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{"title":"Frailty is independently associated with subclinical cardiovascular disease in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.","authors":"Maria Pappa, Kyriaki Keramiotou, Petros P Sfikakis, Maria G Tektonidou","doi":"10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004527","DOIUrl":"10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004527","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of mortality in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Frailty has been associated with an increased cardiovascular disease risk (CVR) in the general population. We aimed to examine the association between frailty and subclinical cardiovascular disease in patients with SLE.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this cross-sectional study, we included all patients with SLE who underwent carotid/femoral artery ultrasound in our unit between 2016 and 2018. Clinical and laboratory data were collected at the time of ultrasound testing. Frailty was measured using the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics-Frailty Index (SLICC-FI). CVR (low, moderate, high, very high) was evaluated by the Systematic COronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE) model. Determinants of atherosclerotic plaque presence were assessed by logistic regression analyses, adjusting for potential confounders.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>202 patients were included in the study. Atherosclerotic plaques (20.8% carotid, 17.3% femoral) were observed in 52/202 (25.7%) patients (89.1% women, mean (±SD) age 46.7±12.6). Median (IQR) SLICC-FI was 0.08 (0.04-0.10). 39 (19.3%) patients were classified as robust, 91 (45%) as relatively less fit, 59 (29.2%) as least fit and 13 (6.4%) as frail. In univariate analysis, plaque presence was significantly associated with age, disease duration, smoking, hypertension, systolic blood pressure, dyslipidaemia, SCORE, CVR class and SLICC-FI. CVR class (OR 5.16, p=0.000) and SLICC-FI (OR 1.34, p=0.03 per 0.05 point increase) remained significant in multivariate analysis after adjustment for traditional and disease-related CVR factors.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>SLICC-FI is independently associated with plaque presence. Further studies are warranted to determine whether frailty-specific interventions can reduce CVR in patients with SLE.</p>","PeriodicalId":21396,"journal":{"name":"RMD Open","volume":"10 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11418478/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142308479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bimekizumab provided rapid improvements in patient-reported symptoms and health-related quality of life in patients with active psoriatic arthritis: pooled 16-week results from two phase 3 studies.","authors":"M Elaine Husni, Philip J Mease, Joseph F Merola, William Tillett, Nadine Goldammer, Barbara Ink, Jason Coarse, Jérémy Lambert, Vanessa Taieb, Dafna D Gladman","doi":"10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004464","DOIUrl":"10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004464","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To assess impact of bimekizumab treatment on patient-reported outcomes and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA), using 16-week data from two phase 3 studies.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>BE OPTIMAL (NCT03895203; biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (bDMARD)-naïve) and BE COMPLETE (NCT03896581; tumour necrosis factor inhibitor inadequate response/intolerance (TNFi-IR)) are phase 3 studies of subcutaneous bimekizumab 160 mg Q4W; both were double-blind and placebo-controlled to 16 weeks. Patients were randomised 3:2:1 to bimekizumab, placebo or reference (subcutaneous adalimumab 40 mg Q2W) in BE OPTIMAL; 2:1 to bimekizumab or placebo in BE COMPLETE. Patient-reported outcomes for pain, fatigue, physical function and HRQoL are reported to week 16 using pooled and individual study data for bimekizumab and placebo patients.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>1073/1112 (96.5%) patients completed week 16 (bimekizumab:‍ 677/698 [97.0%]; placebo: 396/414 [95.7%]). Bimekizumab-treated patients achieved rapid improvements vs placebo in pain, fatigue, physical function and HRQoL by week 4, after a single dose. Improvements continued to week 16 for all patient-reported outcomes, including Pain Visual Analogue Scale (VAS; mean (95% CI) change from baseline: bimekizumab: -‍25.2 [-27.2, -23.1]; placebo:‍ -‍5.7 [-8.2, -3.3]) and FACIT-Fatigue (bimekizumab: 4.5 [3.9, 5.1]; placebo: 1.1 [0.3, 2.0]); both nominal p<0.001. Greater proportions of bimekizumab-treated patients achieved minimal clinically important differences for patient-reported symptoms vs placebo, including FACIT-Fatigue (bimekizumab: 53.1%; placebo: 36.3%) and HAQ-DI (bimekizumab:‍ 53.0%; placebo: 28.7%); both nominal p<0.001.