The clinical course of patients with rheumatoid arthritis who underwent orthopaedic surgeries under disease control by tofacitinib
The clinical course of patients with rheumatoid arthritis who underwent orthopaedic surgeries under disease control by tofacitinib
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DOI:
10.1080/14397595.2018.1427431
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发表时间:
2018-01-01
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Ozaki, Toshifumi
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作者:
Nishida, Keiichiro;Harada, Ryozo;Ozaki, Toshifumi
Tofacitinib (TOF) is the first small-molecule inhibitor of the JAK1 and JAK3 signalling pathways, and has been reported to effectively suppress the synovial inflammation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)[1, 2]. In 2013, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare approved TOF for the treatment of RA. The EULAR recommendation 2016 update for the management of RA with targeted synthetic and biological disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (tsDMARDS and bDMARDs) included the use of JAK inhibitors as an option for phase II treatment, in the same line of bDMARDs, when phase I treatment has failed due to lack of efficacy and/or toxicity [3]. With the widespread use of TOF among RA patients, the number of patients who require surgical intervention is likely to increase. However, at present, little information is available regarding perioperative discontinuation of TOF.We retrospectively reviewed the cases of nine patients with RA who underwent orthopaedic procedures at Okayama University Hospital and Kurashiki Sweet Hospital. The current study has been approved by the Ethics Committees of our respective institutes. The patientse characteristics before surgery are summarized in Table 1. Patients comprised seven women and two men, with an average age of 61.4 years (range 33-85), and their average disease duration was 19 years (range 5-30) at the time of surgery. Every patient had experienced at least two primary or secondary failures of bDMARDs before use of TOF. Although the guidelines from the Japan College of Rheumatology (JCR) for post-marketing surveillance of TOF (URL: http://www. ryumachi-jp. com/info/guideline_tofacitinib. html, in Japanese) suggested the use of TOF in patients who showed an inadequate response to more than 8mg/wk of methotrexate (MTX), six of our patients were unable to tolerate MTX due to side effects and discontinued its use. Five patients used concomitant prednisolone, and no patients had diabetes mellitus as a preoperative complication. Seven patients were receiving treatment with TOF at