299 Results Found

To evaluate the analytical performance and clinical utility of the automated fluorescence-based POC immunoassay system (AFIAS), compared with established enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) methods for measuring adalimumab and anti-adalimumab a...

Livedoid vasculopathy is a chronic, recurrent skin disorder. It seriously affects the quality of patients’ life. However, the pathogenesis has not been fully identified yet. Here, this retrospective study describes the successful use of anti-TN...

Background: Adalimumab has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of adult rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and subsequently approved for pediatric treatment of various autoimmune diseases in children of different ag...

Adalimumab is currently the only biological medicine approved by the FDA for the treatment of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS). The breakout of biosimilar drugs made them more accessible due to their impact on pharmacoeconomics. However, packaging, form...

Background: Adalimumab, an anti-TNF-α biologic agent, has emerged as a principal treatment option for patients with non-infectious uveitis. The influence of adalimumab anti-drug antibodies (AAA) on the efficacy of adalimumab therapy is not yet...

Due to the lack of effective medical treatment for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), we aimed to evaluate new treatment options. In particular, our goal was to investigate and compare the effects of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) and Adalimumab treatment...

Dose spacing (DS) can be useful for optimizing treatment with biologics in psoriasis patients. However, interval prolongation might increase the production of anti-drug antibodies (ADA) and, therefore, reduce the drug’s effectiveness. The long-...

Adalimumab, a TNF-alpha inhibitor, is approved to treat juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), helping control disease activity and reduce flare frequency. This study aims to investigate predictors of treatment response, including anti-drug antibodies....

Background: The EXCEED study evaluated the efficacy and safety of secukinumab versus adalimumab in psoriatic arthritis, but it did not include a pharmacoeconomic analysis. The objective of this study was to compare the cost per responder of secukinum...

Psoriasis is a disease with a proinflammatory base, in which an increased expression of leptin, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), interleukin (IL) IL-12/23, IL-6, is observed. A drug used in the treatment of psoriasis of moderate and acute strengt...

Adalimumab biosimilar experience is still recent. Interchangeability differences could reduce persistence times. Our goal was to compare biosimilar persistence differences with a reference. A retrospective observational study was performed in three g...

Background/Objectives: Biologic therapies have transformed the management of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but their high cost has prompted the introduction of biosimilars. Although switching from biologic originators to biosimilars is increasing...

Adalimumab is a fully human monoclonal antibody used for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Due to its considerably variable pharmacokinetics and the risk of developing antibodies against adalimumab, it is highly recommended to use a...

The use of adalimumab biosimilars has become increasingly common in clinical practice, reflecting their growing acceptance and efficacy as therapeutic alternatives to reference biologics. However, studies investigating the molecular interactions betw...

(1) Many patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in endoscopic remission have persistent histologic activity, which is associated with worse outcomes. There are limited data on the association between adalimumab drug concentrations and histolo...

The recent introduction of ABP 501, an adalimumab biosimilar, in the treatment of rheumatic diseases was supported by a comprehensive comparability exercise with its originator. On the other hand, observational studies comparing adalimumab and ABP 50...

Background/Objectives: Dose escalation has been commonly used to achieve and maintain response. We aimed to compare the outcomes of adalimumab or infliximab dose escalation in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients. Methods: Treatment persistence...

A liquid chromatography–quadrupole time-of-flight (Q-TOF) mass spectrometric method was developed for early-stage research on adalimumab in rats. The method consisted of immunoprecipitation followed by tryptic digestion for sample preparation a...

Background: Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a rare inflammatory cutaneous disorder that frequently occurs in association with systemic diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This case report describes a 23-year-old female with Crohn’s...

Background: Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory skin condition characterized by inflammatory lesions, often leading to scarring. Managing HS can be difficult, requiring biological therapy, specifically adalimumab. Methods: A retro...

(1) Background: GP2017 is one of the biosimilar drugs of adalimumab, one of the anti-TNF agents used for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). To date, there is little real-world data about the use of GP2017 in IBD patients. The aim of our study was to e...

Long-term systemic glucocorticoids and non-specific immunosuppressants remain the mainstay of treatment for refractory scleritis, and result in serious side-effects and repeated inflammation flares. To assess the efficacy and safety of additional ada...

This study aimed to compare adalimumab originator vs. biosimilar in HS patients, and to evaluate the effect of a switch to a biosimilar, or a switch back to the originator, in terms of treatment ineffectiveness. Patients with a diagnosis of HS were e...

Objectives: (1) to determine the adherence and persistence rates of adalimumab therapy among Swedish patients with Crohn’s disease (CD), and (2) to compare self-administration devices to predict the medication adherence and persistence. Methods...

Background and objectives: The shared pathogenesis of psoriasis and atherosclerosis may be determined by assaying the levels of endothelial activation molecules. This study aimed at evaluating vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 (VCAM-1) and E-selectin...

