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There is much excitement about the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, and the musculoskeletal field is no exception. In this article, we introduce some of the latest developments relating to osteoarthritis (OA), osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (as an example of inflammatory arthritis), connective tissue disease (CTD), Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (EDS) and musculoskeletal surgical interventions. […]

Joshua Solomon, ACR 2021: Efficacy of Pirfenidone in Rheumatoid Arthritis Interstitial Lung Disease

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Published Online: Nov 17th 2021

Dr Joshua Solomon (National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, USA) kindly took the time to discuss the findings from the randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled TRAIL1 trial (NCT02808871) which investigated the safety, tolerability and efficacy of pirfenidone in patients with rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD).

This information is brought to you by Touch Medical Media and is not sponsored by, nor a part of, the American College of Rheumatology.

The abstract entitled ‘A Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled, Phase 2 Study of Safety, Tolerability and Efficacy of Pirfenidone in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Interstitial Lung Disease‘ (ABSTRACT NUMBER: L10) was presented at the ACR Convergence, 5-9 November 2021.

Questions

  1. Could you tell us a little about rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD), its incidence, and unanswered questions in its treatment? (0:12)
  2. What were the aims and design of the TRAIL1 study? (0:53)
  3. What issues were experienced with recruitment? (1:26)
  4. What were the primary and secondary endpoints and how well were these achieved? (2:13)
  5. Which patients were most likely to respond to pirfenidone? (3:07)

Disclosures: Dr Joshua Solomon has nothing to disclose in relation to this video interview.

Support: Interview and filming supported by Touch Medical Media Ltd. Interview conducted by Gina Furnival.

Filmed in coverage of virtual ACR Convergence 2021.

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