AB0739 PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS RELATED-UVEITIS, OUR EXPERIENCE IN A THIRD-LEVEL SPANISH CENTRE.

Abstract

Background:The occurrence of uveitis in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) has been documented as the most frequent and important extra-articular manifestation, with an estimated frequency of 7 and 18%. Clinical onset may be acute or insidious, and it may be accompanied by other ocular manifestations. In contrast with spondyloarthropathy related-uveitis, PsA associated tends to be insidious, bilateral, chronic or posterior.Objectives:To describe clinic and immunological features of psoriatic arthritis patients in our centre, especially those with associated-uveitis and to define its frequency.Methods:A retrospective, descriptive and single-centre study (1985-2017) of 494 patients diagnosed with PsA according to the criteria of an expert rheumatologist was conducted. All patients were studied according to a standard protocol. The group was divided into 3 articular categories: pure axial, pure peripheric and mixed. Data regarding enthesitis and dactylitis, as well as HLA-Cw6 and HLA-B27 were extracted, from those available. Ophthalmologic and cutaneous involvement was registered. 216 patients were excluded because of data absence or alternative plausible diagnosis. Descriptive analyses were applied.Results:Eight patients had uveitis (2,9% in this series), only one case developed chronic pattern. Acute anterior uveitis was the form of presentation in 6 patients (75%). Unilateral involvement was registered in 3 (37,5%), in every case with right eye implication. One patient developed up to 13 episodes of acute anterior uveitis, every episode in the same eye. Median of age at first episode was 54 years, 3 (37,5%) patients were female. Regarding articular categories: 1(12,5%) pure axial, 3 (37,5%) pure peripheric and 4 (50%) mixed. Enthesitis was registered in 2 patients, none of our series developed dactylitis. 3 patients (37,5%) were HLA-B27 positive and 2 patients (25%), HLA-Cw6 positive. 6 cases had cutaneous psoriasis (75%). Adalimumab was prescribed to 5 PsA related-uveitis patients with optimal control of disease.Larger PsA cohort without ocular involvement (270 patients), 118 (42,4%) cases were female and median of age was 44 years. Pure axial involvement was present in 20 (7,2%), pure peripheric, 134 (48,2%) and mixed, 122 (43,8%). 31 (11,15%) cases developed enthesis involvement and 18 (6,5%), dactylitis. HLA-B27 was tested positive in 45 patients (19,7%) and HLA-Cw6, in 56 (27,4%). Cutaneous psoriasis was present in 231 cases (83,1%).Conclusion:Frequency of psoriatic arthritis-uveitis is lower in our sample than referred in bibliography. Further investigations are needed to understand the underlying reasons, although it could be related to the use of biologic treatment and narrower inflammatory activity control in comparison to previous studies. No posterior pole involvement, bilaterality, chronicity nor insidious onset are common in our data; neither axial involvement seems to be predictor for the appearance of uveitis.