Combining two medications doubles gout treatment success, study reveals
By combining two medications, researchers at Michigan Medicine optimized a therapy for people with gout, a condition that causes severe damage and disability if left untreated.
The study revealed how a second drug taken orally more than doubled the effectiveness of Pegloticase, an intravenous gout treatment used to dissolve crystalized uric acid in the joints when oral medications fail.
Gout is a challenging disease to treat because there are only a handful of oral therapies to lower uric acid. Now, we have a medication that works and gives us a better chance to help people who have been suffering from gout for decades.
(0) Primary study endpoint demonstrates 86 percent response rate for patients receiving co-therapy of KRYSTEXXA and mycophenolate mofetil
Horizon Therapeutics plc (Nasdaq: HZNP) announced the publication of data from the first randomized controlled clinical trial (RCT) of KRYSTEXXA (pegloticase injection) concomitantly used with an immunomodulator, mycophenolate mofetil, in
Arthritis Rheumatology [doi.org/10.1002/art.41731].
The Reducing Immunogenicity of Pegloticase (RECIPE) trial demonstrated that 86 percent of patients (19 of 22) receiving co-therapy of KRYSTEXXA with the immunomodulator mycophenolate mofetil achieved serum uric acid (sUA) 6 mg/dL at 12 weeks, the primary study endpoint, compared to 40 percent of patients (4 of 10) receiving KRYSTEXXA monotherapy. The safety and efficacy of KRYSTEXXA co-prescribed with mycophenolate mofetil has not been established by any health authorities.