1. Effect of macitentan on the development of new ischemic digital ulcers in patients with systemic sclerosis: Dual-1 and Dual-2 randomized clinical trials
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Khanna, Dinesh, Denton, Christopher P., Merkel, Peter A., Krieg, Thomas M., Le Brun, Franck Olivier, Marr, Angelina, Papadakis, Kelly, Pope, Janet, Matucci Cerinic, Marco, Furst, Daniel E., Zochling, Jane, Stevens, Wendy, Proudman, Susanna, Feenstra, John, Youssef, Peter, Soroka, Nikolay, Tyabut, Tamara, Mikhailova, Elena Ivanovna, Rashkov, Rasho, Batalov, Anasta, Yablanski, Kiril, Keystone, Edward, Jones, Niall, Dunne, Jame, Masetto, Ariel, Calabresse, Renato Jiménez, Cabezas, Pedro Claudio Miranda, Silva, Marta Ofelia Aliste, Sariego, Imgadt Annelise Goecke, Escalente, William José Otero, Anić, Branimir, Kaliterna, Dušanka Martinović, Morović Vergles, Jadranka, Novak, Srdan, Prus, Višnja, Artuković, Marinko, Soukup, Tomaáš, Bečvař, Radim, Fojtík, Zdeněk, Mouthon, Luc, Kollert, Florian, Riemekasten, Gabriela, Lahner, Nina, Fierlbeck, Gerhard, Ahmadi Simab, Keihan, Diehm, Curt, Szücs, Gabriella, Kumánovics, Gábor, Nagy, György, Pal, Sarvajeet, Veeravalli, Sarath Chandra Mouli, Danda, Debashish, Ferri, Clodeveo, Cozzi, Franco, Ferraccioli, Gianfranco, Wiland, Piotr, Rudnicak, Lidia, Zwolak, Robert, Roszkiewicz, Jadwiga, Oleynikov, Valentin, Nikulenkova, Natalya, Lesnyak, Olga, Kaydashev, Igor, Kurytar, Oleksandr, Piura, Olena, Chopyak, Valentyna, Chatterjee, Soumya, Hsu, Vivien, Hummers, Laura, Martin, Richard, Domsic, Robyn, Schiopu, Elena, Shanahan, Joseph, Murphy, Frederik T., Kaine, Jeffrey, Davis, William, Grau, Rafael, Eimon, Alicia, Catoggio, Luis Jose, Laborde, Hugo Armando, Caeiro, Francisco, Savio, Veronica Gabriela, Amitrano, Cristina Beatriz, Vanthuyne, Marie, Zeng, Xioafeng, Zhang, Xiao, Zhu, Ping, Velásquez Franco, Carlos Jaime, Choueka, Philippe Selim Chalem, Sanchez, Patricia Julieta Vélez, Hermann, Walter, Sticherling, Michael, Steinbrink, Kerstin, Hein, Rüdiger, Aschoff, Roland, Sfikakis, Petro, Settas, Luka, Fraser, Alexander, Veale, Dougla, Balbir Gurman, Alexandra, Lidar, Merav, Litinsky, Irena, Levy, Yair, Carrillo Vazquez, Sandra Miriam, Rodriguez Reyna, Tatiana, Medrano Ramirez, Gabriel, Morales Torres, Jorge, Pacheco Tena, Cesar Francisco, Sanchez Ortiz, Adriana, Vonk, Madelon C., Stebbings, Simon, Solanki, Kamal, Steele, Richard, Ng, Kristine, Zubrzycka Sienkiewicz, Anna, Brzosko, Marek, Szepietowski, Jacek C., Hrycaj, Pawel, Da Silva, Ivone Fernandes Santo, Dos Santos, Lelita Da Conceiçao, Coelho, Paulo Jorge Clemente, Rios, Grissel, Chernykh, Tatiana, Grunina, Elena, Stanislav, Marina, Ally, Mahmood, Kalla, Asgar, Birlik, Ahmet Merih, Kovalenko, Volodymyr, Petrov, Andriy, Shevchuk, Sergiy, Stanislavchuk, Mykola, Anderson, Marina, Herrick, Ariane, Belch, Jill, Chung, Lorinda, Csuka, Mary Ellen, Frech, Tracy, Goldberg, Avram, Kahaleh, Bashar, Mayes, Maureen D., Rothfield, Naomi, Simms, Robert William, Spiera, Robert, Steen, Virgina, Varga, John, Sikes, David, Derk, Chris T., Kohen, Michael D., Ferraccioli, Gianfranco (ORCID:0000-0001-6246-2428), Khanna, Dinesh, Denton, Christopher P., Merkel, Peter A., Krieg, Thomas M., Le Brun, Franck Olivier, Marr, Angelina, Papadakis, Kelly, Pope, Janet, Matucci Cerinic, Marco, Furst, Daniel E., Zochling, Jane, Stevens, Wendy, Proudman, Susanna, Feenstra, John, Youssef, Peter, Soroka, Nikolay, Tyabut, Tamara, Mikhailova, Elena Ivanovna, Rashkov, Rasho, Batalov, Anasta, Yablanski, Kiril, Keystone, Edward, Jones, Niall, Dunne, Jame, Masetto, Ariel, Calabresse, Renato Jiménez, Cabezas, Pedro Claudio Miranda, Silva, Marta Ofelia Aliste, Sariego, Imgadt Annelise Goecke, Escalente, William José Otero, Anić, Branimir, Kaliterna, Dušanka Martinović, Morović Vergles, Jadranka, Novak, Srdan, Prus, Višnja, Artuković, Marinko, Soukup, Tomaáš, Bečvař, Radim, Fojtík, Zdeněk, Mouthon, Luc, Kollert, Florian, Riemekasten, Gabriela, Lahner, Nina, Fierlbeck, Gerhard, Ahmadi Simab, Keihan, Diehm, Curt, Szücs, Gabriella, Kumánovics, Gábor, Nagy, György, Pal, Sarvajeet, Veeravalli, Sarath