Effectiveness of intravenous methylprednisolone pulse in patients with severe microscopic polyangiitis and granulomatosis with polyangiitis

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OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of two different intravenous methylprednisolone (IVMP) pulse doses in patients with severe microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) and granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA).

METHODS: We emulated a target trial using observational data from the nationwide registry in Japan. Patients with severe glomerulonephritis or diffuse alveolar haemorrhage were selected and pseudo-randomised into three groups using propensity score-based overlap weighting as follows: non-IVMP, IVMP 0.5 g/day, and IVMP 1.0 g/day. The primary outcome was all-cause death, and the secondary outcomes were composite all-cause death and kidney failure, severe relapse, and serious infection from 2 to 48 weeks after treatment initiation. To estimate the treatment effects, the Cox proportional hazard model and Fine-Gray subdistribution hazard model were used.

RESULTS: In this emulated target trial, of 201 eligible patients (MPA, 175; GPA, 26), 6 (2.8%) died, 4 (2.0%) had kidney failure, 11 (5.3%) had severe relapse, and 40 (19.8%) had severe infections. Hazard ratios (HR) for IVMP 0.5 g/day and IVMP 1.0 g/day pulse groups compared with non-IVMP pulse were as follows: all-cause death = 0.46 (95% confidence interval [95%CI]: 0.07-2.81) and 0.07 (95%CI: 0.01-0.41); all-cause death/kidney failure = 1.18 (95%CI: 0.26-5.31) and 0.59 (95%CI: 0.08-4.52); subdistribution HRs for severe relapse = 1.26 (95%CI: 0.12-13.70) and 3.36 (95%CI: 0.49-23.29); and serious infection = 1.88 (95%CI: 0.76-4.65) and 0.94 (95%CI: 0.28-3.13).

CONCLUSIONS: IVMP 1.0 g/day pulse may improve 48-week mortality in patients with severe MPA/GPA.

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Rheumatology (Oxford, England) - (2024) vom: 12. Apr.

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Omura, Satoshi [VerfasserIn]
Kida, Takashi [VerfasserIn]
Noma, Hisashi [VerfasserIn]
Inoue, Hironori [VerfasserIn]
Sofue, Hideaki [VerfasserIn]
Sakashita, Aki [VerfasserIn]
Kadoya, Masatoshi [VerfasserIn]
Nakagomi, Daiki [VerfasserIn]
Abe, Yoshiyuki [VerfasserIn]
Takizawa, Naoho [VerfasserIn]
Nomura, Atsushi [VerfasserIn]
Kukida, Yuji [VerfasserIn]
Kondo, Naoya [VerfasserIn]
Yamano, Yasuhiko [VerfasserIn]
Yanagida, Takuya [VerfasserIn]
Endo, Koji [VerfasserIn]
Hirata, Shintaro [VerfasserIn]
Matsui, Kiyoshi [VerfasserIn]
Takeuchi, Tohru [VerfasserIn]
Ichinose, Kunihiro [VerfasserIn]
Kato, Masaru [VerfasserIn]
Yanai, Ryo [VerfasserIn]
Matsuo, Yusuke [VerfasserIn]
Shimojima, Yasuhiro [VerfasserIn]
Nishioka, Ryo [VerfasserIn]
Okazaki, Ryota [VerfasserIn]
Takata, Tomoaki [VerfasserIn]
Ito, Takafumi [VerfasserIn]
Moriyama, Mayuko [VerfasserIn]
Takatani, Ayuko [VerfasserIn]
Miyawaki, Yoshia [VerfasserIn]
Ito-Ihara, Toshiko [VerfasserIn]
Yajima, Nobuyuki [VerfasserIn]
Kawaguchi, Takashi [VerfasserIn]
Hirano, Aiko [VerfasserIn]
Fujioka, Kazuki [VerfasserIn]
Fujii, Wataru [VerfasserIn]
Seno, Takahiro [VerfasserIn]
Wada, Makoto [VerfasserIn]
Kohno, Masataka [VerfasserIn]
Kawahito, Yutaka [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
Intravenous methylprednisolone pulse
Journal Article
Microscopic polyangiitis
Observational study
Target trial emulation

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Date Revised 12.04.2024

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10.1093/rheumatology/keae219

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