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UCB Bimz October 2023

Is there drug monitoring required for bimekizumab?

Psoriasis

You. Like many of the other biologics, even though there is no evidence of a predisposition to tuberculosis, most of the biologics to date require a test for tuberculosis before starting the patient on the drug. Many of us, when we treat patients with systemic therapies, and in particular, we're treating patients who have a disease that predisposes them to myocardial infarctions, many of us will do things like get routine bloods, and I routinely do check lipids in my patients. And the guideline for patients without heart disease is to do that every few years. We actually do it annually in our patients anyway, and.

Is there drug monitoring required for bimekizumab?

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