Active clinical trials for "Hepatitis A"

This study will evaluate immune responses in patients with HBeAg-negative chronic Hepatitis B treated with Pegasys (peginterferon alfa-2a). Eligible patients will have been randomized in study ML18253 to receive Pegasys 180 mcg subcutaneously for 48 or 96 weeks. Sample collection period for each patients will occur in the first 24 weeks.

The study is to investigate whether alisporivir (ALV; DEB025) alone or in combination with either ribavirin (RBV) or peginterferon alfa-2a (PEG) is more efficient compared to standard of care (PEG+RBV) in treatment-naïve participants with hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 2 and 3. In addition, triple therapy with DEB025 plus standard of care will be applied to participants not achieving rapid viral response (RVR) in the different arms.

To describe liver enzyme elevations in patients who are coinfected with HIV and either Hepatitis C (HCV) and/or Hepatitis B (HBV) receiving maraviroc or placebo in combination with their current suppressive anti-HIV drug therapy.

The purpose of this trial is to provide data of absence of inflammation in patient liver histology after long-term telbivudine treatment and thus help investigators to make a comprehensive judgment on treatment discontinuation in selected patients

Evaluate on how well the ELAD system works in treating people with liver failure.

In this study, depressed veterans with hepatitis C will be randomly assigned to the control group or to the exercise intervention group. The exercise intervention is designed to begin slowly for most participants and to progress within each participant's target heart rate range for moderate intensity exercise. The exercise intervention is a 12 week home based walking program. Ideally individuals will walk for 30 minutes, at a moderate intensity, a minimum of three times per week. However, the duration and relative intensity will be tailored for each individual. Central Hypothesis Veterans who receive the exercise intervention will be significantly less symptomatic for depression than veterans in the control group.

The objective of this study is to better understand the influence of insulin resistance upon treatment response in hepatitis C virus treated with PEG Intron and Rebetol.

The purpose of this study is to determine the decline of virus in the blood and liver in patients treated with telaprevir, pegylated interferon and ribavirin. Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) procedure will be used to repeatedly sample the liver to enhance the understanding of how the virus decays in the liver in response to treatment with anti-viral compounds and the measurement of the concentration of the drugs in the liver. FNA is an alternative procedure to core needle biopsy in its ability to repeatedly sample the liver with significantly reduced morbidity.

Hepatitis C infects as many as 300,000 Canadians. Up to 25% of those infected will develop cirrhosis and be at risk for liver failure and liver cancer. Cirrhosis caused by hepatitis C is the most common reason for liver transplantation in Canada. The largest group of infected people are those who use injectable street drugs. However, people who continue to use drugs are routinely excluded from scientific studies testing new treatments for Hepatitis C and are generally recommended not to receive available treatments. Although several reasons are given to justify excluding these people from treatment, little scientific evidence is available to support it. We plan to examine how successful treatment with the current standard treatment of pegylated interferon and ribavirin is in those who continue to use injection drugs. We will compare the results of treatment of 70 active drug users to results of published clinical trials (this is a change from initial plan to compare to treatment results of 70 local) reformed drug users). Our goal is to determine whether reasonable success rates can be achieved in active drug users that would then further justify their routine treatment.

Patients who are Hepatitis C Negative (HCV negative) and are on the waiting list for a lung transplant at NYULH who consent to participate in this study will receive a lung transplant from a deceased donor that is HCV positive. Patients will initiate treatment for HCV with the pan-genotypic agent, Mavyret, on the day of surgery and will complete the full 8-week treatment course. Patients will be monitored post-transplant for the development of viremia, and for the time course of clearance of viremia among those who develop viremia.