Active clinical trials for "Hyperlipoproteinemia Type II"

Patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia has very high serum cholesterol levels despite receiving lipid lowering drugs (e.g. statins, etc). Most of such patients die before the age of 20 due to myocardial infarction, etc. Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is an effective treatment for that. Hepatocyte transplantation is an alternative to OLT that may help to overcome the shortage of donor organs. There have been reports of successful treatment of different kinds of metabolic liver disorders by hepatocyte transplantation. The major problem with hepatocyte transplantation is that the source of hepatocytes is very limited. Bone marrow stem cells are the potential source of hepatocytes. In the in-vitro culture system successful and efficient transdifferentiation of mesenchymal stem cells into hepatocytes has been documented. We have already shown that infusion of mesenchymal stem cells is safe and feasible in cirrhosis (Mohamadnejad M, et al. Arch Iran Med 2007; In Press). In this study, 2 patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia will be included. The bone marrow of healthy volunteers with a normal lipid profile will be taken, then bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) will be cultured, and then MSCs will be trans-differentiate into hepatocytes, and the cells will be infused through the portal vein into the patients. The duration of follow up will be 6 months post-transplantation.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of mipomersen (ISIS 301012) in subjects with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia on lipid-lowering therapy. This study consisted of a 26-week treatment period and a 24-week post-treatment follow-up period. Following treatment and Week 28 evaluations, participants could elect to enroll in an open-label extension study (301012-CS6; NCT00694109). Participants who were not eligible or elected not to enroll in the open-label extension study or who discontinued during the 28-week treatment period were followed in this study for 24 weeks from administration of the last dose of study drug.

The Torcetrapib project was terminated on December 2, 2006 due to safety findings. To evaluate the efficacy and safety of the lipid drug Torcetrapib/atorvastatin in patients with genetically known disorder of extremely high cholesterol

This is a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, multicenter study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of AK102 in patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH).The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of AK102 in patients with HeFH.

Child-parent screening for familial hypercholesterolemia has been proposed to identify children and their parent who are carrier of mutations and with high risk for inherited premature coronary artery disease. The investigators assessed the efficacy and feasibility of such screening in primary care practice. key scitific questions: The 95th and 99th percentile of finger blood TC in children of 2 years old. Mutations that contribute to high TC status ( serum TC >99th percentiles) compared with international FH48 panel for FH genetc screening.

A study to evaluate safety and efficacy of IBI306 in subjects with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.

The primary objective of this study is to determine the effect of once-daily oral MGL-3196 on the percent change from baseline in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in patients with Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HeFH).

To describe the safety and tolerability of evolocumab in participants with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH) in India. All participants will receive evolocumab over an 8-week period.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetcs and pharmacodynamics of single- and multiple doses of ARO-ANG3 in healthy adult volunteers and in dyslipidemic patients including familial hypercholesterolemia and severe hypertriglyceridemia.

Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is the most common inherited metabolic disorder resulting in marked elevations in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). If left untreated, lifelong exposure to elevated LDL-C leads to a substantially increased risk of premature cardiovascular disease as compared to the general population. Although FH adverse cardiovascular outcomes are potentially preventable through early identification of FH individuals and initiation of effective treatment, available evidence shows that FH is under-diagnosed and under-treated. Childhood is the optimal period for FH screening, because due to minimal dietary and hormonal influences, LDL-C levels reflect predominantly the genetic component in children and are well suited to discriminate FH from other causes of elevated LDL-C. If FH remains untreated in this latent stage of the disease, individuals show a 10-fold increase of cardiovascular risk during early and middle adulthood. In this context, an effective approach for detecting FH would be a screening during childhood or in young adolescents in combination with reverse cascade screening of first-degree relatives of FH individuals. EPIRUS-FH registry is a model program of reverse cascade screening for FH in children and adolescents in Northwest Greece that aims to increase public and physician awareness, strengthen the national registry of familial hypercholesterolemia (HELLAS-FH) and constitute the core for a national FH registry in children and adolescents in Greece.