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OBJECTIVE: To report the interim 5-year safety and effectiveness of abatacept in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) in the PRINTO/PRCSG registry. METHODS: The Abatacept JIA Registry (NCT01357668) is an ongoing observational study of children with JIA receiving abatacept; enrolment started in January 2013. Clinical sites enrolled patients with JIA starting or currently receiving abatacept. Eligible patients were assessed for safety (primary end point) and effectiveness over 10 years. Effectiveness was measured by clinical 10-joint Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score (cJADAS10) in patients with JIA over 5 years. As-observed analysis is presented according to the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guidelines. RESULTS: As of 31 March 2020, 587 patients were enrolled; 569 are included in this analysis (including 134 new users) with 1214.6 patient-years of safety data available. Over 5 years, the incidence rate (IR) per 100 patient-years of follow-up of serious adverse events was 5.52 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.27, 7.01) and of events of special interest was 3.62 (95% CI: 2.63, 4.86), with 18 serious infections (IR 1.48 [95% CI: 0.88, 2.34]). As early as month 3, 55.9% of patients achieved cJADAS10 low disease activity and inactive disease (20.3%, 72/354 and 35.6%, 126/354, respectively), sustained over 5 years. Disease activity measures improved over 5 years across JIA categories. CONCLUSION: Abatacept was well tolerated in patients with JIA, with no new safety signals identified and with well-controlled disease activity, including some patients achieving inactive disease or remission. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Clinicaltrials.gov, NCT01357668.
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OBJECTIVE: To assess the relationship between infection risk and abatacept (ABA) exposure levels in patients with polyarticular-course juvenile idiopathic arthritis (pJIA) following treatment with subcutaneous (SC) and intravenous (IV) ABA. METHODS: Data from 2 published studies (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01844518, NCT00095173) of ABA treatment in pediatric patients were analyzed. One study treated patients aged 2-17 years with SC ABA and the other treated patients aged 6-17 years with IV ABA. Association between serum ABA exposure measures and infection was evaluated using Kaplan-Meier plots of probability of first infection vs time on treatment by ABA exposure quartiles and log-rank tests. Number of infections by ABA exposure quartiles was investigated. RESULTS: Overall, 343 patients were included in this analysis: 219 patients received SC ABA and 124 patients received IV ABA. Overall, 237/343 (69.1%) patients had ≥ 1 infection over 24 months. No significant difference in time to first infection across 4 quartiles of ABA exposure levels was observed in the pooled (P = 0.45), SC (2-5 yrs: P = 0.93; 6-17 yrs: P = 0.48), or IV (P = 0.50) analyses. Concomitant use of methotrexate and glucocorticoids (at baseline and throughout) with ABA did not increase infection risk across the ABA exposure quartiles. There was no evidence of association between number of infections and ABA exposure quartiles. No opportunistic infections related to ABA were reported. CONCLUSION: In patients aged 2-17 years with pJIA, no evidence of association between higher levels of exposure to IV ABA or SC ABA and incidence of infection was observed.
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Abatacept , Antirreumáticos , Artritis Juvenil , Infecciones/epidemiología , Abatacept/efectos adversos , Antirreumáticos/efectos adversos , Artritis Juvenil/tratamiento farmacológico , Niño , Humanos , Metotrexato/efectos adversos , Resultado del TratamientoRESUMEN
BACKGROUNDUndifferentiated systemic autoinflammatory diseases (USAIDs) present diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Chronic interferon (IFN) signaling and cytokine dysregulation may identify diseases with available targeted treatments.METHODSSixty-six consecutively referred USAID patients underwent underwent screening for the presence of an interferon signature using a standardized type-I IFN-response-gene score (IRG-S), cytokine profiling, and genetic evaluation by next-generation sequencing.RESULTSThirty-six USAID patients (55%) had elevated IRG-S. Neutrophilic panniculitis (40% vs. 0%), basal ganglia calcifications (46% vs. 0%), interstitial lung disease (47% vs. 5%), and myositis (60% vs. 10%) were more prevalent in patients with elevated IRG-S. Moderate IRG-S elevation and highly elevated serum IL-18 distinguished 8 patients with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) and recurrent macrophage activation syndrome (MAS). Among patients with panniculitis and progressive cytopenias, 2 patients were compound heterozygous for potentially novel LRBA mutations, 4 patients harbored potentially novel splice variants in IKBKG (which encodes NF-κB essential modulator [NEMO]), and 6 patients had de novo frameshift mutations in SAMD9L. Of additional 12 patients with elevated IRG-S and CANDLE-, SAVI- or Aicardi-Goutières syndrome-like (AGS-like) phenotypes, 5 patients carried mutations in either SAMHD1, TREX1, PSMB8, or PSMG2. Two patients had anti-MDA5 autoantibody-positive juvenile dermatomyositis, and 7 could not be classified. Patients with LRBA, IKBKG, and SAMD9L mutations showed a pattern of IRG elevation that suggests prominent NF-κB activation different from the canonical interferonopathies CANDLE, SAVI, and AGS.CONCLUSIONSIn patients with elevated IRG-S, we identified characteristic clinical features and 3 additional autoinflammatory diseases: IL-18-mediated PAP and recurrent MAS (IL-18PAP-MAS), NEMO deleted exon 5-autoinflammatory syndrome (NEMO-NDAS), and SAMD9L-associated autoinflammatory disease (SAMD9L-SAAD). The IRG-S expands the diagnostic armamentarium in evaluating USAIDs and points to different pathways regulating IRG expression.TRIAL REGISTRATIONClinicalTrials.gov NCT02974595.FUNDINGThe Intramural Research Program of the NIH, NIAID, NIAMS, and the Clinical Center.
