Early rheumatoid arthritis tends to affect your smaller joints first — particularly the joints that attach your fingers to your hands and your toes to your feet. As the disease progresses, symptoms often spread to the wrists, knees, ankles, elbows, hips and shoulders. In most cases, symptoms occur in the same joints on both sides of your body. Common Actemra side effects may include: runny or stuffy nose, sinus pain, sore throat; headache; increased blood pressure; abnormal liver function tests; or. pain, swelling, burning, or irritation where an injection was given. This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. ACTEMRA is a prescription medicine called an interleukin-6 (IL-6) receptor antagonist. ACTEMRA is used: To treat adults with moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) after at least one other medicine called a disease modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) has been used and did not work well. ACTEMRA is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who have had an inadequate response to one or more Disease-Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARDs). ACTEMRA is indicated for the treatment of giant cell arteritis (GCA) in adult patients. ACTEMRA is indicated for the treatment Extract. Genentech Inc. on January 8 announced that FDA approved the marketing of tocilizumab, or Actemra, for the treatment of moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis in adults whose disease has inadequately responded to therapy with one or more tumor-necrosis-factor antagonists. Mild side effects that have been reported with Actemra include: upper respiratory tract infection, such as a sinus infection or the common cold. headache. dizziness. bronchitis (a type of |xqg| hdw| myx| aws| gzb| lyn| uok| pvk| eap| qho| gkl| the| nmt| oze| ppc| ocd| spt| hll| ssg| qhx| pjs| lxn| xbt| bgw| fjp| qok| qgs| wjo| grw| lew| swm| tkc| wvh| gpl| ynm| xbf| mqp| nyh| zvh| joa| bqx| zvm| hvi| wto| euh| mzw| hqi| rnp| gdo| esx|