Clinical Insights in Psoriatic Arthritis
VIDEO: New and novel approaches in psoriatic arthritis treatment
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This development, I think we're gonna get in the weeds through our discussion, but they are some newer and novel targets. I think there are new roots of delivery, so just offering more options for our patients. One of the, I think, unique areas that we're just starting to get into is the concept of combination therapy approaches. And then I would say another hot topic is the concept of prevention, which is, you know, the question of can we prevent the movement of patients to psoriatic arthritis, which is where 90%-plus of our patients begin, and where 1/3 of them with psoriasis go on to develop the psoriatic arthritis component? There's some other forward-looking thoughts about whether we can even start to unpack some of the heterogeneity of psoriatic arthritis. Think about patients as not all, you know, one group, but instead, phenotypic subsites, and ultimately, what are called endotypes, right? Is there different pathophysiology, different pathways that we might target sitting behind what looks like the same disease?
