Active clinical trials for "Fibrosis"

Cystic fibrosis (CF) -- an autosomal recessive genetic disease affecting about 60,000 individuals worldwide, including about 3,800 in Italy -- is often associated with low bone mineral mass. The current aggressive therapies have ensured a much longer survival of CF patients but this has led to a higher frequency of osteoporosis and bone fractures, a serious problem which not only affects quality of life, but also hinders further therapeutic measures. The aim of this study, conducted on a large group of children, adolescents and young adults with CF, has been the evaluation of bone mass changes after 1 year of a simple treatment with RDA-adjusted dietary calcium plus 25-OH vitamin D supplementation, and the feasibility and efficacy of alendronate treatment (for another year) in patients not responding to calcium + 25-OH vitamin D alone.

To evaluate the safety and tolerability of pamrevlumab in participants with IPF, and the efficacy of pamrevlumab in slowing the loss of forced vital capacity (FVC) and the progression of IPF in these participants.

If the participant voluntarily agrees to participate in the clinical trial before registration, the investigator conducts a screening test to evaluate the participant's suitability. A participant that satisfies all selection and exclusion criteria is assigned randomly to a test group (1-time or 2-time injection group) or control group (no-cell therapy group). Participants assigned to the 1-time injection group conduct cell therapy within 1 month after bone marrow aspiration. Before implementing cell therapy, implement hepatic artery catheterization which inserts a catheter into the hepatic artery through the right aorta femoralis and inject 5X107 autologous bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells. Participants assigned to the 2-time injection group store 1-time injection amount of mesenchymal stem cells while being cultivated after sampled from the bone marrow, and will re-inject autologous mesenchymal stem cells within 1 month after first injection. Participants will make a total of 8 hospital visits on a 4-week interval after registration, and effectiveness and safety will be evaluated based on a fixed procedure on every visit.

It is hypothesised that inhaled mannitol 400 mg b.d. will lead to a significant improvement in the absolute change in percentage of predicted FEV1 from baseline following eight-weeks of trial treatment compared to treatment with inhaled placebo b.d. Any improvement in FEV1 is considered clinically meaningful; however, this trial has set a threshold of 3% for the purposes of determining an appropriate sample size for statistical power whilst retaining trial feasibility in an orphan disease population.

In this study it will be investigate whether a home monitoring program improves disease-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) through appropriate medication use and subsequently results in better objective and subjective outcomes.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate safety and tolerability of VX-121 in healthy subjects and in subjects with cystic fibrosis (CF).

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive genetic disease characterized by recurrent airway infections, affecting many systems including lung, pancreas and sweat glands. Cough is an important defense mechanism for clearing the secretions that increase in respiratory diseases. There have been studies investigating the effect of expiratory muscle training on disease groups such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, multiple sclerosis, parkinson's disease, and the elderly and healthy individuals. Studies that evaluating effects of expiratory muscle training in cystic fibrosis are limited in the literature. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of cough strength in children and adolescents with CF and the effect of expiratory muscle training program on cough strength, exercise capacity, respiratory muscle strength and quality of life.

TRK-250 is a nucleic acid medicine that inhibits the progression of pulmonary fibrosis by selectively suppressing the expression of transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-β1) protein, at the gene expression level. This study is a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled Phase I study. The primary objective of the study is to assess the safety and tolerability of single and multiple inhaled doses of TRK-250 in subjects with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).

Contrast induced nephropathy has an incidence of 7-11 % in patients undergoing Contrast imaging for various conditions. The risk associated with the development of CIN are still under evaluation. Even with patients having normal kidney functions there is a risk of contrast induced nephropathy hence the need for markers which could predict injury. Cirrhosis of liver predisposes patient to Kidney abnormalities as these patients lower renal reserve and can have various conditions like Hepatorenal syndrome, Sepsis, ATN. Contrast imaging is vital for ruling out conditions like Hepatocellular Carcinoma in patients of cirrhosis of liver. Presently there is no study in cirrhosis of liver which studies the Effect of N-acetyl cysteine before and after contrast imaging in the prevention Of CIN. The incidence of CNI is cirrhosis is also an avenue which requires more studies and also there is a need for formulation of a Score to predict this CIN. Hence this study is being done to assess the incidence of CNI and the role of N-Acetyl cysteine in Preventing CNI.

This is a Phase 2, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter, crossover study that will evaluate the efficacy of LUM/IVA in subjects with CF 12 years of age and older who have at least one A455E mutation.