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Enfermedades Autoinmunes , Interferón Tipo I , Interleucina-18 , Síndrome de Activación Macrofágica , Mutación , Paniculitis , Proteinosis Alveolar Pulmonar , Enfermedades Autoinmunes/genética , Enfermedades Autoinmunes/inmunología , Femenino , Humanos , Interferón Tipo I/genética , Interferón Tipo I/inmunología , Interleucina-18/genética , Interleucina-18/inmunología , Síndrome de Activación Macrofágica/genética , Síndrome de Activación Macrofágica/inmunología , Masculino , Paniculitis/genética , Paniculitis/inmunología , Proteinosis Alveolar Pulmonar/genética , Proteinosis Alveolar Pulmonar/inmunologíaRESUMEN
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate safety and effectiveness of adalimumab (ADA) in polyarticular-course juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) in the STRIVE registry. METHODS: STRIVE enrolled patients with polyarticular-course JIA into 2 arms based on treatment with methotrexate (MTX) alone or ADA with/without MTX (ADA ± MTX). Adverse events (AEs) per 100 patient-years of observation time were analyzed by registry arm. Patients who entered the registry within 4 weeks of starting MTX or ADA ± MTX, defined as new users, were evaluated for change in disease activity assessed by the 27-joint Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score with the C-reactive protein level (JADAS-27CRP ). RESULTS: At the 7-year cutoff date (June 1, 2016), data from 838 patients were available (MTX arm n = 301, ADA ± MTX arm n = 537). The most common AEs were nausea (10.3%), sinusitis (4.7%), and vomiting (4.3%) in the MTX arm and arthritis (3.9%), upper respiratory tract infection (3.5%), sinusitis, tonsillitis, and injection site pain (3.0% each) in the ADA ± MTX arm. Rates of serious infection were 1.5 events/100 patient-years in the MTX arm and 2.0 events/100 patient-years in the ADA ± MTX arm. AE and serious AE rates were similar in patients receiving ADA with versus without MTX. No deaths or malignancies were reported. New users in the ADA ± MTX arm showed a trend toward lower mean JADAS-27CRP compared with new users in the MTX arm in the first year of STRIVE. CONCLUSION: The STRIVE registry 7-year interim results support the idea that ADA ± MTX is well tolerated by most children. Registry median ADA exposure was 2.47 (interquartile range 1.0-3.6) years, with 42% of patients continuing ADA at the 7-year cutoff date.
