Active clinical trials for "Crohn Disease"

The main objective of the present study is to describe the quality of life of patients under 25 years of age with pediatric-onset IBD. The quality of life will be described according to the age and the activity of the disease in order to make it possible to associate with the different states of health a measure of quality of life (utility score) from utility values established in the French context. These data are essential for the realization of medico-economic models.

Crohn's disease increases the risk of poor musculoskeletal health, as the inflammatory disease process directly inhibits regulatory pathways involved in bone and muscle formation and maintenance. The negative effects of disease on muscle-bone health are compounded by poor nutritional status, vitamin d deficiency, prolonged exposure to glucocorticoid therapy, and reduced physical activity. Modern, steroid sparing therapies are successful at inducing clinical remission in terms of inflammation, however they have limited effect in remedying observed muscle-bone deficits. Subsequently, patients with Crohn's disease are at increased lifelong risk of pathological fractures and osteoporosis. Novel adjunctive therapies are therefore required to complement pharmacological treatments and target muscle-bone deficits, which are responsible for significant disease burden in Crohn's. High-impact exercise may be a useful additional therapy for patients with Crohn's disease, as the mechanical strains produced during this type of exercise, through large magnitude muscular contractions and ground reaction forces, can promote bone formation and gains in muscle mass. There have been no previous studies assessing the effects of high impact exercise in Crohn's disease, so it is unknown if this type of exercise is safe and feasible in this population. The aim of this study is to assess the feasibility of high-impact exercise for improving markers of bone and muscle health in adults with Crohn's disease, and compare the effects of exercise with a group of healthy age and sex matched controls.

Here investigators will carry out this phase II clinical trial to explore a effective therapeutic regimen of MSC in the Crohn's perianal fistula.

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate long-term effectiveness of adalimumab in pediatric participants starting a treatment for Crohn's disease in real life conditions, namely to describe the time to loss of clinical benefit in a time to event approach. Main secondary objectives are to describe growth and pubertal development and to describe long-term safety. The participants will be followed-up up to 10 years.

Two thirds of patients with Crohn's disease require intestinal surgery at some time in their life. Intestinal strictures, that is narrowing of the bowel due to inflammation and scarring, are the most common reason for surgery. Despite the high frequency, associated disability, and cost there are no are no treatment strategies that aim to improve the outcome of this disease complication. The STRIDENT (stricture definition and treatment) studies aim to develop such strategies.

Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory condition of the gut with severe complications. There is strong evidence to suggest that diet and gut bacteria are key components in the onset, perpetuation and management of CD. An 8-week exclusive liquid diet (EEN) without any normal food is the best treatment for paediatric CD. The mode of action of EEN remains unknown, but according to recent publications, the modulation of the gut bacteria drives its therapeutic properties. While successful, EEN is a challenging therapy to follow. Half of the paediatric EEN patients will require a nasogastric tube to support treatment, its use in adults is limited, and the need for a more palatable diet is very well described. Based on these findings, a non-liquid and more acceptable dietary treatment was recently devised called CD-TREAT (Crohn's Disease TReatment-with-EATing) diet. CD-TREAT, which is a solid food-based diet designed to replicate the nutrients and food ingredients composition of EEN, was recently tested in healthy adults and a rat model of colitis. In order to pilot CD-TREAT diet as a CD induction treatment, 10 children and 10 adults with active luminal CD will be recruited. Once consented, baseline blood, urine and faecal samples will be collected and the CD-TREAT prescribed for a maximum of 12 weeks. Another 3 blood, urine and faecal samples will be requested during the 12 weeks. All the foods/meals of the CD-TREAT diet will be purchased and delivered to the participants' house by the researcher and the meals which need cooking will be pre-prepared by a sub-contracted catering company. Blood and faecal inflammatory biomarkers will be measured, the disease activity assessed with routinely used clinical indices and the faecal bacteria and its metabolites characterised.

Thus, the aim of the current study is to assess the influence of vitamin D deficiency and, consequently, of serum calcium deficiency in the body composition, muscular activity, bone mineral density, fatigue, and exercise tolerance of CD patients. Secondly, it also aims to determine the impact of vitamin D supplementation on this population.

There are many limitations in the current treatments of Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Now the investigators realized that the intestinal microecological is closely associated with the development of IBD. So the standardized fecal microbiota transplantation is considered to be simple but effective emerging therapies for the treatment of IBD. In this project the investigators intend to carry out a single-center, randomized, single-blind clinical intervention study. The investigators will recruit 40 patients with IBD (20 cases of Ulcerative Colitis and 20 cases of Crohn's disease) in China. The patients will be randomly divided into 2 groups, one group will be given treatment of standardized fecal microbiota transplantation, the other will be simply treated with mesalazine, followed up for at least 1 year. The investigators propose to determine the efficiency, durability and safety of Standardized Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for IBD treatment.

The purpose of this observational follow-up study is to collect data systematically on pregnancies and offspring of women who become pregnant while participating in a Certolizumab Pegol (CZP) study or whose pregnancies have otherwise been reported to UCB due to potential CZP exposure during pregnancy.

This clinical trail intends to evaluate interventions based on the Infliximab trough levels for an individualized therapy adaption for pediatric IBD-patients undergoing anti-TNF-alpha-therapy. Main aim of the individualized strategy is to attain and maintain early disease control in order to keep as many patients as possible in disease remission, and to avoid primary and secondary therapy failure.