Treatment Persistence and Safety of Apremilast in Psoriasis: Experience With 30 Patients in Routine Clinical Practice

Apremilast is a phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor taken orally. Little information about its use in routine clinical practice is available. We aimed to assess treatment safety and persistence rates in patients on apremilast for different forms of plaque psoriasis. This observational retrospective study included 30 patients with psoriasis who were treated with apremilast between January 2016 and December 2017 in our hospital. Twelve patients had palmar-plantar psoriasis, 8 had plaque psoriasis mainly on the scalp, and 10 had plaque psoriasis in other locations. The probable period of treatment persistence in patients in the 50th percentile was 18.5 months according to survival analysis of the se…

Changing Trends in Drug Prescription and Causes of Treatment Discontinuation of First Biologic Over Ten Years in Psoriasis in the Spanish Biobadaderm Registry

Background and objectives: Current psoriasis guidelines do not usually include recommendations about first line classical or biologic treatment. The objectives of this study were: to describe shifts in the prescription of the first biological treatment, and to compare treatment withdrawal and rates of adverse events over ten years. Material and methods: Biobadaderm registry was analyzed to describe: first biological prescription in bio-naive patients, adverse events rate and reasons for drug withdrawal comparing three periods of time (2008-2010, 2011-2014, 2015-2018). Results: Anti-TNF drugs were the most prescribed biological drug from 2008 to 2010. Ustekinumab has become the most prescrib…

Long-term safety of nine systemic medications for psoriasis: A cohort study using the Spanish Registry of Adverse Events for Biological Therapy in Dermatological Diseases (BIOBADADERM) Registry.

Background: Registry studies broadly describing the safety of systemic drugs in psoriasis are needed. Objective: To describe the safety findings of the systemic drugs acitretin, adalimumab, apremilast, cyclosporine, etanercept, infliximab, methotrexate, secukinumab, and ustekinumab used for the treatment of moderate to severe psoriasis in patients included in the Spanish Registry of Adverse Events for Biological Therapy in Dermatological Diseases (BIOBADADERM) Registry. Methods: The incidence rate ratio (IRR) and adjusted IRR (including propensity scores) of identified adverse events for each drug, using methotrexate as reference, were determined by means of a prospective cohort. Results: O…

Incidence of severe COVID-19 outcomes in psoriatic patients treated with systemic therapies during the pandemic: A Biobadaderm cohort analysis

Accuracy of SCORTEN and ABCD‐10 to predict mortality and the influence of renal function in Stevens–Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis

Epidermal necrolysis (EN) compromises a spectrum of life-threatening dermatoses (Stevens-Johnson Syndrome [SJS], overlap syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis [TEN]). Currently, no active therapeutic regimen with unequivocal benefit exists for SJS/TEN. SCORTEN is the widely-used prognostic scale specific for SJS/TEN. Nevertheless, a new prognostic scale, the ABCD-10, has been recently proposed. In this context, acute renal failure (ARF) seems to be an important comorbidity that could influence prognosis in SJS/TEN patients more than it is assumed by these two scales. Our objectives were to compare the accuracy of the SCORTEN and ABCD-10 scales in predicting the mortality in SJS/TEN, and t…

Cambios en las tendencias de la prescripción y causas de la interrupción en los tratamientos biológicos indicados en la psoriasis durante los primeros 10 años. Datos obtenidos del registro español Biobadaderm

Resumen Antecedentes y objetivos Las guias sobre el tratamiento de la psoriasis habitualmente no incluyen las recomendaciones acerca de cual debe ser la primera linea de tratamiento sistemico o biologico. Los objetivos de este estudio fueron describir las tendencias en la prescripcion del primer farmaco biologico y comparar la retirada de los farmacos y las tasas de efectos adversos a lo largo de los 10 anos de seguimiento. Material y metodos Se utilizo el registro Biobadaderm para determinar cual fue el primer farmaco biologico indicado en pacientes con psoriasis naive para biologicos, asi como cual es la tasa de efectos adversos y los motivos de suspension de los farmacos. Los resultados …

Acute Necrotic Plaque in an Immunocompromised Host.

Urticaria multiforme, un simulador de «eritema multiforme»

Urticaria multiforme, an "erythema multiforme" simulator.

Persistencia y seguridad del apremilast en el tratamiento de la psoriasis en la práctica clínica habitual: experiencia en 30 pacientes

Resumen El apremilast es un inhibidor via oral de la fosfodiesterasa-4 con pocos datos de practica clinica habitual. Nuestro objetivo fue evaluar la persistencia y la seguridad del apremilast en la practica clinica en distintas formas clinicas de psoriasis. Se realizo un estudio observacional retrospectivo de los 30 pacientes con psoriasis que recibieron el farmaco entre enero de 2016 y diciembre de 2017 en nuestro centro, 10 con psoriasis en placas, 8 con placas predominantemente en el cuero cabelludo y 12 palmo-plantares. El tiempo global de probabilidad de supervivencia del 50% fue de 18,5 meses. En nuestra experiencia, el apremilast es un farmaco efectivo y seguro para la psoriasis en p…