Interleukin 6

Vasculitis

Surgery

Computer graphics (images)

Prednisone

Computer science

Anesthesia

Rheumatoid arthritis

Tocilizumab

Placebo

Alternative medicine

Tapering

Giant cell

Cytokine

Internal medicine

Arteritis

Medicine

Gastroenterology

Prednisolone

Disease

Giant cell arteritis

Glucocorticoid

Pathology

New England Journal of Medicine

Giant-cell arteritis commonly relapses when glucocorticoids are tapered, and the prolonged use of glucocorticoids is associated with side effects. The effect of the interleukin-6 receptor alpha inhibitor tocilizumab on the rates of relapse during glucocorticoid tapering was studied in patients with giant-cell arteritis.

Trial of Tocilizumab in Giant-Cell Arteritis