Assessing the response to risankizumab therapy
Assessing the need for dose escalation
Evaluating potential changes or discontinuation of therapy
Monitoring patients who need to be above a certain risankizumab concentration to improve the odds of a clinical response for therapy optimization
For more information see Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn Disease Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Algorithm.
Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS)
Risankizumab
Skyrizi
AbbVie
Crohn's disease
For more information see Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn Disease Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Algorithm.
Serum
Risankizumab trough levels may be useful to document therapeutic levels and to assess lack of response. For patients not responding properly to therapy, a risankizumab level could aid in the decisions to escalate, de-escalate, or discontinue risankizumab.
Supplies: Sarstedt Aliquot Tube 5 mL (T914)
Container/Tube:
Preferred: Serum gel
Acceptable: Red top
Submission Container/Tube: Plastic vial
Specimen Volume: 0.5 mL
Collection Instructions:
1. Draw blood immediately before the next scheduled dose (trough specimen).
2. Within 2 hours of collection, centrifuge and aliquot serum into plastic vial.
If not ordering electronically, complete, print, and send Gastroenterology and Hepatology Test Request (T728) with the specimen.
0.25 mL
Gross hemolysis | OK |
Lipemia | Reject |
Gross icterus | OK |
Specimen Type | Temperature | Time | Special Container |
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Serum | Refrigerated (preferred) | 28 days | |
Ambient | 28 days | ||
Frozen | 28 days |
Assessing the response to risankizumab therapy
Assessing the need for dose escalation
Evaluating potential changes or discontinuation of therapy
Monitoring patients who need to be above a certain risankizumab concentration to improve the odds of a clinical response for therapy optimization
For more information see Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn Disease Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Algorithm.
Risankizumab (Skyrizi, AbbVie) is a humanized IgG1 kappa therapeutic monoclonal antibody used to treat moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn disease. Risankizumab targets interleukin 23A (IL-23p19) binding with high affinity to the p19 subunit and inhibiting further action.
Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) has become standard of care in the gastroenterology practice for biologic therapies used in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn disease, and ulcerative colitis. TDM is routinely used to assess loss of response to therapy and proactively manage patients taking tissue necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors (eg, infliximab and adalimumab), alpha-4-beta7 integrins (vedolizumab), or IL12/23 blockers (ustekinumab). With the approval of risankizumab for IBD, TDM is expected to play an important role in managing loss of response to therapy and guide decision making for use of monotherapy or combination therapy.
Risankizumab is currently US Food and Drug Administration-approved for plaque psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn disease.
Patients with plaque psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis are treated with 150 mg subcutaneously at weeks 0, 4, and every 12 weeks thereafter. The steady state maximum concentration (Cmax) and trough concentration (Ctrough) are estimated to be 12 and 2 mcg/mL, respectively.
Patients with Crohn disease are treated with 600 mg intravenously at weeks 0, 4, and 8, followed by 180 mg or 360 mg subcutaneously at week 12 and every 8 weeks thereafter. During induction weeks 8 through 12, the median Cmax is estimated to be 156 mcg/mL and the Ctrough is estimated to be 38.8 mcg/mL, according to the drug package insert. Steady state is achieved at 28 weeks after starting treatment in the dosing regimen for Crohn disease. Median Cmax and Ctrough concentrations measured during weeks 40 through 48 of maintenance phase (or weeks 52-60 from start of treatment) are estimated to be 14.0 mcg/mL and 4.1 mcg/mL, respectively, for 180 mg dose or 28.0 mcg/mL and 8.1 mcg/mL, respectively, for 360 mg dose.
Risankizumab is immunogenic, like other therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. Clinical trials have shown antibodies-to-risankizumab occur at rates of about 24% for plaque psoriasis, 12% for psoriatic arthritis, and 3.4% for Crohn disease.
Lower limit of quantitation=1.0 mcg/mL
The optimal therapeutic concentration of risankizumab associated with favorable outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease is not known at this time. In Crohn disease, the recommendation is to use the lowest concentration that maintains response. According to the package insert, concentrations of risankizumab at steady state ranged from 4.1 mcg/mL (trough) to 14 mcg/mL (peak) at 180 mg dosing and 8.1 mcg/mL (trough) to 28 mcg/mL (peak) at 360 mg dosing. Steady state is achieved 28 weeks after initiation of therapy for the dosing regimen in Crohn disease.
Other therapeutic thresholds vary according to the disease, treatment regimen, and response or lack of response to therapy.
Lipemic samples will be rejected.
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2. Willrich MA, Murray DL, Barnidge DR, et al. Quantitation of infliximab using clonotypic peptides and selective reaction monitoring by LC-MS/MS. Int Immunopharmacol. 2015;28(1):513-520
3. Ladwig PM, Barnidge DR, Willrich MA. Mass spectrometry approaches for identification and quantitation of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies in the clinical laboratory. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2017;24(5):e00545-16
4. Feagan, B. G., J. Panes, M. Ferrante, et al. Risankizumab in patients with moderate to severe Crohn's disease: an open-label extension study. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2018;3(10):671-680
5. Ferrante, M., R. Panaccione, F. Baert, et al. Risankizumab as maintenance therapy for moderately to severely active Crohn's disease: results from the multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, withdrawal phase 3 FORTIFY maintenance trial. Lancet. 2022;399(10340):2031-2046
6. Skyrizi. Package insert. AbbVie, Inc.; Revised June 2024. Accessed October 4, 2024. Available at www.rxabbvie.com/pdf/skyrizi_pi.pdf
Risankizumab is extracted from serum and measured by liquid chromatography mass spectrometry.(Unpublished Mayo method)
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This test was developed and its performance characteristics determined by Mayo Clinic in a manner consistent with CLIA requirements. It has not been cleared or approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.
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Test Id | Test Order Name | Order LOINC Value |
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RISA | Risankizumab, S | 105041-8 |
Result Id | Test Result Name |
Result LOINC Value
Applies only to results expressed in units of measure originally reported by the performing laboratory. These values do not apply to results that are converted to other units of measure.
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621304 | Risankizumab, S | 105041-8 |
Change Type | Effective Date |
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New Test | 2024-03-26 |