About this trial
This trial is a single-center, single-arm exploratory clinical study aimed at assessing the safety, tolerability, and preliminary efficacy of a single intra-articular injection of hiSCs for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Voluntarily sign the informed consent;
Male or female aged 18-65 years (inclusive) at the time of signing the informed consent;
Diagnosis of RA for ≥3 months according to the ACR/EULAR 2010 Rheumatoid Arthritis Classification Criteria at the screening visit;
At the screening visit, presence of recurrent swelling and pain in at least one knee, with a WOMAC pain score ≥4, synovial inflammation confirmed by joint ultrasound, and no significant improvement following 3 months of anti-RA treatment (including prior use of MTX standard therapy, biologics, or small molecule targeted drugs);
Disqualifiers
Presence of other immune-mediated disorders at the baseline visit that may interfere with the administration or efficacy evaluation of the study intervention;
History or current evidence of clinically significant cardiovascular, neuropsychiatric, renal, hepatic, immune, or endocrine disorders (including uncontrolled diabetes or thyroid disease), abnormal laboratory findings, or conditions requiring medications prohibited by the study protocol. "Clinically significant" refers to conditions that, in the investigator's judgment, may jeopardize subject safety or impact efficacy or safety analyses if the disease/condition exacerbates during the study;
Subjects with positive test results for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), or syphilis (refer to laboratory tests for details);
Evidence of active tuberculosis (TB) or a history of active TB without adequate documented treatment;
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- hiSCs