Flashcards: Antirheumatic products

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), sold under the trade names Plaquenil among others, is an antimalarial medication.

Penicillamine, sold under the trade names of Cuprimine, Cuprenyl and Depen, is a medication of the chelator class.

Aurothioglucose, also known as gold thioglucose, is a chemical compound with the formula AuSC6H11O5.

Aurotioprol is a gold salt used as an antirheumatic agent.

Methotrexate (MTX), formerly known as amethopterin, is a chemotherapy agent and immune system suppressant.

Sodium aurothiosulfate is the inorganic compound with the formula Na3Au(S2O3)2·2H2O.

Leflunomide (original brand name Arava) is an immunosuppressive disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD), used in active moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis.

Azathioprine (AZA), also known by its brand name Imuran, is an immunosuppressive drug used in organ transplantation and autoimmune diseases and belongs to the chemical class of purine analogues.

Auranofin is a gold complex classified by the World Health Organization as an antirheumatic agent.

Sodium aurothiomalate (INN, known in the United States as gold sodium thiomalate) is a gold compound that is used for its immunosuppressive anti-rheumatic effects.

Sulfasalazine (SSZ), marketed under the trade name Azulfidine among others, is a medication used to treat rheumatoid arthritis.

Chloroquine is a medication used to prevent and to treat malaria in areas where malaria is known to be sensitive to its effects.

Oxycinchophen is an antirheumatic agent.

Bucillamine is an antirheumatic agent developed from tiopronin.