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Filter by:A study to describe the one-year persistence in participants treated by Flixabi (infliximab) or Imraldi (Adalimumab) as prescribed by the physician for each of the 5 following indications: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA), Crohn's Disease (CD) [adults and children] and Ulcerative Colitis (UC) [adults for both treatments and children only for Flixabi].
The purpose of this study is to verify the superiority of ASP015K in combination with MTX or with other disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) over placebo in terms of efficacy in participants with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who had an inadequate response or intolerance to MTX, as measured by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 20 response rate at Week 24. This study will also evaluate the pharmacokinetics and safety of ASP015K as well as efficacy and safety of long-term treatment with ASP015K (52 weeks).
Robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty (TKA) was introduced to attempt to enhance the precision of bone preparation, component alignment and ultimately improve clinical results and survivorship of TKA. Although several published data suggest that bone preparation, and knee component alignment were improved by using robotic assistance, there is no high-quality evidence from randomized trials at long-term of which investigators are aware evaluating whether the improved bone preparation and knee component alignment improved clinical function or longevity of the TKA.
The purpose of this study is to explore the safety, tolerability and activity of Nivolumab, a PD-1 inhibitor, in cohorts of patients with autoimmune disease. Two cohorts of patients will be enrolled, based on autoimmune disease type. Patients will be screened within 28 days prior to the start of dosing. Eligible patients will be enrolled in either of the two cohorts. Patients will receive treatment every two weeks, in an outpatient setting. One cycle is a 28-day period, with Nivolumab given on days 1 and 15 of a 28-day cycle. Subjects will be permitted to continue treatment beyond initial RECIST 1.1.
Early Check provides voluntary screening of newborns for a selected panel of conditions. The study has three main objectives: 1) develop and implement an approach to identify affected infants, 2) address the impact on infants and families who screen positive, and 3) evaluate the Early Check program. The Early Check screening will lead to earlier identification of newborns with rare health conditions in addition to providing important data on the implementation of this model program. Early diagnosis may result in health and development benefits for the newborns. Infants who have newborn screening in North Carolina will be eligible to participate, equating to over 120,000 eligible infants a year. Over 95% of participants are expected to screen negative. Newborns who screen positive and their parents are invited to additional research activities and services. Parents can enroll eligible newborns on the Early Check electronic Research Portal. Screening tests are conducted on residual blood from existing newborn screening dried blood spots. Confirmatory testing is provided free-of-charge for infants who screen positive, and carrier testing is provided to mothers of infants with fragile X. Affected newborns have a physical and developmental evaluation. Their parents have genetic counseling and are invited to participate in surveys and interviews. Ongoing evaluation of the program includes additional parent interviews.
Single-Open Label Study to Assess Changes in the Immune Profile in Response to Treatment with Intravenous Abatacept Adults with Rheumatoid Arthritis who are Naive to Biologic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs
In this study investigators propose to address the following hypotheses: 1) Reduction in dietary sodium will decrease inflammation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). 2) Reduction in dietary sodium will decrease blood pressure in patients with RA. 3) Reduction in dietary sodium will decrease tissue sodium in patients with RA.
In the Care in Rheumatoid Arthritis (CareRA) trial (NCT01172639) about 70% of early RA patients are in remission at the 2 year evaluation point independent of the combination scheme used. Interesting to see is that the 30% of insufficient responders can be identified in an early stage of the treatment course. The purpose of the present study is to investigate if, for patients with an insufficient response to a COBRA-Slim regimen, accelerated access to a short course of anti-TNF therapy already early after treatment initiation (from w8 until w32) could improve outcomes compared to a more traditional treat to target sequence.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a chronic, inflammatory condition with increased mortality from cardiovascular disease, is associated with high health care related costs and decreased productivity. Currently, nonpharmacological management guidelines recommend increasing low levels of physical activity in this group to improve health including cardiovascular health, yet research has shown that people who have RA have reduced levels of PA. Interventions targeting PA behaviour in this population have had limited effect to date due to lack of patient involvement in designing the intervention, poor measurement of PA, lack of behaviour change theory underpinning the intervention and have tended to include people who already have some level of PA. Work to underpin a robust intervention to improve PA in this group has been undertaken by members of this study group including validation of an objective measure PA in RA and interviews with people who have RA and rheumatology health professionals to aid in designing an intervention to promote PA. The aim of this pilot randomised controlled trial (RCT) is to examine the feasibility of a physiotherapist led, behaviour change theory informed, PA intervention to promote PA in people who have RA who have low levels of current PA. This pilot study will determine the rate of recruitment to the study and also determine the acceptability of the intervention to the participants as well as test the feasibility of the secondary disease/PA focused outcome measures. Participants will be recruited from rheumatology clinics in a large teaching hospital. Participants meeting inclusion criteria will be randomised into an eight week PA intervention (four sessions delivered over an eight week period by a trained physiotherapist) or a control group (PA information leaflet). This pilot randomised study will provide valuable information for the scaling up of a primary care based intervention for this important patient group and in doing so provide an achievable, pragmatic intervention for busy clinicians, who need feasible interventions to appropriately manage complex chronic conditions like RA in a busy primary care setting.
The purpose of this study is to develop a French language version of the Compliance-Questionnaire-Rheumatology for use in French and Francophone rheumatology services