{"title":"Reply: Tofacitinib is a step forward for management of patients with interstitial lung disease associated with anti-MDA5-positive dermatomyositis.","authors":"Wanlong Wu,Shuang Ye","doi":"10.1183/13993003.00699-2025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.00699-2025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12265,"journal":{"name":"European Respiratory Journal","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144629968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to treat patients with MDA5-associated rapidly progressive interstitial lung disease? Which immunosuppressive therapy for which patients?","authors":"Yurdagül Uzunhan,Baptiste Hervier","doi":"10.1183/13993003.00446-2025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.00446-2025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12265,"journal":{"name":"European Respiratory Journal","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144629988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A reason to celebrate: multimodal treatments and recent improvements in the long-term outcomes of patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.","authors":"Irene M Lang","doi":"10.1183/13993003.00562-2025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.00562-2025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12265,"journal":{"name":"European Respiratory Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144629969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dave Singh, Patricia Guller, Fred Reid, Sarah Doffman, Ulla Seppälä, Ioannis Psallidas, Rachel Moate, Rebecca Smith, Joanna Kiraga, Eulalia Jimenez, Dennis Brooks, Aoife Kelly, Lars H Nordenmark, Muhammad Waqas Sadiq, Luis Mateos Caballero, Chris Kell, Maria G Belvisi, Hitesh Pandya
{"title":"A phase 2a trial of the IL-33 monoclonal antibody tozorakimab in patients with COPD: FRONTIER-4.","authors":"Dave Singh, Patricia Guller, Fred Reid, Sarah Doffman, Ulla Seppälä, Ioannis Psallidas, Rachel Moate, Rebecca Smith, Joanna Kiraga, Eulalia Jimenez, Dennis Brooks, Aoife Kelly, Lars H Nordenmark, Muhammad Waqas Sadiq, Luis Mateos Caballero, Chris Kell, Maria G Belvisi, Hitesh Pandya","doi":"10.1183/13993003.02231-2024","DOIUrl":"10.1183/13993003.02231-2024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Interleukin-33 may have a role in COPD pathobiology. FRONTIER-4 (NCT04631016) investigated tozorakimab (an anti-interleukin-33 monoclonal antibody) in patients with moderate-to-severe COPD with chronic bronchitis receiving dual or triple inhaled therapy.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>FRONTIER-4 was a phase 2a, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Patients received tozorakimab 600 mg or placebo subcutaneously every 4 weeks for 24 weeks. The primary end‑point was change in pre-bronchodilator forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV<sub>1</sub>) from baseline to week 12. Secondary outcomes included post-bronchodilator FEV<sub>1</sub>, time-to-first COPD composite exacerbation event and safety.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The intent-to-treat population included 135 patients (tozorakimab, n=67; placebo, n=68). At week 12 in the intent-to-treat population, tozorakimab showed a greater increase, although nonsignificant, from baseline in pre-bronchodilator FEV<sub>1</sub> (least-squares mean difference (LSMD) 24 mL, 80% confidence interval (CI) -15-63 mL, p=0.216) and a significantly greater increase in post-bronchodilator FEV<sub>1</sub> (LSMD 67 mL, 80% CI 17-116 mL, p=0.044) when compared with placebo. At week 12 in a prespecified subgroup of patients with at least two prior exacerbations, tozorakimab also showed improvements <i>versus</i> placebo in change from baseline in pre-bronchodilator FEV<sub>1</sub> (LSMD 69 mL, 80% CI 9-130 mL, p=0.072) and post-bronchodilator FEV<sub>1</sub> (LSMD 124 mL, 80% CI 47-201 mL, p=0.020). Tozorakimab did not significantly reduce the risk of COPD composite exacerbation events (hazard ratio 0.79, 80% CI 0.57-1.11, p=0.186) in the intent-to-treat population, although there were greater effects in patients with at least two prior exacerbations (hazard ratio 0.61, 80% CI 0.37-1.00). Results were similar in former and current smokers. Tozorakimab was well tolerated.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Although the primary end-point was not met in the intent-to-treat population, tozorakimab showed positive efficacy signals <i>versus</i> placebo in a subgroup of patients with COPD with a high risk of exacerbations.