Active clinical trials for "Bronchiolitis"

Bronchiolitis is an infectious disease, with no effective treatment. Music and Mozart's works specifically, has been shown to have a positive effect on physiological parameters, while environmental noise is considered to be harmful. We aimed to evaluate the short-time effect of listening to music and detachment from environmental noise on the severity of bronchiolitis in hospitalized children.

Leukotriene receptor antagonists (LTRAs) are well established in the management of outpatient asthma. Montelukast is a potent, specific, orally active, cysteinyl leukotriene receptor antagonist with a rapid onset of action.However, there is very little information as to their role in acute asthma exacerbations. The purpose of this study is to determine if adding oral montelukast to the maximal standard treatment in children hospitalized for acute asthma has any additive benefit.

The main objective of the APW-RSV II clinical trial is to evaluate if the addition of azithromycin to routine bronchiolitis care, among infants hospitalized with RSV bronchiolitis, reduces the occurrence of recurrent wheeze during the preschool years.

Efficacy/Safety of 3% hypertonic saline inhalation (24H vs 72H) to treat acute bronchiolitis in infants.

The purpose of this study is to compare the immediate effects of retrograde rhinopharyngeal clearance with nasopharyngeal aspiration in children admitted with acute viral bronchiolitis. The investigators selected children, up to 12 months old, admitted for acute viral bronchiolitis. Patients were divided in aspiration group (AG), submitted to nasopharyngeal aspiration, and clearance group (CG), submitted to retrograde rhinopharyngeal clearance with physiological solution (0.9%) instillation (RRC) technique. In both groups children were evaluated three times in the same day in order to verify cardiorespiratory parameters, clinical score of respiratory dysfunction and adverse effects.

This study assesses the safety and efficacy of bardoxolone methyl relative to placebo in patients with pulmonary hypertension to determine the recommended dose range, evaluate the change from baseline in 6-minute walk distance (6MWD) and determine the effect of Bardoxolone methyl in pulmonary hypertension associated with connective tissue disease, interstitial lung disease, and idiopathic etiologies, including subsets of patients with WHO Group III or WHO Group V PH following 16 weeks of study participation.

Prospective, Double Blind, Randomized Single-Center, Evaluation of Safety and Tolerability of Nitric Oxide Given Intermittently via Inhalation to Subjects with Bronchiolitis-Phase IIa Bronchiolitis is defined as an infection of the small airways. It is also the most common manifestation of acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) in early infancy, and is the leading cause of global child mortality. NO has been shown to play a critical role in various biological functions, including the vasodilatation of smooth muscle, neurotransmission, regulation of wound healing and immune responses to infection such as microbicidal action directed toward various organisms. NO in the airways is considered to play a key role in the innate immune system in which the first-line of host defense against microbes is built. It has shown the beneficial effect of NO in different diseases with several options of doses and regimens - from newborn with primary pulmonary hypertension which showed improvement in oxygenation after 30 minutes of NO treatment at 10-20 ppm, to a subject with adult respiratory distress syndrome, who demonstrated clinical improvement during NO treatment at 18 and 36 ppm. In vitro studies utilizing a variety of nitric oxide (NO) donors suggested that NO, in part per million (ppm) concentrations, possesses antimicrobial and anti-viral activity against a wide variety of phyla including bacteria, viruses, helminthes and parasites. Primary Objectives: Assess the safety of NO intermittent inhalation treatment in 2-12 month old bronchiolitis subjects. Assess the tolerability of NO intermittent inhalation treatment in 2-12 month old bronchiolitis subjects Secondary Objective: Assess the efficacy of NO intermittent inhalation treatment compared to standard treatment in 2-12 months old bronchiolitis subjects. Prospective, double blind, randomized single-Center study of 44 hospitalized subjects aged 2 -12 months old, diagnosed with bronchiolitis will be enrolled into the study and randomized into 2 groups. Group 1 -Treatment group - Will receive nitric oxide inhalation in addition to standard treatment for up to 5 days, Group 2 - will receive ongoing inhalation of the standard treatment for 5 days. Treatment administration: Treatment blindness will be kept by separating between unblinded team members (giving the actual treatment) and blinded team members, and by hiding the NO container and all study related equipment behind a curtain. Between study inhalations the subject will continue to receive the standard inhalation treatment. Oxygen (O2), NO , nitrogen dioxide(NO2)and fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) delivered to the patient will be continuously monitored. All subjects will come for follow up visits on day 7(+5), 14 (+5) days and will be contacted on day 30 (+5) from day of admission to the department. End of study treatment (both groups) will be assessed by a blinded study physician base on clinical assessment. Subject improvement that will lead to end study treatment = clinical score < 6 and/or (Oxygen saturation)SaO2 above 92% and/or decision of subject discharge from the hospital.

Acute bronchiolitis is the main cause for respiratory illness that requires hospitalization in children younger than 2 years. In the United States it has been shown that the burden of the disease is considerable, having an annual cost of more than $ 500 million and being responsible for the 17% of all infant hospitalizations . Aim of the present study was to verify the effects of nebulized 3% saline solution in comparison to normal saline in addiction to epinephrine in a large population of RSV positive cases of bronchiolitis; all patients presented a disease as much as severe to require hospitalization.The main study endpoints were the length of stay in hospital and the clinical response.

The purpose of this study is to determine if nebulized hypertonic saline (or extra salty water mist) helps infants less than 12 months old hospitalized with bronchiolitis (or bad chest colds) get better enough to be discharged from the hospital sooner than those infants given nebulized normal saline (or regular salty water mist).

A European multi-centre, randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled trial of Pirfenidone in bronchiolitis-obliterans-syndrome grade 1-3 in lung transplant recipients. Randomized double blinded, placebo controlled study. Eligible patients are to be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to receive either Pirfenidone 2403 mg/d or the matching placebo treatment for 6 months. Primary objective To evaluate the effect of Pirfenidone on the change in FEV1 in liters over 6 months in lung transplant recipients with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome.