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  • Abstract Number: 2838 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Evidence of Serological IL-23/IL-17 Axis Activation in Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients with Long-Term TNF Blockade: The Missing Therapy Target?

    Fernanda M. Milanez1, Carla G.S. Saad1, Vilma S. T. Viana1, Julio C. B. Moraes1, Grégory V. Périco2, Celio R. Gonçalves1 and Eloisa Bonfá1, 1Rheumatology Division, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 2Unidade Radiologica Criciuma, Criciuma, Brazil

    Background/Purpose: Spondyloarthritis (Spa) is a group of inflammatory diseases in which ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is the prototype. Despite recent advances in pathophysiology and treatment, this…
  • Abstract Number: 2839 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Disease Activity and Safety during Long-Term (104-Week) Treatment with Apremilast, an Oral Phosphodiesterase 4 Inhibitor, in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis: Results from a Phase III, Randomized, Controlled Trial and Open-Label Extension

    Christopher J. Edwards1, Francisco J. Blanco2, Jeffrey Crowley3, ChiaChi Hu4, Kamal Shah4 and Charles A. Birbara5, 1University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, 2Osteoarticular and Aging Research Lab. Proteomics Unit - Associated Node to ProteoRed, Rheumatology Division, Proteomics Group-ProteoRed/ISCIII, INIBIC-CHUAC, A Coruña, Spain, 3Bakersfield Dermatology, Bakersfield, CA, 4Celgene Corporation, Warren, NJ, 5University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA

    Background/Purpose: Apremilast (APR), an oral phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor, acts to regulate immune responses in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). PALACE 3 compared the efficacy and safety of…
  • Abstract Number: 2840 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Long-Term (104 Week) Safety Profile of Apremilast, an Oral Phosphodiesterase 4 Inhibitor, in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis: Pooled Safety Analysis of Three Phase III, Randomized, Controlled Trials

    Philip J. Mease1, Adewale O. Adebajo2, Dafna D. Gladman3, Juan J. Gomez-Reino4, Stephen Hall5, Arthur Kavanaugh6, Eric Lespessailles7, Georg A. Schett8, Kamal Shah9, Lichen Teng9 and Jürgen Wollenhaupt10, 1Clinical Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, 2University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 3Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, 4Rheumatology, Hospital Clinico Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 5Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 6University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, LaJolla, CA, 7University of Orléans, Orléans, France, 8University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, 9Celgene Corporation, Warren, NJ, 10Schön Klinik Hamburg Eilbek, Hamburg, Germany

    Background/Purpose: Apremilast (APR), a phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor, helps regulate the immune responses in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). PALACE 1-3 compared APR efficacy/safety with placebo in patients…
  • Abstract Number: 2841 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Changes in Treatment Patterns in Psoriatic Arthritis Patients Newly Initiated on Biologic and Non-Biologic Therapy Enrolled in a North American Clinical Registry

    Philip J. Mease1, Tamara Lesperance2, Neil Accortt2, David Collier2, Mei Liu3, Marc Mason4 and Sabrina Deveikis4, 1Clinical Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, 2Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, 3352 Turnpike Rd, Corrona, LLC, Southborough, MA, 4Corrona, LLC., Southborough, MA

    Background/Purpose: Over the past decade, the treatment of PsA has improved significantly. The purpose of this study was to describe real-world treatment patterns among PsA…
  • Abstract Number: 2842 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Inhibition in Ankylosing Spondylitis and Non Radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis: Treatment Response, Drug Survival and Patient Outcome

    Justine Corli1, Rene-Marc Flipo1, Peggy Philippe2, Anne Bera-Louville2, Cecile Wibaux2 and Julien Paccou2, 1Rheumatology, Hopital R Salengro CHRU, Lille, France, 2Hopital R Salengro CHRU, Lille, France

    Background/Purpose: Several studies have demonstrated that Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors (TNFi) are efficient in non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis (Nr-AxSpA). However, few investigations have directly compared ankylosing…
  • Abstract Number: 2843 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Long-Term (156-Week) Efficacy and Safety Profile of Apremilast, an Oral Phosphodiesterase 4 Inhibitor, in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis: Results from a Phase III, Randomized, Controlled Trial and Open-Label Extension (PALACE 1)

