Executive summary: The 2022 British Society for Rheumatology guideline for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis with biologic and targeted synthetic DMARDs

Laura Tucker, Alexander Allen, David Chandler, Coziana Ciurtin, Andrew Dick, Amy Foulkes, Nicola Gullick, Philip Helliwell, Deepak Jadon, Gareth Jones, Stuart Kyle, Vishnu Madhok, Neil McHugh, Andrew Parkinson, Tim Raine, Stefan Siebert, Catherine Smith, William Tillett, Laura C. Coates* (Corresponding Author)

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Abstract

Need for guideline

PsA is a chronic, inflammatory, musculoskeletal disease affecting approximately one quarter of people with the skin condition psoriasis. PsA is a highly heterogeneous disease, encompassing diverse musculoskeletal manifestations or ‘domains’ resulting from disease activity in different tissues. These include peripheral arthritis, spondylitis (axial inflammation), dactylitis (inflammation of the whole digit) and enthesitis (inflammation where a tendon, ligament or joint capsule insert to the bone). Unlike RA there is a significant variability in clinical presentation of PsA. Individuals with PsA may have different domains involved and drugs have different levels of effectiveness on each domain. The most recent British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) guidelines for the treatment of PsA were published in 2012 [1] and focused specifically on TNF inhibitors as they were the only biologic DMARDs (bDMARDs) available. Since that time, there have been significant advances in therapeutic options available for PsA and drugs with different modes of action are now available, including IL IL17, IL12/23, IL23 p19, cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA4), phosphodiesterase-4 (PDE4) and Janus kinase (JAK) inhibition.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3514-3520
Number of pages7
JournalRheumatology (Oxford, England)
Volume61
Issue number9
Early online date31 May 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2022

Bibliographical note

Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge the Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA) and the members of their Treatment Recommendations working group who shared extracted data on treatment RCTs for this project.

Funding: No specific funding was received from any bodies in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors to carry out the work described in this manuscript.

Data Availability Statement

All relevant data produced during the guideline development process are presented in the guideline or in the accompanying supplementary material.

Keywords

  • biologics
  • dactylitis
  • enthesitis
  • guideline
  • management
  • PsA
  • psoriasis
  • recommendations
  • targeted synthetic DMARDs
  • treatment

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