Active clinical trials for "Inflammatory Bowel Diseases"

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are increasingly becoming interested in nonpharmacologic approaches to their disease. One of the most frequently asked questions of IBD patients is what they should eat. The role of diet has become very important in the prevention and treatment of IBD. Although there is a general lack of rigorous scientific evidence that demonstrates which diet is best for certain patients, several diets have become popular. Aim of the Work To assess IBD patients' knowledge about the role of nutrition in the management of their Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the dietary beliefs, behaviors, and daily dietary practices in adult IBD patients that they make to avoid exacerbation of disease symptoms or to gain more control of bowel symptoms, keeping in mind our traditional and oriental food and food habits in Egypt. Also to evaluate the role of one of the most common dietary regimens; the Paleolithic diet in active mild or moderate inflammatory bowel disease.

The results of the SONIC trial represented a significant advance in the management of patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease by demonstrating the superiority of the combination of an alpha TNF anti-TNF with immunosuppressive therapy in naive patients (infliximab and azathioprine) compared to monotherapy in terms of clinical and endoscopic remission (40% versus 22%, p = 0.017). The benefit of this combination therapy is both pharmacological (addition, or even synergy of the two treatments) and immunological (reduction of the risk of immunization to biotherapy). Data on the use of immunosuppressive methotrexate treatment are divergent. Indeed, a previous randomized trial suggested that the combination of anti-TNF alpha including infliximab and methotrexate was no more effective than anti-TNF alpha monotherapy in patients with Crohn's disease. However, the superiority of this combination has been clearly demonstrated over monotherapy in rheumatology for a long time. In practice, more and more practitioners are prescribing this combination (antiTNF and MTX) in IBD patients because of tolerance problems, particularly to azathioprine or in patients with a dual expression of their disease, both digestive and joint. The interest of my thesis work is therefore to be able to clarify these grey areas and to be able to modify or comfort therapeutic choices in practice.

In this research proposal, the investigators will focus on methods to optimize the therapeutic response to anti-TNF antibodies, by determining a correlation of 6-mp metabolite levels with IFX trough levels, anti-IFX antibody levels and clinical response. The study will also evaluate (in vitro) the possible impact of vitamin D on the interaction of IFX with dendritic cells in both healthy subjects and patients with Crohn's disease (proliferation, maturation, cytokine profile, apoptosis, gene expression).

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This is an observation pilot trial aimed to study to the association between mindfulness and other psychological factors, including both protective and risk factors, with recovery of functional ability following colorectal surgery for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD), including Crohn's disease and Ulcerative Colitis.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and feasibility of using the Single Port (SP) robot (daVinci, Intuitive Surgical) to perform single port robotic colon surgery and transanal robotic surgery. The hypothesis of the study is that the SP robot will prove a safe effective modality to perform these procedures.

The purpose of this study is to test the utility of PET/MRI in diagnosis and management of Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in children and adolescents, hereby To test if PET/MRI scan is an accurate method to diagnose and differentiate Crohn's disease and Ulcerous Colitis in children and adolescents suspected of IBD. To evaluate whether PET/MRI scan in children and adolescents with Crohn's disease is an accurate method to diagnose relapses and to monitor the effect of biological treatment with monoclonal antibodies directed towards Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha.

Diabetes mellitus is a hyperglycemic metabolic disorder due to insulin deficiency or resistance at its receptors, leads to impaired glucose metabolism and multi-organ affection; (optic, peripheral neurological, cardiovascular and renal).

The introduction of video capsule endoscopy in 2000 has provided a convenient and minimally invasive imaging method for the whole small bowel. Capsule Endoscopy is used to investigate a number of conditions such as obscure gastrointestinal bleeding, iron deficiency anaemia, inflammatory bowel disease, celiac disease, small bowel tumors, and hereditary polyposis syndromes. However, Capsule Endoscopy capsules are not able to suction fluid or wash the intestine, thus making it susceptible to decreased visualization quality and diagnostic yield due to dark intestinal contents or air bubbles. In order to determine the best method for bowel preparation before Capsule Endoscopy, this study seeks to determine in patients undergoing small intestine Capsule Endoscopy if split dose Polyethylene Glycol or single morning dose of Polyethylene Glycol have a benefit in Visualisation quality when compared to clear fluids only. A co-primary outcome will also be the diagnostic yield, as measured by the aggregate of all the active preparation groups compared to than clear fluids only group. Secondary outcome measures will include tolerance of preparations, cleanliness as assessed by a validated 4 point scale, distal small bowel visualization (the last 1/4 of small bowel examination by time) and small bowel transit time (measured as time from first duodenal image to first cecal image). Adult outpatients referred for small bowel video capsule endoscopy will be considered for the study and this will run in the clinical environment as per routine. Patients will have been referred for capsule endoscopy as per normal clinical practice so not additional procedure will take place. Patients will be randomly assigned to in a one to one fashion to one of three groups in order to explore whether bowel preparation (either as a single or divided dose) produce better cleansing and diagnostic yield than no preparation at all in small bowel capsule endoscopy.

The 2019-coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2, was identified as the source of pneumonia cases in Wuhan city in China. It rapidly spread worldwide and was declared by WHO as a pandemic. COVID-19 vaccines are expected to be the breakthrough in controlling the pandemic. However, studies performed only in healthy adults, and specifically excluded patients who were under immunomodulatory/biologic therapy, thus excluding patients with chronic inflammatory diseases (IBD). In this study we wish to understand vaccine efficacy and immunological response in IBD patients.