scholarly journals Efficacy and safety of adalimumab in Chinese patients with moderately to severely active Crohn’s disease: results from a randomized trial

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 175628482093896
Author(s):  
Baili Chen ◽  
Xiang Gao ◽  
Jie Zhong ◽  
Jianlin Ren ◽  
Xuan Zhu ◽  
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Background and Aims: Efficacy of adalimumab in Crohn’s disease (CD) has not been shown in China. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of adalimumab in Chinese patients with CD. Methods: This 26-week, multicenter, phase III study evaluated patients with moderately to severely active CD and elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (⩾3 mg/l) who were naïve to anti–tumor necrosis factor therapy. Patients were randomized to double-blind adalimumab 160/80 mg at weeks 0/2 and 40 mg at weeks 4/6 or placebo at weeks 0/2 followed by blinded adalimumab 160/80 mg at weeks 4/6. At week 8, all patients received open-label 40 mg adalimumab every other week through week 26. The primary endpoint was clinical remission [CD activity index (CDAI) <150] at week 4. Clinical remission at week 26 was assessed in week-8 responders (decrease in CDAI ⩾70 points at week 8 from baseline) and compared with a clinically meaningful threshold of 30%. Adverse events (AEs) were recorded throughout the study. Results: At baseline, 205 patients were enrolled, with mean [standard deviation (SD)] age of 32.9 (9.9) years and CD duration of 2.7 (3.0) years. At week 4, 38/102 patients (37%) receiving adalimumab and 7/103 (7%) receiving placebo ( p < 0.001) achieved clinical remission. Among week-8 responders, 93/144 (65%) achieved clinical remission at week 26 ( p < 0.001). No unexpected AEs and no malignancies, active tuberculosis, or deaths were reported. Conclusions: Adalimumab induced and maintained remission in Chinese patients with CD. Safety results were consistent with the known safety profile of adalimumab. identifier: NCT02499783

