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Abstract Number: 850

Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors and Inflammatory Myopathies: Data from the US Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System

Xerxes Pundole, Mohsin Shah, Noha Abdel-Wahab and Maria Suarez-Almazor, Section of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA, Houston, TX

Meeting: 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

Date of first publication: September 18, 2017

Keywords: Adverse events, FDA, Immunotherapy, myopathy and pharmacology

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Date: Sunday, November 5, 2017

Session Title: Muscle Biology, Myositis and Myopathies

Session Type: ACR Concurrent Abstract Session

Session Time: 2:30PM-4:00PM

Background/Purpose:

Immune checkpoint inhibitors have become standard of care for many malignancies. Although these therapies are effective, they can activate the immune system resulting in adverse consequences. Inflammatory myopathies are increasingly being appreciated as one of the adverse phenotypes stemming from immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy, but few reports have been described in the literature. We aimed to analyze rates and disproportionality using drugs from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Adverse Events Reporting System (FAERS).

Methods:

We ran a query on AERSMine, an open access web based application designed to mine the FAERS database from the first quarter (Q1) of 2004 to the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2016, in a total of 8,864,346 reports. We ran queries to obtain the number of cases and to calculate the rates and measures of disproportionality; proportional reporting ratios [PRRs] and safety signals [information components (IC)]. Search terms included immune checkpoint inhibitors, namely ipilimumab, nivolumab and pembrolizumab. Inflammatory myopathy terms searched were myositis, dermatomyositis and polymyositis. We used Evans 2001 criteria to detect a signal which includes a PRR of 2 or greater, a x2 of 4 or more and at least 3 reports.

Results:

The FAERS files from 2004 Q1 to 2016 Q 4 contain 42, 94 and 24 inflammatory myopathy reports for ipilimumab, nivolumab and pembrolizumab respectively. Myositis (n=28; x2=71.4; PRR=4.5; IC=2.2), dermatomyositis (n=9; x2=33.8; PRR=6.2; IC=2.6) and polymyositis (n=5; x2=5.5; PRR=3.2; IC=1.7) showed disproportionality signals in relation with ipilimumab. Reports with nivolumab showed similar results with myositis (n=78; x2=847.2; PRR=13.1; IC=3.7), dermatomyositis (n=5; x2=6.8; PRR=3.6; IC=1.8) and polymyositis (n=11; x2=54.1; PRR=7.4; IC=2.9). There were 3 reports of Nivolumab and necrotizing myositis with a x2 of 88.7 and a PRR of 47.3. Pembrolizumab demonstrated a disproportionality signal with myositis (n=24; x2=177.3; PRR=9.7; IC=3.3). There were 2 reports of necrotizing myositis with pembrolizumab and no reports of dermatomyositis or polymyositis with pembrolizumab.

Conclusion:

Inflammatory myopathies are disproportionally related with immune checkpoint inhibitors. To the best of our knowledge this is the first study to evaluate adverse events in relation with immune checkpoint inhibitors using the FDA FAERS data. All results are hypothesis generating and usual caveats and limitations of pharmacovigilance data mining should be applied while interpreting the results.


Disclosure: X. Pundole, None; M. Shah, None; N. Abdel-Wahab, None; M. Suarez-Almazor, Bristol-Myers Squibb, 5.

To cite this abstract in AMA style:

Pundole X, Shah M, Abdel-Wahab N, Suarez-Almazor M. Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors and Inflammatory Myopathies: Data from the US Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System [abstract]. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2017; 69 (suppl 10). https://acrabstracts.org/abstract/immune-checkpoint-inhibitors-and-inflammatory-myopathies-data-from-the-us-food-and-drug-administration-adverse-event-reporting-system/. Accessed January 18, 2021.
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