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Adalimumab/uso terapéutico , Antirreumáticos/uso terapéutico , Artritis Juvenil/tratamiento farmacológico , Sistema de Registros , Adolescente , Artritis Juvenil/complicaciones , Niño , Preescolar , Quimioterapia Combinada , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Metotrexato/uso terapéutico , Uveítis/tratamiento farmacológico , Uveítis/etiologíaRESUMEN
OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationship between serum levels of S100A8/A9 and S100A12 and the maintenance of clinically inactive disease during anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) therapy and the occurrence of disease flare following withdrawal of anti-TNF therapy in patients with polyarticular forms of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). METHODS: In this prospective, multicenter study, 137 patients with polyarticular-course JIA whose disease was clinically inactive while receiving anti-TNF therapy were enrolled. Patients were observed for an initial 6-month phase during which anti-TNF treatment was continued. For those patients who maintained clinically inactive disease over the 6 months, anti-TNF was withdrawn and they were followed up for 8 months to assess for the occurrence of flare. Serum S100 levels were measured at baseline and at the time of anti-TNF withdrawal. Spearman's rank correlation test, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, and Kaplan-Meier survival analyses were used to assess the relationship between serum S100 levels and maintenance of clinically inactive disease and occurrence of disease flare after anti-TNF withdrawal. RESULTS: Over the 6-month initial phase with anti-TNF therapy, the disease state reverted from clinically inactive to clinically active in 24 (18%) of the 130 evaluable patients with polyarticular-course JIA; following anti-TNF withdrawal, 39 (37%) of the 106 evaluable patients experienced a flare. Serum levels of S100A8/A9 and S100A12 were elevated in up to 45% of patients. Results of the ROC analysis revealed that serum S100 levels did not predict maintenance of clinically inactive disease during anti-TNF therapy nor did they predict disease flare after treatment withdrawal. Elevated levels of S100A8/A9 were not predictive of the occurrence of a disease flare within 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, or 8 months following anti-TNF withdrawal, and elevated S100A12 levels had a modest predictive ability for determining the risk of flare within 30, 60, and 90 days after treatment withdrawal. Serum S100A12 levels at the time of anti-TNF withdrawal were inversely correlated with the time to disease flare (r = -0.36). CONCLUSION: Serum S100 levels did not predict maintenance of clinically inactive disease or occurrence of disease flare in patients with polyarticular-course JIA, and S100A12 levels were only moderately, and inversely, correlated with the time to disease flare.
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Antirreumáticos/uso terapéutico , Artritis Juvenil/sangre , Artritis Juvenil/tratamiento farmacológico , Calgranulina A/sangre , Calgranulina B/sangre , Proteína S100A12/sangre , Adolescente , Biomarcadores/sangre , Niño , Preescolar , Femenino , Humanos , Quimioterapia de Mantención/métodos , Masculino , Brote de los Síntomas , Factores de Tiempo , Resultado del Tratamiento , Factor de Necrosis Tumoral alfa/antagonistas & inhibidores , Privación de TratamientoRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is an inflammatory arthritis of unknown etiology, which lasts for greater than 6 weeks with onset before 16 years of age. JIA is the most common chronic rheumatic disease in children. NSAIDs have been the mainstay of initial management with naproxen (NAP) being commonly used, but they may cause serious side effects such as gastric ulcers which can be reduced by concomitant administration of proton pump inhibitors, such as esomeprazole (ESO). METHODS: Primary objective was to evaluate the safety and tolerability of 3 fixed doses of NAP/ESO in JIA patients aged 12 to 16 years. Forty-six children and adolescents with JIA by International League of Associations for Rheumatology criteria, mean age of 13.6 years, from 18 US sites were prospectively enrolled over 2 years and followed for up to 6 months. Doses of the NAP/ESO fixed combination were based on baseline weight. The exploratory efficacy outcome was assessed with the ACR Pediatric-30, - 50, - 70, - 90 Response and the Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ) discomfort and functional scores at months 1, 3, and 6 as change from baseline. Occurrence and causality were assessed for treatment emergent AEs (TEAEs) and discontinuations were monitored monthly. RESULTS: Forty-six patients received at least 1 dose of naproxen/esomeprazole and 36 completed the trial. Thirty-seven (80.4%) had at least 1 treatment emergent adverse event (TEAE) and, with the exception of 2 events in one patient, all of the TEAEs were mild or moderate. Frequent TEAEs (≥5% of patients) were upper respiratory tract and gastrointestinal related. Eleven (23.9%) had at least 1 TEAE considered to be related to study drug. Four patients (8.7%) discontinued due to a TEAE with one of these being the only serious AE reported, acute hepatitis. Mean number of active joints at baseline was 3.1. Improvement in JIA signs and symptoms occurred at most assessments and by month 6, the percentage of patients with an ACR Pediatric-30, - 50, - 70, and - 90 Response was 47.1, 38.2, 32.4, and 17.6%, respectively. The percent of patients achieving ACR Pediatric response increased over time. CHAQ discomfort improved at each assessment and functional scores improved at all assessments for 'Arising, Walking, and Activities' with several improved for 'Dressing and Grooming, Eating, Hygiene, and Grip'. There was no indication of a dose-related efficacy effect. CONCLUSION: NAP/ESO was well tolerated in JIA patients aged 12 to 16 years with high levels of response to ACR criteria. No new safety signals were identified for the well-characterized components of this fixed dosed JIA treatment, which was developed to reduce the risk of gastric ulcers. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Clinicaltrials.gov, NCT01544114 . Registered February 21, 2012.
