Active clinical trials for "Fibrosis"

Prospective, observational study to define precipitants and predictors of development of Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF) after surgical interventions, allowing to develop a risk stratification for elective procedures in cirrhotic patients. As well as identifying molecular mechanisms of post-interventional ACLF and thus preparing the ground for development of new therapeutic approaches.

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a genetic condition which affects 1 in 2500 newborn infants and is the commonest genetic condition in the UK. 1 in 25 of the white population carry the mutation. The genetic defect prevents the movement of fluids from cells, leading to thickened secretions and injury. With improvements in treatments from the commonest organ affected, the lungs, patients born with CF now can expect to live into their 40s with more than 60% living past 16. Though better, more can be done. As treatments from lung complications have improved, the management of liver disease (second commonest organ involved) remains unchanged for a considerable time. Treatment options are limited with liver transplant the only curative option. Though potentially life-saving, it has risks and an organ shortage means alternative treatment options are desperately needed. Identifying those with or at risk of Cystic Fibrosis related liver disease is difficult due to inadequate diagnostic tools. Routine blood tests are unreliable; therefore specific blood tests to identify scarring of the liver (biomarkers) are urgently needed. Ultrasound scan, the recommended diagnostic investigation, is only accurate in identifying the late stages of liver disease. For new therapies to be most effective we need to be able to identify patients at a much earlier stage. This study will use multi-modality testing, including imaging techniques such as FibroScan, MRI scan and blood tests (biomarkers), to diagnose those with liver scarring and use this to better categorise disease.

CFTR modulators should improve the prognosis of Cystic Fibrosis. Identifying patients under the age of 18 responding to CFTR modulators as well as detecting possible toxicity is an important medical objective given the potential side effects and the high cost of these molecules. This observational follow-up cohort study is carried out as part of routine care. The main objective is to assess the evolution of pulmonary structural impairment by low-dose CF scan at the end of the first year of CFTR modulator therapy. The secondary objectives are to evaluate structural impairment at low dose scan at 3 years and 5 years of CFTR modulator treatment, the evolution of respiratory functional parameters, growth, puberty, lung infection, sweat test, quality of life and pancreatic function, as well as tolerance of modulators including liver toxicity.

The study carries out Sweet Tests and CFTR-mutation screening to explore the prevalence, clinical characteristics, and prognosis of cystic fibrosis, as well as the CFTR-mutation spectrum in Chinese adults with bronchiectasis. The study is multi-centered, prospective, non-interventional, and observational.

In this trial real-world data on the safety (side effects and medication interactions) and efficacy (evolution of lung function testing, chronic bacterial airway infection, quality of life and endo- and exocrine pancreatic function) will be collected in adult people with cystic fibrosis (pwCF) eligible for elexacaftor-tezacaftor-ivacaftor (ETI) up until 2 years after the start of this therapy.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the world. Half of patients with such cancer are treated with radiation therapy. Some patients will develop cutaneous or subcutaneous fibrosis, more or less bothersome. Several studies have shown a correlation between an inflammatory reaction and a protein, called TREM-1. But to date, no link has been proven between TREM-1 and inflammation / fibrosis in the phenomena of fibrosis induced by radiotherapy in patients with breast cancer. Our study aims to understand the involvement of this TREM-1 protein in the development of fibrosis or radio-epidermis in patients with breast cancer.

The purpose of this study is to assess safety and tolerability of once daily (QD) and twice daily (BID) dosing of ANG-3070 in subjects with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) who are treatment-naïve, refused therapy, or discontinued for any reason current standard of care with nintedanib or pirfenidone.

Xfibra, Inc. is conducting a phase 1, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, first-in-human study of the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of single and multiple ascending doses of XFB-19 in healthy adult volunteers in lung fibrosis.

Gastrointestinal symptoms are commonly reported in as much as 65% of people with CF even independent of pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) and the most frequent of these symptoms are bloating/distension, flatulence, abdominal pain and bowel habit changes. An alteration in the intestinal microbiome due to intestinal dysmotility, inflammation or other changes including pH changes in the intestine related to CFTR gene mutation may cause intestinal dysbiosis leading to a bacterial overgrowth in the proximal small intestine which may explain some of the findings of distension and bloating in CF. Our small pilot study aims to investigate use of the only FDA-approved antibiotic, rifaximin for a GI syndrome- IBS, to treat bloating and global GI symptoms in CF patients with bloating and distension. Our goal is to recruit patients >12 years and age/sex matched into rifaximin and placebo arms with total of 100 recruited subjects recruited.

It is an open label observation clinical trial, all participants are liver transplant patients. The investigators deem to make a better criteria for assessing liver fibrosis after liver transplantation. The point of the clinical trial is to evaluate the efficacy of multiparameter MRI in the diagnosis of liver fibrosis after liver transplantation.