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S020-S021
Author(s):  
S Vermeire ◽  
W Sandborn ◽  
F Baert ◽  
S Danese ◽  
T Kobayashi ◽  
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Abstract Background Vedolizumab (VDZ) is a gut-selective, humanised, monoclonal α 4β 7 integrin antibody for the treatment of patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn’s disease (CD). VDZ is currently an intravenous (IV) therapy; a subcutaneous (SC) formulation is under development to provide patients with an alternative route of administration for maintenance treatment for UC and CD. Here we present the first data from the phase 3 study of VDZ SC maintenance treatment in CD. Methods VISIBLE 2 (NCT02611817; EudraCT 2015-000481-58) was a randomised, double-blind, placebo (PBO)-controlled phase 3 trial of VDZ SC as maintenance treatment in adults with moderately to severely active CD. Patients (n = 644) received open-label VDZ 300mg IV induction therapy at Weeks 0 and 2. At Week 6, clinical responders (defined as patients with a ≥70-point decrease in CD Activity Index [CDAI] from baseline) were randomly assigned to receive vedolizumab SC (108 mg every 2 weeks [Q2W]), or placebo (Q2W) for up to 52 weeks. The primary endpoint was clinical remission at Week 52 (defined as CDAI score ≤150). Rank-ordered secondary endpoints were enhanced clinical response at Week 52 (a drop of ≥100 in CDAI score), corticosteroid (CS)-free clinical remission at Week 52, and clinical remission at Week 52 in anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-naïve patients. Finally, VDZ immunogenicity and predefined adverse events of special interest were assessed. Results Patients who responded to VDZ IV induction at Week 6 (n = 409) were randomised to VDZ SC (n = 275) or PBO (n = 134) maintenance and received at least 1 dose of study drug; 61% and 53%, respectively, were previously exposed to anti-TNF therapy. At Week 52, 48.0% of patients on VDZ SC vs. 34.3% on PBO were in clinical remission (p = 0.008, Figure). Enhanced clinical response at Week 52 was reached by 52.0% vs. 44.8% of patients on VDZ SC vs. PBO, respectively (p = 0.167). Among patients on concomitant CS at baseline (VDZ SC, n = 95; PBO, n = 44), 45.3% receiving VDZ SC vs. 18.2% receiving PBO achieved CS-free clinical remission at Week 52. Of anti-TNF-naïve patients (VDZ SC, n = 107; PBO, n = 63), 48.6% vs. 42.9% were in clinical remission at Week 52 in the VDZ SC and PBO arms, respectively. Injection-site reactions were reported for &lt;3% of patients treated with VDZ SC. Serious infections, malignancy, and liver injury were ≤5% for both arms. Anti-VDZ antibodies were detected in 7 (2.5%) patients treated with VDZ SC arm; 4 of 7 patients developed neutralising antibodies. No new safety signals were observed. Conclusion Among VDZ IV induction responders, significantly more patients on maintenance VDZ SC than PBO achieved clinical remission at Week 52. The safety findings with VDZ SC remain in line with the known safety profile of VDZ IV in patients with CD.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S026-S027
Author(s):  
S W Schreiber ◽  
M Ferrante ◽  
R Panaccione ◽  
J F Colombel ◽  
T Hisamatsu ◽  
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Abstract Background Present therapies leave an unmet need for early and effective treatment for patients with Crohn’s disease (CD). Risankizumab (RZB), a humanized immunoglobulin G1 monoclonal antibody against the p19 subunit of interleukin-23, was evaluated as an induction therapy to induce early clinical remission and response in patients with moderate-to-severe CD in two double-blind, randomized, placebo (PBO)-controlled studies (ADVANCE [NCT03104413] and MOTIVATE [NCT03105128]). Methods Patients with moderate-to-severe CD (CD Activity Index [CDAI] of 220–450, Simple Endoscopic Score for CD [SES-CD] ≥ 6 [≥ 4 for isolated ileal disease] excluding the narrowing component, and average daily [liquid/very soft] stool frequency [SF] ≥ 4 and/or average daily abdominal pain [AP] score ≥ 2) who had inadequate response or intolerance to conventional and/or biologic treatment (ADVANCE), or biologic treatment only (MOTIVATE) were randomised 2:2:1 (ADVANCE) or 1:1:1 (MOTIVATE) to receive intravenous RZB 600 mg, RZB 1200 mg, or PBO as induction therapy at weeks 0, 4, and 8. Clinical remission (per either CDAI or a composite of SF and AP criteria), clinical response (per CDAI criterion), and enhanced clinical response (per a composite of SF and AP criteria) were evaluated at weeks 4, 8, and 12 (endpoints defined in Figure 1 footnotes). Safety was assessed throughout the studies. Results A total of 1419 patients from ADVANCE (N = 850) and MOTIVATE (N = 569) respectively, were randomised and included in the intention-to-treat population. In both studies, starting at week 4 (the first prespecified measurement), greater proportions of RZB 600 mg or RZB 1200 mg- vs PBO-treated patients achieved clinical remission per either CDAI (P = .01/P &lt; .05) or SF/AP criteria (P &lt; .01/P &lt; .01), clinical response per CDAI criterion (P = .001/P &lt; .01), and enhanced clinical response per SF/AP criteria (P &lt; .01/P = .14) (Figure 1). For both RZB 600 mg and RZB 1200 mg, the efficacy and treatment effect increased through week 12 (P ≤ .001/P ≤ .001) (Figure 1). Treatment with RZB 600 mg or 1200 mg was well tolerated, and no new safety risks were identified.1,2 Conclusion Induction therapy with both RZB 600 mg and 1200 mg intravenous resulted in significantly greater clinical remission and response vs PBO as early as week 4 and sustained through week 12 in patients with moderate-to-severe CD who had inadequate response or intolerance to conventional and/or biologic treatment. References


2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S117-S118
Author(s):  
W Sandborn ◽  
J Panés ◽  
L Peyrin-Biroulet ◽  
E Louis ◽  
S Greenbloom ◽  
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Abstract Background Patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) may lose response to treatment, requiring dose adjustments. This analysis from the CELEST study evaluated efficacy and safety in patients with CD who required an escalated dose of upadacitinib (UPA), an oral selective JAK1 inhibitor. Methods CELEST (NCT02365649) was a placebo-controlled phase 2 study of adults with moderate-to-severe CD refractory to immunosuppressants/biologics. Patients were randomised to placebo or UPA 3, 6, 12, or 24 mg twice daily (BID) or 24mg once daily (QD) for 16 weeks (weeks), followed by a 36-week double-blind maintenance period to receive 3, 6 or 12mg BID or 24mg QD (Figure 1). Patients who met criteria for inadequate response (average daily liquid/soft stool frequency [SF] &gt;2.2 or average daily abdominal pain score &gt;1.8, and increase in hs-CRP &gt;1 mg/l from baseline [BL] or hs-CRP ≥5 mg/l at previous or current visit) at or after week 20 were eligible to receive open-label (OL) therapy with UPA 12mg BID. Patients with inadequate response at or after 4 weeks of OL 12 mg BID could further escalate to OL 24 mg BID. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics of clinical/endoscopic improvement, change from BL in hs-CRP and faecal calprotectin (FC), and AEs at week 52. Results Among 220 randomised patients, 180 were re-randomised into the maintenance period; 60 had inadequate response and received OL 12 mg BID. Of the 60 patients, 25 (42%) were in clinical response at week 16. After receiving OL 12 mg, 27 patients (45%) required escalation to OL 24 mg BID. A higher proportion of patients who received OL 24 mg received 2 or more prior TNF antagonists, and had higher BL FC, SF, and Simplified Endoscopic Score for CD (SES-CD) compared with patients who remained on OL 12 mg BID (Table 1). At week 52, 15% of patients who received OL 12 mg achieved clinical remission and 10% achieved endoscopic response. Of the patients who escalated to OL 24 mg, 39% achieved clinical remission and 41% were in endoscopic response at week 52 (Table 2). At week 52, change from BL in FC and hs-CRP was −2123 ± 2475 µg/g and −5.1 mg/l, respectively, for patients who received OL 24 mg vs. −423 ± 2953 and −6.4 mg/l for OL 12 mg. Serious infection was reported in 3 patients (2 receiving OL 12 mg and 1 receiving OL 24 mg). Two nonserious herpes zoster events were reported (1 on each dose), but neither event led to discontinuation of UPA. No malignancies, cardiovascular events, thromboembolic events, intestinal perforations, tuberculosis, or deaths were reported for patients who dose-escalated. Conclusion Patients with non-response or loss of response during CELEST gained clinical remission and endoscopic response with UPA 12 mg BID or further escalation to 24 mg BID. No new safety risks were observed for either dose of UPA, consistent with double-blind CELEST results.


