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Gout in the ED and Improving Research Participation

The prevalence of gout has been steadily increasing over several decades and is correlated with the rising burden of obesity, chronic cardiac and renal disease; all conditions overrepresented in the Southeastern U.S. - particularly in African Americans. Through a novel emergency department led intervention we aim to improve the care patients with gout receive, both during acute exacerbations and long-term. A secondary goal of the project is to concurrently enhance participation of minorities in biomedical research in the Deep South.

Start: June 2021

Study of Efficacy and Safety of the Plasmapheresis Method With Albumin Compensation Compared With the Plasmapheresis Method Without Albumin Compensation for Aging Biomarkers Correction in Men and Women Aged 40 to 55 Years Old

Reaching active aging makes it important to implement new methods affecting the biological age of a person. Biochemical parameters of a blood test are aging biomarkers that are ones of the most accessible for testing. We know that, with age, there is increase in levels of LDL, triglycerides, homocysteine and other biomarkers relating the body state. Methods of extracorporeal hemocorrection showed good results in this area. For instance, the use of plasmapheresis is very effective during prophylaxis, treatment and rehabilitation after various diseases/injuries. The main effects of plasmapheresis are related to removal of endo- and exotoxins, including products of lipid peroxidation, and to draining effect as a result of a heavy flow of interstitial fluid containing products of pathometabolism into the blood stream within concentration gradient (by "dynamic equilibrium" in concentration of different substances in intracellular, interstitial and intravascular compartments). These effects are also related to release of receptors, their sensitization to their own neurohumoral regulation mechanisms, to insulin, in particular (as consequences, lower glucose tolerance, lower substrate glycation).

Start: May 2021

SToRytelling to Improve DiseasE Outcomes in GOut: The STRIDE-GO 2 Study

The objective is to test the efficacy of a patient-centered, culturally relevant narrative intervention, or "storytelling," based on the solid conceptual foundation of the narrative communication theory and the constructs of the Health Belief Model (HBM) to improve medication adherence and outcomes in chronic diseases among African-Americans (AA), using gout as an example. Gout is a chronic disease associated with chronic symptoms and disability interrupted by intermittent acute flares, similar to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) that leads to joint destruction if not treated appropriately. Due to the intermittently symptomatic nature of chronic conditions, patients often don't perceive disease severity and susceptibility to disease complications, and, therefore, may not balance the barriers and benefits to medication adherence. Storytelling in the patients' own voices has the power to directly and more effectively confront a patient's barriers to medication adherence, reinforce the benefits and provide useful cues to action. Storytelling promotes patient engagement when the patient identifies with the storyteller and can lead to a patient's recognition of the need to treat the condition and improve health outcomes, as shown by a meaningful improvement in blood pressure in a recent clinical trial in AAs with hypertension. The success of this project, combined with other published data, will represent a major step toward demonstrating the effectiveness of storytelling to improve medication adherence in chronic diseases and will address two VA research priority areas, i.e., health care disparities and health care delivery.

Start: May 2017

Relative Bioavailability Study to Assess an LC350189 Tablet Compared to an LC350189 Capsule in Healthy Adults

This is an open-label, randomized, crossover, single dose study. Two single doses of LC350189(tablet or capsule formulations) will be administered with a washout period of at least 4-day between the doses to investigate the relative bioavailability of LC350189 after administration via tablet formulation compared with capsule formulation and to evaluate basic systemic pharmacokinetic parameters of the tablet formulation compared to the capsule formulation of LC350189.

Start: August 2021

Effect of a New BI-specifiC Antibody Towards Dendritic Cells on Inflammation in Rheumatoid Arthritis

First, this study will evaluate, in vitro, the cellular composition of the synovial fluid from patient with rheumatoid arthritis, gout or osteoarthritis. Then samples will be test with a new format of bispecific antibody targeting dendritic cells. The production of IL-10 will be the principal criteria of judgment. Production of others cytokines like IL-1B, IL-6, IL-12 and IFN will be checked as well.

Start: December 2017

A Study to Assess Efficay and Safety of LC350189 Different Doses in Gout Patients With Hyperuricemia

The aim of this 12-week randomized multicenter double-blind parallel group placebo-controlled dose finding study is to assess the efficacy and safety of three different doses of LC350189 in subjects with hyperuricemia and a diagnosis of gout.

