Active clinical trials for "Fibrosis"

The purpose of this research study is to characterize the pharmacokinetics of intravenous ceftazidime/avibactam in patients with Cystic Fibrosis.

Liver cirrhosis still becomes a major issue in Indonesia. Malnutrition has been observed in liver cirrhosis patients as it deteriorates liver function and cirrhosis itself. Malnutrition in liver cirrhosis can increase morbidity and mortality rates. Patients with liver cirrhosis have increased energy expenditure and endogenous fat oxidation reaction which is used as the basic energy sources. Energy obtained from fat was accounted for 86% of the total energy sources in this population. Fatty acid is also known to be an efficient energy backup for hepatocytes and other cells because it generates higher adenosine triphosphate (ATP) than other sources. Supplementary diet for patients with liver cirrhosis is considered beneficial for preventing hypercatabolism. To fulfill their nutritional needs, patients with liver cirrhosis is advised to take an extra food, such as a late night snack (LNS) with a total carbohydrate of around 50 g (equivalent to 200 kkal). Considering that most of the energy source in patients with liver cirrhosis came from fat, so the additional sources of energy having a high fat content were considered to be potentially highly beneficial to address the patients' nutritional status, as well as to reduce the risk of hyperglycemia after a meal and hypoglycemia after a long night fasting period time. Coconut milk contains many saturated fatty acids belonging to the medium chain triacylglycerol (MCT) group. The characteristics of MCT are quite different from long chain triacylglycerol (LCT). MCTs are more easily absorbed than LCTs, and are mostly absorbed in the form of free fatty acids, in both healthy and liver cirrhosis populations. This study wants to investigate the effects of coconut milk supplementation on improving the nutritional status of patients with liver cirrhosis. The patients were divided into 2 groups, groups I received 25 g of sugar plus 50 cc of coconut milk (200 kkal) as late night snacks (LNS); and group II received 50 g of sugar alone (200 kkal) as LNS. Investigators think that the group who received coconut milk supplementation has better nutritional status than the other group.

While the process of fibrosis is essential for normal wound healing, an excessive and uncontrolled 'fibrotic' response can result in impaired tissue structure and function. In other words, affected 'fibrotic' tissues are unable to heal back to normal and therefore don't work as effectively as they normally would. In the case of the lung, fibrosis can occur across large parts of the lung such as in conditions like Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) and sarcoidosis or it can occur in much smaller patches such as around the borders of some lung tumours. At the moment the investigators don't fully understand the mechanisms of fibrosis and so therefore cannot monitor or treat these conditions as effectively as the investigators could. Despite the significant global financial burden of these diseases, treatment options are very limited and monitoring of disease progression remains a real challenge. In an effort to address this problem, the research group are currently developing a library of novel optical molecular imaging SmartProbes that are targeted against key pathological processes in the human lung. The functional profile for this portfolio of probes is that they exhibit high stability and specificity in vivo and have a short activation time permitting rapid point-of-care in situ molecular profiling enabling in the future, improved diagnostic certainty and stratification for targeted pharmacological intervention. This clinical microdosing study protocol focuses around the intrapulmonary delivery of microdoses (<100µg) of the Smartprobe Fibroproliferation (FIB ONE) to disparate regions of the human lung to highlight MMP activity combined with an active MMP inhibitor (AZD1236) to the distal lung. This approach will enable the research team to directly demonstrate the utility of this SmartProbe-based platform in the validation of drug target engagement in areas of suspected fibroproliferation (characterised by increased MMP activity).

Patients with pulmonary fibrosis often desaturate on exercise. There are no data showing whether ambulatory oxygen can be useful to improve exercise capacity in this condition. Ambulatory ambulatory oxygen is often denied to these patients based on studies conducted on patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a completely different condition for physiopathology, prognosis, and response to therapy. We therefore planned a controlled study to verify the usefulness of ambulatory oxygen in patients with pulmonary fibrosis

Individuals living with cystic fibrosis (CF) commonly report high symptom burden, poor quality of life, and additional psychosocial stressors; these burdens are particularly heightened in advanced stages of the disease. Although supportive care (aka palliative care) has been shown to improve many of these outcomes among patients with illnesses such as cancer, no clinical trials to date have tested the impact of supportive care for patients with CF. The purpose of this pilot randomized clinical trial study is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and perceived effectiveness of an embedded supportive care intervention, whereby a supportive care specialist will be integrated within the usual care experience of patients with advanced CF. The investigators will enroll 50 patients with advanced CF, who will be equally randomized to receive this embedded supportive care intervention or usual care. Secondary measures include: patient quality of life, mood, coping style, satisfaction with care, and symptom burden. This study will provide preliminary data to support the development of a larger, definitive, Phase III randomized clinical trial.

This project is designed to begin to characterize the abnormalities of glucagon secretion in subjects with cystic fibrosis related diabetes along the spectrum of glucose tolerance. Cystic fibrosis patients with normal glucose tolerance as well as cystic fibrosis related diabetes as well as control subjects will undergo an oral glucose tolerance test, mixed meal tolerance test, and one step hypoglycemic clamp. Cystic fibrosis patients will then return 12 months later to undergo repeat mixed meal tolerance test and hypoglycemic clamp test.

It is the goal of the proposed study to compare the efficacy, as assessed primarily by sputum weight, of these two different devices (the Electroflo 500 and the G5 Flimm-Fighter) for airway clearance (AC) in CF patients with mild to moderate lung disease, who have stable lung health and perform AC at home as part of their routine therapeutic regimen.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and the effects two ND-L02-s0201 have on the body

The strategy of neonatal screening for Cystic Fibrosis in France relies on Immuno Reactive Trypsinogen (IRT) at day 3/DNA analysis with a CF Elucigen 30 mutations kit/ IRT safety-net at day 21. This strategy has significantly improved the performance of CF neonatal screening (NNS) in terms of positive predictive value and sensitivity but revealed new difficulties. Up to 85-90% of CF patients detected through the NNS program has a classical CF form with a positive sweat test and 2, 1 or no CF causing mutations but the remainder has either 2 CFTR mutations with at least one non-CF causing mutation and a sweat test <60mmol/L or 1, 0 CFTR mutation and an intermediate sweat test value ≥ 30 et < 60mmol/L raising a diagnosis and prognosis dilemma. Meanwhile the vast majority of these cohorts will remain asymptomatic over time, some will develop symptoms prompting clinicians to maintain a rigorous surveillance for the entire atypical cohort, whose modalities vary a lot among centers and countries. This prospective multicenter study with a standardized assessment of a matched cohort with "atypical" CF versus "classical" CF from 6 years of age (60-65 cases in each cohort) is aimed at evaluating pulmonary and nutritional status to, better define the best monitoring follow-up, therapeutic management and familial genetic counseling.

This is a Phase 4, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study in subjects aged 12 years and older with CF who are homozygous for the F508del-CFTR mutation. This study is designed to evaluate the effect of LUM/IVA on exercise tolerance in subjects with CF, homozygous for the F508del-CFTR mutation.