Purpose: Biologic therapy in psoriatic patients with multiple comorbidities is challenging due to worsening of associated diseases and possible side effects of concomitant medications. Materials and methods: We describe three patients with multiple comorbidities documenting successful treatment of psoriasis with secukinumab following failure of multiple conventional and biologic DMARDs. Results: The first case is an obese 59-year-old woman (HBV + with latent tuberculosis) with arterial hypertension and 12-year history of breast cancer. The second is a 45-year-old obese man (HCV + with occult HBV infection on therapy with multiple antipsychotics and taking methadone for opioid dependence), while the last is a 39-year-old man with severe obesity, non-alcoholic hepatosteatosis, and NYHA class II heart failure. All three patients had undergone previous conventional (methotrexate, cyclosporine, retinoids, and phototherapy) and multiple biologic treatments (one or more of the following: adalimumab, ustekinumab, etanercept, infliximab originator, and biosimilar) that were discontinued for inefficacy and/or adverse effects. All patients underwent therapy with secukinumab, which was associated with sustained clinical benefits and no clinically relevant safety findings. Conclusions: The present three cases add further evidence that secukinumab is effective and well tolerated in difficult to treat psoriatic patients with multiple comorbidities, namely HBV, latent TBC infection, and hepatic impairment.

Successful therapy of plaque-type psoriasis with secukinumab in patients with multiple comorbidities treated with previous biologic therapies / Lasagni, C.; Bigi, L.; Conti, A.; Pellacani, G.. - In: THE JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGICAL TREATMENT. - ISSN 0954-6634. - 29:2(2018), pp. 5-8. [10.1080/09546634.2018.1543843]

Successful therapy of plaque-type psoriasis with secukinumab in patients with multiple comorbidities treated with previous biologic therapies

Bigi L.;Pellacani G.
2018

Abstract

Purpose: Biologic therapy in psoriatic patients with multiple comorbidities is challenging due to worsening of associated diseases and possible side effects of concomitant medications. Materials and methods: We describe three patients with multiple comorbidities documenting successful treatment of psoriasis with secukinumab following failure of multiple conventional and biologic DMARDs. Results: The first case is an obese 59-year-old woman (HBV + with latent tuberculosis) with arterial hypertension and 12-year history of breast cancer. The second is a 45-year-old obese man (HCV + with occult HBV infection on therapy with multiple antipsychotics and taking methadone for opioid dependence), while the last is a 39-year-old man with severe obesity, non-alcoholic hepatosteatosis, and NYHA class II heart failure. All three patients had undergone previous conventional (methotrexate, cyclosporine, retinoids, and phototherapy) and multiple biologic treatments (one or more of the following: adalimumab, ustekinumab, etanercept, infliximab originator, and biosimilar) that were discontinued for inefficacy and/or adverse effects. All patients underwent therapy with secukinumab, which was associated with sustained clinical benefits and no clinically relevant safety findings. Conclusions: The present three cases add further evidence that secukinumab is effective and well tolerated in difficult to treat psoriatic patients with multiple comorbidities, namely HBV, latent TBC infection, and hepatic impairment.
2018
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2
5
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Successful therapy of plaque-type psoriasis with secukinumab in patients with multiple comorbidities treated with previous biologic therapies / Lasagni, C.; Bigi, L.; Conti, A.; Pellacani, G.. - In: THE JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGICAL TREATMENT. - ISSN 0954-6634. - 29:2(2018), pp. 5-8. [10.1080/09546634.2018.1543843]
Lasagni, C.; Bigi, L.; Conti, A.; Pellacani, G.
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