Active clinical trials for "Behcet Syndrome"

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of TA-650 in patients with Behcet's disease ( BD ) with special lesions after the administration of TA-650 at a dosage of 5 mg/kg in weeks 0, 2, and 6, then every 8 weeks after week 14 up to week 46.

The purpose of this study is to assess whether Apremilast is safe and effective in the treatment of patients with Behcet Disease.

Colchicine was first used in Behcet's Disease (BD), in 1977. There are controversial reports of the efficacy of Colchicine in BD. For some experts the unresponsiveness of some patients could be explained by genetic difference between the Silk Road BD and sporadic BD from other parts of the world. To test this hypothesis (the inefficacy of colchicine in the Silk Road BD), we designed a randomized double-blind controlled crossover study in Iran, which is in the middle of the Silk Road, and has the second highest prevalence of BD in the world.

Brief summary: This study compares the long-term efficacy and safety of interferon (IFN) α2a and cyclosporine (cyclosporin A, CsA) following suppression of acute attack by high-dose oral glucocorticosteroid in patients with refractory Behçet's uveitis (BDU). Half of the participants will receive IFNα2a while the other half will receive CsA.

To study the effects of zinc gluconate supplementation on patients with Behçet's syndrome, 50 patients will be randomly allocated to two groups: placebo group or zinc group (one tablet of 30 mg/day elemental zinc) for 12 weeks. All participants will be asked not to alter their diet, medication, and physical activity during the study. At the first and the end of the intervention, genes and proteins expression, the serum level of inflammatory factors, quality of life, disease activity, anthropometric measures, physical activity and serum level of zinc will be assessed and compared between groups.

Intravitreal injection of up to 2 mg of infliximab has proved to be safe in animal models (rabbits and primates). These studies have shown no evidence of intraocular inflammation or toxicity by clinical, electrophysiological, and histopathological examination for up to 90 days even with 3 repeated monthly injections. However, the study conducted by Rassi et al was the only one to report the development of severe intraocular inflammation in one eye out of 12 rabbit eyes at 90 days following 3 intravitreal injections (2mg monthly). Unfortunately, clinical studies conducted on patients, so far, have raised serious concern about its safety and adverse effects. These clinical studies have shown various and inconsistent results in terms of the safety and efficacy of intravitreal infliximab. These studies were conducted on patients with refractory as well as naïve cases of age related macular degenerations choroidal neovascularization (AMD CNV), diabetic macular edema (DME), central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO), angiomatous malformations, pseudophakic macular edema, and uveitis. The doses used ranged from 0.5mg to 2mg. The initial study by Theodossaidis et al in 2009 did not report any intraocular inflammation in 3 patients receiving 2 intravitreal injections of 1 and 2 mg for refractory AMD CNV with 7 months follow up period.(8) Later several clinical studies have reported severe intraocular inflammation following intravitreal injections of infliximab in non-uveitic patients.These collected data have initiated a call for cautious use of intravitreal infliximab. On the other hand, studies investigating intravitreal infliximab in uveitis patients have shown improvement in vision, reduction in macular thickness on optical coherence tomography (OCT), and reduction in inflammation. In this study, we have investigated the safety and efficacy of 3 consecutive intravitreal infliximab injections (1 mg/0.05 mL, 6 weeks apart) in carefully selected group of patients with refractory uveitis in Behcet's disease.

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of apremilast in the treatment of oral ulcers in adults with active Behçet's disease (BD).

TRANSREG will assess the safety and biological efficacy of low-dose IL2 as a Treg inducer in a set of 14 autoimmune and auto-inflammatory diseases, with the aim to select diseases in which further therapeutic development will be performed. Extensive biological- and immune-monitoring pre- and post-IL2 will contribute (i) to define the common or distinct processes responsible for the breakdown of immunological tolerance in these pathologies and (ii) to discover potential biomarkers of the IL2 response.

Hypothesis: Abatacept injections will decrease the number of oral ulcers seen in Behcet's patients

To investigate efficacy, safety and pharmacokinetics of adalimumab subcutaneous (sc) for Japanese subjects with intestinal Behçet's disease who are refractory to conventional therapies.