Functional Imaging of Digital Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis Using 99mTc-NTP 15-5 in Nuclear Medicine
Starting soon · Phase 2
Conditions studied: Digital Osteoarthritis or Rheumatoid Arthritis
In brief
This study is a phase Ii clinical trial aimed to evaluate the performance of 99mTc-NTP 15-5 to identify a pathological hand joint in each group ; digital osteoarthrosis and rheumatoid arthritis
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT07624994
- Run by
- Centre Jean Perrin
- People needed
- 80
- Starts
- 2026-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2028-07-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-07-10
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Karnofsky index > 70%
- Obtaining written, signed and dated informed consent
- Affiliation to a health insurance plan
- For women of childbearing age (fertile, after menarche and until postmenopausal unless sterile after surgery) including on GnRH agonist for ovarian suppression: serum pregnancy test negative at baseline (within 7 days before injection of 99mTc-NTP 15-5). Menopause is defined as amenorrhea for at least 12 consecutive months with no other cause and FSH and oestradiol levels consistent with those of the post-menopausal period.
- Ability and willingness to respect study visits, exams as well as protocol.
- RA Group:
- certain diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis less than 5 years old, according to the ACR/EULAR criteria,
- symptomatic (finger pain > 4 /10 on a numerical scale),
- active synovitis (clinical and ultrasound),
- Group DOA:
- certain diagnosis of symptomatic DOA less than 5 years old (finger pain > 4 /10 on a numerical scale),
- stopping NSAIDs for at least 8 days before the injection,
You may not qualify if…
- Ongoing use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs,
- Treatment by local joint corticoid infiltration at the hand level in the month preceding the administration of 99mTc-NTP 15-5,
- History of osteoarticular hand surgery.
- History of hand soft tissue surgery in the past 6 months
- Patients or patients 18 years old,
- Pregnant or breastfeeding patient,
- IMC>30,
- History of known allergy to excipients contained in the 99mTc-NTP 15-5 solution,
- Persons deprived of their liberty, under guardianship/curatorship, or safeguarding of justice,
- Inability to submit to the medical follow-up of the trial for geographical, family, social or psychological reasons. These conditions must be discussed with the patient before registration in the study.
- RA Group:
- Use of biotherapies (anti-TNF alpha, rituximab, abatacept, anti-IL6 and anti-JAK) as background treatment.
- Patients with a history of hand DOA
Where it is running
- Centre Jean Perrin — Clermont-Ferrand, PUY DE DOME, France
- Chu Clermont Ferrand — Clermont-Ferrand, France
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
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