Active clinical trials for "Cystic Fibrosis"

A feasibility RCT comprising two groups: Intervention (SELF-BREATHE in addition to standard NHS care) Control group (standard / currently available NHS care)

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the incidence of venous thrombosis occurring on totally implantable vascular access devices in cystic fibrosis patients who need a new device (it can be the first one or a subsequent one) and to study the genetic risk factors of thrombosis adjusted to the acquired ones. It is a nationwide cohort study planned for two years with a six month follow up period. The expected number of inclusion is 50 patients each year, that is to say 100 for the whole study. In cystic fibrosis, pulmonary exacerbations necessitate repeated intravenous antibiotics, but the peripheral blood accesses become precarious with time, leading to the indication of a central venous device. It is important to take a lot of precautions to protect vascular access. This allows the patient to have a dramatic improvement in life expectancy with such life-long devices (ONM, French National Observatory France 2003 : median at 36 years). Venous thrombosis can cause a superior cava syndrome, a pleural effusion or a pulmonary embolism. The risk of thrombosis is significant; retrospectively, it has been evaluated to be between 4 and 16% in the publications. This rate may be higher due to the fact that venous thrombosis may remain asymptomatic, and therefore silent, but they lead to the same risk of vascular access loss.

The investigators want to test in this non-randomized clinical trial a new method of administrating Pilocarpine medicine into the skin during the Sweat testing process that does not use any electrical current.

In nearly 25% of children under 3 months, the sweat test produces a quantity of sweat that does not meet international recommendations and is insufficient to allow reliable and reproducible biological analyzes in the sweat collected. In children between 3 and 12 months, this rate is about 10% when it should not exceed 5%. Insufficient amount of sweat prevents confirmation or reversal of the early diagnosis of cystic fibrosis and early treatment before irreversible complications of the disease. In this trial, a new support of sweat collection (Macroduct® Advanced Model 3710 Sweat Collection System, Wescor) will be tested with the goal to increase the amount of sweat collected during the sweat test, in comparison with the clinical routine method.

Patients with cystic fibrosis are at risk of developing low bone mineral density (BMD) potentially leading to pathological fractures at adult age. Recent data from our center and others have suggested that low BMD could be observed very early in life. However, quantitative bone abnormalities found out by Dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) need to be confronted to qualitative evaluation of bone microarchitecture (surrogate of bone strength). High-Resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) is a recent technology with very high spatial resolution. Images obtained with this technic are considered as virtual bone biopsies. It enables an accurate bones' cortical and trabecular surfaces exploration in a three-dimensional manner, and therefore provides informations on bone microarchitecture as well as bone density. The aim of this study is to evaluate bone microarchitecture of paediatric patients matched to sex-age-pubertal status-healthy volunteers. In the meantime, biological markers will be collected and DXA (Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry) will be performed in order to explore potential correlations HR-pQCT parameters.

Cystic fibrosis-related diabetes is a late cystic fibrosis (CF) associated comorbidity whose prevalence is increasing sharply lifelong. Guidelines for glucose metabolism (GM) monitoring relies on oral glucose tolerance test . However, this test is neither sensitive nor specific. The aim of this study is to compare sensitivity and specificity of different methods for GM monitoring in children and adolescents with CF. Continuous GM system (CGMS) will be used as the reference method. Results will be compared to those of oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), intravenous glucose tolerance test (IGTT), homeostasis model assessment index of insulin resistance (HOMA-%IR) , homeostasis model assessment index of beta-cell function (HOMA-%B) and HbA1C dosage (glycated haemoglobin A1C). Patients will be classified into three groups according to CGMS: normal glucose tolerance, impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes mellitus.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the anticipated use of glargine in CF patients with glucose intolerance may prevent the worsening of nutritional status and pulmonary function.

CF is a complex, inherited illness that can affect many organs of the body. The investigators have found that some patients with CF have reported more problems with memory than would be expected at their age and that patients appear to be using memory strategies to overcome memory loss. The investigators intend to objectively test memory and examine MRI images of the brain of patients with CF.

The goal of this study is to define 25(OH)D3 catabolism in CF patients using gold standard pharmacokinetics studies. Specifically, the investigators will evaluate the metabolic clearance of 25(OH)D3 among participants with CF and matched control subjects. The goal of this work is to provide the first comprehensive characterization of vitamin D metabolism in CF patients and promote novel hypotheses for subsequent studies.

The purpose of this study is to compare the efficiency of nebulization and positive expiratory pressure combination