Active clinical trials for "Arthritis, Rheumatoid"

The objective is to measure time delay from onset of symptoms to diagnosis and time to disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug treatments in Turkish patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The investigators will also evaluate actual work limitation status of patients and impact of demographic and clinical factors on work limitations in rheumatoid arthritis patients.

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis who have been well controlled with methotrexate plus infliximab may remain in remission or low disease activity without infliximab. And the chance of sustained remission increase by the addition of another DMARD, bucillamine, at the time of discontinuing infliximab. The BuSHIDO trial is the prospective, randomized, controlled study comparing MTX monotherapy and MTX plus bucillamine combination therapy as to the rate of disease flare after discontinuing infliximab.

The study was to explore the efficacy of adalimumab in subjects previously treated with infliximab and failed infliximab treatment due to lack of efficacy or intolerance. To explore the safety of adalimumab in subjects previously treated with infliximab.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a long-term autoimmune disease that is characterized by pain, stiffness, inflammation, swelling, and sometimes destruction of joints. RA usually requires lifelong treatment, including medications, physical therapy, exercise, education, and possibly surgery, but the course and severity of the disease can differ significantly from person to person. The purpose of this study is to identify genetic and other factors that determine the severity of RA in African Americans.

This is an observational study of composite indices, including the CLARA (CLinical ARthritis Activity) index, in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients in routine clinical practice in Italy in order to evaluate clinical remission and low disease activity. Data will be collected only from patients providing informed consent. In this study we aimed to assess the psychometric properties of a new composite instrument termed CLinical ARthritis Activity (PRO-CLARA) that uses only three PRO measures from among the 7 ACR Core Data Set. We hypothesized that this index would facilitate rapid and easy RA activity assessment in daily routine.

This is an epidemiological, multicenter, retrospective study to analyze the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in usual clinical practice in Spain. Two groups of patients will be analyzed: individuals who have had RA for two years or less (the "early RA" group) and individuals who have had RA for more than 2 years and who currently meet the ACR criteria for RA (the "established RA" group).

It is difficult to predict how a women with an autoimmune disease will do during pregnancy. Some women will improve, others will worsen. Some pregnancies progress normally and others become very complicated. The Duke Autoimmunity in Pregnancy (DAP) Registry will enroll women with autoimmune diseases, such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, and Sjogren's syndrome who wish to become, or already are, pregnant. We will follow these women throughout pregnancy to better understand how their autoimmune disease affects their pregnancy, and vice versa.

This is an observational study designed to follow patients with RA who have had an inadequate response to one or more anti-TNF therapies and who will receive Rituxan. Approximately 1000 patients in the United States with RA who have had an inadequate response to anti-TNF therapies and who will receive Rituxan therapy will be recruited. There is no protocol mandated treatment assignment in this study. Patients will be evaluated and treated according to their physician's standard practice and discretion.

Longterm followup of patients with rheumatoid arthritis 30 years after starting a baseline treatment with Methotrexate.

This six months non-interventional, observational, post-marketing, multi-center and local study will evaluate the differences in the use of corticosteroids between RA participants receiving TCZ or a TNF-inhibitor, in participants who have discontinued the use of a TNF-inhibitor as their first biological treatment.