Active clinical trials for "Lung Diseases, Interstitial"

This was a 3 months prospective, open label, and parallel study to test the efficacy of 3 different corticosteroids in the management of interstitial lung diseases. Followed by a pharmacoeconomic analysis to find which regimen (betamethasone, dexamethasone or prednisolone) is the most cost-effective.

This study is a prospective, randomized, double-blind, study of H01 (Hymecromone) in adults with pulmonary hypertension (PH). The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of oral H01 and the potential benefit of oral H01 on clinical measures of PH disease severity over 24 weeks. Study Hypothesis: Oral H01, at doses of 1600 mg per day, will be a safe and well-tolerated agent in adults with pulmonary hypertension over 24 weeks

The purpose of this study is to determine the possible efficacy of low dose, orally administered interferon alpha in subjects with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF).

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an illness characterized by progressive decline in lung function and premature death from respiratory failure. Fibrocytes are a novel population of bone marrow-derived circulating progenitor cells that have been shown to traffic to the lungs and contribute to fibrosis in animal models of pulmonary fibrosis, and whose numbers correlate with the degree of fibrosis and with survival in human pulmonary fibrosis. The investigators propose to test the hypothesis that therapy with the mTOR inhibitor, sirolimus, reduces the number of circulating fibrocytes in patients with IPF. The investigators propose to test this hypothesis in short-term pilot trial of sirolimus in patients with IPF to determine its effect on the number and phenotype of circulating fibrocytes.

Antisynthetase syndrome (AS) is a rare overlapping myositis characterized by cellular and humoral autoimmune responses directed against aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. Intesrtitial lung disease (ILD) is a leading cause of mortality in antisynthetase syndrome. Recently, antigen-specific IFN-γ+ CD4+ T cells have been identified in bronchoalveolar fluid (BAL) of patients with antisynthetase syndrome and ILD. Elevated levels of IL1β, IL12, IL18, TNFα, IL17A, IL22 have also been detected in peripheral blood of AS patients, especially those with progressive ILD. Implication of innate lymphoid cells (ILC) and mucosal-associated invariant T cells (MAIT) have not yet been studied in patients with AS. Targeted therapies against Th1 and Th17 cells may represent a promising treatment in patients AS patients with ILD. Investigators suppose that antigen-specific Th1 and Th17 cells, ILC and MAIT at ILD diagnosis are associated with ILD severity at diagnosis and could predict treatment response at 6 months. The main objective is to study the correlation between BAL antigen-specific Th1 and Th17 cells at ILD diagnosis and clinical evolution after 6 months of treatment according to initial ILD severity.

In a randomized, sham-controlled crossover trial the investigators will test whether supplemental oxygen given during cardiopulmonary exercise testing will improve exercise performance and physiological parameters in patients with interstitial lung disease.

Researchers are trying to find out more about the safety of a new treatment, Allogeneic (coming from a healthy donor) Bone Marrow Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (BMD-MSCs) which is still experimental, for Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) associated with Connective Tissue Disorder (CTD).

The purpose of this study is to look at whether bortezomib, mycophenolate or the combination of both is better to treat scarring of the lung caused by Systemic Sclerosis.

By including in this study patients with significant worsening of their lung volumes and / or their DLCO (carbon monoxide diffusing capacity) in the previous year, on the basis of an open retrospective study we recently conducted, we hope to demonstrate that a strategy combining prednisone and intravenous cyclophosphamide therapy is accompanied by an increase in the frequency stabilization / improvement of lung volumes and / or DLCO of patients at 12 months of 15% in the placebo and prednisone cyclophosphamide 50% in cyclophosphamide and prednisone.We also hope to demonstrate significant decrease in the number of patients excluded for failure in the CYC arm as compared to the placebo arm.

The study evaluates the safety and the efficacy of the addition of intravenous transplantation of donor bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells in patients with idiopathic interstitial pneumonia or connective tissue disease associated with interstitial lung disease, which have actively progressing disease with rapid loss of pulmonary function on the background of routine treatment.