2021 ◽  
pp. annrheumdis-2021-219876
Author(s):  
Evgeniy Nasonov ◽  
Saeed Fatenejad ◽  
Eugen Feist ◽  
Mariana Ivanova ◽  
Elena Korneva ◽  
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ObjectiveTo evaluate the efficacy and safety of olokizumab (OKZ) in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis despite treatment with methotrexate (MTX).MethodsIn this 24-week multicentre, placebo-controlled, double-blind study, patients were randomised 1:1:1 to receive subcutaneously administered OKZ 64 mg once every 2 weeks, OKZ 64 mg once every 4 weeks, or placebo plus MTX. The primary efficacy endpoint was the proportion of patients achieving an American College of Rheumatology 20% (ACR20) response at week 12. The secondary efficacy endpoints included percentage of subjects achieving Disease Activity Score 28-joint count based on C reactive protein <3.2, Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index at week 12, ACR50 response and Clinical Disease Activity Index ≤2.8 at week 24. Safety and immunogenicity were assessed throughout the study.ResultsA total of 428 patients were randomised. ACR20 responses were more frequent with OKZ every 2 weeks (63.6%) and OKZ every 4 weeks (70.4%) than placebo (25.9%) (p<0.0001 for both comparisons). There were significant differences in all secondary efficacy endpoints between OKZ-treated arms and placebo. Treatment-emergent serious adverse events (TESAEs) were reported by more patients in the OKZ groups compared with placebo. Infections were the most common TESAEs. No subjects developed neutralising antidrug antibodies.ConclusionsTreatment with OKZ was associated with significant improvement in signs, symptoms and physical function of rheumatoid arthritis without discernible differences between the two regimens. Safety was as expected for this class of agents. Low immunogenicity was observed.Trial registration numberNCT02760368.


2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 419-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remo Panaccione ◽  
Edward V Loftus ◽  
David Binion ◽  
Kevin McHugh ◽  
Shamsul Alam ◽  
...  

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate open-label adalimumab therapy for clinical effectiveness, fistula healing, patient-reported outcomes and safety in Canadian patients with moderate to severe Crohn’s disease (CD) who were either naive to or previously exposed to antitumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF) therapy.METHODS: Patients with moderate to severe CD (CD activity index [CDAI] score of greater than 220, or Harvey-Bradshaw index [HBI] of 7 or greater) were eligible. Patients received open-label adalimumab as induction (160 mg and 80 mg subcutaneously [sc]) at weeks 0 and 2, respectively and maintenance (40 mg sc every other week) therapy. At or after eight weeks, patients with flare or nonresponse could have their dosage increased to 40 mg sc weekly. Patients were followed for a minimum of six months or until adalimumab was commercially available in Canada.RESULTS: Of the 304 patients enrolled, 160 were infliximab experienced, while 144 were anti-TNF naive. HBI remission (HBI score of 4 or lower) at week 24 was achieved by 53% of anti-TNF-naive and 36% of infliximab-experienced patients (P<0.01; P<0.001 for both groups for all visits versus baseline). Fistula healing rates at week 12 were 48% for anti-TNF-naive patients, and 26% for infliximab-experienced patients. At week 24, fistula healing rates were significantly greater for the anti-TNF-naive group (60% versus 28%; P<0.01). Improvements in quality of life and work productivity were sustained from week 4 to week 24 for all patients. Serious infections occurred in 2% of patients.CONCLUSIONS: Adalimumab therapy induced and sustained steroid-free remission in both infliximab-experienced and anti-TNF-naive patients with moderate to severe CD. Clinically meaningful rates of fistula healing were also observed. Improvements in patient-reported outcomes were sustained throughout the 24-week study period.


