RETRO (REduction of Therapy in RA Patients in Ongoing Remission) — RETRO  

Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Trial

Official title: A Phase 3, Multicenter, Randomized, Open, Prospective, Controlled, Parallel Group Study of Reduction of Therapy in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis in Ongoing Remission.

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

This is a phase 3, multicenter, randomized, open, prospective, controlled, parallel-group intervention study in 318 patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis. The study is composed of 3 phases: a pre-randomization phase for up to 10 days followed by a 1-year randomized, open three arm treatment phase for each patient, followed by a 5-year observational phase for all patients still in remission.

Clinical Trial Description

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is characterized by progressive synovitis leading to degradation of articular cartilage leading to erosions in juxtaarticular bones driven by auto antibodies. Few clinical studies could show that quick and thorough control of inflammatory processes could stop degradation processes [17, 18, 19, 20, 21] and had presumably better prognosis of remission than untreated and/or uncontrolled RA disease [20]. These studies aimed at low disease activity [20], often focused on early RA [18, 19], evaluating different therapy strategies, mostly escalating instead of deescalating medications [20, 21]. Real "RA- in - remission" or therapy reduction studies are missing up to now, even if first small trials focusing on one preparation showed promising results [16, 17].

In this study all conventional medications in usual combinations are being evaluated for the treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis in different stages of disease duration. The study is scheduled as a 365-day (12-months), phase 3 multicenter, randomized, open, prospective, controlled, parallel-group intervention study in 318 patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Based on the results of the clinical studies mentioned above, and the need for a guideline with therapy proposals for RA- patients in remission all current preparations will be evaluated in subjects under the controlled setting of a clinical study. The information obtained from this study will assess the formulation of new guidelines regarding patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in remission. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Arthritis
• Arthritis, Rheumatoid
• Rheumatoid Arthritis

• NCT number: NCT02779114
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Medical School
• Contact: Georg Schett, Prof. Dr. univ.
• Phone: +49-9131-8533418
• Email: georg.schett@uk-erlangen.de
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 3
• Start date: January 2009
• Completion date: June 2018