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Bimekizumab treatment demonstrated rapid and greater improvements in patient-reported pain, fatigue, physical function and HRQoL to week 16 vs placebo in bDMARD-naïve and TNFi-IR patients.</p><p><strong>Trial registration number: </strong>ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03895203; NCT03896581.</p>","PeriodicalId":21396,"journal":{"name":"RMD Open","volume":"10 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11418537/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142308478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Anifrolumab: the new frontier in the treatment of genetic interferonopathies.","authors":"Marie-Louise Frémond, Clémence David, Christophe Richez","doi":"10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004780","DOIUrl":"10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004780","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21396,"journal":{"name":"RMD Open","volume":"10 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11418534/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142308477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Autoantibodies, cutaneous subset and immunosuppressants contribute to the cancer risk in systemic sclerosis.","authors":"Antonio Tonutti, Francesca Motta, Natasa Isailovic, Angela Ceribelli, Rita Ragusa, Emanuele Nappi, Stefanos Bonovas, Carlo Selmi, Maria De Santis","doi":"10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004492","DOIUrl":"10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004492","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is associated with an increased risk of cancer. We aimed to assess the prevalence of cancer in our cohort and to explore possible associations with clinical, immunological and treatment characteristics.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Our retrospective monocentric cohort study of patients with SSc recorded prevalent and incident cases of malignancy, including those diagnosed within 3 years of the SSc onset (defined as cancer-associated scleroderma) and sought associations with the clinical characteristics and the serum autoantibody profiling performed using RNA and protein immunoprecipitation, Western-blot, immunoblot and ELISA at the time of SSc diagnosis, prior to any specific treatment.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 290 patients with SSc, the overall prevalence of cancer was 20%, with 8% of cases being cancer-associated scleroderma. Both conditions were more frequent in elderly patients and in patients with positive anti-Ro52 or anti-U3-RNP. Cancer-associated scleroderma was significantly more prevalent among patients negative for both anti-centromere (ACA) and anti-topoisomerase-1 (TOPO1) antibodies, especially in the case of diffuse SSc. Immunosuppressants were not significantly associated with cancer. Patients triple negative for ACA, TOPO1 and anti-RNA polymerase III antibodies had a significantly higher risk of breast cancer.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Cancer surveillance should be particularly careful in patients with diffuse SSc, increased age at disease onset and without classical SSc-related autoantibodies.</p>","PeriodicalId":21396,"journal":{"name":"RMD Open","volume":"10 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11418480/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142294346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparative early effectiveness across 14 PsA drugs and 5 classes of PsA treatment: 3-month results from the PRO-SPIRIT study.","authors":"Lars Erik Kristensen, Khai Jing Ng, Marcus Ngantcha, Jacques Morel, Ennio Lubrano, William Tillett, Rieke Alten, Vinod Chandran, Àngels Martinez Ferrer, Baojin Zhu, Dominika Kennedy, Thorsten Holzkämper, Nicola Gullick, Andris Kronbergs, Walid Fakhouri, Inmaculada de la Torre, Dennis G McGonagle","doi":"10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004318","DOIUrl":"10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004318","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The psoriatic arthritis (PsA) Observational Study of Persistence of Treatment (PRO-SPIRIT) assesses effectiveness and persistence of real-world PsA treatments. Ixekizumab (IXE) is an interleukin (IL)-17A inhibitor (i) (IL-17Ai), approved for the treatment of adult PsA.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The aim of this predefined interim analysis was to report baseline characteristics along with early (3-month) descriptive and comparative real-world effectiveness in patients with PsA prescribed with advanced treatment including IL-17Ai; IXE or secukinumab (SEC), IL-12/23i, IL-23i, tumour necrosis factor (TNFi) or Janus kinase (JAKi).