NCT05717179
Ultrasound to Guide Treatment Decisions in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis According to a T2T Approach
Recruiting · Not Applicable · Italian Society for Rheumatology · registry updated 2025-05-14
Inclusion and exclusion lines below are quoted from ClinicalTrials.gov. No match score is shown, because a score needs a person's age, biomarkers, and treatment dates. Confirm the record with the study team.
Population Patients with a diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), moderate or high clinical disease activity (CDAI\>10) despite conventional synthetic (cs)DMARD(s) or bs-ts-DMARDs therapy for ≥3 months, and a maximum of 2 swollen joints (out of 44 joints) Study design Randomised multicentre, parallel-arm clinical study Primary objective Non-inferiority of the experimental arm (i.e. clinical therapy together with ultrasound guided treatment decision) in comparison to the control arm (clinically guided decision) concerning the proportion of patients reaching low disease activity (CDAI ≤10) and a minimal clinical important improvement (MCII: improvement of ≥6 points if starting from moderate disease activity, any case starting from high disease activity and achieving low disease activity) or remission according to ACR/EULAR index-based remission criteria (CDAI ≤2.8/Boolean remission) at week 24. Intervention This is a randomised multicentre, national, parallel-arm clinical study....
Inclusion
- Classification of RA according to the ACR-EULAR 2010 criteria
- Age of the patients: 18 to 84 years
- Patients with moderate or high disease activity according to CDAI (\>10)
- Maximum of 2 clinically swollen joints out of a 44-joint count
- Current stable treatment with a single csDMARD or bDMARD or tsDMARD for at least 3 months
- No glucocorticoid therapy or stable glucocorticoid dose for at least 4 weeks and at a maximum dose of 5 mg/day prednisone equivalent.
Exclusion
- Complete (clinically evident) destruction of any joint to be investigated by ultrasound as judged by the physician
- Current RA-related vasculitis or other active systemic (i.e. extraarticular) RA-manifestation except for rheumatoid nodules, which in the opinion of the investigator would expose the study subject to a high risk of morbidity or mortality
- Initial arthritis manifestations before the age of 18 years
- Planned surgery within the study period for any of the joints investigated either clinically or by sonography
- Current severe medical illness requiring hospitalization
- Active infection or active malignancy at screening \<5 years