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Objective: to analyze the results of tofacitinib (TOFA) therapy in real clinical practice according to the All-Russian Arthritis Registry (OREL). Subjects and methods. The OREL Registry included 347 patients (286 (82%) women and 61 (18%) men) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who initiated TOFA therapy. The male:female ratio was 1:4.7. The patients’ median age at onset of the disease was 42 years; its duration was 8 years. Most of the patients included in the registry had extended- (n=171 (52%)) or late- (n=148 (45%)) stage of RA. Results and discussion. Prior to initiation of TOFA therapy, RA activity according to DAS28 was high and moderate in 91 (64.5%) and 40 (28.4%) patients, respectively; the median DAS28 value was 5.5 [4.6; 6.2]; SDAI – 30.5 [21.4; 42.9], and CDAI – 28.2 [20.0; 37.1]. The use of TOFA was accompanied by significant decrease of disease activity. After 12 weeks, high RA activity was persistent in 32 (22.7%) patients; the number of patients with moderate activity increased to 77 (54.6%), that of those with low activity rose to 15 (10.6%); remission was observed in 17 (12.1%) patients. 216 (62.6%) and 76 (22%) patients received TOFA as first- and second-line therapy, respectively. TOFA was most frequently prescribed when tumor necrosis factor-á inhibitors (19.6%), rituximab (7.8%), tocilizumab (4.3%), and abatacept (5.2%) were insufficiently effective or poorly tolerated. Conclusion. The results of using TOFA in real clinical practice may suggest that the drug has high efficacy in patients with RA. TOFA can be used at a dose of 5 or 10 mg twice daily as both alone and in combination with disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs. TOFA showed similar efficacy in patients who had earlier taken biological agents and in those who had not.

The JAK inhibitor tofacitinib (TOFA) blocks the intracellular signaling pathway that activates the synthesis of cytokines and mediators involved in the development of pain and central sensitization (CS), which determines the rapid analgesic effect. However, it is not clear how pain reduction is associated with achieving low activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA).The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between the early clinical response to tofacitinib and a decrease in rheumatoid arthritis activity after 3 and 6 months.Material and methods. The study group consisted of 88 RA patients (age – 53±11.5 years; 79.3% of women) who received basic anti-inflammatory drugs (59.5% – methotrexate, 19.8% – leflunomide) and who were prescribed TOFA in a dose 10 mg/day. Seropositivity for rheumatoid factor was 89.8%; the value of the DAS28 index is 5.2±1.2. The severity of pain was assessed using the Brief Pain Inventory questionnaire, the neuropathic component of pain (NCP) – using the PainDETECT questionnaire, signs of CS – using the Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI) questionnaire in the early stages after the administration of TOFA, RA activity – using the DAS28-CRP index after 3 and 6 months.Results. The mean severity of pain at baseline was 5.3±2.0 on the visual analogue scale (VAS); 51.1% of patients had signs of CS (CSI>40), 15.9% had NCP (PainDETECT>18). 7 days after the start of therapy, there was a significant decrease in pain – to 4.1±1.8 according to VAS (p

Objective: to assess the long-term safety and efficiency of tocilizumab (TCZ) therapy in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) of moderate and high activity, who have completed the basic WA19926 study, as well as the rate of sustained drug-free remission.Subjects and methods. A long-term open-label multicenter Phase III extension study (ML28124) was conducted using a group of 49 patients (36 (73.5%) women and 13 (26.5%) men; mean age 53.3±10.8 years) with early RA of moderate and high activity. All the patients received an intravenous infusion of TCZ 8 mg/kg every 4 weeks for 104 weeks (a total of 27 infusions). The safety assessment criteria were the rate and severity of all adverse events (AE), serious AE (SAE), and AE of particular interest; the rate of AE causing drug dosage changes or withdrawal from the study; the frequency of clinically significant laboratory abnormalities. The analysis of efficiency (secondary end points) included changes of DAS8, which was calculated using erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) (DAS28-ESR) and SDAI, the of tender joint count (TJC) and swollen joint count (SJC); the number of patients who had achieved drug-free remission; and the time to a RA exacerbation in patients who had achieved non-drug remission.Results and discussion. The total rate of AE was found to be 69.4%; that of SAE was 10.2%; SAE were 6.9% of the the total number of AE; AE of particular interest were 17.2% of the total number of AE. More than one-third (35.6%) of the AE caused drug dose changes or therapy discontinuation or complete cessation. The laboratory clinically significant abnormalities included those in complete blood cell counts (blood alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, total and direct bilirubin, creatinine, and glucose). The evaluation efficiency analysis showed that the main disease activity measures (DAS28-ESR, SDAI, SJC, and TJC) decreased at 104-week follow-up versus at baseline. The rate of drug-free remission was 71.4%; that of recurrence was 40.0% (the median time to recurrence was 23 weeks). The findings suggest that the safety profile of TCZ is acceptable in the long-term treatment of early RA and correspond to earlier results.