    Arthur Kavanaugh1, Adewale O. Adebajo2, Dafna D. Gladman3, Juan J. Gomez-Reino4, Stephen Hall5, Eric Lespessailles6, Philip J. Mease7, Georg A. Schett8, Kamal Shah9, Lichen Teng9 and Jürgen Wollenhaupt10, 1University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, LaJolla, CA, 2University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 3Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, 4Hospital Clinico Universitario, Santiago, Spain, 5Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 6University of Orléans, Orléans, France, 7Rheumatology Research, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA, 8University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, 9Celgene Corporation, Warren, NJ, 10Schön Klinik Hamburg Eilbek, Hamburg, Germany

    Background/Purpose: Apremilast (APR), an oral phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor, has demonstrated clear efficacy and good tolerability in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and psoriasis. Longer term data are…
  • Abstract Number: 2844 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Secukinumab Reduces the Burden of Nail and Skin Disease in Patients with Psoriasis and Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis: Results from Two Phase 3 Studies

    Alice B. Gottlieb1, Kristian Reich2, Zailong Wang3, Marina Milutinovic4 and Shephard Mpofu4, 1Dermatology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, 2Dermatologikum Hamburg and Georg-August-University Göttingen, Hamburg, Germany, 3Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ, 4Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

    Background/Purpose: Nail psoriasis is associated with decreased finger mobility and pain in patients (pts) with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (PsA).1,2 Secukinumab,…
  • Abstract Number: 2845 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    A Randomized, Clinical Trial to Assess the Relative Efficacy and Tolerability of Two Doses of Etoricoxib in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis

    Eva Balazcs1, Désirée van der Heijde2, Narinder Rawal3, Joachim Sieper4, Boyd Scott5, Kara Bickham6, Nancy Frontera6, Paul Stryszak6, Dimitris Papanicolaou6, Zoran Popmihajlov6 and Paul Peloso6, 1Department of Neuromusculoskeletal Rehabilitation, Sima F, Szentes, Hungary, 2University Hospital, Maastricht, Netherlands, 3Orebro University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden, 4University Clinic Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany, 5Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Whitehouse Station, NJ, 6Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ

     Background/Purpose: Etoricoxib 90 mg, a selective COX-2 inhibitor, provides symptom relief in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients. A prior study established etoricoxib 90 mg as safe…
  • Abstract Number: 2846 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Modifications to Biologic Therapy and Economic Implications in Psoriatic Arthritis Patients

    Jacqueline B. Palmer, Yunfeng Li, Vivian Herrera, Minlei Liao and Zafer Ozturk, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ

    Background/Purpose: Limited information exists on the long term real-world treatment patterns of biologics for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in the US population. We assessed medication persistence…
  • Abstract Number: 2847 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Predictors of Therapeutic Response in Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients Initiating Therapy with Adalimumab in a German Non-Interventional Study 

    Michaela Koehm1,2, Frank Behrens1,3, Eva C. Scharbatke4, Marc Schmalzing5, Holger Gnann6, Gerd Greger7, Bianca Wittig8, Hans Peter Tony9 and Harald Burkhardt3,10, 1Clinical Research, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Project Group Translational Medicine & Pharmacology TMP, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 2Rheumatology, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 3Rheumatology, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, 4Rheumatology/Immunology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, 5Rheumatology/Immunology, University Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, 6Abteilung Biostatistik, GKM Gesellschaft für Therapieforschung mbH, München, Germany, 7AbbVie Deutschland GmbH & Co.KG, Wiesbaden, Germany, 8Abbott GmbH & Co KG, Wiesbaden, Germany, 9Rheumatology / Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, 10Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Project Group Translational Medicine & Pharmacology TMP, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

    Background/Purpose: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is associated with a significant burden of illness and has limited treatment options. The identification of predictors of response to anti-tumor necrosis…
  • Abstract Number: 2848 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Network Meta-Analysis of Tumor Necrosis Factor, Interleukins, and Phosphodiesterase-4 Inhibitor in the Treatment of Psoriatic Arthritis

    Vibeke Strand1, M. Elaine Husni2, William Reichmann3, Keith Betts4, Jenny Griffith5, Yan Song3, Marci Beppu6 and Arijit Ganguli5, 1Biopharmaceutical Consultant, Portola Valley, CA, 2Rheumatology Dept A50, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, 3Analysis Group Inc., Boston, MA, 4Analysis Group, Inc., Boston, MA, 5AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL, 6Abbvie, Newcastle, WA

    Background/Purpose: Multiple disease-modifying therapies for treatment of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) are available. However, there are limited data directly comparing these biologic therapies and the recently…
  • Abstract Number: 2849 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Apremilast, an Oral Phosphodiesterase 4 Inhibitor, Is Associated with Long-Term (104-Week) Improvement in Fatigue in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis: Pooled Results from 3 Phase 3, Randomized, Controlled Trials

