Active clinical trials for "Dwarfism, Pituitary"

This trial is conducted in Asia. The aim of this trial is to evaluate the safety of once weekly dosing of somapacitan (NNC0195-0092) and daily Norditropin® FlexPro® for 52 weeks in previously human growth hormone treated Japanese adults with growth hormone deficiency.

A 26 week trial of TransCon hGH, a long-acting growth hormone product, administered once-a-week. Approximately 150 children (males and females) with growth hormone deficiency (GHD) will be included. All study participants will receive TransCon hGH. This is a global trial that will be conducted in, but not limited to, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

A Phase III, Randomized, open-label, positive-drug parallel control, Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of TJ101 in Child subject with growth hormone deficieney.

This trial is conducted in Europe. The aim of this trial is to assess safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (the exposure of the trial drug in the body) and pharmacodynamics (the effect of the investigated drug on the body) of NNC0195-0092 (somapacitan) compared to placebo in healthy male subjects.

This trial is conducted in Japan. The aim of this trial is to demonstrate superiority of the effect of NN-220 compared with that of placebo as assessed by the change in percent in truncal fat (kg) from baseline to 24 weeks' treatment (end of treatment) in patients with Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults (GHDA).

The objective of this rollover study is to evaluate the long term (1 year) safety of a new weekly administered growth hormone preparation in adults with growth hormone deficiency who were treated with the same experimental preparation in study BPLG-005. In addition, further change in efficacy endpoints of BPLG-005 by prolonged treatment will be evaluated. Additional efficacy and safety data of the experimental preparation will be obtained from the switch-over patients.

Study to find the optimal dose of Growth Hormone Replacement in young adult patients suffering from childhood onset growth hormone deficiency (GHD).

This trial is conducted in the United States of America (USA). This is a 12 month study to determine if Norditropin is safe and effective in children with IGF deficiency.

Growth hormone (GH) deficiency (GHD) in adulthood has been associated with changes in body composition (e.g. increased abdominal obesity, and reduced muscle mass), in organ functions (e.g. reduced cardiac systolic function), in metabolic parameters linked to increased risk of cardiovascular disease (e.g. increased serum total and LDL cholesterol, C reactive protein, and plasma fibrinogen), and with reduced bone density. These observations have been used to define the "adult GHD syndrome" and to advocate GH replacement therapy in GHD adults. However, most of the studies have been performed in patients who have had hypothalamic or pituitary diseases, and/or have undergone brain irradiation. Such patients are often chronically sick, and commonly lack other pituitary hormones, whose replacement therapies may not fully restore the physiological functions of the under-active glands. Reliable data on the existence of the AGHD syndrome and its response to GH therapy can be only obtained by studying patients that are otherwise healthy. However, isolated GH deficiency (IGHD) is a rare disease. In addition, up to 50% of patients who have been diagnosed with IGHD in childhood are no longer GH deficient as adults, making such study difficult to perform due to the scarcity of patients population. We have identified a very large homogeneous population of patients who have IGHD due to a homozygous mutation in the GHRH-receptor (GHRHR) gene that resides in a rural area of Brazil. None of the adult dwarf patients has ever been treated with hGH replacement. This population represents a unique model to study the effect of isolated lifetime lack of GH. We propose studies of physiological and metabolic parameters in subjects who are homozygous for this mutation and compare them with normal subjects residing in the same community. The primary goal of this proposal is to determine the consequences of life-long lack of GH on body composition, muscle strength, cardiovascular status, cardiovascular risk factors, thyroid status and bone density and metabolism, and to test which of these parameters are reversed by a 6-month course of GH replacement therapy. In addition, we want to test the hypothesis that heterozygosity for this GHRHR mutation causes a phenotype that may be intermediate between the one present in homozygous normal subjects and in homozygous affected GHD patients. This is relevant because inactivating mutations in the GHRHR are being described with increasing frequency in populations of different genetic background, suggesting that individuals with faulty single GHRHR alleles may be present in significant numbers in the general population.

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effects of growth hormone replacement on women with growth hormone deficiency. Growth hormone deficiency means the body no longer produces growth hormone due to a tumor or some kind of disease of the brain in an area called the pituitary/hypothalamic region. This is the area of the brain where growth hormone is normally produced. We, the researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, will establish the effects of growth hormone replacement on cardiovascular parameters (laboratory tests, the flexibility of the arteries, changes in heart rate) in women with growth hormone deficiency. Our goal is to see if this therapy: has effects on women's cardiovascular risk markers (special blood tests which indicate how healthy the heart and arteries are) has effects on women's types and levels of various substances circulating in their blood in women affects the stiffness of their arteries and heart rate variability in parallel with changes in cardiovascular risk markers has different effects depending on whether women are pre or post menopausal. Participation in this study is expected to last approximately 12 months.