Active clinical trials for "Diarrhea"

This study compared safety and efficacy of a generic rifaximin tablet to the reference listed drug in the treatment of travelers' diarrhea. Additionally both the generic and reference formulations were tested for superiority against a placebo tablet. It was planned that 450 patients would be enrolled, but only 28 patients were randomized. Of these, 1 patient discontinued due to failure to meet the inclusion/exclusion criteria. The remaining 27 patients received study drug and 25 patients completed the study. The study was terminated due to slow enrolment. The final analysis included only safety analysis in the Safety population, due to the low number of randomized patients. No efficacy analysis was performed.

To evaluate the effects of VSL#3 on symptoms associated with diarrhea predominant IBS

The study team's principal interest is to address the question, "Will prophylactic treatment with mesalamine reduce the incidence and severity of immune-related diarrhea occurring secondarily to treatment with ipi/nivo?"

Faecal elastase is an enzyme test used to identify the presence of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency. This condition manifests with symptoms of diarrhea, weight loss, causing potential impairment on an individual's quality of life. Creon, a pancreatic enzyme supplement, marketed by Abbott Laboratories, Inc. is currently the standard treatment for this condition. However, there has been limited work evaluating the merits of this medication in this condition. This study aims to evaluate the benefits that Creon may have in coeliac patients with low faecal pancreatic elastase by randomising patients with low faecal pancreatic elastase (<200 ug/g) to either treatment with Creon or placebo. Outcome measures that we aim to assess to determine the benefits of Creon include evaluation of stool frequency, abdominal pain, body mass index (BMI) and quality of life.

This research study will test a laboratory test called Film-Array Gastrointestinal (GI) Panel. This GI Panel is a test that can identify the bacteria or viruses that may cause diarrhea. This test will enable the ED doctor to better understand the cause of diarrhea to try to determine the best treatment. The primary objective of this study is to determine if testing ED patients who complain of diarrhea will lead to more optimal use of antibiotics. Optimal use of antibiotics is defined as the most appropriate antibiotic to treat a specified pathogen.

In this trial, eligible patients will be randomly assigned to receive a single dose of 400 mg/kg of IVIG or a normal saline infusion as placebo over 4-6 hours, in addition to their usual medications for CDAD. We expect to enroll approximately 40 patients over a period of two years from UPMC Shadyside Hospital, McKeesport Hospital, and St. Margaret's Hospital who are unresponsive to standard antimicrobial therapy for CDAD. During the course of this study we expect that IVIG group compared with placebo group will have fewer number of stools per day (< 3 per day). Secondary endpoints will include normal WBC count, normal body temperature, 75% reduction in abdominal pain / tenderness, and decrease in length of hospital stay. Subjects will sign a written informed consent prior to any study procedures. Patients will be monitored closely during the infusion of the study medication and will continue to be monitored on a daily basis up to the time of discharge. Data collection will include vital signs, CBC, stool C. difficile cytotoxin assay, and stool counts before and after therapy.

This study will seek to determine if whole genome sequencing (WGS) improves diagnostic rates, and outcomes for congenital diarrhea and enteropathy (CODE) patients. The investigator will enroll 180 patients in a randomized controlled study to either WGS or whole exome sequencing (WES). This study is designed to evaluate whether CODE patients would benefit from WGS guided precision medicine.

Green banana has been traditionally used in diarrheal and other diseases. Recent studies have shown that green banana is beneficial in children with diarrhea. The purpose of this study is to try green banana in a portable, storable and dosable form in infants with diarrhea. Infants with diarrhea and meeting the inclusion criteria will receive either green banana powder or placebo (microcrystalline cellulose). Their response will be monitored for 10 days. The subjects, parents and researchers conducting the study will not know whether banana powder or placebo is being given to that particular subject (double blind randomized study). Two hundred patients will be enrolled in 24 months.

This project focuses on the evaluation of the impact of the rapid mutltiplex test on changes in anti-infectious treatments in kidney transplant patients with diarrhea. A higher number of infectious agents detected on the same day of sampling could improve the etiological diagnosis of diarrhea in kidney transplant patients and optimize therapeutic management. A prospective study will be conducted to evaluate the impact of a rapid multiplex test with a wide panel of bacteria, viruses and parasites on the clinical management of kidney transplant patients with acute diarrhea. This impact will be evaluated using a control group of kidney transplant patients with acute diarrhea whose infectious diagnosis will be performed by standard methods. The main objective is to determine the impact of the rapid multiplex test on changes in anti-infectious treatments (initiation, change of molecule, total duration of treatment).

The objective of this study is to evaluate safety and efficacy of Heweizhixie Capsule in patients with diarrhea.