We are doing a research study to learn more about why people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are prone to heart disease. We are recruiting patients diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis without a personal history of heart disease. This study involves one initial full visit as described below, and a brief follow up visit that will take place approximately 2 or…
We are inviting patients with active Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) to help us better understand how treatment options affect inflammation in soft tissues. With a combination of blood work, a full-body FDG PET-CT scan, questionnaires, and a soft tissue biopsy (from an area around the belly button), we hope to see how RA interacts…
The main purpose of this research study is to investigate if a drug called Vedolizumab is safe and effective in preventing acute graft-versus-host disease (attack of donor cells on recipient healthy organs after transplant) of the gut in comparison to placebo (dummy drug). This will be studied in patients undergoing Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell…