Active clinical trials for "Intestinal Diseases"

BACKGROUND/RATIONALE: Treatment outcomes of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have improved enormously during the past decade due to the use of anti-tumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF) therapy. As a result, 67 to 91% of paediatric patients and 66% of adult patients is still in sustained remission two years after the initiation of anti-TNF therapy. Prolonged use of anti-TNFs comes with disadvantages such as dose dependent susceptibility to infections and dermatological adverse effects. Preliminary, mostly uncontrolled studies suggest that dose reduction by dosing interval lengthening is a realistic option in a relevant proportion of patients with IBD, provided that intensive follow-up is applied. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether a faecal calprotectin (FC) guided strategy of anti-TNF dosing interval lengthening is non-inferior in maintaining remission in patients with IBD, compared with an unchanged dosing interval.

This is a monocentric, two-arm, non-randomised, non-blinded, historically controlled, interventional trial. The purpose of this trial is to investigate the effect of model-informed infliximab dose de-escalation on the infliximab exposure and therapeutic outcome as compared to standard dose de-escalation in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases.

Recommendations for carbohydrate intakes in the pre-exercise meal for endurance athletes are available; however, are lacking protein. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to quantify exercise-induced gastrointestinal symptoms and gut fullness occurring in response to a low protein (control) and a high protein (intervention) pre-exercise meal. The secondary purpose is to quantify blood glucose responses to a high-protein pre-exercise meal as compared to a low-protein control.

There are many studies in the literature on healthy children with lower urinary tract dysfunction (LUTD), but there are limited number of studies in children with cerebral palsy (CP) with LUTD. This study aim to contribute to the literature by examining the effectiveness of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and abdominal massage in the treatment of children with CP with LUTD and comparing the superiority of the two treatment methods to each other.

This study will examine whether delivery of high dose steroids, directly into the inflamed bowel via its arterial blood supply, will be better for treating uncontrolled flares of inflammatory bowel disease in patients compared to conventional intra-venous or oral administration of this drug. Patients aged 4-25 years of age will be recruited. In this study, we hope to also learn how this directed steroid delivery during an active flare will improve patient symptoms as well as the appearance of inflamed segments of bowel determined by imaging or biopsy (i.e. at the time of endoscopy). Additional data will determine how the blood vessels in the bowel affect, and potentially even drive the mechanisms, of inflammatory bowel disease.

Ischemic bowel disease, also known as ischemic bowel disease (IBD), is a type of disease that causes the blood supply to a certain intestinal segment to be reduced or stopped by various reasons such as hypovolemia, shock or recent abdominal surgery, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the intestinal wall, and causing a series of pathological changes in the intestine. Human umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells (HUCB-MNC) can be economically and conveniently isolated from human cord blood. The HUCB-MNC obtained from the isolation of human umbilical cord blood contains a variety of stem cells, such as hematopoietic stem cells, endothelial stem cells, etc. A number of previous studies have confirmed that HUCB-MNC can improve the occurrence of ischemic bowel disease through immunomodulatory and tissue repair. These characteristics make HUCB-MNC a cell with great potential to treat ischemic diseases.

The inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are described as complex, recurrent inflammatory conditions which are manifested as Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). The common symptoms of IBD include debilitating/severe diarrhea, abdominal pain, weight loss, and chronic fatigue; events that may culminate in life-threatening complications. The pathogenesis of IBD has been characterized as complex/multi-factorial that includes disruption of intestinal epithelial barrier with consequent translocation of commensal microbial products as the prime event that instigates severe immune responses and intestinal inflammation.

Interventional study of a group of patients with an inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis) to identify predictive and prognostic biomarkers of natural history and response to biotherapies.

The purpose of this study is find out if we can use simple tests (biomarkers) to tell us if a specific child would benefit most from CBT or from the low FODMAPs diet.

This is a randomized controlled trial to assess the clinical and microbiological impacts of FMT in combination with Bezlotoxumab (bezlo) compared to FMT in combination with placebo in patients with both inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) a and clostridium difficile infection (CDI). The investigators will prospectively enroll up to 150 IBD-CDI patients from 4 tertiary care FMT referral centers. Patients will be randomized 1:1 to either receive FMT in combination with Bezlo of FMT and a placebo infusion. Donor stool from healthy donors will be obtained from OpenBiome. OpenBiome is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides hospitals with screened, filtered, and frozen material ready for clinical use. Patients will be enrolled and followed prospectively for 3 months post therapy. Stool and blood samples as well as clinical data will be collected at baseline, week 1, 8 and 12.