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Administrative data

NCT number NCT02618954
Other study ID # 9186
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date September 2013
Est. completion date July 2016

Study information

Verified date June 2018
Source University Hospital, Montpellier
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The objective of this study is to determine the longitudinal relation between clinical remission and ultrasound (US) remission in Rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

At a patient level, US-detected residual synovitis (evaluated both by US grey-scale signals and power Doppler signals) is frequent in patients with RA in clinical remission. Several longitudinal studies reveal an association of US-detected residual synovitis and risk of relapse and radiographic progression, in individual patients and joints, over 1-2 years.

However, the longitudinal relation between clinical remission and US remission is not so well-known and it is possible that clinical remission arrive before ultrasound remission. Thus arise the question as to whether the presence of US-detected residual synovitis require to adapt the treatment to ultrasound findings or to simply increase the patient care.

The investigator propose to conduct a prospective, bi-center, non randomized study.


Description:

The study population will include all RA patient at least 18 years old in clinical remission for less than 6 month.

The primary endpoint (ability of US-detected residual synovitis to predict relapse or radiographic progression in individual patients and joints) will be evaluated afer 12 months of follow-up The total follow-up will be 12 months with a follow-up every 3 months. In addition to the standard care, each follow-up will include an ultrasound examination of 40 joints and 8 tendons


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 116
Est. completion date July 2016
Est. primary completion date July 2016
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Age = 18 years

- PR fulfilling ARC / EULAR (European League Against Rheumatism) 2010 criteria

- Patient treated by DMARDs (disease-modifying antirheumatic drug)

- Patient in confirmed remission for less than 6 months

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patient participating simultaneously in another clinical study with blind treatment

- Patient participating simultaneously in another clinical study involving decreasing of drug dose

- Patient in post clinical study exclusion period

- patients subject to legal protection measures

- Patient unable to read French

- Pregnant or breast-feeding women

- patient treated with Rituximab

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Other:
Articular ultrasound
(Device : Ultrasound) : Articular ultrasound of the Disease Activity Score (DAS) 28 articular joint

Locations

Country Name City State
France Montpellier University Hospital Montpellier Herault

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
University Hospital, Montpellier

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary 1 year pejorative evolution Number of patient with a clinical relapse 1 year after inclusion
Secondary Structural progression Number of patient with a structural progression of the illness 1 year after inclusion
Secondary RA (Rheumatoid Arthritis) remission duration Evaluation of the remission duration (patient in both clinical and ultrasound remission) At each follow-up (3,6,9 and 12 months after inclusion)
Secondary RA ultrasound remission duration Evaluation of the ultrasound remission duration At each follow-up (3,6,9 and 12 months after inclusion)
Secondary RA clinical remission duration Evaluation of the clinical remission duration At each follow-up (3,6,9 and 12 months after inclusion)
Secondary Clinical relapse at one year Evaluation of the probability of a clinical relapse at 1 year based on the ultrasound data 1 year after inclusion
Secondary Persistence of ultrasound synovitis (lenght of RA evolution, lenght of clinical remission, anti-CCP, biological inflammatory symptom persistence, treatments) identifying initial factors that can explain persistence of ultrasound synovitis despite clinical remission At baseline
Secondary Radiographic progression at 1 year Evaluation at joint level the probability of a radiographic progression in presence of a non active synovitis 1 year after inclusion
Secondary Intra-observator reproductibility Evaluating the intra-observer reliability for US synovitis through study completion 1 year after inclusion