P2669 - Effects of Mirikizumab versus Placebo on Histologic Inflammation Evaluated by Comprehensive Assessment in 5 Intestinal Segments in a Randomized, Controlled Phase 3 Trial of Participants With Crohn’s Disease
Vipul Jairath, MBChB1, Fernando Magro, 2, Gert De Hertogh, 3, Brian G.. Feagan, MD1, Noam Harpaz, 4, Tadakazu Hisamatsu, MD, PhD5, Geert R. D'Haens, MD, PhD6, Rish Pai, MD, PhD7, Zhantao Lin, PhD8, Nathan Morris, 8, Marijana Protic, 8, Emily Hon, 8, Charles C. Owen, MD, MBA8, Rodrigo Escobar, 8, Walter Reinisch, MD, PhD9 1Western University, London, ON, Canada; 2Centro Hospitalar São João, Porto, Porto, Portugal; 3Laboratory of Translational Cell and Tissue Research, Leuven, Brabant Wallon, Belgium; 4Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai, NY; 5Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; 6Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Limburg, Netherlands; 7Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; 8Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN; 9Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Wien, Austria
Introduction: Histologic inflammation persists in up to one quarter of patients with Crohn’s Disease (CD) despite endoscopic mucosal healing. Responsiveness of histologic inflammation to treatment is an evolving outcome measure in CD. Mirikizumab (MIRI) increased histologic response (H-Res) and remission (H-Rem) relative to placebo (PBO) in the Phase 2 SERENITY trial.
Methods: We compared the effect of MIRI on H-Res and H-Rem at week (W)12 and W52 to PBO by composite endpoints of response (clinical response by Patient-Reported Outcome [PRO] at W12 and W52 H-Res) and of remission (clinical response by PRO at W12 and W52 H-Rem) at W52. The overall population of patients with moderate-to-severe active CD, patients without prior biologic failure (non-BF), and patients with prior BF were assessed, using data from the Phase 3 VIVID-1 trial. Two biopsy specimens from each of 5 intestinal segments (1 ileal and 4 colonic) were obtained from the edge of the ulcers, or the most inflamed mucosa from randomized patients at screening, W12, and W52. Criteria for H-Res: absence of epithelial neutrophils and epithelial damage, erosions, and ulceration or ≥50% decrease in either the sum of the 5 segments of Robarts Histopathology Index or the Global Histologic Disease Activity Score. H-Rem: complete absence of mucosal neutrophils (in epithelium and lamina propria), and no epithelial damage, erosions, and ulcers; these criteria had to be met in all biopsy specimens. Clinical response by PRO: ≥30% decrease in stool frequency and/or abdominal pain with neither score worse than baseline. H-Res, H-Rem, composite H-Res, and composite H-Rem in all patients were prespecified, non-multiplicity-controlled endpoints. Analyses in non-BF and BF patients were post hoc.
Results: At W12: treatment with MIRI resulted in nominally statistically significantly higher rates of H-Res in all three patient groups, differences between MIRI vs PBO were nominally significant in achieving H-Rem in all patients and in non-BF and BF patients. For W52: composite H-Res differences between MIRI vs PBO were nominally statistically significant in all patient groups, composite H-Rem differences were nominally statistically significant between MIRI vs PBO in all patients, in non-BF patients, and in BF patients (Table).
Discussion: MIRI achieved nominally significantly higher rates of H-Res and H-Rem compared to PBO in all patients at W12 and W52. The statistical difference was more pronounced in the BF population after 1 year of treatment.
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Fernando Magro: AbbVie – Received honoraria, Speakers Bureau. Biogen – Received honoraria, Speakers Bureau. Dr. Falk Pharma – Received honoraria. Ferring Pharmaceuticals – Received honoraria, Speakers Bureau. Hospira – Received honoraria, Speakers Bureau. Laboratórios Vitória – Received honoraria, Speakers Bureau. Merck Sharp & Dohme – Received honoraria, Speakers Bureau. Vifor Pharma – Received honoraria, Speakers Bureau.
Gert De Hertogh: Centocor Inc. – Fees for clinical trial activities (paid to his institution). Johnson & Johnson – Fees for clinical trial activities (paid to his institution).
Vipul Jairath, MBChB1, Fernando Magro, 2, Gert De Hertogh, 3, Brian G.. Feagan, MD1, Noam Harpaz, 4, Tadakazu Hisamatsu, MD, PhD5, Geert R. D'Haens, MD, PhD6, Rish Pai, MD, PhD7, Zhantao Lin, PhD8, Nathan Morris, 8, Marijana Protic, 8, Emily Hon, 8, Charles C. Owen, MD, MBA8, Rodrigo Escobar, 8, Walter Reinisch, MD, PhD9. P2669 - Effects of Mirikizumab versus Placebo on Histologic Inflammation Evaluated by Comprehensive Assessment in 5 Intestinal Segments in a Randomized, Controlled Phase 3 Trial of Participants With Crohn’s Disease, ACG 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting Abstracts. Philadelphia, PA: American College of Gastroenterology.