peficitinib

English

Noun

peficitinib (uncountable)

1. (pharmacology) A medication belonging to the class of Janus kinase inhibitors, used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
   • 2021 December, Christine Liu, Jacqueline Kieltyka, Roy Fleischmann, Massimo Gadina, John J. O’Shea, “A Decade of JAK Inhibitors: What Have We Learned and What May Be the Future?”, in Arthritis & Rheumatology, volume 73, number 12, →DOI, page 2168:

     Peficitinib, a pan-JAK inhibitor, is approved in Japan, Republic of Korea, and Taiwan for the treatment of RA in patients with an incomplete response to csDMARDs (19, 20). Tofacitinib, baricitinib, and peficitinib have shown clinical, functional, and radiographic efficacy, after failure of a csDMARD, prior to treatment with a bDMARD, or after treatment with a bDMARD.