Unmet needs in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. An observational study and a real-life experience from a single university center.

Abstract:

OBJECTIVES:To estimate the size of unmet needs in the treatment of early Rheumatoid Arthritis (eRA), using all the conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (csDMARDs) and/or biological DMARDs (bDMARDs) in a long-term observational study. MATERIALS AND METHODS:538 patients with eRA were evaluated. The 2010 ACR/EULAR classification criteria were used. All patients were csDMARDs and bDMARDs-naive with disease duration less than one year. They were treated according to EULAR and ACR recommendations for RA. All the csDMARDs and bDMARDs were used. Clinical, laboratory findings with the disease activity score-28 and treatment decisions were all recorded as well as adverse drug reactions, reason of therapy termination, disease complications and comorbidities. RESULTS:Methotrexate (58%) and Infliximab (37%) where the first csDMARD and bDMARD choice respectively. During follow-up, 14 patients were lost and 7 developed comorbidities. The final results are referred to 517 patients. Among those, 66% were treated with csDMARDs as monotherapy or in combination therapy with sustained low disease activity (LDA). However, 3.2% from this group neither achieved LDA, nor received bDMARDs, due to comorbidities. On the other hand, 34% were treated with bDMARDs with or without csDMARDs. The majority of them demonstrated sustained LDA. From this group, 17.7% never achieved LDA, despite that they switched and received all bDMARDs. Thus, 20.9% of our patients never achieved LDA. CONCLUSIONS:Using the current recommendations for RA therapy we successfully treated the majority of our patients. However, we found that the size of gap and the unmet needs for treatment is about 20%.

journal_name

Semin Arthritis Rheum

authors

Kaltsonoudis E,Pelechas E,Voulgari PV,Drosos AA

doi

10.1016/j.semarthrit.2018.06.003

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-02-01 00:00:00

pages

597-602

issue

4

eissn

0049-0172

issn

1532-866X

pii

S0049-0172(18)30188-4

journal_volume

48

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