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>1192 patients across 6 countries were analysed. At baseline, patients receiving IXE had longer disease duration and higher previous biological/targeted-synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs experience than patients starting TNFi and SEC 150, and less concomitant conventional-synthetic DMARD use than TNFi and JAKi. Comparative analyses at 3 months showed that: (a) versus TNFi, IXE exhibited similar improvement in clinical Disease Activity in PsA (cDAPSA) but significantly greater improvement in body surface area affected by psoriasis (BSA) and global assessments (physician GA, patient GA (PatGA)); (b) versus IL-12/23i and IL-23i (pooled), IXE showed significantly greater improvement in cDAPSA and PatGA; (c) IXE was as fast as JAKi in improving joint disease activity. Ad hoc analysis indicated that more patients with active psoriasis (BSA ≥3%) achieved minimal disease activity with IXE than JAKi or IL-12/23i. The responses to SEC varied by dosage.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study confirms the rapid 3-month effectiveness of IXE on joint disease activity-as fast as TNFi and JAKi (cDAPSA), and exceeding IL-12/23i and IL-23i-along with clear benefits to skin.</p>","PeriodicalId":21396,"journal":{"name":"RMD Open","volume":"10 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11418525/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142294347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Agreement between patient-reported flares and clinically significant flare status in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in sustained remission: data from the ARCTIC REWIND trials.","authors":"Karen Holten, Nina Paulshus Sundlisæter, Joseph Sexton, Kaja E Kjørholt, Lena Bugge Nordberg, Ellen Moholt, Till Uhlig, Désirée van der Heijde, Daniel H Solomon, Espen A Haavardsholm, Siri Lillegraven, Anna-Birgitte Aga","doi":"10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004444","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To explore the agreement between patient-reported flare status and clinically significant flare status in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in sustained remission.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Patients with RA in remission for ≥12 months on stable treatment were included in the ARCTIC REWIND tapering trials and pooled 12-month data used in current analyses. Patient-reported flare status was assessed according to the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology flare questionnaire; 'Are you having a flare of your RA at this time?' (yes/no). A clinically significant flare was defined as a combination of Disease Activity Score (DAS) >1.6, increase in DAS of ≥0.6 and 2 swollen joints, or the rheumatologist and patient agreed that a clinically significant flare had occurred. Agreement coefficient, sensitivity, specificity and predictive values of patient-reported flare status with regard to clinically significant flare status were determined.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 248 patients, 64% were women, age 56.1 (11.8) years, disease duration 4.1 (2.8-7.4) years, DAS 0.8 (0.3). 35% of patients reported a flare at least once, clinically significant flares were recorded in 21%. 48/53 clinically significant flares (91%) led to an intensification of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugss. In 621/682 (91%) visits, patient-reported and clinically significant flare status were in agreement, agreement coefficient 0.89. Sensitivity and specificity were both 91%, positive predictive value of patient-reported flare status 46% and negative predictive value 99%.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Among patients in sustained remission, patient-reported flare status was accurate in ruling out a clinically significant flare. About half of the patient-reported flares were assessed to be clinically significant. These findings support a potential for using patient-reported flare status in remote monitoring of patients with RA in sustained remission.</p>","PeriodicalId":21396,"journal":{"name":"RMD Open","volume":"10 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142140941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inflammatory biomarkers predicting long-term remission and active disease in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a population-based study of the Nordic JIA cohort.","authors":"Mia Glerup, Christoph Kessel, Dirk Foell, Lillemor Berntson, Anders Fasth, Charlotte Myrup, Ellen Nordal, Veronika Rypdal, Marite Rygg, Ellen Dalen Arnstad, Suvi Peltoniemi, Kristiina Aalto, Susanne Schleifenbaum, Malene Noer Høllsberg, Anders Ellern Bilgrau, Troels Herlin","doi":"10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004317","DOIUrl":"10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004317","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To assess the ability of baseline serum biomarkers to predict disease activity and remission status in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) at 18-year follow-up (FU) in a population-based setting.