filgotinib

Noun

filgotinib (uncountable)

1. A medication, belonging to the class of Janus kinase inhibitors, used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
   • Both upadacitinib and filgotinib have been referred to as “second-generation jakinibs” since they both preferentially inhibit JAK1 in vitro but their clinical efficacy and safety, to a large extent, is similar to pan-jakinibs in RA, although anemia and herpes zoster are seen less often with...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 &...