Active clinical trials for "Spondylitis"

This prospective, non-interventional, research registry is designed to study the comparative safety and comparative effectiveness of approved Jak Inhibitors treatment for RA-PsA-SpA in a cohort of patients and theirs controls cared for by rheumatologists across Latin América (LA).

Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is an immune-mediated inflammatory disease primarily affecting the axial skeleton. The most frequent axSpA symptom is chronic, often inflammatory back pain that might be difficult to distinguish from other causes of chronic back pain. Many participants report persistent pain, including back pain, which impacts disease activity and and impairs quality of life while evoking typical disease burden such as sleep disturbance, social isolation, loss of productivity, as well as anxiety and depression. This study will assess the real-world effectiveness of upadacitinib on early and sustained disease control, and the association between pain and clinical/patient-reported outcomes in axSpA participants. Upadacitinib is being developed for the treatment of axSpA. Approximately 352 adult participants with active axSpA will be enrolled in Germany. Participants will receive oral upadacitinib tablets as prescribed by the physician prior to enrolling in this study in accordance with the terms of the local marketing authorization and professional and reimbursement guidelines with regards to dose, population and indication. The overall duration of the study is approximately 52 weeks. There may be a higher burden for participants in this study compared to usual standard of care due to study procedures. Participants will attend regular visits per routine clinical practice. The effect of the treatment will be checked by medical assessments, checking for side effects, and questionnaires.

This Study is to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of Adalloce in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis and Ankylosing Spondylitis, An Observational, Prospective Study

Autoimmune diseases are the consequence of an abnormality of the immune system, leading it to attack components of our own body. They have a wide variety of presentations. They preferentially affect women, and often at a young age. Systemic lupus erythematosus, for example, most often occurs between the ages of 15 and 40. Inflammatory rheumatism, such as spondyloarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis, is less prevalent in women, but also affects young people, and is particularly common. Several disease-modifying treatments exist, depending on the severity and evolutivitý of the disease. Some are contraindicated or not recommended during pregnancy and therefore require supervision of pregnancy plans. In addition, some treatments have an immunosuppressive activitý, which implies an annual screening of cervical lesions by cervico-uterine smear. In this context, an adapted gynecological follow-up seems indispensable. The rheumatologist and the internist physician have a crucial role in advising and referring patients to their gynecological colleagues. Studying the qualitý of this gynecological follow-up in a cohort of patients with autoimmune disease or inflammatory rheumatism is of major interest.

Current pharmacological management of inflammatory rheumatism and in particular axial SpA remains imperfect. Only 50% of patients respond to the most effective biotherapies, and many of them are only partially relieved. In addition, these are extremely expensive treatments that expose them to the risk of potentially serious side effects. Compelling evidence indicates that gut dybiosis could be a critical trigger of inflammation in axial SpA and thus correcting dysbiosis represents an attractive way of reversing the pathogenic process.The efficacy of FMT in patients with axial SpA has never been studied. This randomized double-blind study will be the first to assess feasability of FMT in axial SpA, the capacity of this procedure to restore healthy microbiome, its tolerance and its potential efficacy on disease activity. If sucessfull, this trial would set the path to larger-scale clinical trials of FMT to treat axial SpA.

Background : The toll-like receptor is an essential receptor that stimulates the innate immunity response. In tuberculosis, toll-like receptors, particularly the TLR-2, and TLR-4 are crucial in recognizing various ligands with a lipoprotein structure in the bacilli. Vitamin D deficiency leads to lower expression of these receptors, Hence the immune response against Mycobacterium tuberculosis will be altered. Various studies addressed the importance of vitamin D supplementation in pulmonary tuberculosis but the effect of vitamin D in extrapulmonary tuberculosis, particularly spondylitis tuberculosis is not sufficiently identified. Objectives: To assess the effect of oral vitamin D supplementation on the expression of TLR-2, TLR-4, and clinical outcomes in spondylitis tuberculosis patients. Methodology: This study proposes a randomized clinical trial of oral vitamin D supplementation in spondylitis tuberculosis patients. Multiple arms will be established with different doses and control groups. The outcome of interest includes the clinical outcomes, the expression of TLR-2, and TLR 4 Hypothesis : It is assumed that oral supplementation of Vitamin D will increase the activation of Toll-Like Receptors and improves the clinical condition of Spondylitis Tuberculosis patients

We established a nationwide biologics and targeted synthetic DMARDs registry (in the form of an inception cohort) to study the safety profiles in rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and psoriatic arthritis patients receiving biologics or targeted synthetic DMARDs. As this registry is to observe the "real world" use of anti-rheumatic treatments under routine clinical practice, no hypothesis to prove is planned.

Participants maintaining stable disease activity of Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) with standard-dose tumor necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi) treatment will randomly split into two groups: maintaining standard-dose TNFi, versus reduced-dose TNFi. The proportion of participants not underwent flare between the two groups will be analyzed.

The investigators plan to conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness and the cost effectiveness of an on-line eLearning program (entitled Employment and Arthritis: Making it Work) designed to help people with inflammatory arthritis stay employed. The program also includes assessments with 1) an occupational therapist, and 2) a vocational rehabilitation counsellor at the end of the program to help participants identify and obtain necessary changes at work. People from three provinces will be recruited from collaborators' patient and program recipient lists. The study group will receive the program intervention and the control group will receive "usual care" and printed educational material. All participants will be followed for five years. The effectiveness of the program at improving at work productivity and reducing work cessation will be evaluated compared to a control group receiving printed material on employment and arthritis.

The overall aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary combined clinic intervention compared to usual care in a population of patients with two or more Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs).