Persistence and Use of Ixekizumab in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis in Real-World Practice in Spain. The PRO-STIP Study.
Ixekizumab (IXE) is an IgG4-type monoclonal antibody targeting IL-17A indicated alone or in combination with methotrexate, for the treatment of active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in adult patients with insufficient response or with intolerance to one or more disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) therapy. The PRO-STIP study aimed to describe persistence, patient characteristics, treatment patterns, and effectiveness in patients with PsA receiving IXE in a real-world clinical setting in Spain.
This was an observational, multicentric, retrospective, longitudinal study in adult PsA patients who started IXE between January 2019 and December 2020, with at least 24 weeks of follow-up. A descriptive analysis of patient characteristics and treatment patterns was performed. The primary objective, treatment persistence, was estimated by Kaplan-Meier survival curve. Effectiveness was evaluated by Disease Activity in Psoriatic Arthritis (DAPSA) scores at baseline and at 12 and 24 weeks.
Eighty-nine patients met the selection criteria (55.1% women and mean age 51.5 years). The median time from PsA diagnosis to starting IXE was 7.7 years (IQR 3.4-14.6). Prior to IXE, 95.5% patients had been treated with at least one biologic or targeted synthetic DMARD (b/tsDMARD). The observed persistence rates were 95.5%, 84.3% and 68.5% at 24, 48, and 104 weeks, respectively. The median persistence was not reached in the study period (mean persistence, 86.9 [95% CI 80.6-93.2] weeks). Twenty-eight (31.5%) patients discontinued IXE, 19 patients (21.3%) due to loss of effectiveness and two patients (2.2%) due to adverse events. In patients receiving treatment and with available effectiveness assessment (n = 24), DAPSA decreased significantly from baseline 23.7 (95% CI 19.5-27.9) to 14.8 (95% CI 10.5-19.2) at 12 weeks (p = 0.005) and 14.3 (95% CI 11.1-17.4) at 24 weeks (p = 0.004).
PsA patients treated with IXE in a real-world setting show high treatment persistence through 104 weeks and improvements in disease activity after treatment initiation. This suggests that IXE could be an effective treatment for patients with PsA.
Date of registration: 25th May 2021.
Joven B
,Hernández Sánchez R
,Pérez-Pampín E
,Aragón Díez Á
,Almodóvar R
,Martínez-Ferrer Á
,Belzunegui J
,Rubio E
,Díaz-Cerezo S
,Moyano S
,Gómez-Barrera M
,Yébenes M
,Núñez M
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Patients With Psoriatic Arthritis-Related Enthesitis and Persistence on Tofacitinib Under Real-World Conditions.
Information on the persistence of tofacitinib (TOF) in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is scarce in real-world conditions. Our objective was to analyze the persistence and safety of TOF under these conditions.
This was a single-center retrospective longitudinal observational study of all patients with PsA who received at least 1 dose of TOF. The main focus was on adverse events (AEs) and drug survival. Drug survival was analyzed by Kaplan-Meier curves and persistence explanatory factors by multivariate Cox regression models. The hazard ratio (HR) was used to measure association.
Seventy-two patients were included, 54 women and 18 men, mean age 51.9 (SD 11.1) years, mean disease duration of 10.4 (SD 6.99) years. TOF was ≥ third line of therapy in > 70% of cases. The median survival was 13.0 (IQR 5.3-29.0) months. One-year retention rate was 52.7% (95% CI 42.4-65.6). TOF survival was not influenced by sex, disease duration, comorbidities, or line of treatment. Younger patients (HR 0.96, P = 0.01) and those with enthesitis (HR 0.37, P = 0.03) showed lower odds of drug discontinuation. The overall rate of AEs was 52.9 (95% CI 38.5-70.6)/100 person-years. Most AEs occurred during the first 6 months of exposure.
In this real-world study, TOF showed a reasonably good retention rate in a PsA population that was mostly refractory to biologic and oral targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs. There were no new causes for concern regarding safety. Patients with refractory PsA and enthesitis might be a specific target population for this drug.
Braña I
,Loredo M
,Pardo E
,Burger S
,Fernández-Bretón E
,Queiro R
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Real-World Persistence and Treatment Patterns in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis Treated with Anti-IL17 Therapy in Spain: The PerfIL-17 Study.
Given the growing interest and use of interleukin-17 inhibitors (anti-IL17) for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis (PsA), an observational study has been conducted to characterize the patient profile, treatment patterns, and persistence of ixekizumab or secukinumab in patients with PsA receiving them as first anti-IL17.
This is a multicenter retrospective study, conducted at eight Spanish hospitals where data from adult patients with PsA were collected from electronic medical records. Three cohorts of patients, initiating treatment with an anti-IL17 [secukinumab 150 mg (SECU150), secukinumab 300 mg (SECU300), or ixekizumab (IXE)] between January 2019 and March 2021, were included. Demographic and clinical patient characteristics, treatment patterns, and persistence were analyzed descriptively. Continuous data were presented as mean [standard deviation (SD)] and categorical variables as frequencies with percentages. Persistence rates at 3, 6, and 12 months were calculated.
A total of 221 patients with PsA were included in the study [SECU150, 103 (46.6%); SECU300, 38 (17.2%); and IXE, 80 (36.2%)]. Treatment patterns differed by clinical characteristics: SECU150 was initiated more frequently in patients with moderate PsA and less peripheral joint involvement, while patients on SECU300 included those with a higher rate of enthesitis and active skin psoriasis, and patients on IXE showed a longer time since PsA diagnosis, more frequent comorbidities, joint involvement, and diagnosed skin psoriasis. Conventional synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (csDMARDs) were previously administered in 88.2% of patients and biologic or targeted synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (b/tsDMARDs) were administered in 72.9%. The mean number of previous b/tsDMARDs was 2.4 (SD 1.5) in the IXE cohort, 1.7 (SD 0.9) in the SECU300 cohort, and 1.6 (SD 1.0) for those in the SECU150 cohort. The global persistence on all anti-IL17 was 97.2%, 88.4%, and 81.0% at 3, 6, and 12 months, respectively. The most frequent reason for discontinuation across the three cohorts was lack of effectiveness (16.7%; 37/221).
Most of the patients with PsA treated with anti-IL17 in Spain had moderate to severe disease activity, high peripheral joint and skin involvement, and had received previous b/tsDMARDs. More than 80% of patients with a 1-year follow-up persisted on anti-IL17, with the highest rate observed in the IXE cohort, followed by the SECU150 then SECU300 cohorts.
Joven B
,Manteca CF
,Rubio E
,Raya E
,Pérez A
,Hernández R
,Manrique S
,Núñez M
,Díaz-Cerezo S
,Moyano S
,Lacetera A
,García-Vicuña R
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