Long-term safety and efficacy of sarilumab with or without background csDMARDs in rheumatoid arthritis

© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology..

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy of sarilumab with/without conventional synthetic (cs)DMARDs in RA.

METHODS: The analyses evaluated two open-label extensions (OLEs): EXTEND and MONARCH OLE, which included patients from six randomized trials. Patients received sarilumab 200 mg once every 2 weeks (q2w) for at least 264 weeks up to 516 weeks (EXTEND: Sarilumab Monotherapy and Sarilumab + csDMARD groups) or for 276 weeks (MONARCH OLE: Continuation and Switch groups). Primary endpoints included safety, immunogenicity and changes in laboratory parameters. Secondary endpoints included clinical signs and symptoms along with health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) questionnaires.

RESULTS: The Sarilumab Monotherapy (n = 111), Continuation (n = 165) and Switch (n = 155) groups received sarilumab monotherapy, while the Sarilumab + csDMARD group (n = 1910) received sarilumab in combination with csDMARDs. Incidence of one or more treatment-emergent adverse events was 126 (Sarilumab Monotherapy group), 169 (Sarilumab + csDMARD group), 159 (Continuation group) and 159 (Switch group) events/100 patient-years. Neutropenia was the most common adverse event. Neutropenia was not associated with an increased incidence of infections. Most neutropenia cases normalized on-treatment. Adverse events of special interests, such as malignancies, major adverse cardiovascular events, venous thromboembolism and gastrointestinal perforations, were rare. Immunogenicity was low and not associated with hypersensitivity reactions or discontinuations due to lack or loss of efficacy. Improvements in clinical signs and symptoms and HRQOL, observed during the initial blinded trials, were maintained throughout the OLE assessment period.

CONCLUSIONS: Long-term sarilumab treatment with/without csDMARDs in patients with RA revealed no new safety findings. Efficacy and HRQOL were maintained or further increased over the open-label assessment period.

TRIAL REGISTRATION: EXTEND, ClinicalTrials.gov, https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01146652, NCT01146652; MONARCH OLE, ClinicalTrials.gov, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02332590, NCT02332590.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:62

Enthalten in:

Rheumatology (Oxford, England) - 62(2023), 10 vom: 03. Okt., Seite 3268-3279

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Burmester, Gerd R [VerfasserIn]
Strand, Vibeke [VerfasserIn]
Kivitz, Alan J [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Chih-Chi [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Sheldon [VerfasserIn]
van Hoogstraten, Hubert [VerfasserIn]
Klier, Gabriella L [VerfasserIn]
Fleischmann, Roy [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
Antirheumatic Agents
Biologic therapies
Cytokines and inflammatory mediators
DMARDs
Journal Article
Methotrexate
NU90V55F8I
RA
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Sarilumab
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Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 05.10.2023

Date Revised 10.10.2023

published: Print

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02332590, NCT01146652

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/rheumatology/kead062

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM352377682