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Antiinflamatorios no Esteroideos/administración & dosificación , Artritis Juvenil/tratamiento farmacológico , Esomeprazol/administración & dosificación , Naproxeno/administración & dosificación , Inhibidores de la Bomba de Protones/administración & dosificación , Adolescente , Antiinflamatorios no Esteroideos/efectos adversos , Antiinflamatorios no Esteroideos/farmacocinética , Niño , Quimioterapia Combinada , Esomeprazol/efectos adversos , Esomeprazol/farmacocinética , Femenino , Estudios de Seguimiento , Humanos , Masculino , Naproxeno/efectos adversos , Naproxeno/farmacocinética , Estudios Prospectivos , Inhibidores de la Bomba de Protones/efectos adversos , Inhibidores de la Bomba de Protones/farmacocinética , Resultado del Tratamiento , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Monogenic IFN-mediated autoinflammatory diseases present in infancy with systemic inflammation, an IFN response gene signature, inflammatory organ damage, and high mortality. We used the JAK inhibitor baricitinib, with IFN-blocking activity in vitro, to ameliorate disease. METHODS: Between October 2011 and February 2017, 10 patients with CANDLE (chronic atypical neutrophilic dermatosis with lipodystrophy and elevated temperatures), 4 patients with SAVI (stimulator of IFN genes-associated [STING-associated] vasculopathy with onset in infancy), and 4 patients with other interferonopathies were enrolled in an expanded access program. The patients underwent dose escalation, and the benefit was assessed by reductions in daily disease symptoms and corticosteroid requirement. Quality of life, organ inflammation, changes in IFN-induced biomarkers, and safety were longitudinally assessed. RESULTS: Eighteen patients were treated for a mean duration of 3.0 years (1.5-4.9 years). The median daily symptom score decreased from 1.3 (interquartile range [IQR], 0.93-1.78) to 0.25 (IQR, 0.1-0.63) (P < 0.0001). In 14 patients receiving corticosteroids at baseline, daily prednisone doses decreased from 0.44 mg/kg/day (IQR, 0.31-1.09) to 0.11 mg/kg/day (IQR, 0.02-0.24) (P < 0.01), and 5 of 10 patients with CANDLE achieved lasting clinical remission. The patients' quality of life and height and bone mineral density Z-scores significantly improved, and their IFN biomarkers decreased. Three patients, two of whom had genetically undefined conditions, discontinued treatment because of lack of efficacy, and one CANDLE patient discontinued treatment because of BK viremia and azotemia. The most common adverse events were upper respiratory infections, gastroenteritis, and BK viruria and viremia. CONCLUSION: Upon baricitinib treatment, clinical manifestations and inflammatory and IFN biomarkers improved in patients with the monogenic interferonopathies CANDLE, SAVI, and other interferonopathies. Monitoring safety and efficacy is important in benefit-risk assessment. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01724580 and NCT02974595. FUNDING: This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, NIAID, and NIAMS. Baricitinib was provided by Eli Lilly and Company, which is the sponsor of the expanded access program for this drug.
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Azetidinas/uso terapéutico , Enfermedades Autoinflamatorias Hereditarias/tratamiento farmacológico , Enfermedades Autoinflamatorias Hereditarias/inmunología , Inflamación/tratamiento farmacológico , Inflamación/inmunología , Interferones/antagonistas & inhibidores , Interferones/metabolismo , Janus Quinasa 1/antagonistas & inhibidores , Janus Quinasa 2/antagonistas & inhibidores , Inhibidores de las Cinasas Janus/uso terapéutico , Sulfonamidas/uso terapéutico , Adolescente , Azetidinas/administración & dosificación , Azetidinas/efectos adversos , Niño , Preescolar , Estudios de Cohortes , Ensayos de Uso Compasivo , Femenino , Enfermedades Autoinflamatorias Hereditarias/enzimología , Humanos , Lactante , Inflamación/enzimología , Inhibidores de las Cinasas Janus/administración & dosificación , Inhibidores de las Cinasas Janus/efectos adversos , Masculino , Estudios Prospectivos , Purinas , Pirazoles , Sulfonamidas/administración & dosificación , Sulfonamidas/efectos adversos , Resultado del Tratamiento , Adulto JovenRESUMEN
OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency, time to flare, and predictors of disease flare upon withdrawal of anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) therapy in children with polyarticular forms of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) who demonstrated ≥6 months of continuous clinically inactive disease. METHODS: In 16 centers 137 patients with clinically inactive JIA who were receiving anti-TNF therapy (42% of whom were also receiving methotrexate [MTX]) were prospectively followed up. If the disease remained clinically inactive for the initial 6 months of the study, anti-TNF was stopped and patients were assessed for flare at 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8 months. Life-table analysis, t-tests, chi-square test, and Cox regression analysis were used to identify independent variables that could significantly predict flare by 8 months or time to flare. RESULTS: Of 137 patients, 106 (77%) maintained clinically inactive disease while receiving anti-TNF therapy for the initial 6 months and were included in the phase of the study in which anti-TNF therapy was stopped. Stopping anti-TNF resulted in disease flare in 39 (37%) of 106 patients by 8 months. The mean/median ± SEM time to flare was 212/250 ± 9.77 days. Patients with shorter disease duration at enrollment, older age at onset and diagnosis, shorter disease duration prior to experiencing clinically inactive disease, and shorter time from onset of clinically inactive disease to enrollment were found to have significantly lower hazard ratios for likelihood of flare by 8 months (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Over one-third of patients with polyarticular JIA with sustained clinically inactive disease will experience a flare by 8 months after discontinuation of anti-TNF therapy. Several predictors of lower likelihood of flare were identified.
