Active clinical trials for "Arthritis"

The aim of this multi-center, prospective, non-interventional cohort study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Wangbi capsule for rheumatoid arthritis patients in the real-world setting.

The purpose of this study will establish total joint arthroplasty registry database in Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and collect patient-reported outcome.

The purpose of the study is to determine whether plasma levels of the collagen triple helix repeat containing (CTHRC1) protein can serve as a blood-based biomarker for diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) ,and furthermore its correlation with disease activity

This research will help doctors interested in the usefulness of a new test to discover hidden tuberculosis infections in patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This new test is called Quantiferon-Gold (QFT-G). After immune system medicines that block TNF-alpha (a protein manufactured by white blood cells to stimulate and activate the immune system in response to infection or cancer) started to be used, the rate of tuberculosis infections in patients treated with these medicines has increased. Doctors think that the investigators may be missing some tuberculosis infections that were hidden before the medicine is started. This new QFT-G test might better diagnose these hidden tuberculosis infections than the current tuberculosis skin test, also known as a PPD/TST. The investigators would like to compare these two tests to find out which is better at detecting these hidden infections. At the same time the investigators will measure the strength of the patient's immune system with a blood test. If you are being considered for a TNF-alpha inhibitor medicine, or are getting the patient's routine PPD/TST, the investigators are asking for the patient's participation.

This research work proposes the evaluation of the implementation of a tele-orientation program and tele-consultation to the adult population with RA attended at a specialized rheumatology center in Bogota, Colombia, over a period of three months, by means of a observational, analytical, cohort, prospective study that will include mixed methods for collecting information (quantitative and qualitative)

This study aims to analyses time to disease relapse of RA patients if TNF-α inhibitors are being tapered, the predictive factors that are associated with successful taper of TNF-α inhibitors. Also, investigate the effects associated with dose tapering of TNF-α inhibitors.

The aim of this study is to investigate the safety and effectiveness of tocilizumab (Actemra®) using Chinese Rheumatology Information Platform (CRIP) on Chinese Rheumatology Data Centre (CRDC, http://www.crdc.org.cn/) in Chinese RA patients.

Lactate levels are rapidly available and may potentially aid in diagnosing septic arthritis in a native joint. This study will determine the utility of synovial lactate in discriminating septic from aseptic arthritis.

Rheumatoid Arthritis is a chronic debilitating inflammatory autoimmune disease of unknown etiology .

Despite biologic drugs and improvements of inflammatory arthritis (IA) treatment, many patients with inflammatory arthritis still face increased absenteeism, reduced at-work productivity and report difficulties working and having to give up their jobs. Such professional limitation generates psychological stress and it felt generally as a premature social ageing. "Making-it-Work" is an intervention developed in English speaking Canada, which aims at enabling both patients and employers to intervene early during the course of inflammatory arthritis to reduce possible problems at work, and to prevent sick leave and future work disability in the long term and improve well-being at work. As part of the EVADE (Evaluation of the effectiVeness of an ADaptation of the Making it-Work intervention in a French Environment) project which aims at evaluating the effectiveness of an adaptation of the "Making-it-Work" intervention, to the French environment, the investigators propose : to identify the problems faced at work due to IA, patients needs, motivations to continue working and strategies helpful for maintaining employment. to develop a questionnaire to assess difficulties at work, needs for adaptations and support and motivations to work of patients with inflammatory arthritis.