Impact of hyperuricaemia on patients with psoriatic arthritis treated with secukinumab in the FUTURE 2-5 and MAXIMISE studies.

OBJECTIVES: Patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) are at a significantly increased risk of hyperuricaemia and development of gout, and those with hyperuricaemia have been found to respond poorly to PsA treatment and have more peripheral and destructive joint damage. We present a comprehensive post hoc analysis using pooled data from the FUTURE 2-5 studies and the MAXIMISE study to further evaluate the impact of hyperuricaemia on clinical presentation/disease severity and response to secukinumab in patients with PsA. METHODS: Patients were stratified into two groups based on baseline serum uric acid (SUA) level (threshold of 360 µmol/L). A sensitivity analysis was also performed based on SUA thresholds of 300 µmol/L and 420 µmol/L. Demographics, clinical, radiological characteristics and comorbidities data were collected. RESULTS: At baseline, patients with hyperuricaemia were mostly male, reported a higher prevalence of hypertension, with more clinical dactylitis, more psoriasis and more severe skin disease compared with patients with normouricaemia. A similar proportion of patients in the normouricaemic and hyperuricaemic cohorts achieved American College of Rheumatology responses, resolution of enthesitis and dactylitis, inhibition of structural damage progression and improvement in health-related quality of life across all secukinumab doses at week 52. CONCLUSION: Patients with PsA and hyperuricaemia have different clinical characteristics from patients with PsA and normouricaemia. Identification of these patients at an early stage may facilitate a personalised treatment approach and improved management of comorbidities. Furthermore, secukinumab provided a rapid and sustained response across all manifestations of PsA up to week 52, irrespective of baseline uricaemia status.

[Which taxonomy for inflammatory diseases in rheumatology? The concept of Psout]. / Quelle taxonomie des maladies inflammatoires en rhumatologie ? - Le concept de psoutte.

Clinical practice needs the identification of the patient disease. The physician has to rationalize symptoms allowing the recognition of a realistic entity and its classification in a reference nosology. Unlike other practices, the biomedical model uses scientific census methodology, from a tabular perspective to the definition of diseases. Due to its simplification process, it therefore neglects transitional or complex cases. In Rheumatology, this reasoning is challenged by the lack of objectivity and specificity of the items supporting the clinician when he builds the diagnosis, but also by the physiopathological complexity. Sometimes, diseases may be confused or superposed, possibly leading to the description of novel entities. The authors describe herein the difficulties encountered in practical clinical medicine. They show, from a concrete and real personal situation, how it can possibly lead to the justification of a new entity.

TITLE: Quelle taxonomie des maladies inflammatoires en rhumatologie ? - Le concept de psoutte. ABSTRACT: La pratique clinique de la médecine nécessite la reconnaissance de la maladie dont souffre le patient par le médecin. Pour cela, celui-ci rationnalise les signes permettant d'isoler une entité réaliste et de la classer dans la nosologie de référence. Contrairement à d'autres pratiques, le modèle biomédical utilise la méthodologie scientifique du recensement, dans une logique de classification pour définir les maladies. Du fait de son processus de simplification, ce modèle néglige les cas de transition ou les cas complexes. En rhumatologie, ce raisonnement classifiant est mis à l'épreuve par le manque d'objectivité et de spécificité des éléments sur lesquels s'appuie le clinicien pour construire le diagnostic, mais aussi par la complexité des mécanismes physiopathologiques des maladies rhumatismales. Ces maladies peuvent en effet se confondre ou s'intriquer, pour aboutir alors à la description de nouvelles entités non envisagées dans les classifications. Nous présentons dans cette revue les difficultés rencontrées au cours de l'exercice de la médecine dans ces contextes, et comment, à partir d'un cas concret, vécu, celles-ci peuvent donner naissance à la proposition d'un nouveau taxon1.