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Antirreumáticos/administración & dosificación , Artritis Juvenil/tratamiento farmacológico , Artritis Juvenil/patología , Quimioterapia de Inducción/estadística & datos numéricos , Privación de Tratamiento/estadística & datos numéricos , Adolescente , Niño , Preescolar , Quimioterapia Combinada , Femenino , Humanos , Lactante , Tablas de Vida , Masculino , Modelos de Riesgos Proporcionales , Estudios Prospectivos , Factores de Riesgo , Brote de los Síntomas , Factores de Tiempo , Resultado del Tratamiento , Factor de Necrosis Tumoral alfa/antagonistas & inhibidoresRESUMEN
Objective: The mechanisms that determine the efficacy or inefficacy of MTX in JIA are ill-defined. The objective of this study was to identify a gene expression transcriptional signature associated with poor response to MTX in patients with JIA. Methods: RNA sequencing was used to measure gene expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells collected from 47 patients with JIA prior to MTX treatment and 14 age-matched controls. Differentially expressed baseline genes between responders and non-responders were evaluated. Biological differences between all JIA patients and controls were explored by constructing a signature of differentially expressed genes. Unsupervised clustering and pathway analysis was performed. Results: A signature of 99 differentially expressed genes (Bonferroni-corrected P < 0.05) capturing the biological differences between all JIA patients and controls was identified. Unsupervised clustering of samples based on this list of 99 genes produced subgroups enriched for MTX response status. Comparing this gene signature with reference signatures from sorted cell populations revealed high concordance between the expression signatures of monocytes and of MTX non-responders. CXCL8 (IL-8) was the most significantly differentially expressed gene transcript comparing all JIA patients with controls (Bonferroni-corrected P = 4.12 × 10-10). Conclusion: Variability in clinical response to MTX in JIA patients is associated with differences in gene transcripts modulated in monocytes. These gene expression profiles may provide a basis for biomarkers predictive of treatment response.
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Antirreumáticos/uso terapéutico , Artritis Juvenil/tratamiento farmacológico , Artritis Juvenil/genética , Metotrexato/uso terapéutico , Transcripción Genética , Adolescente , Estudios de Casos y Controles , Niño , Análisis por Conglomerados , Femenino , Perfilación de la Expresión Génica/métodos , Humanos , Masculino , Monocitos/metabolismo , Análisis de Secuencia de ARN/métodos , Índice de Severidad de la Enfermedad , Transcriptoma , Insuficiencia del TratamientoRESUMEN
Approximately 33% of adult patients with dermatomyositis develop malignancy with up to 42% presenting after the diagnosis has been made; careful evaluation for malignancy is often undertaken at the time of dermatomyositis diagnosis. This phenomenon has rarely been noted in pediatric patients and extensive workup for malignancy is not indicated in pediatric patients. In 1993, 6 cases were reported in which juvenile dermatomyositis/polymyositis (JDM/PM) appeared to be part of a paraneoplastic phenomenon. Our objective was to update the literature for reported cases of malignancy associated with JDM/PM; we reviewed the literature over the last 15 years and located 6 additional cases. In 9 of 12 reported patients an unusual physical finding such as splenomegaly or lymphadenopathy was noted at the time of diagnosis, and in the entire group, the malignancy occurred within a mean of 12 months. It is less likely that JDM/PM in pediatric patients is a paraneoplastic phenomenon as it is in adult patients. However, if the physical examination at the time of diagnosis of JDM/PM is atypical the presence of malignancy must be considered and a more in-depth evaluation to rule out malignancy should be performed prior to the initiation of treatment.