golimumab doses on radiographic progression in ankylosing spondylitis: results through 4 years of the GO-RAISE trial

TL;DR: The radiographic progression rate remained stable at years 2 and 4, suggesting no acceleration of new bone formation over time in patients with ankylosing spondylitis receiving two different doses of the tumour necrosis factor antagonist golimumab.