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Tofacitinib in the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis-related Interstitial Lung Disease.

Study Purpose

Nowadays, no single drug is approved to treat rheumatoid arthritis-related interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD). The medical management of this clinical condition is empirical and controversial. There is preliminary data that tofacitinib may have a beneficial effect in treating RA-ILD. Tofacitinib may have a double role in treating RA-ILD: treat RA disease activity and an anti-fibrotic possible impact. Moreover, tofacitinib may be used as monotherapy for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) This is a phase IIa clinical trial to evaluate the safety and tolerability of tofacitinib in RA-ILD patients.

Recruitment Criteria

Accepts Healthy Volunteers Healthy volunteers are participants who do not have a disease or condition, or related conditions or symptoms	No
Study Type An interventional clinical study is where participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions (or no intervention) so that researchers can evaluate the effects of the interventions on biomedical or health-related outcomes. An observational clinical study is where participants identified as belonging to study groups are assessed for biomedical or health outcomes. Searching Both is inclusive of interventional and observational studies.	Interventional
Eligible Ages	18 Years and Over
Gender	All

More Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients must fulfill ACR/EULAR 2010 RA classification criteria. 2. Patients must have an interstitial lung disease confirmed by a high-resolution computed tomography scan or a surgical lung biopsy. Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia, usual interstitial pneumonia, lymphocytic pneumonia, and organized pneumonia, either by HRCT or surgical biopsy, will be included. 3. Patients must be 18 years of age or older. 4. There is no evidence of active, latent, or inadequately treated infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB). 5. Patients must discontinue using the non-permitted medications: leflunomide, azathioprine, cyclosporine, tacrolimus, cyclophosphamide, and any biologic disease-modifying drug (bDMDARDs) such as anti-TNF therapy, rituximab, tocilizumab, etc. Patients must have a stable prednisone dose of ≤ 10 mg/ PO/day for at least three months. 6. All patients must have stable doses of prednisone during the last three months of follow-up, and the prednisone dose must be ≤ 10 mg/day. Patients without a prednisone history in the previous three months may also be included in the protocol.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Seropositivity for the following infections: HIV, HBV, and HCV. 2. Absolute neutrophil count ≤ 1,200/L. 3. Absolute platelet count ≤ 100,000 /L. 4. Severe renal damage with GFR < 30 ml/min based on CKD-EPI formula. 5. AST or ALT greater than 1.5 times the upper limit of normal AST and ALT levels. 6. Severe hepatic, hematologic, gastrointestinal, cardiac, and neurological disease may put the patient´s life at risk regardless of ILD severity. 7. Severe active infections at baseline evaluation, such as pneumonia, urinary tract infections, meningitis. 8 History of drug abuse or alcoholism. 9. History of any malignancy 10. Patients with an FVC < 40% of what is expected will be excluded from the study. -

Trial Details

Trial ID: This trial id was obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, providing information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants with locations in all 50 States and in 196 countries.	NCT05246293
Phase Phase 1: Studies that emphasize safety and how the drug is metabolized and excreted in humans. Phase 2: Studies that gather preliminary data on effectiveness (whether the drug works in people who have a certain disease or condition) and additional safety data. Phase 3: Studies that gather more information about safety and effectiveness by studying different populations and different dosages and by using the drug in combination with other drugs. Phase 4: Studies occurring after FDA has approved a drug for marketing, efficacy, or optimal use.	Phase 2
Lead Sponsor The sponsor is the organization or person who oversees the clinical study and is responsible for analyzing the study data.	National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Mexico
Principal Investigator The person who is responsible for the scientific and technical direction of the entire clinical study.	Jorge Rojas-Serrano, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator Affiliation	Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Ismael Cosío Villegas
Agency Class Category of organization(s) involved as sponsor (and collaborator) supporting the trial.	Other
Overall Status	Recruiting
Countries	Mexico
Conditions The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied.	Rheumatoid Arthritis, Interstitial Lung Disease

Additional Details

This is a phase 2 open-label study designed to evaluate the safety and tolerability of tofacitinib in RA-ILD patients. Patients who met the inclusion criteria of the study protocol will receive tofacitinib 5 mg BID for 12 months. Objectives. Primary objectives: 1. To evaluate the safety and tolerability of tofacitinib 5 mg PO BID as monotherapy for managing RA-ILD in RA-ILD patients. 2. To evaluate the pulmonary function of patients treated with tofacitinib PO BID as monotherapy to manage RA-ILD in RA-ILD patients, at baseline, at three months of follow-up, at six months of follow-up, and one year of follow-up. 3. To estimate the efficacy of tofacitinib 5 mg PO BID as monotherapy for the management of RA-ILD, in RA-ILD patients, at three months of follow-up, at six months of follow-up, and at one year of follow-up, according to the ACR 20, 50, 70 response criteria, and the following disease activity scores index: DAS 28, CDAI and SDAI. All the included patients will receive Tofacitinib in doses of 5 mg BID until the end of the protocol.

Arms & Interventions

Arms

Experimental: Tofacitinib Arm

Tofacitinib in doses of 5 mg BID, in RA-ILD patients at stable doses of prednisone ≤ 10 mg/day during the last three months.

Interventions

Drug: - Tofacitinib

Tofacitinib in doses of 5 mg BID, in RA-ILD patients at stable doses of prednisone ≤ 10 mg/day during the last three months. Patients who met the inclusion criteria of the study protocol will received tofacitinib 5 mg BID for 12 months

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