Active clinical trials for "Fistula"

This study will randomize all patients who are new to the Mayo Clinic HPN team to either standard lipid emulsion (Intralipid) or SMOFLipid.

Ano-perineal (or ano-rectal) fistulas are a frequent and major complication of Crohn's disease. Indeed, they indicate a greater severity of the disease. In addition, they have a major impact on the quality of life of patients. Finally, these fistulas are difficult to cure, especially when they are complex. Indeed, medical treatment with anti-TNF drugs can only cure them in one third of cases. Various obturation treatments have been proposed in addition to medical treatment such as advancement flap, injection of biological glue, placement of a plug, intersphincter ligation of the fistulous path or laser but with still insufficient healing rates. The injection of mesenchymal stem cells of adipose origin was first proposed for this indication in 2003. Since then, numerous studies have been published on the subject. Most importantly, an international multicenter randomized double-blind phase 3 controlled trial demonstrated the superiority of allogeneic stem cells over placebo with a therapeutic effect maintained at one year follow-up. The trial involved selected patients with Crohn's disease and one or more complex ano-perineal fistulas refractory to conventional treatments. This treatment has a high cost and its practical modalities are constraining (manufacturing, delivery, constrained time between the factory and the injection). However, this study is the first to have demonstrated in such a rigorous way the effectiveness of a local treatment on complex ano-perineal fistulas of Crohn's disease. These allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells have therefore been granted marketing authorization in Europe and have been commercialized in several European countries including France during the summer of 2020 under the trade name ALOFISEL®. They are indicated for complex ano-perineal fistulas that have not responded to at least one conventional biological treatment, in the context of inactive or less active Crohn's disease. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the rate of "deep" remission (i.e. clinical and radiological) at 12 months of follow-up in the first patients treated in France with ALOFISIEL® after its marketing. The evaluation is performed at 12 months because it seems that the result is consolidated after this period.

This is a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the outcome of treatment of complex perianal fistula by Video-assisted anal fistula treatment (VAAFT) compared to fistulectomy and sphincter reconstruction as standard surgical procedure.

This study is designed to compare the safety and efficacy of paclitaxel-eluting balloon (DEB) versus conventional percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) for the treatment of hemodynamically significant recurrent cephalic arch stenosis in brachial cephalic fistulas in hemodialysis patients.

The purpose of this study is to determine safety and efficacy of eASCs (expanded adult stem cells) for treatment of complex perianal fistulas in patients with Crohn's disease.

This study will investigate if liposomal prednisolone is effective in promoting arteriovenous fistula (AVF) maturation when administered to human subjects after surgical creation of a radio-cephalic AVF.

This clinical trial will evaluate the safety and efficacy of the Strattice-LIFT procedure to treat anal fistulas.

The most common problem with haemodialysis arteriovenous fistulas (AVF) and arterio-venous grafts (AVG) is stenosis, which can lead to inadequate dialysis, and eventual access thrombosis. Conventional plain old balloon angioplasty (CBA) is associated with high recurrence rates of stenosis and repeated interventions. The advent of successful drug-eluting technology in the treatment of the coronary vascular bed and subsequent positive accumulating evidence in the peripheral arterial circulation has prompted the use of drug coated balloons (DCB) in the access fistula circuit for venous stenosis and in-stent restenosis. Recent studies suggest that DCBs may significantly reduce re-intervention rates on native and recurrent lesions. The restenosis process is in part or in whole the result of neo-intimal hyperplasia (NIH) and NIH is considered the main culprit in access circuit target lesion stenosis. NIH is the blood vessel's healing response to the barotrauma from the angioplasty process. A critical component of NIH is the cellular proliferative stage with mononuclear leucocytes identified as the primary inflammatory cell type involved. The rationale for drug elution is to block the NIH response with an anti-metabolite such as paclitaxel. It is important to emphasize that the role of drug elution in the treatment of vascular stenosis is not to obtain a good haemodynamic and luminal result but to preserve a good result obtained during POBA from later restenosis due to NIH and minimise reinterventions and readmissions to hospital for what is a frail population of patients. A meta-analysis performed by Khawaja et al. seemed to suggest that DCBs conferred some benefit in terms of improving target lesion primary patency (TLPP) in AVFs. An updated meta-analysis performed by our own institution recently reinforced that DCB appears to be a better and safe alternative to CBA in treating patients with stenosis within all haemodialysis circuits (fistulas and grafts) based on 6- and 12-months primary patency and increased intervention free period 5. However, this was not reflected in the largest RCT to date of DCB vs CBA in AVF with no superior target lesion patency demonstrated at six months and one and two years follow-up. Another recent meta-analysis found paclitaxel-coated balloons (PCB) showed no statistically significant improvement over conventional balloons in decreasing fistula stenosis in randomized controlled trials but were significant for cohort studies. Hence this shows the heterogeneity of the available data in the literature and the result is dependent on what studies you include in the review. Another reason why the outcome data is variable is that the high-speed blood flow in dialysis access circuits washes a large amount of the paclitaxel away from the target lesion soon after application. A measurement in swine showed that only 20%-30% of paclitaxel was taken up into the coronary artery wall in vivo 15-25minutes after PCB application. Furthermore, recent attention has been drawn to a possible increase in late mortality signal and lower amputation free survival in patients receiving DCB treatment with paclitaxel for peripheral arterial disease, although this suggestion has not been demonstrated in the data of DCB within the fistula circuit either at 1 or 2 years. In light of these concerns, attention has turned away recently from paclitaxel-based technologies to sirolimus coated platforms. Sirolimus, like paclitaxel, is a potent antiproliferative agent, which has been found to prevent restenosis in the coronary bed and more recently in the peripheral vasculature but to date has not been studied in AVF circuits The aims of the study is to determine the safety and efficacy of the MedAlliance SELUTION SLR 018™ DEB in the treatment of failing AV fistula due to conduit stenosis in patients undergoing renal dialysis.

This is a global, multi-center, prospective, post-market, confirmatory, interventional, non-randomized, single-arm clinical investigation evaluating arteriovenous fistula (AVF) creation by means of the WavelinQ™ EndoAVF System in patients who require a vascular access for hemodialysis (HD).

The primary objective of this study is to compare two treatment strategies for establishing dialysis access in patients with unsuitable forearm veins for the standard forearm primary radio-cephalic arteriovenous fistula also known as the Brescia-Cimino fistula.