Article Text

Download PDFPDF

4CPS-133 Safety and effectiveness of guselkumab on moderate to severe plaque psoriasis
Free
  1. E Tejedor Tejada1,
  2. M Rodriguez Goicoechea2,
  3. A Moreno Lopez2,
  4. N Garcia Gomez2,
  5. MJ Barbero Hernandez2,
  6. F Horno Ureña2
  1. 1Clinic Hospital of Barcelona, Hospital Pharmacy, Barcelona, Spain
  2. 2Hospitalary Complex of Jaén, Hospital Pharmacy, Jaén, Spain

Abstract

Background and Importance Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with various comorbidities, which requires multidisciplinary treatment. In recent years, anti-IL-23 drugs have emerged as a new therapeutic option for plaque psoriasis.

Aim and Objectives To evaluate safety and effectiveness of guselkumab in moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.

Material and Methods Multicentric, observational and retrospective study of patients diagnosed with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. Study period of data collection was June 2021-June 2022, active patients in treatment and patients starting treatment. The anthropometric data were age, sex, and previous biological treatments. The effectiveness variables are affected body surface area (BSA) and psoriasis area severity index (PASI) AND 90% PASI clearance (PASI90) collected at baseline, and next visits with dermatologist. The main tools used: Diraya© for the clinical history, Modulab© for laboratory values and Excel© for anonymised data recording. The information was collected according to data minimisation policy, article 5.1 of data protection.

Results 49 patients (29 men) included with a mean age of 50.9 years. The main biologic pre-treatments were etanercept (31), adalimumab (11), secukinumab (9) and ustekinumab (9). Averaged pre-treatment BSA (13,6 ± 10.27 SD) and PASI (9.7 ± 6.68 SD). Next dermatologist’s control at 5 months 43 patients averaged BSA (3.9 ± 9.27 SD) and PASI (2.9 ± 4.17 SD). PASI90 was reached by 48.8% of patients. There were four treatment discontinuities during this period (1 due to lack of adherence, 1 due to primary failure, 1 due to secondary failure and 1 due to toxicity). At 10 months 25 patients averaged BSA (1.8 ± 3.28 SD), PASI (1.8 ± 3.30 SD), and PASI90 was reached by 72%. 3 treatment discontinuities in this period (1 due to gestational desire and 2 due to secondary failure). At 18 months 15 patients averaged BSA (0.9 ± 1.55 SD) and PASI (0.5 ± 0.91 SD). PASI 90 was reached by 73%. Patients not counted had not gone to dermatology control yet when our analysis were made.

Safety: One patient had to stop treatment due to strong diarrhoeas after each dose.

Conclusion and Relevance According to the results obtained, it is possible to evaluate guselkumab as an effective and safe alternative in the treatment of moderate to severe psoriasis resistant to conventional treatments.

Conflict of Interest No conflict of interest

Statistics from Altmetric.com

Request Permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.