Start: December 2019

Anakinra vs Prednisone to Treat Gout Flare in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease Stage 4/5 or Renal Transplantation

Gout is secondary to urate crystal deposition after chronic elevation of serum urate level. Urate crystal deposition is responsible for acute and recurrent inflammatory flares which can be treated with colchicine, non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID), corticosteroid or interleukin (IL)-1b blockade. Colchicine and NSAID are contra-indicated in patients with chronic renal disease (CKD) stage 4/5 or with renal transplantation. In these patients gout flare is treated with high dose of corticosteroid or IL-1b inhibitors. Frequent use of high dose of corticosteroid can worsen gout comorbidities including mellitus diabetes type 2, hypertension, obesity and dyslipidemia. Anakinra, an IL-1b receptor antagonist, is efficient in gout flare in patients without CKD stage 4/5. The aim of this study is to demonstrate that anakinra is superior to prednisone to treat gout flare in patients with CKD 4/5 or renal transplantation.

Start: June 2021

COVID-19 Vaccination in Rheumatic Disease Patients

The research is being done to study the immune responses to COVID-19 vaccination in patients with rheumatic diseases.

Start: February 2021

Study of KRYSTEXXA® (Pegloticase) Plus Methotrexate in Patients With Uncontrolled Gout

One hundred fifty two participants were randomized. Study duration is approximately 86 weeks. The purpose of this study is to assess the potential for pegloticase with methotrexate (MTX) to increase the response rate seen with pegloticase alone, and to characterize the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics (PK) of the concomitant use of pegloticase with MTX, by comparing pegloticase co-administered with MTX to pegloticase co-administered with placebo for MTX in adults with uncontrolled gout.

Start: June 2019

A Pilot Study to Explore the Role of Gut Flora in Gout

This study seeks to correlate microbiome sequencing data with information provided by patients and their medical records.

Start: March 2020

Study 102: Multiple Ascending Dose Study of ALLN-346 (Engineered Urate Oxidase)

The purpose of this Phase I study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of ALLN-346 in in normal healthy volunteers, in an ascending dose design. ALLN-346 is an (oral) enzyme that specifically degrades urate in the intestinal tract.

Start: April 2021

Epidemiology of Gout in French Polynesia

Gout is a chronic disease caused by the deposit of monosodium urate (MSU) crystals in body tissues secondary to hyperuricemia. Patients with gout suffer severe attacks of acute joint pain. As the disease progresses, the joint pain becomes chronic and associated with disabling and deformative manifestations called tophi. Gout is strongly associated with various comorbidities including cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney failure. Gout is a very common disease, affecting 0.9% of the adult population in France and nearly 4% of the North-American population. Data from New Zealand show a particularly high prevalence of gout among Polynesians (minority populations in New Zealand and other islands of the South Pacific) that would be explained by genetic susceptibility and frequently intertwined with metabolic diseases. Recent findings obtained from the Polynesian population in New Caledonia disclose high prevalence figures close to 7%, a level expected to be confirmed by an epidemiology study that will be conducted in parallel with the present study and designed to determine the precise prevalence of gout in French Polynesia and the most frequently associated genetic variants.

Start: April 2021

Medication Adherence Patterns in Rheumatic Diseases: A Behavioral Trial

Non-adherence to evidence-based prescription medications results in preventable morbidity and mortality for middle-aged and older adults. Taking medications intended for daily use, like those to prevent or treat chronic conditions, is a repetitive action that has great similarity with other behaviors that must be performed consistently, such as regular exercise, healthy eating, and hand washing. In these cases, people who act consistently do so out of habit. The "repetition-cue-reward" model proposes that habit formation has three central components: behavioral repetition, associated context cues, and rewards. This model has obvious applicability to the daily repetitive activity of medication-taking but has not been tested for this behavior nor adapted as an intervention for patients in real-world care settings. The goal of this pilot study is to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of using the repetition-cue-reward model of healthy habit formation to improve medication adherence in patients with arthritis and other rheumatic diseases.

Start: March 2021

Treatment of Refractory Gout With ACTH or Methylprednisolone

To clarify the therapeutic effect and safety evaluation of ACTH in refractory gouty arthritis and special population, and to explore its mechanism of action.

Start: April 2021

The Impact of Urate-lowering Therapy on Kidney Function (IMPULsKF)

This trial aims to investigate the impact of two target levels uric acid-lowering therapy (ULT) caused by hyperuricemia (HU) on kidney function and CKD progression [1] measured by eGFR and albuminuria (A) [2]. The main current tasks include 1) estimation serum uric acid (SUA) level most potential preserving of kidney function 2) the new onset of gouts depending on SUA level, both in gouts' and CKD' objects 3) safety and side effects of target and ultralow SUA levels for evidence-based ULT optimal regime in CKD and non CKD with gout patients. 4) investigation of cardio vascular rick ratio depending on SUA level. The tasks also include to determine U-curve or directly proportional relationship between SUA and eGFR-EPI in CKD 1-4 to evaluate the new onset of goat which depends on SUA level and renal function In this study the optimal ULT for kidney function based on target SUA level in 30 months' treatment with either allopurinol or febuxostat will be determined.