The article summarizes the data of two randomized controlled trials (RCTs) Phase III MEASURE 1 and MEASURE 2 investigating the efficacy and safety of secukinumab (SEC) in treating ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and compares the data with the results obtained from Russian patients with active AS, who were enrolled in these RCTs.Subjects and methods. Among 590 patients included in the MEASURE 1 and MEASURE 2 trials, the Russian group totaled 107 patients: 44 and 29 patients took SEC in the MEASURE 1 and MEASURE 2 trials, respectively; 34 patients had placebo in the two trials.Results and discussion. A retrospective analysis of the results for the Russian patient group showed that the efficacy of SEC in treating AS was fully similar to that demonstrated in the entire MEASURE 1 and MEASURE 2 group cohort. At 1 to 16 weeks of SEC therapy, the MEASURE 1 trial Russian patients displayed a rapid clinical improvement in 52.6% (p = 0.043); and in the SEC 150- and 75-mg groups, ASAS20 improvement was achieved by 64% (p = 0.0015), respectively. The SEC 150-mg group in the MEASURE 2 trial exhibited an ASAS20 response in 66.7% of cases (p = 0.0063). The clinical response at 16 weeks in the patients randomized at baseline into SEC treatment groups was sustained for 52 weeks. The proportion of patients achieving ASAS20 response at 52 weeks was 63.2 and 68% in the MEASURE 1 trial (in the SEC 150- and 75-mg groups, respectively) and 73.3% in the MEASURE 2 trial (the SEC 150-mg group). At 52 weeks, ASAS40 reponse was achieved by 52.6% of the patients in the MEASURE 1 trial and by 60% of those in the MEASURE 2 trial (the SEC 150-mg group). In the MEASURE 1 trial, ASAS 5/6 response rates at 16 weeks were 42.1 and 52.0% in the SEC 150- and 75-mg groups (p = 0.0249 and p = 0.0013, respectively). In the MEASURE 2 trial, the proportion of the SEC 150-mg group patients achieving ASAS 5/6 response was 53.3% (p=0.0135). After 52 weeks, these rates were 57.9, 52, and 73.3%, respectively. The adverse reactions observed in both the placebo-controlled and later follow-up periods and in the Russian patient cohort suggest that SEC has an acceptable safety profile and good tolerability in patients with AC.

The literature virtually lacks the results of investigations aimed to study the clinical picture of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in the real practice of rheumatologists in Russia. At the same time, these investigations may give information on not only the epidemiological aspects of the disease, but also a variety of its clinical presentation, its social importance, allow evaluation of the efficiency of therapy, and plan a system of further health care costs.Subjects and methods. In early 2015, the cross-sectional multicenter non-interventional trial EPICA2 was conducted to refine the clinical picture of AS in the real practice of a rheumatologist. The trial involved 402 patients with AS from 10 centers of Russia. The patients were examined using the international standards accepted for this disease. Results and discussion. 180 out of the 402 patients were treated in hospital; the others were examined during outpatient visits. The patients' mean age was 40.8±11.5 years; there were 292 (72.6%) men; 82.6% were HLA-B27 positive. The average age of onset was 27.6 years; the interval between symptom onset and diagnosis was 85.2 months. The rheumatologists established the diagnosis in 87.3% of the cases. BASDAI and BASFI averaged 4.3±2.1 and 4.1±1.8, respectively. At the trial, there was peripheral arthritis in 33.1% of the patients, enthesitis in 37.1%, and dactylitis in 1.2%. Joint endoprosthesis was carried out in 4.7% of the patients. The most common comorbidities were hypertension (25.1%), gastric ulcer (9.7%), coronary heart disease (4.0%), and diabetes mellitus (3.0%).Conclusion. AS is diagnosed in real practice more than 7 years after its onset mainly by rheumatologists.The delay of the diagnosis is mostly associated with the fact that specialists of other medical specialties are unaware of the clinical presentation of the disease. The examined group of patients with AS shows a relatively high activity and obvious functional impairments, which is primarily related to the specific features of patient selection in this trial.

Цель. Оценить эффективность, переносимость и безопасность магнитофореза мази «Хондроксид®» у пациентов с остеоартрозом (ОА) крупных суставов. Материал и методы. Изучение результатов применения магнитофореза мази «Хондроксид®» на область сустава у пациентов с ОА крупных суставов проводилось на базе ревматологического отделения Тульской областной больницы. Для проведения магнитофореза был использован аппарат «Полюс-2» для низкочастотной магнитотерапии. Магнитофорез проводился в непрерывном режиме, частота 50 ГУ, интенсивность ступенчатая до 4. Продолжительность одной процедуры магнитофореза мази «Хондроксид®» —15 мин. Дизайн исследования: включены 40 пациентов с ОА крупных суставов по 20 пациентов в каждой группе. Исследуемая группа (1) получала магнитофорез мази «Хондроксид®» в течение 15 дней + базовую терапию. Контрольная группа (2) - только базовую терапию (НПВП, седативные препараты). Результаты. Показан преимущественный эффект сочетания магнитофореза мази «Хондроксид®» + базовая терапия у пациентов с ОА крупных суставов по сравнению с использованием только базовой терапии в отношении уменьшения интенсивности болевого синдрома по всем показателям шкалы Лекена, улучшения показателей функционального состояния суставов, а также по оценке эффективности лечения исследователями и пациентами. Отмечена хорошая переносимость и безопасность магнитофореза мази «Хондроксид®» для пациентов с сопутствующей патологией (артериальная гипертензия, ИБС с нарушениями ритма и сердечной недостаточностью, доброкачественные новообразования).