IL-23

Psoriatic arthritis is currently experiencing a burgeoning selection of treatment options. While this is a very welcome development in a disease which has had less treatment options compared to RA, it leaves us with a difficult conundrum: which agent to choose for an individual patient.

D1 and D2 trials compared guselkumab vs placebo in patients with active PsA, with the major difference between the two being that only biologic-naïve patients were enrolled in the D2 trial. Today, we discuss three abstracts presented at ACR 2021 that expand on that work with an additional year of data.

The RheumNow faculty have been glued to their monitors all day, watching video, and running down abstract presentations to find the best – several of these stood out as #ACRBests. Here is a listing of “Best” they saw on Day 1.

The arsenal of therapeutics for psoriatic arthritis continues to increase. Risankizumab is an IL-23 inhibitor to the p19 subunit, currently being investigated for treatment of psoriatic arthritis.