Active clinical trials for "Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive"

The primary purpose of the study is to investigate if Symbicort is more effective than Oxis in increasing forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), measured at the clinics, in patients with COPD.

Optimal clinical management in early stages of COPD is not established. Tiotropium has been shown to improve exercise tolerance during (CWR) cycle ergometry with GOLD stage II to IV COPD, improvements in constant speed treadmill time in a study of patients who also received pulmonary rehabilitation in a population of patients with predominantly severe and very severe disease (GOLD stages III and IV) and improvements in exertional dyspnea, and Shuttle Walk Test distance in GOLD stage III and IV COPD. However, data are lacking on the benefits of tiotropium on exercise tolerance in a patients with early stages of COPD who are symptomatic. Patients with milder ventilatory limitations (GOLD stages I/II COPD patients) may benefit from maintenance therapy and there is limited data on exercise limitation in patients with early stage COPD who are symptomatic. This study is designed to evaluate the mechanisms of breathlessness and assess physical activity limitation in early stage COPD patients compared to age and gender matched controls and will secondly investigate the effectiveness of treatment with tiotropium in improving dyspnea during exercise and exercise duration as a result of the bronchodilation effects of tiotropium leading to a reduction of dynamic hyperinflation in Early Stage COPD patients.

This 12-week study evaluated the efficacy and safety of indacaterol versus placebo.

The study will be conducted in a single-center, randomized, single-blinded, placebo-controlled, dose escalation design with two dose groups.Multiple-dose inhalation of Ciprofloxacin inhale 50 and 75 mg or placebo will be administered to 16 Japanese patients with COPD in totalPatients with moderate to severe COPD, stage II or III according to GOLD criteria, will participate in the study.The study will consist of 2 steps as indicated below; starting at Step 1 (50 mg) and escalating doses up to Step 2 (75 mg), after the tolerability of the dose in the previous step is confirmed. In each step, the study will be conducted as multiple dose study with b.i.d. regimen for 10 days (between day 2 and 11) in a randomized, single-blind, placebo-controlled design. In addition, before and after the multiple dose administration, single administration will be conducted in each subject (day 0 and 12).

GW642444 is a potent and selective long-acting beta2 agonist; GSK573719 is a long-acting, inhaled, muscarinic receptor antagonist (or anticholinergic) bronchodilator. Both are in development as once daily (QD) monotherapies for the treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Development of these two inhaled drugs as a combination therapy is also planned and would have potential for improved efficacy and patient benefit as they both work through different receptor pathways and the combined bronchodilatory effect might be additive. This study is a randomised, double blind, placebo-controlled, four-way crossover study which will assess the safety, tolerability, pharmacodynamics (PD) and pharmacokinetics (PK) of GSK573719 and GW642444 in sixteen healthy Japanese subjects. Subjects will receive four possible treatments as single inhaled doses, receiving the two monotherapies separately, the monotherapies concurrently, and placebo. Blood samples for PK analysis will be taken at regular intervals after dosing. Safety will be assessed by measurement of heart rate, blood pressure, ECG and twenty-four hour Holter monitoring, potassium, safety laboratory data and review of adverse events.

A double blind randomised placebo controlled parallel trial of the effect of fosinopril, an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor, on the quadriceps muscle in 80 COPD patients who have quadriceps weakness. Patients will have a baseline assessment including measures of quadriceps strength and endurance and a quadriceps biopsy. Patients with weakness will be randomised to ACE inhibitor or placebo and re-assessed after three months of treatment. The investigators aim to show that ACE-inhibition will alter the IGF-1/AKT/FoXO/atrogene pathways involved in muscle wasting in COPD.

Objectives of the study are to investigate the safety, tolerability and levels of ciprofloxacin in the lung after single and multiple inhalative administration to patients with moderate to severe COPD (stage II-III according to GOLD Criteria)

The study will evaluate the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of GSK573719 compared with placebo in subjects with COPD

This study is being conducted to assess the effect of indacaterol (150 μg o.d.) on inspiratory capacity (IC), using placebo and open label tiotropium (18 μg o.d.) as comparators in patients with moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In particular, spirometric timepoints are included to elucidate the peak-IC in a period of approximately 4 hour post inhalation

The purpose of this study is to determine whether telehealth nursing consultations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients are superior to hospital readmissions.