Active clinical trials for "Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic"

With a described prevalence of brain arteriovenous malformations (CAVM) of 12.8% in HHT patients, of whom 10% presents with intracranial hemorrhage, HHT pose a risk of devastating intracranial hemorrhage. The main objective of the study is to challenge current statements (pros and cons) regarding systematic screening of asymptomatic HHT patients for neurovascular manifestations. The investigators are thus seeking to answer a question many screening programs have faced. A screening program should screen for a manageable problem, by a method that is considered cost effective and does not cause negative effect, even when extrapolated to a large cohort. Finally, the positive effect of screening program should outweigh the negative and not cause unnecessary concerns for the patients. The investigators are seeking to draw perspectives from the results to general questions about screening programs.

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate in real life, in patients with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT), the tolerance of the strategy of use of anticoagulant and/or antiplatelet, by comparing a new exposure period (first trimester of treatment) to a period of reference non-exposure (last trimester before start of treatment).

The goal of this study is to better understand HHT, the symptoms and complications it causes ("outcomes") and how the disease impacts people's lives. The investigators are aiming to recruit and gather information together in the Registry from 1,000 HHT patients from four HHT Centres of Excellence in North America. The Investigators will collect long-term information about the people in the Registry, allowing the investigators to understand how the disease changes over time, and what factors can influence those changes. Ultimately, this should help improve treatments for the disease.

Investigators will test the value of very low dose Pazopanib administered to patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia for the reduction in the severity of nose bleeds in those with frequent and long duration bleeding episodes.

This study is one of the three projects of an NIH Rare Disease Clinical Research Consortium. A "consortium" is a group of centres sharing information and resources to perform research. The consortium research focuses on brain blood vessel malformations in three different rare diseases. The focus of this specific study is on Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT). HHT is a condition characterized by blood vessel malformations, called telangiectasia and arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), occurring in the brain, nose, lungs, stomach, bowels and liver. Brain AVMs (BAVMs) in HHT are difficult to study because they are rare, affecting approximately 10% of people with HHT. While other types of BAVMs have been studied in depth, studies in the HHT population have been very small. Here, we propose the first large-scale collaboration by joining with 12 HHT Centers of Excellence in North America to perform a large study of risk factors for bleeding from BAVMs, called intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) in HHT patients. The current standard of clinical practice across North America, is to screen all HHT patients for BAVMs with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). If BAVMs are detected, patients are referred to a multidisciplinary neurovascular team for consideration for treatment. Treatment decisions are made on a case by case basis, balancing risks of complications from the BAVM with risks of therapy, but are limited by the few studies available in HHT. We hope that the knowledge we obtain about the risk factors for intracranial bleeding in these patients from this larger study will help us to improve the care of HHT patients. We plan to study risk factors for rupture of BAVMs, including primarily genetics and imaging characteristics of the BAVMs. Knowledge about risk factors will help in the care and management of HHT patients. This will be achieved through the collection of health information to construct a HHT database, blood sampling and banking (through the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [NINDS]), and through genetic analysis at the University of California San Francisco.

The present project aims to study the inflammatory and endothelial responses involved in the differences in clinical events related to both genotypes (ENG vs. ACVRL1) in HHT. Accordingly, a cross-sectional study is proposed to evaluate the differences in circulating inflammatory and endothelial biomarkers, including interleukines, adhesion molecules, chemokines and immune regulatory molecules between both HHT groups.

This observational study is for individuals with Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia and pulmonary arteriovenous malformations that are reviewed at the Hammersmith Hospital, London.

This study will examine genes involved in the vascular dysplasia Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia i(HHT)

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Patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) suffer from an inherited disorder leading to systemic vascular malformations. Mutations in several genes of the transforming growth factor (TGF)-β superfamily pathway influence angiogenesis in patients with HHT. The genetic loss of ALK1 or ENG alone are not sufficient to induce AVMs; environmental insults that could trigger angiogenesis (e.g. wounding) are also needed. In this study it will be analyzed if hypoxic induced factors could have an influence on the disease HHT.