Dupilumab Provides Rapid and Sustained Improvement in SCORing Atopic Dermatitis Outcomes in Paediatric Patients with Atopic Dermatitis

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https://doi.org/10.2340/actadv.v102.854

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atopic dermatitis, SCORAD, dupilumab, pediatrics

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This post hoc analysis examined SCORing Atopic Dermatitis (SCORAD) outcomes in 471 paediatric patients (children age 6–<12 years, n = 304; adolescents age 12–<18 years, n = 167) with atopic dermatitis treated with dupilumab, ± topical corticosteroids, in two 16-week phase 3 randomized controlled trials and a 1-year interim data cut of a subsequent open-label extension study. Paediatric patients treated with dupilumab (± topical corticosteroids) had significantly lower SCORAD, objective SCORAD (o-SCORAD), and individual SCORAD components from week 3 to 16 compared with placebo (± topical corticosteroids) in the randomized controlled trials. The results were sustained or continuously improved over 1 year of open-label treatment with dupilumab ± topical corticosteroids. SCORAD-50 was achieved in almost all patients (91.3–91.8%) by week 52 with continued dupilumab treatment across age groups. Almost all (>  86%) patients achieved mild or absent pruritus and sleep loss at week 52. In conclusion, dupilumab ± topical corticosteroids resulted in rapid and significant improvements in all aspects of SCORAD analysed, and the results were sustained over 1 year.

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2022-05-31

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Wollenberg, A. ., Marcoux, D. ., Silverberg, J. I., Aoki, V. ., Baselga, E. ., Zhang, H., Levit, N. A., Taieb, A., & Rossi, A. B. (2022). Dupilumab Provides Rapid and Sustained Improvement in SCORing Atopic Dermatitis Outcomes in Paediatric Patients with Atopic Dermatitis. Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 102, adv00726. https://doi.org/10.2340/actadv.v102.854

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