2016 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 840-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerd R Burmester ◽  
Yong Lin ◽  
Rahul Patel ◽  
Janet van Adelsberg ◽  
Erin K Mangan ◽  
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ObjectivesTo compare efficacy and safety of sarilumab monotherapy with adalimumab monotherapy in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who should not continue treatment with methotrexate (MTX) due to intolerance or inadequate response.MethodsMONARCH was a randomised, active-controlled, double-blind, double-dummy, phase III superiority trial. Patients received sarilumab (200 mg every 2 weeks (q2w)) or adalimumab (40 mg q2w) monotherapy for 24 weeks. The primary end point was change from baseline in 28-joint disease activity score using erythrocyte sedimentation rate (DAS28-ESR) at week 24.ResultsSarilumab was superior to adalimumab in the primary end point of change from baseline in DAS28-ESR (−3.28 vs −2.20; p<0.0001). Sarilumab-treated patients achieved significantly higher American College of Rheumatology 20/50/70 response rates (sarilumab: 71.7%/45.7%/23.4%; adalimumab: 58.4%/29.7%/11.9%; all p≤0.0074) and had significantly greater improvement in Health Assessment Questionnaire-Disability Index (p=0.0037). Importantly, at week 24, more patients receiving sarilumab compared with adalimumab achieved Clinical Disease Activity Index remission (7.1% vs 2.7%; nominal p=0.0468) and low disease activity (41.8% vs 24.9%; nominal p=0.0005, supplemental analysis). Adverse events occurred in 63.6% (adalimumab) and 64.1% (sarilumab) of patients, the most common being neutropenia and injection site reactions (sarilumab) and headache and worsening RA (adalimumab). Incidences of infections (sarilumab: 28.8%; adalimumab: 27.7%) and serious infections (1.1%, both groups) were similar, despite neutropenia differences.ConclusionsSarilumab monotherapy demonstrated superiority to adalimumab monotherapy by improving the signs and symptoms and physical functions in patients with RA who were unable to continue MTX treatment. The safety profiles of both therapies were consistent with anticipated class effects.Trial registration numberNCT02332590.


2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S024-S025 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Ferrante ◽  
B G Feagan ◽  
J Panés ◽  
F Baert ◽  
E Louis ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Efficacy and safety of the IL-23 inhibitor risankizumab (RZB) have been assessed in patients with moderate-to-severe Crohn’s disease (CD) following induction/maintenance treatment.1,2 Responders to RZB in a Phase 2 induction/maintenance study2,3 could enrol in an open-label extension (OLE), NCT02513459.4 Final safety and efficacy results from this RZB OLE study are reported here. Methods Patients achieving clinical response (CResp) (decrease from baseline [BL] in CD Activity Index [CDAI] ≥100) without remission (CRem) (CDAI &lt;150) after Period 2 (Week 26) or CResp/CRem after Period 3 (Week 52) of the preceding study1 received open-label 180 mg subcutaneous (SC) RZB every 8 weeks (Q8W) for up to 206 weeks. Patients who lost CResp/CRem at screening of the OLE were re-induced with open-label 600 mg IV RZB at Weeks 0, 4, and 8. Patients receiving re-induction treatment only received subsequent 180 mg SC RZB Q8W if they regained CResp/CRem following re-induction. A centrally read ileocolonoscopy was performed yearly. Treatment-emergent adverse events (AEs) were collected up to 20 weeks after the last RZB dose. CRem and endoscopic remission (ER [CD Endoscopic Index of Severity (CDEIS) ≤4 or CDEIS ≤2 for patients with isolated ileitis at BL]) were reported up to Week 152. Non-responder imputation (NRI) and observed case analysis were used for binary endpoints. Results Sixty-five patients with CD were enrolled in the OLE, with 4 patients re-induced. At BL of the preceding study, median (range) age was 34 (19–67) years and median (range) disease duration was 10 (2–38) years. Sixty patients (92%) were previously exposed to TNF antagonists. In the OLE, median (range) exposure to RZB was 1014.0 (114–1317) days. Twenty-one (32%) patients prematurely discontinued RZB, including 6 (9%) who had developed an AE. AEs were reported in 60 (92%) patients; 23 (35%) experienced serious AEs. The most common AEs were nasopharyngitis (31%), gastroenteritis (23%), and fatigue (20%). Serious infections were reported in 6 (9%) patients and opportunistic infections in 3 (5%) patients. No tuberculosis, malignancies, or deaths occurred. At Week 0 of the current study, 47 (72%) patients were in CRem and 27 (42%) patients had ER. Both CRem and ER were sustained up to Week 152 (Table). Conclusion In this final analysis of patients with CD receiving long-term open-label RZB treatment, the safety profile of RZB remained consistent with previous data² with no new safety signals. Clinical and endoscopic remissions were sustained. References


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