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BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
Volume 12, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/brb3.2662
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CGRP (pathway) antibodies; disease modification; guidelines; migraine; one-year prophylactic treatment; treatment break
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The study found that a mandatory break in CGRP (pathway) monoclonal antibody therapy had a negative short-term impact on migraine patients, leading to an increase in the number of migraine days and the use of acute medications.
Background Current German and European guidelines suggest migraine patients undertake a treatment break after 9 to 12 months of treatment with CGRP (pathway) monoclonal antibodies. Methods Clinical routine data of highly resistant migraine patients were analyzed before treatment with CGRP monoclonal antibodies (baseline), after 12 months of treatment, and following a treatment break between November 2018 and December 2020 in the West German Headache Centre, University Hospital Essen, Germany. Monthly migraine days (MMD), monthly headache days (MHD), and days of acute medication intake (AMD) were assessed. Results Complete clinical data from 46 migraine patients (14 episodic migraine (EM), 32 chronic migraine (CM) patients) treated with erenumab (n = 40), galcanezumab (n = 4), and fremanezumab (n = 2) were analyzed. The mean number of MMDs among EM and CM patients after 12 months of CGRP antibody treatment increased during the treatment break by 5.18 (SE 0.92, p < .001) and 5.06 (SE 1.22, p = .003) days, respectively. There was an increased intake of acute medications among episodic (4.72, SE 0.87, p = .004) and chronic migraine patients (3.01, SE 1.08, p = .013) during treatment break. Eighty-three percent of patients (n = 38) were dissatisfied with the mandatory treatment break. All patients continued with a CGRP (pathway) monoclonal antibody after the mandatory treatment break. Conclusion A mandatory break in CGRP (pathway) monoclonal antibody therapy had a negative short-term impact on migraine patients.
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