Effectiveness Intraarticular Corticosteroid

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2014-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the small and large dose of corticosteroid used in intraarticular injection of wrist.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Federal University of São Paulo
• Collaborator: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
• Treatments: Triamcinolone; Triamcinolone Acetonide; Triamcinolone diacetate; Triamcinolone hexacetonide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients with established RA

• age between 18 and 65 years

• disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) stable for at least 3 months

• synovitis in wrist with pain visual analogic scale (VAS) between 4 and 8cm

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients with overlap syndromes

• polyarticular synovitis

• diabetes mellitus or uncontrolled hypertension and those with suspected local or systemic infection