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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2023

Ten-year follow-up of infliximab treatment for uveitis in Behçet disease patients: A multicenter retrospective study.

Masaru Takeuchi, Yoshihiko Usui, Kenichi Namba, Hiroshi Keino, Masaki Takeuchi, Hiroshi Takase, Koju Kamoi, Keitaro Hase, Takako Ito, Kei Nakai and 10 more

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors at 9 institutions in 1 country.

Masaru TakeuchiDepartment of Ophthalmology, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Japan.
Yoshihiko UsuiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
Kenichi NambaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
Hiroshi KeinoDepartment of Ophthalmology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Mitaka, Japan.
Masaki TakeuchiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.
Hiroshi TakaseDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
Koju KamoiDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
Keitaro HaseDepartment of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
Takako ItoDepartment of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Kei NakaiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Yodogawa Christian Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
Kazuichi MaruyamaDepartment of Vision Informatics, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
Eri KobayashiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
Hisashi MashimoDepartment of Ophthalmology, Japan Community Health Care Organization Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
Tomohito SatoDepartment of Ophthalmology, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Japan.
Nobuyuki OhguroDepartment of Ophthalmology, Japan Community Health Care Organization Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
Junko HoriDepartment of Ophthalmology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
Annabelle A OkadaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Mitaka, Japan.
Koh-Hei SonodaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Nobuhisa MizukiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.
Hiroshi GotoDepartment of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
Kyorin University · JPTokyo Medical and Dental University · JPKyushu University · JPNational Defense Medical College · JPTokyo Medical University · JPHokkaido University · JPThe University of Osaka · JPYodogawa Christian Hospital · JPYokohama City University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose: To evaluate 10-year outcome of infliximab (IFX) treatment for uveitis in Behçet disease (BD) patients using a standardized follow-up protocol. Design: Retrospective longitudinal cohort study. Participants: 140 BD uveitis patients treated with IFX enrolled in our previous study. Methods: Medical records were reviewed for demographic information, duration of IFX treatment, number of ocular attacks before IFX initiation, best corrected visual acuity (VA) at baseline and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10 years after IFX initiation, uveitis recurrence after IFX initiation and main anatomical site, concomitant therapies, and adverse events (AEs). Main outcome measures: 10-year IFX continuation rate and change in LogMAR VA. Results: Of 140 BD patients, 106 (75.7%) continued IFX treatment for 10 years. LogMAR VA improved gradually after initiation of IFX, and the improvement reached statistical significance from 2 years of treatment. Thereafter, significant improvement compared with baseline was maintained until 10 years, despite a slight deterioration of logMAR VA from 5 years. However, eyes with worse baseline decimal VA < 0.1 showed no significant improvement from baseline to 10 years. Uveitis recurred after IFX initiation in 50 patients (recurrence group) and did not recur in 56 (non-recurrence group). Ocular attacks/year before IFX initiation was significantly higher in the recurrence group (2.82 ± 3.81) than in the non-recurrence group (1.84 ± 1.78). In the recurrence group, uveitis recurred within 1 year in 58% and within 2 years in 74%. Seventeen patients (34%) had recurrent anterior uveitis, 17 (34%) had posterior uveitis, and 16 (32%) had panuveitis, with no significant difference in VA outcome. In addition, logMAR VA at 10 years did not differ between the recurrence and non-recurrence groups. AEs occurred among 43 patients (30.7%), and 24 (17.1%) resulted in IFX discontinuation before 10 years. Conclusions: Among BD patients with uveitis who initiated IFX, approximately 75% continued treatment for 10 years, and their VA improved significantly and was maintained for 10 years. Uveitis recurred in one-half of the patients, but visual acuity did not differ significantly from the patients without recurrence.

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Behçet diseaseBehçet uveitisbiologicsendogenous uveitisinfliximabnon-infectious uveitisuveitis

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PMCPMC9894869
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