Newly diagnosed seropositive rheumatoid arthritis in a 52-year-old man superimposed on long-standing ankylosing spondylitis during secukinumab treatment

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are severe chronic inflammatory joint diseases with different immune-mediated mechanisms playing a role in their pathogenesis. Rheumatoid arthritis is an erosive arthritis of peripheral joints and AS is a spondyloarthropathy affecting mainly...

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Main Authors: Jaroslaw Nowakowski, Anna Tomoń, Dorota Telesińska-Jasiówka, Mariusz Korkosz
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Published: Termedia Publishing House 2023-10-01
Series:Central European Journal of Immunology
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author Jaroslaw Nowakowski
Anna Tomoń
Dorota Telesińska-Jasiówka
Mariusz Korkosz
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Dorota Telesińska-Jasiówka
Mariusz Korkosz
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description Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are severe chronic inflammatory joint diseases with different immune-mediated mechanisms playing a role in their pathogenesis. Rheumatoid arthritis is an erosive arthritis of peripheral joints and AS is a spondyloarthropathy affecting mainly sacroiliac and spinal joints leading to excessive bone formation and ankylosis. The coexistence of RA and AS in the same patient is rare. Presented here is a 52-year-old patient with long-standing AS with bilateral ankylosis of sacroiliac joints who developed peripheral symmetric polyarthritis while being treated with the interleukin 17 inhibitor secukinumab introduced due to secondary inefficacy of the tumor necrosis a inhibitor etanercept. He was finally diagnosed with seropositive RA coexisting with AS and treatment was changed to the Janus kinase inhibitor tofacitinib. Eventually, remission was sustained with use of the interleukin 6 inhibitor tocilizumab. This is the first case of RA developing during anti-interleukin 17 therapy. Although tocilizumab lacks efficaciousness in AS, in this case therapy was succesful as the RA-driving cytokine mechanism possibly prevailed.
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spelling doaj.art-edeec02759d4434da5e96d00f67c579e2024-04-11T08:16:29ZengTermedia Publishing HouseCentral European Journal of Immunology1426-39121644-41242023-10-0148434634910.5114/ceji.2023.13206651647Newly diagnosed seropositive rheumatoid arthritis in a 52-year-old man superimposed on long-standing ankylosing spondylitis during secukinumab treatmentJaroslaw NowakowskiAnna TomońDorota Telesińska-JasiówkaMariusz KorkoszRheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are severe chronic inflammatory joint diseases with different immune-mediated mechanisms playing a role in their pathogenesis. Rheumatoid arthritis is an erosive arthritis of peripheral joints and AS is a spondyloarthropathy affecting mainly sacroiliac and spinal joints leading to excessive bone formation and ankylosis. The coexistence of RA and AS in the same patient is rare. Presented here is a 52-year-old patient with long-standing AS with bilateral ankylosis of sacroiliac joints who developed peripheral symmetric polyarthritis while being treated with the interleukin 17 inhibitor secukinumab introduced due to secondary inefficacy of the tumor necrosis a inhibitor etanercept. He was finally diagnosed with seropositive RA coexisting with AS and treatment was changed to the Janus kinase inhibitor tofacitinib. Eventually, remission was sustained with use of the interleukin 6 inhibitor tocilizumab. This is the first case of RA developing during anti-interleukin 17 therapy. Although tocilizumab lacks efficaciousness in AS, in this case therapy was succesful as the RA-driving cytokine mechanism possibly prevailed.https://www.termedia.pl/Newly-diagnosed-seropositive-rheumatoid-arthritis-in-a-52-year-old-man-superimposed-on-long-standing-ankylosing-spondylitis-during-secukinumab-treatment,10,51647,1,1.htmlbiologics arthritis spondylitis rheumatoid ankylosing
spellingShingle Jaroslaw Nowakowski
Anna Tomoń
Dorota Telesińska-Jasiówka
Mariusz Korkosz
Newly diagnosed seropositive rheumatoid arthritis in a 52-year-old man superimposed on long-standing ankylosing spondylitis during secukinumab treatment
Central European Journal of Immunology
biologics
arthritis
spondylitis
rheumatoid
ankylosing
title Newly diagnosed seropositive rheumatoid arthritis in a 52-year-old man superimposed on long-standing ankylosing spondylitis during secukinumab treatment
title_full Newly diagnosed seropositive rheumatoid arthritis in a 52-year-old man superimposed on long-standing ankylosing spondylitis during secukinumab treatment
title_fullStr Newly diagnosed seropositive rheumatoid arthritis in a 52-year-old man superimposed on long-standing ankylosing spondylitis during secukinumab treatment
title_full_unstemmed Newly diagnosed seropositive rheumatoid arthritis in a 52-year-old man superimposed on long-standing ankylosing spondylitis during secukinumab treatment
title_short Newly diagnosed seropositive rheumatoid arthritis in a 52-year-old man superimposed on long-standing ankylosing spondylitis during secukinumab treatment
title_sort newly diagnosed seropositive rheumatoid arthritis in a 52 year old man superimposed on long standing ankylosing spondylitis during secukinumab treatment
topic biologics
arthritis
spondylitis
rheumatoid
ankylosing
url https://www.termedia.pl/Newly-diagnosed-seropositive-rheumatoid-arthritis-in-a-52-year-old-man-superimposed-on-long-standing-ankylosing-spondylitis-during-secukinumab-treatment,10,51647,1,1.html
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