Chandra Mouli, Danda, Debashish, Ferri, Clodeveo, Cozzi, Franco, Ferraccioli, Gianfranco, Wiland, Piotr, Rudnicak, Lidia, Zwolak, Robert, Roszkiewicz, Jadwiga, Oleynikov, Valentin, Nikulenkova, Natalya, Lesnyak, Olga, Kaydashev, Igor, Kurytar, Oleksandr, Piura, Olena, Chopyak, Valentyna, Chatterjee, Soumya, Hsu, Vivien, Hummers, Laura, Martin, Richard, Domsic, Robyn, Schiopu, Elena, Shanahan, Joseph, Murphy, Frederik T., Kaine, Jeffrey, Davis, William, Grau, Rafael, Eimon, Alicia, Catoggio, Luis Jose, Laborde, Hugo Armando, Caeiro, Francisco, Savio, Veronica Gabriela, Amitrano, Cristina Beatriz, Vanthuyne, Marie, Zeng, Xioafeng, Zhang, Xiao, Zhu, Ping, Velásquez Franco, Carlos Jaime, Choueka, Philippe Selim Chalem, Sanchez, Patricia Julieta Vélez, Hermann, Walter, Sticherling, Michael, Steinbrink, Kerstin, Hein, Rüdiger, Aschoff, Roland, Sfikakis, Petro, Settas, Luka, Fraser, Alexander, Veale, Dougla, Balbir Gurman, Alexandra, Lidar, Merav, Litinsky, Irena, Levy, Yair, Carrillo Vazquez, Sandra Miriam, Rodriguez Reyna, Tatiana, Medrano Ramirez, Gabriel, Morales Torres, Jorge, Pacheco Tena, Cesar Francisco, Sanchez Ortiz, Adriana, Vonk, Madelon C., Stebbings, Simon, Solanki, Kamal, Steele, Richard, Ng, Kristine, Zubrzycka Sienkiewicz, Anna, Brzosko, Marek, Szepietowski, Jacek C., Hrycaj, Pawel, Da Silva, Ivone Fernandes Santo, Dos Santos, Lelita Da Conceiçao, Coelho, Paulo Jorge Clemente, Rios, Grissel, Chernykh, Tatiana, Grunina, Elena, Stanislav, Marina, Ally, Mahmood, Kalla, Asgar, Birlik, Ahmet Merih, Kovalenko, Volodymyr, Petrov, Andriy, Shevchuk, Sergiy, Stanislavchuk, Mykola, Anderson, Marina, Herrick, Ariane, Belch, Jill, Chung, Lorinda, Csuka, Mary Ellen, Frech, Tracy, Goldberg, Avram, Kahaleh, Bashar, Mayes, Maureen D., Rothfield, Naomi, Simms, Robert William, Spiera, Robert, Steen, Virgina, Varga, John, Sikes, David, Derk, Chris T., Kohen, Michael D., and Ferraccioli, Gianfranco (ORCID:0000-0001-6246-2428)
- Abstract
Importance: Digital ulcers in patients with systemic sclerosis are associated with pain and poor quality of life. Endothelin-1 promotes vasculopathy in systemic sclerosis after macitentan, an endothelin-1 blocker. Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of macitentan in reducing the number of new digital ulcers in patients with systemic sclerosis. Design, Setting, And Participants: Two international, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials (DUAL-1, DUAL-2) were conducted between January 2012 and February 2014. Participants were patients with systemic sclerosis and active digital ulcers at baseline. Target enrollment for each study was 285 patients. Interventions: Patients were randomized (1:1:1) to receive oral doses of 3 mg of macitentan, 10 mg of macitentan, or placebo once daily and stratified according to number of digital ulcers at baseline (≤3 or >3). Main Outcomes and Measures: The primary outcome for each trialwas the cumulative number of new digital ulcers from baseline to week 16. Treatment effect was expressed as the ratio between treatment groups. Results: In DUAL-1, among 289 randomized patients (mean age 51.2 years; 85.8% women), 226 completed the study. The adjusted mean number of new digital ulcers per patient over 16 weeks was 0.94 in the 3-mg macitentan group (n = 95) and 1.08 in the 10-mg macitentan group (n = 97) compared with 0.85 in the placebo group (n = 97) (absolute difference, 0.09 [95% CI, -0.37 to 0.54] for 3mg of macitentan vs placebo and 0.23 [-0.27 to 0.72] for 10 mg of macitentan vs placebo). Among 265 patients randomized in DUAL-2 (mean age 49.6 years; 81.9% women), 216 completed the study. In DUAL-2, the adjusted mean number of new digital ulcers was 1.44 in the 3-mg macitentan group (n = 88) and 1.46 in the 10-mg macitentan group (n = 88) compared with 1.21 in the placebo group (n = 89) (absolute difference, 0.23 [95% CI, -0.35 to 0.82] for 3 mg of macitentan vs placebo and 0.25 [95% CI, -0.34 to 0.84] for 10mg of macitenta
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- 2016