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Clinical data and serum levels of inflammatory biomarkers were assessed in the longitudinal population-based Nordic JIA cohort study at baseline and at 18-year FU. A panel of 16 inflammatory biomarkers was determined by multiplexed bead array assay. We estimated both univariate and multivariate logistic regression models on binary outcomes of disease activity and remission with baseline variables as explanatory variables.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Out of 349 patients eligible for the Nordic JIA cohort study, 236 (68%) had available serum samples at baseline. We measured significantly higher serum levels of interleukin 1β (IL-1β), IL-6, IL-12p70, IL-13, MMP-3, S100A9 and S100A12 at baseline in patients with active disease at 18-year FU than in patients with inactive disease. Computing receiver operating characteristics illustrating the area under the curve (AUC), we compared a conventional prediction model (gender, age, joint counts, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C reactive protein) with an extended model that also incorporated the 16 baseline biomarkers. Biomarker addition significantly improved the ability of the model to predict activity/inactivity at the 18-year FU, as evidenced by an increase in the AUC from 0.59 to 0.80 (p=0.02). Multiple regression analysis revealed that S100A9 was the strongest predictor of inactive disease 18 years after disease onset.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Biomarkers indicating inflammation at baseline have the potential to improve evaluation of disease activity and prediction of long-term outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":21396,"journal":{"name":"RMD Open","volume":"10 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11381635/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142146197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Development of a multivariable prediction model for progression of systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease.","authors":"Masataka Kuwana, Jerôme Avouac, Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold, Vanessa Smith, Gerrit Toenges, Margarida Alves, Oliver Distler","doi":"10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004240","DOIUrl":"10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004240","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To develop a multivariable model for predicting the progression of systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) over 52 weeks.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used logistic regression models to analyse associations between candidate predictors assessed at baseline and progression of SSc-ILD (absolute decline in forced vital capacity (FVC) % predicted >5% or death) over 52 weeks in the placebo group of the SENSCIS trial. Analyses were performed in the overall placebo group and in a subgroup with early and/or inflammatory SSc and/or severe skin fibrosis (<18 months since first non-Raynaud symptom, elevated inflammatory markers, and/or modified Rodnan skin score (mRSS) >18) at baseline. Model performance was assessed using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the overall placebo group (n=288), the performance of the final multivariable model for predicting SSc-ILD progression was moderate (apparent AUC: 0.63). A stronger model, with an apparent AUC of 0.75, was developed in the subgroup with early and/or inflammatory SSc and/or severe skin fibrosis at baseline (n=155). This model included diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLco) % predicted, time since first non-Raynaud symptom, mRSS, anti-topoisomerase I antibody status and mycophenolate use.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Prediction of the progression of SSc-ILD may require different approaches in distinct subgroups of patients. Among patients with SSc-ILD and early and/or inflammatory SSc and/or severe skin fibrosis, a nomogram based on a multivariable model may be of value for identifying patients at risk of short-term progression.</p>","PeriodicalId":21396,"journal":{"name":"RMD Open","volume":"10 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11381690/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142146196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparison of established and preliminarily proposed ASAS MRI working group cut-offs for inflammatory MRI lesions in the sacroiliac joints in radiographic and non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis.","authors":"Xenofon Baraliakos, Pedro M Machado, Lars Bauer, Bengt Hoepken, Mindy Kim, Thomas Kumke, Rachel Tham, Martin Rudwaleit","doi":"10.1136/rmdopen-2023-003886","DOIUrl":"10.1136/rmdopen-2023-003886","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>A consensus definition for active sacroiliitis by MRI, mentioned in the Assessment of SpondyloArthritis International Society (ASAS) classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), was published in 2009 and included a qualitative and quantitative MRI cut-off component. In 2021, updates to the quantitative component were preliminarily proposed. This post hoc analysis of part A of the phase 3 open-label C-OPTIMISE study (NCT02505542) explores the differences by applying the 2009 and preliminary 2021 inflammatory cut-offs on clinical outcomes of axSpA patients treated with certolizumab pegol.