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Filter by:This prospective study is to explore different predictive factors for response to steroid treatment in patients with PMR and/or GCA. It evaluates the association of endogenous GC suppression (plasma and urinary cortisol and cortisone) to the responsiveness of PMR/GCA to GCs.
The design of this study is generally divided into two parts: First, establish an isolated coronary arteritis cohort. Then, through the case-control study, the clinical characteristics of patients with isolated coronary arteritis and patients with coronary artery disease are compared and the preliminary screening criteria for patients are constructed. Then, through mass spectrometry flow cytometry and cytokine detection, the biomarkers related to immune inflammation related to the occurrence of coronary artery disease are discussed to provide clues for further exploring the pathogenesis; Subsequently, a prospective cohort study was conducted to compare the clinical characteristics and biomarkers of patients with or without adverse cardiovascular events by following up patients with coronary inflammation, and to explore the prognostic factors of patients with coronary inflammation.
In this double-blinded randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial, the aim is to determine the effect of supplemental hydrocortisone compared with placebo during mild to moderate physical or mental stress on health related quality of life in patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR)/giant cell arteritis (GCA) on ongoing low-dose prednisolone diagnosed with glucocorticoid-induced adrenal insufficiency. The main emphasis is on fatigue (primary outcome) and daily variation hereof during periods of stress.
1. Evaluate the effect of medical treatment and percutaneous transluminal pulmonary angioplasty on takayasu arteritis with pulmonary artery involvement 2. evaluate the efficacy of FAPI in predicting the activity and treatment efficacy of takayasu arteritis with pulmonary artery involvement
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of subcutaneously (s.c.) administered secukinumab 300 mg in combination with glucocorticoid taper regimen compared to placebo in combination with glucocorticoid taper regimen, in adult patients with new onset of giant cell arteritis (GCA) who are in clinical remission and who are eligible for treatment with glucocorticoid-monotherapy as per current clinical practice and treatment guidelines for the targeted participant population, thereby supporting health technology assessments (HTAs) of secukinumab in Germany.
Giant cell arteritis - Optimization of diagnostics
This is a prospective,open-labelled,multi-center,randomized clinical trial.It compares the clinical efficacy and safety of there 2 drugs in the treatment of relapse active Takayasu's arteritis patients.
The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare the efficacy and safety of tofacitinib and methotrexate based on prednisone therapy in patients with Takayasu arteritis
Tocilizumab and Sarilumab are first-line biological disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (bDMARD) which inhibits Interleukin 6 (IL-6) pathway through blockade of its receptor on the treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis and other rheumatic diseases as Giant Cell Arteritis, Still's disease and Idiopathic Juvenile Arthritis. At present, there is a lack of evidence to recommend the treatment of one bDMARD over another. Seeking for genetic biomarkers to predict response to treatment could be key towards a personalized treatment strategy in rheumatology. The investigators aime to evaluate whether functional single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the IL6R gene could predict response and/or toxicity in patients with rheumatic diseases treated with anti-IL-6 receptor drugs.
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) causes inflammation of the arteries and can lead to serious complications such as blindness, necessitating rapid diagnosis and treatment. Although older technology non-digital PET/CT scans are routinely used for the diagnosis of GCA in large arteries, they have not been able to reliably detect inflammation of the small arteries responsible for blindness. Recent technological advances have enabled PET/CT imaging of millimetric disease in the body, which are now able to resolve small arteries. In the proposed research study, patients who are suspected by their doctors to have GCA will undergo an ultrasound of the temporal arteries, and digital PET/CT scan after injection of radioactive glucose. Digital PET/CT scans will be interpreted for the presence of abnormal uptake in the large and small arteries, as well as for the presence of other causes of the patient's symptoms. The diagnostic accuracy of PET/CT and ultrasound will be evaluated with respect to an expert panel diagnosis of giant cell arteritis and compared. Results will be adjusted for lack of a perfect reference test using advanced statistics. The goal will be to see if digital PET/CT can become a single, integrated test to diagnose this disease.