The approval of adalimumab (ADA) biosimilars for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has reduced the cost of treatment. While several ADA biosimilars are currently available, comparative data on the ADA biosimilar GP2017 (HyrimozTM) and its originator (...

Background and Objectives: Real-world evidence should reflect the evidence obtained from controlled trials; therefore, the study aimed to compare biosimilar adalimumab (bADA) to original adalimumab (oADA) in terms of efficacy and safety in a real-lif...

Background/Objectives: Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada (VKH) disease is a bilateral granulomatous panuveitis that can progress to a chronic, relapsing phase. Patients refractory or intolerant to systemic corticosteroids and conventional immunomodula...

Background/Objectives: Adalimumab and Infliximab are biologics used to treat autoimmune diseases. Monitoring drug and anti-drug antibody (ADA) levels in patients helps optimize treatment. However, current quantitation methodologies for drug and total...

Adalimumab is a monoclonal antibody used for inflammatory bowel disease. Due to its considerably variable pharmacokinetics, the loss of response and the development of anti-antibodies, it is highly recommended to use a model-informed precision dosing...

Background/Objectives: To evaluate the real-world efficacy and safety of switching from adalimumab originator (Humira®, AbbVie) to SB5 biosimilar (Adalloce®, Samsung Bioepis) in patients with noninfectious uveitis. Methods: This retrospective...

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by keratinocyte hyperactivation and dysregulated cytokine signaling, with nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB), a master transcription factor that regulates immune and inflammatory gene e...

Background/Objectives: Psoriasis is a chronic, inflammatory, immuno-mediated cutaneous disease characterized by a prominent TNFα-IL23/IL17 immune axis. In recent years, targeted therapies have become standard practice for managing moderate-to-s...

Background: Non-infectious uveitis represents a leading cause of visual impairment, and inflammation control represents a major priority in tackling visual acuity loss due to complications such as macular edema; different immunomodulatory drugs are c...

Adalimumab is used at 40-mg dose to treat systemic inflammatory diseases. Given the impact of adverse drug reactions (ADRs), which particularly result in the discontinuation of adalimumab therapy in female patients, this study examined whether sex af...

Background: The development of anti-drug antibodies (ADAs) and resulting immune complexes are key mechanisms behind the secondary loss of response to adalimumab in Crohn’s disease (CD). Despite their clinical importance, routine immunogenicity...

Regulatory approval of biosimilars predominantly relies on biosimilarity assessments of quality attributes (QAs), particularly the potentially critical QAs (pCQAs) that may affect the clinical profile. However, a limited understanding exists concerni...

We conducted a one-year prospective study involving the enrollment of 58 patients with Hidradenitis Suppurativa. Through a retrospective analysis of data on the same patients, with reference to the year prior to the initiation of the anti-TNFα...

Crohn’s disease (CD) is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affecting the gastrointestinal tract that can also cause extra-intestinal complications. Following exposure to the mRNA vaccine BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) encoding the SARS-CoV-...

We aimed to develop prediction models for clinical remission associated with adalimumab treatment in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) using Fourier transform–infrared (FT–IR) spectroscopy coupled with machine learning (ML) algorithms...

Since 2021, adalimumab biosimilar ABP 501 can be used alternatively to adalimumab originator (ADAO) in the treatment of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS). Effectiveness and safety data remain scarce. We investigated the impact of switching from ADAO to A...

Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) have revolutionized the treatment of many chronic inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). IBD is a term that comprises two quite similar, yet distinctive, disorders—Crohn’s disease (...

Biosimilars are cheaper than original drugs and are thus of interest to the public. The aim of this article is to assess the benefits of introducing more than one biosimilar for the same substance (active pharmaceutical ingredient, API). The hypothes...

Postoperative recurrence (POR) is the rule in patients with Crohn’s disease (CD), mitigated with prophylactic therapy. The evidence for therapeutic choice and timing of intervention is lacking. We aimed to compare the rates of POR in patients t...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract with increasing incidence worldwide. Although a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms of IBD has led to new therapeutic approaches, treatment...

Background. Monitoring of biological TNF inhibitors is a very important tool to guide clinical decisions using specialized algorithms, especially in gastroenterology. A new chemiluminescent instrument (i-TRACK10® from Theradiag) could replace ELI...

Interleukin (IL)-17 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF)-α are key players in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) pathogenesis. While both cytokines can be therapeutically targeted with beneficial clinical outcome, it is unclear whether inhibiting one c...

Background and Objectives: Crohn’s Disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory condition often treated with anti-TNF agents such as infliximab (IFX) and adalimumab (ADA). This study compares the efficacy, immunogenicity, and pharmacokinetics of IFX...

Adalimumab is the only biologic agent approved for the treatment of moderate-to-severe hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) patients (i.e., with Hurley II or III), which is recommended in two different maintenance doses (i.e., 40 mg weekly or 80 mg every tw...

During the last two decades, an increased number of molecules with multiple mechanisms of action have been approved for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with a substantial increase in the costs related to therapy, which has become a...