Active clinical trials for "Arthritis, Rheumatoid"

The purpose of the study is to determine in a randomized controlled trial (RCT), the efficacy of eccentric exercise training in restoring muscle mass and function in patients with rheumatoid cachexia.

This observational, prospective, open-label, multi-center study will evaluate the effectiveness in disease reduction and the safety of RoActemra/Actemra (tocilizumab) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Data will be collected for 11 months.

This study will evaluate if the combination of resistance exercise and protein supplementation will increase muscle strength and muscle mass among older individuals with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

This will be an open label multicenter study of the safety and efficacy of an active implantable vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) device in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Patients who complete study SPM-005 will be enrolled in this study at the time of the last visit of the preceding study.

This study will treat moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis with MRC375 (either 75 mg 3 times a day, 150 mg 3 times a day or placebo 3 times a day)in patients 18 years of age or older that can be currently on low doses of methotrexate or can stop treatment of current RA medications to enter the study. Safety of MRC375 will also be evaluated. There are up to 8 clinic visits over 24 weeks.

Aim of the study was to investigate the effectiveness (functional ability and physical capacity) and safety (disease activity and damage of the joints) of long-term high-intensity weight-bearing exercises in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).The training proved to be safe and effective.

This study evaluates the safety and therapeutic effects of single-dose human umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cells (UC-MSCs) on the adult patients with moderate/severe Rheumatoid Arthritis accompany with anemia or/and Interstitial pulmonary disease. Half of participants will receive UC-MSCs and keep the present medication,while the other half will receive a placebo and keep the present medication.

The investigator's hypothesis is that tai chi sessions would increase physical activity of patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis. The main objective is to study the effect of tai chi sessions (16 vs.0) on total physical activity of Rheumatoid Arthritis patients, compared to a control group without tai chi.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the leading chronic inflammatory rheumatism, with a prevalence of about 0.4% of the population. First-line therapy with synthetic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (including methotrexate) is insufficiently effective in 40% of cases. These patients are then treated with biotherapies. The use of these bio-drugs increases each year, becoming a public health issue and a considerable economic burden. Besides, their growth is just beginning, as they are among the major purveyors of pharmacy innovations. There are about ten bio-drugs currently on the market for rheumatoid arthritis with an average annual treatment cost of 8 to 12 K € per patient. This cost is 20 times higher than that of synthetic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs. However, among patients treated with biotherapies, clinical practice shows that about one-third will not respond to the selected drug. In the case of non-response, practitioners currently have no choice but to perform an empirical rotation between the different treatments, because no tool capable of predicting the response or non-response to these molecules is currently available. The study is a prospective, phase III, controlled, multicenter, and randomized, single-blind (patient) clinical trial. Intervention arm: Prescription of biotherapy (rituximab, adalimumab, abatacept) using SinnoTest® software Control arm: Prescription of biotherapy without the SinnoTest® software which corresponds to current practice (all biotherapies). In addition, a sub study will be carried out within this trial to analyse the proteomic profile of the patients included and their modification throughout the study. To study the clinical and pharmacoeconomic impact after 6 months of the use of the SinnoTest® predictive tool in patients with rheumatoid arthritis who have failed to a first anti-TNF biologic agent compared to usual care.

This study is a multicenter, randomized, double-blinded, controlled trial with two parallel arms. The aim of the study is to evaluate whether Chinese herbal medicine Qing Re Huo Xue (QRHX) combined with methotrexate (MTX) might be better than MTX alone for patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA).