Emerging injectable therapies for osteoarthritis / Julia Sewell, Andrew Östör

ABSTRACT Osteoarthritis (OA) affects more than 240 million people worldwide. In 2016, the Osteoarthritis Research Society International submitted a report to the United States Food and Drug Administration highlighting OA as a ‘serious’ disease, and appealed for the urgent development and review of new therapies to address a significant unmet need. Despite this, international guidelines for the treatment of OA have been largely unchanged for over a decade. There is now an updated understanding that OA is more than simply a non-inflammatory ‘wear-and-tear’ process involving articular cartilage. Based on this, potential emerging therapies are being developed that target novel inflammatory, pain, and regeneration pathways. Drugs targeting the latter are being lauded as ‘Disease-Modifying Osteoarthritis Drugs’ – a concept which has so far proved elusive in OA research. While this review does not recommend a change in current practice, it should prompt readers to rethink the OA treatment paradigm. The global pandemic has added another layer of consideration when managing patients with OA. At a time when there is more strain on hospital systems, there is a need to expand our pharmacological armamentarium in order to manage OA without elective surgery and hospital admission.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27

Enthalten in:

Expert opinion on emerging drugs - 27(2022), 3, Seite 311-320

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sewell, Julia [VerfasserIn]
Östör, Andrew [VerfasserIn]

Links:

FID Access [lizenzpflichtig]

Themen:

Analgesia
Cytokine
Disease-modifying osteoarthritis drug
Hip
Inflammation
Injectable
Interleukin
Knee
Matrix extracellular phosphoglycoproteins
Osteoarthritis

Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource (10 p)

doi:

10.1080/14728214.2022.2125506

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

KFL011130873