Risankizumab for Ulcerative Colitis Two Randomized Clinical Trials

JAMA. 2024;332:881-897 doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.12414

Louis et al. demonstrated risankizumab to significantly improve clinical remission rates compared to placebo in both an induction trial and in a maintenance trial for patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis.

August 2024

Risankizumab versus ustekinumab for moderate-to-severe Crohn’s disease

N Engl J Med. 2024 Jul 18;391(3):213-223. DOI 10.1056/NEJMoa2314585

Risankizumab was noninferior to ustekinumab with respect to clinical remission at Week 24, and superior with respect to endoscopic remission at Week 48. This study aimed to present data from SEQUENCE, a direct head-to-head trial assessing the efficacy and safety of risankizumab vs ustekinumab in patients with moderate-to-severe CD, in whom at least one anti-TNF treatment had failed.

July 2024

This post hoc analysis provides additional support for the utility of risankizumab therapy in patients with moderately to severely active CD. Investigators examined the efficacy of risankizumab for providing early symptom relief, along with the prognostic value of early symptom relief for achieving future clinical and endoscopic endpoints.

June 2024

Subcutaneous risankizumab maintenance therapy results in durable improvement in clinical and endoscopic outcomes over one year in patients with moderately to severely active Crohn’s disease. Endpoint achievement tended to be achieved in a higher proportion of patients treated with 360mg risankizumab than 160mg risankizumab, and both doses were higher when compared to placebo.

Long-term SC maintenance therapy of q8w and q12w ustekinumab in patients who responded to IV ustekinumab induction was safe and effective at maintaining symptomatic remission. Investigators aimed to present the final efficacy and safety results of the UNIFI LTE study through 4 years.