FDA Puts Boxed Warnings on JAK Inhibitors

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Based on the safety review of tofacitinib in Pfizer's Oral Surveillance (1133) study, the FDA has added serious boxed warnings to all three marketed JAK inhibitors (for inflammatory diseases) and formalized the recommendation that patients should be started on a TNF inhibitor (TNFi) before trying a JAK inhibitor. These recommendations apply to tofacitinib, baricitinib and upadacitinib.

Giant Cell Arteritis Novel Treatment Options

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Giant cell arteritis is associated with significant treatment related morbidity due to the dependence on glucocorticoids as a treatment option. After sixty years of therapeutic stagnation, these are exciting times in the management of GCA. At this year's ACR Convergence meeting, encouraging data will be presented on options for GCA.

Emerging Therapies in Spondyloarthritis: A Promising Pipeline

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Growing awareness of spondyloarthropathies over the last two decades has led to a better understanding of the pathophysiology of spondyloarthritis, and subsequently increased interest in more distinct, disease state specific treatment options.

Does Control of Inflammation Lower Cancer Risk?

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Dr. Jonathan Kay's provocative video addresses whether the increased cancer risk associated with tofacitinib (Tofa) seen in the Pfizer Oral Surveillance (1133) study represents a real increased risk, an increased risk relative to a decreased risk with TNF inhibitors (TNFi) or an actual decreased cancer risk (unknown as there was no placebo comparator in this trial).

Perspectives on CV safety: JAK inhibitor (Tofacitinib) and TNF inhibitors

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Safety comparisons of JAKi (tofacitinib) vs. TNFi from Oral Surveillance showed that, in patients with active RA on MTX and aged >50 years with one or more CV risk factors, that there was numerically more MACE events, malignancies, and VTE especially in higher dose.

RheumNow Podcast - ACR 2021 Rehash (the good stuff..)

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The ACR 2021 meeting has concluded. Dr. Jack Cush recounts a few more great abstracts from this past week’s virtual meeting.

Predicting RA, and Treatment of Subclinical Arthritis

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Identifying patients that will develop RA in situations of seropositivity without overt clinical arthritis or identifying patients with undifferentiated oligo/polyarthritis that will develop RA remains a challenge in the field of rheumatology. 

Autoinflammatory: PAH in AOSD, VEXAS, JAKi in Still's, Role of labs in infections vs. flares Drs.Cush, Yusof, Mehta, Petryna and Tate review autoinflammatory data presented at #ACR21. @Yuz6Yusof @bella_mehta @DrPetryna @uptoTate https://t.co/oeAprkSBWZ https://t.co/1g9yRRFJqf