Simultaneous Response in Several Domains in Patients with Psoriatic Disease Treated with Etanercept as Monotherapy or in Combination with Conventional Synthetic Disease-modifying Antirheumatic Drugs

Behrens, Frank; Meier, Lothar; Prinz, Jörg C.; Jobst, Jürgen; Lippe, Ralph; Löschmann, Peter-Andreas and Lorenz, Hanns-Martin (2018): Simultaneous Response in Several Domains in Patients with Psoriatic Disease Treated with Etanercept as Monotherapy or in Combination with Conventional Synthetic Disease-modifying Antirheumatic Drugs. In: Journal of Rheumatology, Vol. 45, No. 6: pp. 802-810

Abstract

Objective. To evaluate patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) receiving etanercept (ETN) monotherapy or ETN plus conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (csDMARD) to determine the proportion achieving a clinically meaningful response in arthritis, psoriasis, and quality of life simultaneously. Methods. A prospective, multicenter, 52-week observational study in patients with active PsA evaluated treatment with ETN in clinical practice (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00293722). This analysis assessed simultaneous achievement of 3 treatment targets: low disease activity (LDA) based on 28-joint count Disease Activity Score (DAS28);body surface area (BSA) involvement s 3%;and a score > 45 on the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-12 (SF-12) physical component summary. Results. Of 579 patients, 380 received ETN monotherapy and 199 received combination ETN plus csDMARD. At 52 weeks, data for all 3 disease domains were available for 251 patients receiving monotherapy and 151 receiving combination therapy. In the monotherapy and combination therapy groups, 61(24.3%) and 37 (24.5%) patients, respectively, achieved all 3 treatment targets simultaneously. A significantly greater proportion of patients receiving monotherapy versus combination therapy achieved SF-12 > 45 (43.0% vs 31.8%;p < 0.05) and DAS28 LDA (72.5% vs 62.3%;p < 0.05). Conversely, BSA <= 3% was reached by a significantly greater proportion receiving combination therapy (75.5% vs 56.6%;p < 0.001). However, baseline BSA involvement was higher for the monotherapy group. Conclusion. While nearly half the patients achieved arthritis and psoriasis treatment targets simultaneously and one-fourth reached all 3 treatment targets, combining ETN and csDMARD did not substantially improve clinical response compared with ETN monotherapy in this real-world PsA patient population.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Medicine
• Subjects: 600 Technology > 610 Medicine and health
• ISSN: 0315-162X
• Language: English