Intra-articular injections of biological disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs in inflammatory arthropathies : An up-to-date narrative review

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INTRODUCTION: Since the 1990s thebiological disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) have revolutionized the treatment of chronic dysimmune inflammatory arthropathies such as Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis and Axial Spondylarthritis. Nevertheless, despite a full treatment regimen, mono- and oligoarticular persistence of the synovitis is sometimes observed. The intra-articular (IA) use of bDMARD drugs could resolve the persistent joint inflammation and result in a reduction in the degree of immunosuppression of individuals; moreover, the use of these drugs intra-articularly could be associated with a reduction in the treatment-related costs.

METHODS: We extensively searched via PubMed and Google Scholar articles using as keywords "etanercept", "infliximab", "adalimumab", "certolizumab", "golimumab", "tocilizumab", "ixekizumab", "secukinumab", "rituximab" each combined with "intra-articular injection".

RESULTS: We found and evaluated 161 papers, and then we selected 24 that were highly related to the topic of the present work. The articles examined a total of 349 patients, 85 males (M), and 168 females (F), mean age of 44.75±12.09 years old and considered 556 treated joints. Three hundred and forty-one patients were affected by Rheumatoid Arthritis, 198 by Psoriatic Arthritis, 56 by Axial Spondylarthritis, 26 by Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, 19 by Undifferentiated Arthritis, 1 by arthritis associated with inflammatory bowel disease and 9 patients by an unspecified inflammatory articular disorder. All patients were treated intra-articularly with a TNFα inhibitor among Adalimumab, Etanercept or Infliximab. Side effects were documented in 9 out of 349 (2.57%) treated patients and all were mild or moderate. In some cases the effectiveness of IA bDMARDs treatment was maintained for several months, however in the few published randomized controlled trials(RCTs) the corticosteroids (GCs) appeared to act better when administered intra-articularly compared to bDMARDs.

CONCLUSIONS: The IA use of bDMARDs seems to be weakly effective in the management of resistant synovitis and not superior to GCs injections. The treatment's main limit appears to be the poor persistence of the compound in the joint.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:90

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Joint bone spine - 90(2023), 6 vom: 07. Dez., Seite 105598

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Al Khayyat, Suhel G [VerfasserIn]
Conticini, Edoardo [VerfasserIn]
Falsetti, Paolo [VerfasserIn]
Fogliame, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]
Gentileschi, Stefano [VerfasserIn]
Baldi, Caterina [VerfasserIn]
Bardelli, Marco [VerfasserIn]
Migliore, Alberto [VerfasserIn]
Cantarini, Luca [VerfasserIn]
Frediani, Bruno [VerfasserIn]

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Adalimumab
Antirheumatic Agents
Arthritis
B72HH48FLU
Etanercept
FYS6T7F842
Infliximab
Injections
Joint
Journal Article
OP401G7OJC
Review

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Date Completed 04.12.2023

Date Revised 25.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1016/j.jbspin.2023.105598

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NLM357733037