Diagnostic Value of Oral Prednisolone Test for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2014-12-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammatory joint disease often leading to progressive joint
destruction. To prevent disability caused by inflamed joints early diagnosis is important.
Early diagnosis might be a challenge because the diagnosis is mostly based on clinical signs
like swelling of small joints. In clinical practice a therapy with prednisolone is started
although the patients do not have an exact diagnosis. In this cases the prednisolone might
serve as a diagnostic test for an inflammatory process.
The objective of this study is to investigate the diagnostic value of oral prednisolone test
for rheumatoid arthritis.