Where in the sequence of biologics would you consider guselkumab for patients with active psoriatic arthritis despite standard DMARD therapy?
Based on the results of the DISCOVER-2 Trial (McInnes et al., PMID 34719872), should guselkumab be used prior to anti-TNF therapy in these patients?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
This is an extremely important question and one that is likely to change as new data becomes available. It is important to remember that psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a complex and heterogeneous disease and a single approach does not work for every patient. Based on the ACR/NPF 2019 PsA treatment gui...
In patients that failed standard conventional synthetic DMARD therapy and still have active disease, the start of a biological DMARD would be the next step. The choice is between anti-TNF therapy, anti-IL-12/23 therapy (guselkumab), and anti-IL-17 therapy. In patients with significant skin psoriasis...
Although not head-to-head data with TNFi, the absolute outcome measure data in musculoskeletal domains, the strong results in the skin domain, the benign safety profile, and data from a recent Network Metaanalysis which evaluated all approved therapies for PsA, suggest that guselkumab musculoskeleta...