TY - JOUR 
A1 - Bartalesi, Filippo
AU - Scirè, S.
AU - Requena Méndez, Ana
AU - Abad, M. A.
AU - Buonfrate, D.
AU - Caporali, R.
AU - Conti, F.
AU - Díaz González, Federico
AU - Fernández Espartero, Cruz
AU - Martínez Fernández, Carmen
AU - Mascarello, M.
AU - Generali, E.
AU - Minisola, G.
AU - Morrone, A.
AU - Muñoz, J.
AU - Richi Alberti, Patricia
AU - Sakellariou, G.
AU - Salas Coronas, Joaquín
AU - Spinicci, M.
AU - Castelli, Florance
AU - Bartoloni, A.
AU - Bisoffi, Z.
AU - Giménez Sánchez, F.
AU - Muñoz Fernández, Santiago
AU - Matucci-Cerinic, Marco
T1 - Recommendations for infectious disease screening in migrants to Western Europe with inflammatory arthropathies before starting biologic agents. Results from a multidisciplinary task force of four European societies (SIR, SER, SIMET, SEMTSI) facing the lar
Y1 - 2017
SN - 0392856X
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11268/6455
AB - Inflammatory arthritis needs infectious disease screening before starting a biologic agent, however, few data are known about migrant patients, who represent a peculiar population which requires a multidisciplinary approach among international health specialists and should also be considered by health authorities. For this reason, the Italian and Spanish Societies of Rheumatology (SIR and SER) and Tropical Medicine (SIMET and SEMTSI) promoted a multidisciplinary task force in order to produce specific recommendations about screening and advices to be considered in migrant patients with inflammatory arthritis candidate to receive biological therapy, according to their geographical origin. The experts provided a prioritised list of research questions and the eligible spectrum of inflammatory arthritis, biologic drugs and infectious disease were defined in order to perform a systematic literature review. A search was made in Medline, Embase and Cochrane library, updated to March 2015. Ubiquitous infections and HBV, HCV, HIV and tuberculosis that are already considered in national and international recommendations, were not included. The strength of each recommendation was determined. The task force members agreed on 7 overarching principles. The risk of reactivation of selected potentially latent infectious disease was addressed in migrants with inflammatory arthritis candidates for biologics was considered and 15 potentially relevant infections were identified. Fifteen disease-specific recommendations were formulated on the basis of high level of agreement among the experts panel.
KW - Articulaciones - Enfermedades
KW - Emigración e inmigración
KW - Salud
KW - Inmigración
LA - eng
ER -