Generic name:abatacept [ a-BAY-ta-sept ]
Drug classes:Antirheumatics, Selective immunosuppressants
What is Orencia?
Orencia is a protein that prevents your body's immune system from attacking healthy tissues such as joints. The immune system helps your body fight infections. In people with autoimmune disorders, the immune system mistakes the body's own cells for invaders and attacks them.
Orencia is used to treat adults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA), including those who have not been helped enough by other medicines for RA. It is thought to work by prevent further damage to your bones and joints and may help your ability to perform daily activities. It be used alone or with other RA treatments other than tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antagonists.
Orencia is used to treat people 2 years of age and older with moderate to severe polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (pJIA). It may be used alone or with methotrexate.
Orencia is used to treat adults with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA). It can be used alone or with other PsA treatments.
Orencia is also used for the preventative treatment of acute graft versus host disease (aGVHD), in combination with a calcineurin inhibitor and methotrexate. It is used in people 2 years of age and older undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) from a matched or 1 allele-mismatched unrelated-donor.
Orencia is not a cure for any autoimmune disorder and will only treat the symptoms of your condition.
It is not known if Orencia is safe and effective in children less than two years of age for the treatment of pJIA and the pr...