</p>","PeriodicalId":12265,"journal":{"name":"European Respiratory Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12256803/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143742697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survival benefit of tofacitinib in interstitial lung disease associated with anti-MDA5-positive dermatomyositis: a need for further validation.","authors":"Chih-Wei Tseng,James Cheng-Chung Wei","doi":"10.1183/13993003.00306-2025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.00306-2025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12265,"journal":{"name":"European Respiratory Journal","volume":"94 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144629989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survival trends in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: an observational study.","authors":"Takatoyo Kiko, Ryotaro Asano, Yusuke Yoshikawa, Hiroyuki Endo, Shinya Fujisaki, Ryo Takano, Mitsumasa Akao, Naruhiro Nishi, Hiroya Hayashi, Soshiro Ogata, Akiyuki Kotoku, Hiroki Horinouchi, Yosuke Inoue, Jin Ueda, Yoshimasa Seike, Akihiro Tsuji, Tetsuya Fukuda, Kunihiro Nishimura, Hitoshi Matsuda, Takeshi Ogo","doi":"10.1183/13993003.02268-2024","DOIUrl":"10.1183/13993003.02268-2024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Treatment options for patients with chronic thromboembolic hypertension (CTEPH) have increased over the past decade. However, it is unknown whether the outcomes of patients with CTEPH have changed as well.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This retrospective study analysed the data of 834 patients with CTEPH, categorised into early (April 1980-December 1999), middle (January 2000-September 2010) and current (October 2010-December 2023) eras. The primary end-point was all-cause mortality. Multivariable Cox proportional hazards models were used to assess changes in all-cause mortality after adjusting for confounding variables.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>95, 210 and 529 patients were from the early, middle and current eras, respectively. The proportion of patients who did not receive CTEPH therapy decreased from 65% in the early era to 36% and 3% in the middle and current eras, respectively. Meanwhile, the adoption of multimodal treatment increased from 0% to 58% over time. The Kaplan-Meier analysis revealed significant improvements in overall survival (log-rank p<0.001). The 5-year survival rates improved from 68% in the early era to 85% and 93% in the middle and current eras, respectively. The adjusted hazard ratios for mortality were 0.291 (95% CI 0.154-0.550; p<0.001) for the early <i>versus</i> middle era, 0.447 (95% CI 0.249-0.804; p=0.007) for the middle <i>versus</i> current era and 0.130 (95% CI 0.067-0.254; p<0.001) for the early <i>versus</i> current era.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The long-term prognosis of patients with CTEPH has significantly improved in recent decades.</p>","PeriodicalId":12265,"journal":{"name":"European Respiratory Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12256805/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143572575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Genevieve N Dupuis, Mariia Dolynska, Silvia S Chiang, C Robert Horsburgh, Helen R Stagg, Natasha R Rybak, Vasyl Petrenko, Helen E Jenkins
{"title":"Risk of rifampicin resistance emergence after incomplete first-line tuberculosis treatment.","authors":"Genevieve N Dupuis, Mariia Dolynska, Silvia S Chiang, C Robert Horsburgh, Helen R Stagg, Natasha R Rybak, Vasyl Petrenko, Helen E Jenkins","doi":"10.1183/13993003.00902-2025","DOIUrl":"10.1183/13993003.00902-2025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12265,"journal":{"name":"European Respiratory Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144559611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IL-33, inflammation and mucus in COPD: the final FRONTIER?","authors":"James D Chalmers,Merete B Long","doi":"10.1183/13993003.00831-2025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.00831-2025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12265,"journal":{"name":"European Respiratory Journal","volume":"109 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144629967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}