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Baseline MRI scans were used to classify 657 patients as MRI+ or MRI- according to the quantitative components of the 2009 and preliminary 2021 MRI cut-offs for inflammatory lesions. Clinical outcomes, including ASAS ≥40% improvement (ASAS40), Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score and Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index, were reported to week 48.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Across all analysed outcomes, 2009 MRI+ and preliminary 2021 MRI+ subgroups showed similar results. Notably, clinical outcomes for the discordant group (2009 MRI+but preliminary 2021 MRI- group; 53/657 [8.1%]) were close to those seen in MRI- patients according to either 2009 or preliminary 2021 inflammatory cut-offs, and notably different from the totality of MRI+ subgroups.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This analysis suggests that the preliminary 2021 cut-offs for MRI inflammatory lesions may slightly increase the specificity of the quantitative part of the 2009 MRI inflammatory lesion definition. The effects of the updated MRI cut-offs need to be assessed on the basis of efficacy outcomes and with the inclusion of aspects of structural changes.</p><p><strong>Trial registration number: </strong>NCT02505542.</p>","PeriodicalId":21396,"journal":{"name":"RMD Open","volume":"10 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11409351/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142133614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Persistence of power Doppler ultrasonography-detected synovitis over 1 year of follow-up predicts poor prognosis in rheumatoid arthritis in clinical remission: the SONORE prospective longitudinal study","authors":"Gael Mouterde, Cédric Lukas, Nathalie Filippi, Gregory Marin, Nicolas Molinari, Bernard Combe, Jacques Morel","doi":"10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/rmdopen-2024-004269","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives (1) To assess the progression of ultrasonography-detected synovitis in a cohort of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in remission during 1 year of follow-up (2) to evaluate the ability of consecutive examinations of ultrasonography to predict relapse (R) or radiographic progression (RP) at 1 year. Methods Patients with RA (2010 American College of Rheumatology-European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology criteria) in clinical remission (Disease Activity Score in 28 joints (DAS28)<2.6 without clinically active synovitis) were included. An independent investigator performed ultrasonography every 3 months for 1 year. Ultrasonography-detected synovitis was defined as power Doppler-positive ultrasonography synovitis (PDUS) grade ≥1 in at least one joint. PDUS at ≥2 consecutive visits during the follow-up defined persistent PDUS. An increase of ≥1 point in the modified total Sharp score defined RP. An increase in DAS28-C-reactive protein (CRP)>0.6 or DAS28-CRP>3.2 and any modification of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs or glucocorticoids defined relapse. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses were used to evaluate factors associated with R/RP at 1 year. Results PDUS was detected in 75 (65.2%), 66, 60, 46 and 29 of the 115 patients with RA at baseline and at months 3, 6, 9 and 12, respectively. 58 (50.4%) patients exhibited persistent PDUS. After 1 year, 22/85 (25.9%) experienced relapse and 12 (14.1%) showed RP. On multivariate analysis, factors predicting R/RP at 1 year were persistent PDUS (HR=2.98, p=0.014) and an increase in DAS28-CRP level at the visit before relapse (HR=4.36, p=0.004). Conclusion Persistent PDUS during follow-up, rather than at baseline, predicted worse outcome at 1 year and requires careful monitoring. All data relevant to the study are included in the article or uploaded as supplementary information. The data sets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are not publicly available. All data provided are anonymised to respect the privacy of patients who have participated in the study, in line with applicable laws and regulations. The data may be requested from the corresponding author.","PeriodicalId":21396,"journal":{"name":"RMD Open","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142265900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}