Top 5 drugs
What are infusions/treatments for Crohn's disease?
Entyvio (Vedolizumab) and Remicade (Infliximab) are the most frequently prescribed drugs by doctors sending their patients to American Infusion Centers for Crohn’s disease.
What is the difference between psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis?
Psoriatic arthritis is a type of arthritis that may affect people who have psoriasis. However, not every person who has psoriasis will develop psoriatic arthritis. Though both psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis are caused by your immune system mistakenly attacking your healthy cells, psoriasis results in patches of scaly, red, or white skin called plaques, while psoriatic arthritis causes joint swelling and pain that can result in long-lasting damage.
What is infusion therapy for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis?
Remicade (Infliximab) and Simponi Aria (Golimumab) are treatments most prescribed for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.
What is infusion therapy for rheumatoid arthritis?
Orencia (Abatacept) is a prescription medication used to treat moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other diseases by blocking the inflammation-causing activity of T-cells that can damage to your bones and joints.
What are rheumatology infusion drugs?
At American Infusion Centers, we use Remicade (Infliximab), Rituxan (Rituximab), Orencia (Abatacept), Simponi Aria (Golimumab), and other drugs for rheumatoid arthritis.
What is an infusion for lupus?
At American Infusion Centers, we use Benlysta (Belimumab) and IVIG (Intravenous Immunoglobulins) and other drugs for Systemic Lupus Erythematosis.
What is Remicade?
Remicade (Infliximab) is a monoclonal antibody that can treat various autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, plaque psoriasis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and other diseases by binding to and neutralizing TNF-α, a chemical messenger and a significant part of the autoimmune reaction, preventing it from interacting with its receptors on the cell.
What is Ocrevus?
Ocrevus (Ocrelizumab) is an immunosuppressive drug and humanized anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody that targets CD20 protein on B lymphocytes and is used to halt the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS) and prevent relapse.
What is Entyvio?
Entyvio (Vedolizumab), a therapeutic monoclonal antibody that binds to and blocks integrin α4β7 resulting in gut selective anti-inflammatory activity, can be used for the treatment of various bowel disorders including ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, and other diseases.
What is Tysabri?
Tysabri (Natalizumab) is an immunosuppressive drug and humanized monoclonal antibody, administered by intravenous infusion every 28 days, that can used to treat multiple sclerosis (MS) by targeting the cell adhesion molecule α4-integrin on white blood cells involved in inflammation.
What is Rituxan?
Rituxan (Rituximab) is a prescription medication and monoclonal antibody used to treat certain diseases including Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA) (Wegener’s Granulomatosis), Microscopic Polyangiitis (MPA), and other diseases by binding to the protein CD20 on the surface of immune system B cells triggering them to undergo cell death.
What is Benlysta?
Benlysta (Belimumab) is a biologic therapy specifically designed to treat lupus, a systemic autoimmune disease, by binding to B-lymphocyte stimulator (BLyS) and preventing it from stimulating the autoreactive B cells that attack your body.
What is IVIG?
Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is a blood product containing immunoglobulin G (IgG), an antibody produced by plasma cells, prepared from the serum of at least one thousand blood donors that can be used to treat patients with antibody deficiencies or inflammatory and immune disorders, including Guillain–Barre syndrome, myasthenia gravis, systemic lupus erythematosis (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis, and other diseases.
What is Nucala?
Nucala (Mepolizumab) is a prescription medication and monoclonal antibody used to treat a particular kind of asthma called eosinophilic asthma through the targeting of eosinophils, which lowers their count in the blood and subsequently prevents airway inflammation and related symptoms.
What is Orencia?
Orencia (Abatacept) is a prescription medication used to treat moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other diseases by blocking the inflammation-causing activity of T-cells that can cause damage to your bones and joints.
What is Reclast?
Reclast (Zoledronic acid), a bisphosphonate that blocks the activity of osteoclast cells and thus decreases the breakdown of bone, can be used to treat osteoporosis and other diseases.
What is Simponi?
Simponi Aria (Golimumab) is a prescription medicine and monoclonal antibody used to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), and other diseases by targeting and blocking a protein called TNF, which is often overexpressed in people with autoimmune diseases and contributes to the damaging inflammation that harms joints.
What is Xolair?
Xolair (Omalizumab) is a prescription medicine and monoclonal antibody that can treat asthma, chronic idiopathic urticaria, and other diseases by binding to the IgE allergic antibody in the blood stream and interstitial fluid thus neutralizing it and inhibiting its inflammatory effects.
What is Inflectra?
Inflectra (infliximab-dyyb), a biosimilar to Remicade, can treat various autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, plaque psoriasis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and other diseases by binding to and neutralizing TNF-α, a chemical messenger and a significant part of the autoimmune reaction, preventing it from interacting with its receptors on the cell. Inflectra has been shown to be essentially identical to Remicade, with no clinically meaningful differences in terms of efficacy, immunogenicity, safety, and purity.
What is Avsola?
Avsola (infliximab-axxq), a biosimilar to Remicade, can treat various autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, plaque psoriasis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and other diseases by binding to and neutralizing TNF-α, a chemical messenger and a significant part of the autoimmune reaction, preventing it from interacting with its receptors on the cell. Avsola has been shown to be essentially identical to Remicade, with no clinically meaningful differences in terms of efficacy, immunogenicity, safety, and purity.