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Bass AR, Abdel-Wahab N, Reid PD, Sparks JA, Calabrese C, Jannat-Khah DP, Ghosh N, Rajesh D, Aude CA, Gedmintas L, MacFarlane L, Arabelovic S, Falohun A, Mushtaq K, Haj FA, Diab A, Shah AA, Bingham CO, Chan KK, Cappelli LC. Comparative safety and effectiveness of TNF inhibitors, IL6 inhibitors and methotrexate for the treatment of immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis 2023:ard-2023-223885. [PMID: 37019614 DOI: 10.1136/ard-2023-223885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2023] [Accepted: 03/24/2023] [Indexed: 04/07/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES To compare the safety and effectiveness of biologic and conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) for immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated inflammatory arthritis (ICI-IA). METHODS The retrospective multicentre observational study included patients with a diagnosis of ICI-IA treated with a tumour necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi), interleukin-6 receptor inhibitor (IL6Ri) and/or methotrexate (MTX); patients with pre-existing autoimmune disease were excluded. The primary outcome was time to cancer progression from ICI initiation; the secondary outcome was time to arthritis control from DMARD initiation. Cox proportional hazard models were used to compare medication groups, adjusting for confounders. RESULTS 147 patients were included (mean age 60.3 (SD 11.9) years, 66 (45%) women). ICI-IA treatment was TNFi in 33 (22%), IL6Ri 42 (29%) and MTX 72 (49%). After adjustment for time from ICI initiation to DMARD initiation, time to cancer progression was significantly shorter for TNFi compared with MTX (HR 3.27 (95% CI 1.21 to 8.84, p=0.019)) while the result for IL6Ri was HR 2.37 (95% CI 0.94 to 5.98, p=0.055). Time to arthritis control was faster for TNFi compared with MTX (HR 1.91 (95% CI 1.06 to 3.45, p=0.032)) while the result for IL6Ri was HR 1.66 (95% CI 0.93 to 2.97, p=0.089). A subset analysis in patients with melanoma gave similar results for both cancer progression and arthritis control. CONCLUSION The treatment of ICI-IA with a biologic DMARD is associated with more rapid arthritis control than with MTX, but may be associated with a shorter time to cancer progression.
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Affiliation(s)
- Anne R Bass
- Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA
- Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Rheumatology, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Jannat Khah: Medicine; Aude: Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA
- Epidemiology in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA
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- Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA
- Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Jannat Khah: Medicine; Aude: Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA
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- Rheumatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Rheumatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Hematology and Medical Oncology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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- Melanoma Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Medicine/Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA
- Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Shankar-Hari M, Vale CL, Godolphin PJ, Fisher D, Higgins JPT, Spiga F, Savovic J, Tierney J, Baron G, Benbenishty JS, Berry LR, Broman N, Cavalcanti AB, Colman R, De Buyser SL, Derde LPG, Domingo P, Omar SF, Fernandez-Cruz A, Feuth T, Garcia F, Garcia-Vicuna R, Gonzalez-Alvaro I, Gordon AC, Haynes R, Hermine O, Horby PW, Horick NK, Kumar K, Lambrecht BN, Landray MJ, Leal L, Lederer DJ, Lorenzi E, Mariette X, Merchante N, Misnan NA, Mohan SV, Nivens MC, Oksi J, Perez-Molina JA, Pizov R, Porcher R, Postma S, Rajasuriar R, Ramanan AV, Ravaud P, Reid PD, Rutgers A, Sancho-Lopez A, Seto TB, Sivapalasingam S, Soin AS, Staplin N, Stone JH, Strohbehn GW, Sunden-Cullberg J, Torre-Cisneros J, Tsai LW, van Hoogstraten H, van Meerten T, Veiga VC, Westerweel PE, Murthy S, Diaz JV, Marshall JC, Sterne JAC. Association Between Administration of IL-6 Antagonists and Mortality Among Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19: A Meta-analysis. JAMA 2021; 326:499-518. [PMID: 34228774 PMCID: PMC8261689 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2021.11330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 397] [Impact Index Per Article: 132.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2021] [Accepted: 06/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Importance Clinical trials assessing the efficacy of IL-6 antagonists in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 have variously reported benefit, no effect, and harm. Objective To estimate the association between administration of IL-6 antagonists compared with usual care or placebo and 28-day all-cause mortality and other outcomes. Data Sources Trials were identified through systematic searches of electronic databases between October 2020 and January 2021. Searches were not restricted by trial status or language. Additional trials were identified through contact with experts. Study Selection Eligible trials randomly assigned patients hospitalized for COVID-19 to a group in whom IL-6 antagonists were administered and to a group in whom neither IL-6 antagonists nor any other immunomodulators except corticosteroids were administered. Among 72 potentially eligible trials, 27 (37.5%) met study selection criteria. Data Extraction and Synthesis In this prospective meta-analysis, risk of bias was assessed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias Assessment Tool. Inconsistency among trial results was assessed using the I2 statistic. The primary analysis was an inverse variance-weighted fixed-effects meta-analysis of odds ratios (ORs) for 28-day all-cause mortality. Main Outcomes and Measures The primary outcome measure was all-cause mortality at 28 days after randomization. There were 9 secondary outcomes including progression to invasive mechanical ventilation or death and risk of secondary infection by 28 days. Results A total of 10 930 patients (median age, 61 years [range of medians, 52-68 years]; 3560 [33%] were women) participating in 27 trials were included. By 28 days, there were 1407 deaths among 6449 patients randomized to IL-6 antagonists and 1158 deaths among 4481 patients randomized to usual care or placebo (summary OR, 0.86 [95% CI, 0.79-0.95]; P = .003 based on a fixed-effects meta-analysis). This corresponds to an absolute mortality risk of 22% for IL-6 antagonists compared with an assumed mortality risk of 25% for usual care or placebo. The corresponding summary ORs were 0.83 (95% CI, 0.74-0.92; P < .001) for tocilizumab and 1.08 (95% CI, 0.86-1.36; P = .52) for sarilumab. The summary ORs for the association with mortality compared with usual care or placebo in those receiving corticosteroids were 0.77 (95% CI, 0.68-0.87) for tocilizumab and 0.92 (95% CI, 0.61-1.38) for sarilumab. The ORs for the association with progression to invasive mechanical ventilation or death, compared with usual care or placebo, were 0.77 (95% CI, 0.70-0.85) for all IL-6 antagonists, 0.74 (95% CI, 0.66-0.82) for tocilizumab, and 1.00 (95% CI, 0.74-1.34) for sarilumab. Secondary infections by 28 days occurred in 21.9% of patients treated with IL-6 antagonists vs 17.6% of patients treated with usual care or placebo (OR accounting for trial sample sizes, 0.99; 95% CI, 0.85-1.16). Conclusions and Relevance In this prospective meta-analysis of clinical trials of patients hospitalized for COVID-19, administration of IL-6 antagonists, compared with usual care or placebo, was associated with lower 28-day all-cause mortality. Trial Registration PROSPERO Identifier: CRD42021230155.