Start: October 2017

The the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of XNW3009 in Health Subject

XNW3009 is a small molecule hURAT1 inhibitor developed independently by Sinovent Pty Ltd., and is intended to treat gout-related hyperuricemia. Uricosuric drugs increase urinary uric acid excretion by blocking renal tubular reabsorption of urate. The human urate transporter 1( hURAT1) is responsible for the majority of the reabsorption of filtered urate, and the mutations in the hURAT1 gene have been demonstrated to be responsible for urate non-homeostasis. This is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation study to investigate the safety, tolerability, PK and PD of XNW3009 after administration of single (Part A) and multiple (Part B) oral doses in healthy adult subjects. Approximately six sequential dose panels (single oral doses of 1, 5, 10, 20, 35 and 50 mg XNW3009) will be evaluated in SAD and approximately three sequential dose panels (ten consecutive days for respectively daily oral doses of 10, 20,35 mg, QD) will be evaluated in MAD.

Start: November 2019

AR-Power Patient Powered Research Network

ArthritisPower is a patient research network and database (registry) to collect prospective information about demographics, self-reported diagnoses and medications, and willingness to participate in research from participants with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), spondyloarthritis (SpA), and other musculoskeletal conditions. Participants will provide information from their smartphones or personal computers. The information will be used by researchers to help patients and their providers make better, more informed decisions about treatment of RA/SpA and other musculoskeletal conditions. ArthritisPower is part of a larger national research network called PCORnet whose 33 network members have mapped their data to a common data model. Network members will be able to submit queries through PCORnet in order to answer a range of comparative effectiveness research questions. Data sharing across PCORnet will be accomplished using secure methods to prevent patient identification. There is no cost to participants for participating and no compensation is provided. Objectives: To establish a research registry to enable comparative effectiveness research in rheumatic diseases and other musculoskeletal conditions. All data collected using the ArthritisPower mobile app as part of a subject's use is stored with the ArthritisPower registry. This data will be used in conjunction with existing and future research studies. To use the data from this study to improve treatment and to further advance finding a cure for rheumatic diseases.

Start: April 2015

Treat-to-target by Email During Urate-lowering Therapy in Gout

Gout is secondary to urate crystal deposition after chronic elevation of serum urate level (SUL). Long-term lowering SUL below 360 µmol/L allows dissolution of deposited crystals and disease cure. There is currently a paradoxical observation: while urate-lowering therapy (ULT) is available and efficient there is an increase of gout prevalence and severity. The apparent failure of ULT in gout management is due to several causes including unadjusted dosage, no SUL verification, irregular follow-up and low treatment compliance. In contrast, a nurse-led treat-to-target (T2T) strategy with regular adaptations of ULT until reaching SUL target allows gout cure in more than 90% of patients. We hypothesize that an electronic messaging-led T2T strategy will allow obtaining similar results. The aim of this study is to demonstrate that email-led T2T strategy during ULT is superior to usual care.

Start: April 2021

Low-dose Colchicine With or Without Stepwise Dose Titration of Febuxostat for Flare Prophylaxis in Gout

The purpose of this study is to compare the incidence rate of gout flare for subjects with gout and hyperuricemia treated by two different starting doses of febuxostat.

Start: January 2021

Assessing the Role of the NLRP3 Inflammasome in Intercritical Gout

Gout is an autoinflammatory disease characterized by flares of painful joint inflammation. This inflammation occurs in response to uric acid that crystallizes. After a gout attack, patients usually enter a period that is accompanied by low grade inflammation but is otherwise relatively asymptomatic. Gout is typically associated with certain markers, and this study is going describe specific markers in patients that are in between gout attacks. Research has been focused on studying this phase between gout attacks in hopes to manage and prevent the onset of future gout attacks. Biopsies will be taken from the affected joint and blood will be drawn from patients who are currently in between gout attacks. This work will provide important information regarding how crystals in the joint lining are associated with chronic inflammation in the periods between gout attacks. Moreover, this study will identify novel biomarkers that may be useful in determining the severity of disease activity through a blood test.

Start: January 2020