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Filter by:Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) is a disease that represents a considerable economic burden to the health care system as well as the whole society. The introduction of biologic therapy, though allowing for superior clinical and work productivity outcomes, has significantly increased direct medical costs of AS. Therefore it is important to weight the benefits against the costs to gain a basis for decisions on health care resource allocation. Due to differences in the health care systems, health insurance and general country settings, health economic data cannot be generalized across countries. Such data is generally lacking in Central and Eastern European countries, especially in the field of rheumatology. This study will evaluate selected health care resource utilization and productivity losses in patients with AS during and before the treatment with adalimumab in clinical practice. The impact of adalimumab therapy on the extent of outpatient attendance, hospitalizations and sick leave, which could be influenced by relatively short-term adalimumab therapy, will be taken into account, and in relation to treatment response. There is no published data on the impact of adalimumab therapy on hospitalizations and outpatient attendance in patients with AS. Further, data on health care resource utilization and sick leave before and during adalimumab therapy could be translated into financial cost estimates (potential cost savings) by each participating country, based on their own country specific cost per resource.
1. Our hypotheses on the relationship between periodontitis and AS are as follows; - The prevalence of periodontitis is higher in AS patients group than that of non-AS control group - Anti-TNF-α therapy would favorably affect the disease course of periodontitis. 2. Based on our hypotheses, the specific objectives of the present proposal are as follows; - The primary objective is to compare the prevalence rate of periodontitis between AS patient group and non-AS group. - The secondary objectives will be: - To observe the carriage rate of P. gingivalis in AS and non-AS groups - To identify clinical parameters associated with the severity of periodontitis in AS group. - To compare the progression of periodontitis at weeks 12 and 24 between AS and non-AS groups or between AS patients with and without anti-TNF-α treatment
The investigators will recruit active ankylosing spondylitis patients for injection treatment of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells (a prospective, open-label, masculine medicine controlled(NSAIDs), clinical trial), and collect their Peripheral Blood Lymphocyte (PBMCs) and sera before and after the treatment of 24 weeks to test the gene expression profiles and study related pathogenesis of AS
This CARRA Registry study will create a foundational database for rheumatic diseases of childhood using a novel informatics infrastructure developed as part of the larger clinical project. The creation of a CARRA-wide informatics infrastructure will enable efficient, observational, disease-related data capture across all CARRA sites for pediatric rheumatic diseases. The CARRA Registry study will demonstrate the feasibility of expanding to more data intensive registries for observational studies, comparative effectiveness research, pharmaceutical clinical trials and translational research.
To evaluate the effects of stretching exercise in patients with ankylosing spondylitis at quality of life, functional capacity in patients with BASDAI lower than 4.Evaluate 40 patients with the diagnose of ankylosing spondylitis according to the criteria of the American College of rheumatology provenient from FMUSP at Clinical Hospital of São Paulo.
This postmarketing study was conducted to describe prescribing patterns for etoricoxib (ARCOXIA®) in General Practice and describe the incidence of selected adverse events recorded in the United Kingdom (UK) Medicines and Health Care Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) General Practice Research Database (GPRD).
The objective of this study is to determine the difference in the annual incidence rate of uveitis attacks in participants with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) before start initial anti-TNF therapy and after treatment with golimumab (GLM).
This study assessed the efficacy and safety of secukinumab in patients with active ankylosing spondylitis who were tolerant to or had an inadequate response to NSAIDs, DMARDs and / or TNFα inhibitor
This study is a large national multicenter, longitudinal, prospective follow-up of patients presenting with early inflammatory back pain in order to set up a database to facilitate several investigations on diagnosis, prognosis, epidemiology, pathogenesis and medico-economics in the field of early inflammatory back pain and spondyloarthritis
Patients with spondyloarthritis, already treated by TNF blocker (adalimumab, etanercept or infliximab), and in stable low disease activity for at least 6 months, will be randomized into 2 groups: either keeping on their usual treatment with stable doses or progressive spacing of injections of their treatment. Follow-up will be done every 3 months during 12 months, with regular monitoring of disease activity and, in patients from the group "spacing", modification of the rhythm of injections according to health state and predefined protocol.