Session Information
Date: Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Title: Pediatric Rheumatology – Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects Poster III: Juvenile Arthritis
Session Type: ACR Poster Session C
Session Time: 9:00AM-11:00AM
Background/Purpose: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common chronic rheumatic disease in childhood. The advent of new biological drugs has changed the prognosis and therapeutic approach to these patients. Our aim was to evaluate the use of biological therapy in JIA.
Methods:
Multicenter prospective study. Information was obtained from BIOBADASER. All patients diagnosed before age 16 in our database between 2000 and 2015 were included in the analysis. JIA is classified into 7 subgroups: systemic, persistent or extended oligoarthritis, RF positive polyarthritis, RF negative polyarthritis, enthesitis-related arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and undifferentiated arthritis. Due to the design of the registry, it was not possible to identify each of the JIA subgroups; thus, we classified them into systemic/oligo/polyarticular JIA, JIA related to enthesitis, and psoriatic JIA.
Proportions, means and standard deviations (SD) were used to describe our population and the utilization of treatments. Survival rates were calculated until termination of treatment for any reason.
Results: A total of 469 patients were classified as systemic/oligo/polyarticular JIA (70.6%), JIA related to enthesitis (25%) and psoriatic JIA (4.5%). 46.1% of patients were women (n= 216). Age at diagnosis was 9.4 (SD= 5.3) and years of disease evolution 24.1 (SD= 14.1). The age at biological treatment initiation was 23.9 years (SD= 13.9). 42.4% of the biologicals were used as monotherapy. Methotrexate was used in combination in 44.0% of the biological treatments. 12.4% of the patients received more than 3 biologicals (December 2015). The most commonly used drug was Etanercept (34.7%), followed by Infliximab (21.6%). Table 1 shows the biologic therapies used in our sample. 42.4% of the treatments with Etanercept were in monotherapy. The median survival rate with the drug was over three years (Table 2).
Conclusion: TNFi were the most commonly used biologic therapies in JIA. Ineffectiveness was the main reason for discontinuation. Survival rates can be a crucial endpoint in JIA, with age at initiation of biological treatment of particular concern.
Table 1. Biological and concomitant drugs used in patients with JIA.
Biologic drug |
First-line Biologic n (%) |
Second-line Biologic n (%) |
All n (%) |
Etanercept |
204 (43.5) |
119 (25.8) |
323 (34.7) |
Infliximab |
143 (30.5) |
58 (12.6) |
201 (21.6) |
Adalimumab |
89 (19.0) |
108 (23.4) |
197 (21.2) |
Anakinra |
8 (1.7) |
15 (3.3) |
23 (2.5) |
Rituximab |
0 (0.0) |
72 (15.6) |
72 (7.7) |
Abatacept |
5 (1.1) |
28 (6.1) |
33 (3.6) |
Tocilizumab |
16 (3.4) |
40 (8.7) |
56 (6.0) |
Golimumab |
2 (0.4) |
13 (2.8) |
15 (1.6) |
Certolizumab |
2 (0.4) |
5 (1.1) |
7 (0.8) |
Canakinumab |
0 (0.0) |
2 (0.4) |
2 (0.2) |
Ustekinumab |
0 (0.0) |
1 (0.2) |
1 (0.1) |
Concomitant drugs |
|
|
|
– Biological monotherapy |
177 (37.7) |
217 (47.1) |
394 (42.4) |
– Metotrexate |
225 (48.0) |
184 (39.9) |
409 (44.0) |
– Glucocorticoids |
155 (33.1) |
145 (31.5) |
300 (32.3) |
Table 2. Drug Survival Rates in patients with JIA in BIOBADASER Phase II. Discontinuation reasons.
Supervivencia (IC95%) |
First-line biologic |
Second-line Biologic |
All |
1st year |
0.809 (0.771-0.842) |
0.723 (0.659-0.777) |
0.797 (0.758-0.830) |
2nd year |
0.678 (0.634-0.719) |
0.558 (0.493-0.618) |
0.652 (0.609-0.691) |
3rd year |
0.586 (0.540-0.630) |
0.418 (0.359-0.475) |
0.542 (0.500-0.583) |
4th year |
0.516 (0.469-0.561) |
0.352 (0.298-0.406) |
0.462 (0.421-0.502) |
5th year |
0.482 (0.434-0.527) |
0.274 (0.227-0.323) |
0.397 (0.358-0.435) |
6th year |
0.434 (0.387-0.480) |
0.210 (0.170-0.253) |
0.341 (0.305-0.377) |
7th year |
0.393 (0.346-0.440) |
0.169 (0.134-0.208) |
0.286 (0.253-0.320) |
8th year |
0.369 (0.322-0.417) |
0.134 (0.103-0.169) |
0.243 (0.213-0.275) |
Discontinuation reasons |
n (%) |
n (%) |
n (%) |
Ineffectiveness or loss |
106 (37.3) |
126 (42.4) |
232 (39.9) |
Adverse event |
80 (28.2) |
61 (20.5) |
141 (24.3) |
Pregnancy or gestational desire |
13 (4.6) |
14 (4.7) |
27 (4.7) |
Loss of follow-up |
24 (8.5) |
8 (2.7) |
32 (5.5) |
Remission |
35 (12.3) |
9 (3.0) |
44 (7.6) |
Others |
24 (8.5) |
73 (24.6) |
97 (16.7) |
Unknown |
2 (0.7) |
6 (2.0) |
8 (1.4) |
Total |
284 |
297 |
581 |
To cite this abstract in AMA style:
Sánchez-Piedra C, Rosello R, Manero J, Hernández MV, Sánchez-Alonso F, Cuende E, García Magallon B, Ortiz Garcia AM, Diaz-Torné C, Freire M, Vela P, Menor Almagro R, Prior A, Díaz-González F, Gomez-Reino JJ, Bustabad S. Use of Biological Therapies in Adult Patients Diagnosed with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Results from the Spanish Registry of Adverse Events with Biologic Therapies (BIOBADASER) [abstract]. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2017; 69 (suppl 10). https://acrabstracts.org/abstract/use-of-biological-therapies-in-adult-patients-diagnosed-with-juvenile-idiopathic-arthritis-results-from-the-spanish-registry-of-adverse-events-with-biologic-therapies-biobadaser/. Accessed .« Back to 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
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