Active clinical trials for "Arthritis, Rheumatoid"

Recruited patients will include those about to begin Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drug) DMARD therapy or about to change DMARD therapy. Disease activity will be monitored systematically every 3 months by the Disease Activity Score. Changes in standard DMARD and/or anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor α (anti-TNFα) therapy will be made according to specific recommendations for patients receiving these therapies. Biomarker samples will be collected every 3 months and prior to change in DMARD and/or anti-TNF therapy as defined below. A blood sample (40 ml) for serum will be taken for biomarker studies and processed according to the international committee of Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) recommendations for the minimal handling of biomarker samples. A urine sample (20 ml) will also be taken and processed as for serum. Radiography (X-rays) will be conducted every 6 months (baseline, 6, 12, 18, 24 months). Patients will be followed for 2 years.

To quantify the incremental cost of infections in patients treated with etanercept, adalimumab or infliximab versus abatacept.

Premature Endothelial Dysfunction is present in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis.

The purpose of this study is to: To investigate the wrist joint synovial blood flow intensity and model by quantitative three-dimensional (3D) power Doppler ultrasonography (PDUS) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis before and after initiation of a new medicine and compare these data with routinely used clinical data and laboratory findings, such as pain score, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C-reactive protein (CRP) To investigate the intra-observer and inter-observer agreement of quantitative 3D PDUS assessment of the vascularity in wrist joints and knee joints using automatic volume scan.

This is an observational study to estimate the proportion of patients diagnosed with RA visiting a medical internist in a general hospital in Korea who are candidates for anti-TNF α therapy.

The goal of this study is to implement instruments that would increase the treating physician's awareness of the necessary tuberculosis screening when starting a new patient on infliximab (Remicade) therapy who has not reacted sufficiently to disease-modifying preparations, including methotrexate.

The study is a cross sectional, epidemiology study of disease severity for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis in four geographic regions in Australia (Illawarra, Sutherland, Hunter Urban and Hunter Rural).

The goal of the project is to study the risk of coccidioidomycosis (valley fever) in patients receiving anti-TNF and other biologic agents for inflammatory arthritis in Tucson, Arizona.

The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate a computer-based tool on the clinical management of patients with rheumatoid arthritis in Spain.

One of the biggest challenges in caring for patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA) is quantifying the degree of disease activity in any given joint. We have built a prototype device using well-established sensors to rapidly quantify surface swelling and heat in arthritic joints. The goal of our studies is to test the hypothesis that this Imager can improve the clinical assessment of arthritis.