Study Status: Enrolling by invitation
Recruit Status: Enrolling by invitation
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: A Multicenter, Open-Label, Proof-of-Activity Study of the Effect of Subcutaneous ACTEMRA on Inflamed Atherosclerotic Plaques in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis
Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that anti-IL-6 therapy is effective for reducing plaque inflammation as measured by fluorine-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who are synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (dMARD) inadequate responders and are naive to biologic therapy.