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Real world experience with teriflunomide in multiple sclerosis: the TER-Italy study.

Sebastiano Bucello1, Pietro Annovazzi2, Paolo Ragonese3, Marta Altieri4, Valeria Barcella5, Roberto Bergamaschi6, Alessia Bianchi3, Giovanna Borriello7, Maria Chiara Buscarinu8, Graziella Callari9, Marco Capobianco10, Fioravante Capone11, Paola Cavalla12, Rosella Cavarretta13, Antonio Cortese4,14, Giovanna De Luca15, Massimiliano Di Filippo16, Vincenzo Dattola17, Roberta Fantozzi18, Elisabetta Ferraro14, Maria Maddalena Filippi19, Claudio Gasperini20, Luigi Maria Edoardo Grimaldi9, Doriana Landi21, Marianna Lo Re10, Giulia Mallucci6, Paolo Manganotti22, Girolama Alessandra Marfia18,21, Massimiliano Mirabella23, Paola Perini24, Marco Pisa25, Sabrina Realmuto26, Margherita Russo27, Valentina Tomassini15,28, Valentina Liliana Adriana Torri-Clerici29, Mauro Zaffaroni2, Cristina Zuliani30, Sofia Zywicki24, Massimo Filippi25,31,32, Luca Prosperini33.   

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To identify baseline factors associated with disease activity in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) under teriflunomide treatment.
METHODS: This was an independent, multi-centre, retrospective post-marketing study. We analysed data of 1,507 patients who started teriflunomide since October 2014 and were regularly followed in 28 Centres in Italy. We reported the proportions of patients who discontinued treatment (after excluding 32 lost to follow-up) and who experienced clinical disease activity, i.e., relapse(s) and/or confirmed disability worsening, as assessed by the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS). Decision tree-based analysis was performed to identify baseline factors associated with clinical disease activity during teriflunomide treatment.
RESULTS: At database lock (September 2020), approximately 29% of patients (430 out of 1,475) discontinued teriflunomide because of disease activity (~ 46%), adverse events (~ 37%), poor tolerability (~ 15%), pregnancy planning (~ 2%). Approximately 28% of patients experienced disease activity over a median follow-up of 2.75 years: ~ 9% had relapses but not disability worsening; ~ 13% had isolated disability worsening; ~ 6% had both relapses and disability worsening. The most important baseline factor associated with disease activity (especially disability worsening) was an EDSS > 4.0 (p < 0.001). In patients with moderate disability level (EDSS 2.0-4.0), disease activity occurred more frequently in case of ≥ 1 pre-treatment relapses (p = 0.025). In patients with milder disability level (EDSS < 2.0), disease activity occurred more frequently after previous exposure to ≥ 2 disease-modifying treatments (p = 0.007).
CONCLUSIONS: Our study suggests a place-in-therapy for teriflunomide in naïve patients with mild disability level or in those who switched their initial treatment for poor tolerability. Adverse events related with teriflunomide were consistent with literature data, without any new safety concern.
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Keywords:  Multiple sclerosis; Oral drugs; Teriflunomide

Year:  2021        PMID: 33616742     DOI: 10.1007/s00415-021-10455-3

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Neurol        ISSN: 0340-5354            Impact factor:   4.849


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Authors:  H M Cherwinski; R G Cohn; P Cheung; D J Webster; Y Z Xu; J P Caulfield; J M Young; G Nakano; J T Ransom
Journal:  J Pharmacol Exp Ther       Date:  1995-11       Impact factor: 4.030

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1.  Real-World Evidence for Favourable Quality-of-Life Outcomes in Hungarian Patients with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Treated for Two Years with Oral Teriflunomide: Results of the Teri-REAL Study.

Authors:  Krisztina Bencsik; Enikő Dobos; Zita Jobbágy; Adrienne Jóri Birkás; Krisztina Kovács; Mária Sátori; Gyula Lencsés; Gabor Bartok; Erika Losonczi; László Vécsei
Journal:  Pharmaceuticals (Basel)       Date:  2022-05-13

2.  Favorable benefit-risk ratio with teriflunomide treatment in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: Results of the 2-year, multicenter, prospective, noninterventional TAURUS MS study in Austria.

Authors:  Michael Guger; Michael Matthias Ackerl; Martin Heine; Christiane Hofinger-Renner; Heinrich Karl Spiss; Andrea Taut; Karin Unger; Fritz Leutmezer
Journal:  eNeurologicalSci       Date:  2022-03-07

3.  Real-world outcomes of teriflunomide in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: a prospective cohort study.

Authors:  Yao Zhang; Hexiang Yin; Dingding Zhang; Yan Xu; Bin Peng; Liying Cui
Journal:  J Neurol       Date:  2022-04-11       Impact factor: 6.682

4.  Real-World Assessment of Quality of Life in Patients with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Treated with Teriflunomide for Two Years: Patient-Reported Outcomes from the AURELIO Study in Greece.

Authors:  Efthymios Dardiotis; Georgia Perpati; Mariann Borsos; Ioannis Nikolaidis; Dimitrios Tzanetakos; Georgia Deretzi; Evangelos Koutlas; Constantinos Kilidireas; Dimos Dimitrios Mitsikostas; Georgios Hadjigeorgiou; Nikolaos Grigoriadis
Journal:  Neurol Ther       Date:  2022-07-13
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