The purpose is to study the relationship between RA disease activity based on Doppler quantification and the subsequent clinical response (EULAR response) to treatment with Adalimumab during 12 months. The purpose is also to compare the Doppler quantification with conventional clinical methods and semiquantitative Doppler assessment.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
60
Adalimumab 40 mg eow (totally 27 doses/patient) manufactured by Abbott will be distributed as add-on therapy to DMARD
Linköping University Hospital
Linköping, Sweden
The karolinska Institute
Stockholm, Sweden
The proportion of different clinical (EULAR) response
The primary endpoint will be the proportion of different clinical (EULAR) response (good, moderate, no response)\* to add-on therapy with anti-TNF treatment at 6 months follow-up visit in patients with activity versus in those without activity measured by Doppler ultrasound at baseline.
Time frame: 6 months from BL
The proportion of patients with good response to add-on therapy
The proportion of patients with good response to add-on therapy (measured by both Doppler and clinical assessment) at 6 and 12 months follow-up visits in two groups of patients, those who achieve low disease activity according to Doppler assessment at 3 months visit versus those who did not.
Time frame: 6 and 12 months from BL
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