    Arthur Kavanaugh1, Dafna Gladman2, Christopher J. Edwards3, Airi Poder4, Frederic Liote5, Paul A. Bird6, Georg Schett7, Melissa McIlraith8, Lichen Teng8 and Philip J. Mease9, 1University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, LaJolla, CA, 2Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, 3University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, 4Clinical Research Centre Ltd, Tartu, Estonia, 5University Paris Diderot, Paris, France, 6University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 7Department of Internal Medicine 3 and Institute for Clinical Immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, 8Celgene Corporation, Warren, NJ, 9Swedish Medical Center and University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA

    Background/Purpose: Patients (pts) with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have disease involvement across multiple domains. Pts can have substantial fatigue, which is increasingly being recognized as…
  • Abstract Number: 2850 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Etanercept Treatment in Psoriatic Arthritis:  Need for Co-Medication?

    Brigitte Michelsen1, Dag Magnar Soldal2, Arthur Kavanaugh3 and Glenn Haugeberg1,4,5, 1Rheumatology, Hospital of Southern Norway Trust, Kristiansand, Norway, 2Rheumatology, Hospital of Southern Norway, Kristiansand, Norway, 3University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 4Rheumatology, Martina Hansens Hospital, Gjettum, Norway, 5Rheumatology, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Background/Purpose: The role of co-medication e.g. with conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (csDMARDs), among patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) who are receiving tumor necrosis factor…
  • Abstract Number: 2851 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Anti-TNF Therapy Is Associated with an Increase in Serious Infections in Patients with Spondyloarthritis (SpA), Especially during the First 12 Monts of Treatment: Results from the GISEA Registry

    Fabiola Atzeni1, Marco Sebastiani2, Valentina Panetta3, Fausto Salaffi4, Antonio Marchesoni5, Roberta Ramonda6, Florenzo Iannone7, Roberto Gorla8, Elisa Gremese9, Marcello Govoni10, Pier Carlo Sarzi-Puttini11, Gianfranco Ferraccioli12, Giovanni Lapadula13 and on behalf of GISEA group, 1Rheumatology Unit, L. Sacco University Hospital of Milan, Milan, Italy, 2SC Reumatologia, Dipartimento di Medicine, Medicina d’Urgenza e Specialità Mediche, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Modena, Modena, Italy, 3L'altrastatistica -Consultancy & Training- Biostatistics office., Rome, Italy, 4Rheumatology Department, Polytechnic University of Marche, C. Urbani Hospital, Jesi,, Ancona, Italy, 5Day Hospital of Rheumatology, G. Pini Orthopedic Institute, Chair of Rheumatology of Milan, Milan, Italy, 6Cattedra, Voc Rheumatology, University of Padua, Padova, Italy, 7Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine (DIM), Rheumatology Unit, University of Bari, Bari, Italy, 8Rheumatology and Immunology Unit, Spedali Civili di Brescia, Brescia, Italy, 9Division of Rheumatology, Institute of Rheumatology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy, 10Department of Medical Sciences, UOC of Rheumatology, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria S. Anna-Ferrara, University of Ferrara, Cona Ferrara, Italy, 11Rheumatology Unit, University Hospital L Sacco, Milan, Italy, 12Rheumatology and Internal Medicine, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy, 13Bari University, Rheumatology, Bari, Italy

    Background/Purpose: Infection is by far the most common and most important adverse effect of TNF inhibitors (TNFI) in the treatment of  rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and…
  • Abstract Number: 2853 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Secukinumab Improves Skin Symptoms and Physical Functioning Compared with Ustekinumab in Patients with Moderate to Severe Psoriasis with Concomitant Psoriatic Arthritis: Subanalysis of a Randomized, Double Blind, Parallel-Group, Active Comparator-Controlled Phase 3b Trial

    Alice B. Gottlieb1, Diamant Thaci2, Andrew Blauvelt3, Marina Milutinovic4 and Shephard Mpofu4, 1Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 2Comprehensive Center for Inflammation Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany, 3Research Excellence & Personalized Patient Care, Oregon Medical Research Center, Portland, OR, 4Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

    Background/Purpose: Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a common comorbidity in patients (pts) with psoriasis. In the ongoing Phase 3b CLEAR study (NCT02074982), secukinumab, a fully human…
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