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- Manu Shankar-Hari
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, ICU Support Offices, St Thomas' Hospital, London, England
- School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, Kings College London, London, England
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- University College London, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, London, England
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- University College London, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, London, England
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- University College London, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, London, England
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- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
- NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre, Bristol, England
- National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration West at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, England
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- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
- National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration West at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, England
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- University College London, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, London, England
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- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France
- INSERM UMRS-1153, Centre de Recherche Epidémiologie et Statistique Université de Paris, METHODS Team, Paris, France
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- Department of Nursing, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Turku University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
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- Infectious Diseases Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital Clinic Barcelona-IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care, Imperial College London, London, England
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- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
- MRC Population Health Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
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- Department of Hematology, Necker Hospital, Paris, France
- Imagine Institute, University of Paris, INSERM U1153, Paris, France
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- Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
- International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infections Consortium, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
- Pandemic Sciences Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
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- Medanta-The Medicity, Institute of Liver Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Gurugram, India
- Research Department, Medanta Institute of Education and Research, Gurugram, India
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- VIB Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
- MRC Population Health Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
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- Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital Clinic Barcelona-IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre for Immunology of Viral Infections and Autoimmune Diseases, Université Paris-Saclay, INSERM UMR1184, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France
- Department of Rheumatology, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Le Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris, France
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- Unit of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Valme University Hospital, Institute of Biomedicine of Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Turku University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases, Turku, Finland
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- Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal IRYCIS, Infectious Diseases Department, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Anesthesilogy Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France
- INSERM UMRS-1153, Centre de Recherche Epidémiologie et Statistique Université de Paris, METHODS Team, Paris, France
- University de Paris, CRESS UMR1153, INSERM, INRA, Paris, France
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- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Paediatric Rheumatology, University Hospitals Bristol, NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, England
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- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France
- INSERM UMRS-1153, Centre de Recherche Epidémiologie et Statistique Université de Paris, METHODS Team, Paris, France
- University de Paris, CRESS UMR1153, INSERM, INRA, Paris, France
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- Department of Medicine (Rheumatology), University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain
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- Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
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- Medanta-The Medicity, Institute of Liver Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Gurugram, India
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- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
- MRC Population Health Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
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- Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
- Department of Medicine (Rheumatology), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
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- VA Ann Arbor, Center for Clinical Management and Research, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institute at Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Maimonides Institute for Biomedical Research of Cordoba/Reina Sofia University Hospital/University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain
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- Department of Hematology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Dordrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Clinical Unit, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
- NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre, Bristol, England
- Health Data Research UK South-West, Bristol, England
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