Everything about Dmard totally explained
Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (
DMARDs) is a category of drugs used in many
autoimmune disorders to slow down disease progression. Their use was first propagated in
rheumatoid arthritis (hence their name) but has come to include many other diseases, such as
Crohn's disease,
lupus erythematosus (SLE),
idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP),
myasthenia gravis and various others.
Some of these drugs are also used in the treatment of
ulcerative colitis which may not, strictly speaking, be an autoimmune disorder. (See
List of Autoimmune Diseases.)
Some DMARDs are mild
chemotherapeutics but use a side-effect of chemotherapy -
immunosuppression - as its main therapeutical benefit.
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Alternatives
When treatment with DMARDs fails,
cyclophosphamide or
steroid pulse therapy is often used to stabilise uncontrolled autoimmune disease. Some severe autoimmune diseases are being treated with
bone marrow transplants in
clinical trials, usually after cyclophosphamide therapy has failed.
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