The PRINTO criteria for clinically inactive disease in juvenile dermatomyositis.
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OBJECTIVES: To develop data-driven criteria for clinically inactive disease on and off therapy for juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM). METHODS: The Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO) database contains 275 patients with active JDM evaluated prospectively up to 24 months. Thirty-eight patients off therapy at 24 months were defined as clinically inactive and included in the reference group. These were compared with a random sample of 76 patients who had active disease at study baseline. Individual measures of muscle strength/endurance, muscle enzymes, physician's and parent's global disease activity/damage evaluations, inactive disease criteria derived from the literature and other ad hoc criteria were evaluated for sensitivity, specificity and Cohen's κ agreement. RESULTS: The individual measures that best characterised inactive disease (sensitivity and specificity >0.8 and Cohen's κ >0.8) were manual muscle testing (MMT) ≥78, physician global assessment of muscle activity=0, physician global assessment of overall disease activity (PhyGloVAS) ≤0.2, Childhood Myositis Assessment Scale (CMAS) ≥48, Disease Activity Score ≤3 and Myositis Disease Activity Assessment Visual Analogue Scale ≤0.2. The best combination of variables to classify a patient as being in a state of inactive disease on or off therapy is at least three of four of the following criteria: creatine kinase ≤150, CMAS ≥48, MMT ≥78 and PhyGloVAS ≤0.2. After 24 months, 30/31 patients (96.8%) were inactive off therapy and 69/145 (47.6%) were inactive on therapy. CONCLUSION: PRINTO established data-driven criteria with clearly evidence-based cut-off values to identify JDM patients with clinically inactive disease. These criteria can be used in clinical trials, in research and in clinical practice.
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Cited Authors
- Lazarevic, D; Pistorio, A; Palmisani, E; Miettunen, P; Ravelli, A; Pilkington, C; Wulffraat, NM; Malattia, C; Garay, SM; Hofer, M; Quartier, P; Dolezalova, P; Penades, IC; Ferriani, VPL; Ganser, G; Kasapcopur, O; Melo-Gomes, JA; Reed, AM; Wierzbowska, M; Rider, LG; Martini, A; Ruperto, N; Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO),
Published Date
- May 2013
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 72 / 5
Start / End Page
- 686 - 693
PubMed ID
- 22736096
Pubmed Central ID
- PMC5040631
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1468-2060
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1136/annrheumdis-2012-201483
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- England