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Filter by:The aim of the investigator's study is to compare the efficacy of manual therapy and exercise practices compared to exercise practice in patients with Glenohumeral Arthritis. Thirty volunteer patients will include into the study.
The aim of this observational study will be to recruit 100 Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) patients beginning on their biologic therapy and asses, both clinically and with the use of ultrasound (US), how enthesitis responds to biologic treatment. The decision to start treatment with a biologic therapy will be made by the patients' usual clinical rheumatology team, as part of their standard clinical care. This is independent of the study. Patients in whom treatment with these drugs for their PsA has been recommended will then be invited to participate in this study.They will then be commenced on biologic therapy at doses in line with the Summary of Product characteristics (SPC) for the product and followed up in the hospital outpatient clinic. Patients will have a full history taken and clinical exam performed prior to commencing on their prescribed biologic. The patient's history, Health Assessment Questionnaire scores and biobanking samples will be taken by the co-investigator. They will also calculate the patients tender and swollen joint score, dactylitis score, skin score, nail score and clinical enthesitis score.They will then have their tender entheseal points scanned as well as those as per the MASEI (Madrid Sonographic Enthesitis Index ) protocol by a single rheumatologist. The rheumatologist will be trained in ultrasound and will perform the scans blinded to this information both at initial consultation and at subsequent reviews. The patient will then commence their biologic treatment as planned at a separate review as per usual practise with their clinical team. Follow-up and final assessment at 4 months (±2 weeks) after starting biologic will include the clinical and ultrasound assessments as per the initial review and outlined in the schedule of assessments. They will also have a final blood sample taken at this point.
Prospective study to investigate the correlation between CD39/CD73 expression by the different T lymphocyte subpopulations in the blood and synovial fluid (if available) into patients with chronic inflammatory rheumatism RA and PsA types, with the rheumatic activity, the background therapy (with Methotrexate (MTX)) and the response to this treatment.
In a preliminary MRI study of healthy volunteers's hands investigators showed that the suppression of the fat signal obtained by the Dixon sequences is greater than that obtained by the "classic" CHESS sequences with a better T1-weighted image quality. The investigators goal now is to compare these sequences in the quantification of the inflammatory activity of rheumatoid arthritis by the RAMRIS score. To investigators knowledge, only one study compared those two types of sequence with many limitations including a limited number of patients included.
This clinical trial will look at scans of the hands and wrists taken from healthy control subjects (HCs) and from subjects with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Before each scan, subjects will be given an injection of Tc 99m tilmanocept to help the scan identify inflammation in the hand and wrist joints, which can be a part of the RA disease. Data from the scans will be used to calculate a number referred to as tilmanocept uptake value (or TUV) that is a measure of how much Tc 99m tilmanocept has located in the joints. The questions this trial aims to answer are: - How consistent are the scan results (TUVs) when the scans are repeated over time? - What are normal TUVs in healthy people? This will help define abnormally high values in people with RA. - Are TUVs calculated early after a person starts a new drug to treat RA able to predict whether that person will have a good response to the drug later on (after it has had time to take full effect several weeks later)?
In this study, the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in psoriatic and psoriatic arthritis patients as well as the parameters of metabolic syndrome will be examined. At the same time, the levels of omentin and visfatin adipokines associated with metabolic syndrome and obesity will be measured by measuring the disease severity (by PASI psoriasis, clinical activity score for psoriatic arthritis). The patients who accepted to participate in the study , who were admitted to the dermatology outpatient clinic were included in the study. For the blood tests required after the examination, 2 tubes of blood will be taken for the measurement of omentin and visfatin. 80 psoriasis, 40 psoriatic arthritis and 60 healthy volunteers were planned to be studied. AHA / NHLBI, 2005 (revised ATP III criteria) criterion for the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome will be used. Omentin and visfatin levels are compared with the severity of the disease for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, and it will be examined whether it is proinflammatory or antiinflammatory.
INTRODUCTION: The Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common type of joint disease, its features include joint space narrowing, osteophytes formation of the joint margins, motor deficit, reduced strength, and persistent pain. As a treatment option physiotherapy has several resources for the patient approach. However, the effect of treatment is not only the application of therapeutic techniques and resources but also to existing contextual factors such as the therapeutic alliance. OBJECTIVE: To assess the effects of an intervention with the focus on positive therapeutic alliance in subjects OA knee on pain and disability. METHODS: This is a randomized study of two arms with a blind evaluator. 40 subjects were randomized into 2 groups: group 1 "Kinesio Taping® KT" group 2 " Kinesio Taping® with therapeutic alliance KT+AT". Both groups received the application of Kinesio Taping® method as the concepts of the original method. The group "KT+AT" session was conducted in order to increase the relationship between the therapist and the patient.
The aim of this study is to assess the incidence and the clinical and therapeutic characteristics of reactive arthritis and to compare them with those of a historical cohort. We hypothesised that improved hygiene together with prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections may have decreased the incidence of reactive arthritis.
The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of filgotinib on semen parameters in adult males with active rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, or non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis. Results of this study may be pooled with the results of a separate study being conducted in participants with inflammatory bowel disease (Protocol GS-US-418-4279; NCT03201445) with the same objective.
The study is a prospective single-centre randomised controlled trial to examine the feasibility of a fully powered randomised controlled trial to examine if HPLC-SRM-MS guided intervention is superior to standard clinical care in improving clinical, behavioural and health-economy outcomes in RA patients prescribed MTX. The trial will consist of 4 stages: - Screening (~-2 weeks) - Recruitment, consent, randomisation, data collection, examination and blood sampling - baseline visit 1 (time point 0) - Intervention - telephone appointment (visit 2, intervention arm) - Outcome - visit 3 - Process evaluation - visit 4 Prior to any trial specific procedures, the participant must have signed the informed consent form (ICF). The trial will offer a small financial compensation for successfully recruited patients toward the costs of parking/refreshments/travel costs/inconvenience related to attending visits