TY - JOUR AU - Montecucco, Carlomaurizio AU - Todoerti, Monica AU - Sakellariou, Garifallia AU - Scirè, Carlo Alberto AU - Caporali, Roberto PY - 2012 DA - 2012/05/14 TI - Low-dose oral prednisone improves clinical and ultrasonographic remission rates in early rheumatoid arthritis: results of a 12-month open-label randomised study JO - Arthritis Research & Therapy SP - R112 VL - 14 IS - 3 AB - In early rheumatoid arthritis (RA), low-dose oral prednisone (PDN) co-medication yields better clinical results than monotherapy with disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs). In addition, ultrasonography (US) evaluation reveals rapid and significant effects of glucocorticosteroids on subclinical synovitis. No data currently exist that examine the clinical and US results offered by glucocorticoid co-medication over DMARD monotherapy in early RA patients. SN - 1478-6354 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/ar3838 DO - 10.1186/ar3838 ID - Montecucco2012 ER -