Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Assessment of Therapeutic Response of Tofacitinib in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

Summary

This proposal will evaluate if musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) measures or multi-biomarker disease activity (MBDA) improve in patients treated with tofacitinib over 3 months, and whether early MSUS measures/MBDA can predict response to therapy.

Timeline

Start

2016-02-16

Primary completion

2017-09-29

Completion

2017-09-29

Publications

• Kim SK, Jung UH, Kim JW, Choe JY. The beneficial effect of baricitinib on ultrasound-detected synovial inflammation and bone damage in rheumatoid arthritis: Preliminarily data from single center-based observational study for 24 weeks. Medicine (Baltimore). 2021 Jul 30;100(30):e26739. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000026739.
• Razmjou AA, Brook J, Elashoff D, Kaeley G, Choi S, Kermani T, Ranganath VK. Ultrasound and multi-biomarker disease activity score for assessing and predicting clinical response to tofacitinib treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. BMC Rheumatol. 2020 Oct 19;4:55. doi: 10.1186/s41927-020-00153-4. eCollection 2020.
• Choate EA, Kaeley GS, Brook J, Altman RD, FitzGerald JD, Floegel-Shetty AR, Elashoff DA, Ranganath VK. Ultrasound detects synovitis in replaced and other surgically operated joints in rheumatoid arthritis patients. BMC Rheumatol. 2020 Feb 3;4:8. doi: 10.1186/s41927-019-0107-2. eCollection 2020.

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