Bortezomib for the Treatment of Refractory Rheumatoid Arthritis

Chinese SLE Treatment And Research Group

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Treatments: Drug: bortezomib

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05805891

Bortezomib-RA

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a single-center, single-arm, prospective study on the efficacy and safety of Bortezomib in addition to standard therapy in patients with refractory rheumatoid arthritis.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Age between 18~70 years.
2. Fulfilling the 2010 ACR/EULAR classification criteria for RA.
3. Failed to at least two bDMARDs (including but not limited to TNF inhibitors, IL-6 receptor inhibitors, T cell costimulation inhibitor and anti-B cell biologics) or tsDMARDs (including but not limited to JAK inhibitors) in combination with a csDMARD for at least 12 weeks. The dosage of cs/b/tsDMARDs needs to be stable for at least 6 weeks.
4. For patients receiving glucocorticoids, the dosage of GC needs to be less than or equal to 10mg prednisone equivalent and stable for at least 6 weeks.
5. For patients receiving non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs, the dosage of NSAID needs to be stable for at least 2 weeks.
6. Neutrophil≥1.0×10^9/L, platelet≥100×10^9/L, alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) within 3 ULN, total bilirubin within 1.5 ULN.
7. Informed consent obtained.

Exclusion criteria

1. Other concomitant autoimmune diseases (except for Sjogren's syndrome secondary to rheumatoid arthritis).
2. The presence of severe uncontrolled cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, respiratory, hepatic, renal, gastrointestinal, endocrine, hematological or neuropsychiatric disorders, or abnormal laboratory tests. The investigators consider that participation in the study may make unacceptable risks to the subjects.
3. A history of malignancy with a clinical cure time of less than 5 years.
4. Pregnant or breast-feeding women, or planning to get pregnant or start breastfeeding during the study.
5. Vaccinated with live attenuated virus within 4 weeks before entering the study.
6. Allergic to bortezomib or mannitol.
7. Participated in any other investigational drug trial within 12 weeks before study initiation.
8. Active hepatitis or liver disease at the time of screening: Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) or anti-hepatitis C virus antibodies (HCVAb) positive; (Note: If Hepatitis B Core Antibody, (HBcAb) is positive and HBsAg is negative, HBV-DNA detection will be performed, patient is eligible if HBV-DNA was negative).
9. Active herpes zoster infection, or severe infection requiring intravenous antibiotics or hospitalization occurred 12 weeks before study initiation.
10. Other conditions that not suitable for inclusion in the study, assessed by the investigators.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

bortezomib

Experimental group

Description:

bortezomib added on previous treatment

Treatment:

Drug: bortezomib