Active clinical trials for "Fibrosis"

To investigate the safety and efficacy of PRI-724 against HCV or HBV liver cirrhosis.

This study will explore the impact of lumacaftor/ivacaftor (LUM/IVA) on disease progression in subjects aged 2 through 5 years with cystic fibrosis (CF), homozygous for F508del (F/F).

This study will be conducted into two parts 1) Screening of 400 cases of cirrhosis (Child A,child B and child c) for the prevalence and risk factors of erectile dysfunction in cirrhosis.2) The part 2 is RCT as follows where 70 cases in each arm will be taken wuth child A and child B cirrhosis for the effect of treatment on erectile dysfunction (Tadalafil vs Placebo). After getting informed consent. Clinical, anthropometric and biochemical assessment will be done by candidate, co-supervisors and supervisor. Screening and selection criteria by using various questionnaire like Karnofsky Performance Score (KPS) , IIEF Questionnaire , ADAMS Questionnaire, Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7) questionnaire, Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9 for depression ; and SF-36 questionnaire). The informed consent will be obtained from the participants in the study. Patients-ED IIEF<25 will be included as per inclusion and exclusion criteria. Tadalfil regimen: 10 mg daily at any time before anticipated sexual activity on days with anticipated sexual activity On days with no anticipated sexual activity: 10 mg daily at night after meals. Follow-up1 week, 2weeks, 4weeks, 12 weeks with history, clinical examination and laboratory test.

Cystic Fibrosis is the most prevalent fatal genetic disease affecting Canadian children and it primarily characterized by a thickening of pulmonary secretions and impaired mucociliary clearance. Chest physiotherapy has been widely used as a standard treatment for sputum mobilization and clearance for individuals with CF. Percussion is one such technique of chest physiotherapy for loosening trapped music within the lungs and can be completed manually or facilitated with a percussion cup. Unfortunately, the exclusive Canadian supplier for the widely use percussor cup has stopped distributing the cups, leaving many hospitals and therapy clinics searching for alternatives to continue airway clearance treatment. The goal of this project is to compare alternative palm cup solutions to the standard, and recommend safe alternative(s) that caregivers can have easy access to.

This research study is evaluating a program that entails home-based care for people with advanced liver disease.

This study is open to adults with non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis. The main purpose of this study is to find out how a medicine called BI 1323495 is tolerated by people with non-cystic bronchiectasis. The study tests 2 different doses of BI 1323495. Some of the participants get placebo. It is decided by chance who gets BI 1323495 and who gets placebo. Participants take BI 1323495 or placebo as tablets twice a day for 3 months. Placebo tablets look like BI 1323495 tablets but do not contain any medicine. Participants can also continue taking standard medicines for noncystic bronchiectasis throughout the study. Participants are in the study for about 4 months. During this time, the participants visit the study site about 11 times and get about 2 phone calls. At the visits, doctors check the health of the participants and note any health problems that could have been caused by BI 1323495.

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a major health problem worldwide. It includes simple steatosis and NASH which has inflammation in the liver, with or without fibrosis. Fat content, fibrosis, and inflammation are three important components to evaluate NASH. Liver biopsy is the current gold standard for the diagnosis of NASH. Liver biopsy; however, is invasive. The existing non-invasive methods still have significant limitations to assess NASH. It was reported that quantification of fatty acid composition is feasible for evaluation of metabolic disorders and inflammatory conditions. However, this measurement cannot be used to evaluate fibrosis. Liver fibrosis is characterized by excessive deposition of collagen-rich connective tissues in the liver, which can be quantified by macromolecular proton fraction (MPF), an MRI parameter reflecting the macromolecular level in tissues. Although it has the potential to directly quantify fibrotic tissue, the effect of inflammation on MPF measurement was not well studied. In summary, NASH assessment using non-invasive imaging methods remains challenging. Based on our previous work of MPF imaging with spin-lock (MPF-SL) and chemical-shift encoding-based water-fat imaging in spin-lock MRI, the investigators will develop a fast acquisition technology to collect data for simultaneous quantification of liver fat content, fatty acid composition, and fibrosis within a single breath-hold less than 14 seconds. Our method does not require extra hardware and does not need to inject a contrast agent. The investigators will evaluate the repeatability and reproducibility of the proposed method on volunteers. To evaluate its clinical value, the investigators will recruit 120 subjects (60 with simple steatosis and 60 with NASH) in this study. The investigators will use histology analysis as the gold standard and evaluate the diagnostic value of our proposed method for detecting NASH. This project will provide a non-invasive diagnostic technology for the assessment of NASH. The proposed MRI technology also has the potential to be applied for other clinical purposes.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of elexacaftor (ELX)/tezacaftor (TEZ)/ivacaftor (IVA) in participants with CF who are 12 years of age or older.

Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI) is a condition that is caused by the inadequate pancreatic enzymes needed for normal digestion and is commonly associated with a wide range of chronic diseases, including cystic fibrosis (CF), chronic pancreatitis (CP), and pancreatic cancer. This study will assess clinical symptoms when participants with CF or CP are treated with Creon with alternate source of active drug. Creon is an approved drug for the treatment of EPI due to CF or CP. This study is subject-blinded which means participants will not know the source of the study drug they are given. Approximately 30 adult participants with CF or CP will be enrolled at approximately 15 sites across the Unites States. Participants will receive oral capsules of CREON for 112 days and will be followed for 30 days. Participants will attend regular visits during the study at a hospital or clinic or via telemedicine. The effect of the treatment will be checked by medical assessments, checking for side effects and completing questionnaires.

Patients with pulmonary fibrosis and associated usual interstitial pneumonia that require mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory failure experience poor clinical outcomes. This may be influenced by the unfavorable interaction between the fibrotic lung and the stress and strain stimuli generated during controlled ventilation. Although there is no consensus on how to ventilate these patients, much of the recommendations followed in clinical practice are taken from the experience on patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. Among these, measuring the esophageal pressures and adjusting positive-end expiatory pressure to make trans-pulmonary pressures positive can decrease atelectasis, derecruitment of lung, and cyclical opening and closing of airways and alveoli, thus optimizing lung mechanics and oxygenation. The effect of this strategy on the fibrotic lung has not yet been documented. With this observational study we aim at documenting the effect of PEEP titration maneuver based on end-expiratory trans-pulmonary pressure on lung mechanics of patients with pulmonary fibrosis and UIP pattern,