October 18, 2023- The Arthritis Foundation has named Cleveland Clinic as the future home for its Osteoarthritis Imaging Center (OIC), designed to become the largest repository in the country for imaging data from post-traumatic osteoarthritis clinical trials and therapies.
The OIC will coordinate imaging for all future multicenter osteoarthritis clinical trials across the U.S. that are run through the foundation’s Osteoarthritis Clinical Trial Network. Images from these studies will be sent to the OIC for interpretation and analysis. Researchers and physicians can reference them in a central location for future studies and patient care.
Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis. Cartilage, which acts as a cushion to protect bones from friction, wears down over time and leads to bone damage, inflammation and pain. Osteoarthritis is most common in adults over age 55, but can appear in people of all ages, especially after injury.
In these clinical trials, patients receiving care for osteoarthritis are imaged over a specific amount of time. Each imaging exam contains information for researchers to better understand the disease and treatment effects, and for physicians looking for comparable cases.