Active clinical trials for "Lung Diseases"

Interstitial lung diseases (ILD) are a highly incapacitating group of chronic respiratory diseases, leading to disabling symptoms and impaired capacity to perform activities of daily living and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). It is known that people with ILD are highly inactive and sedentary, and in a severe stage of the disease, these people spend most of the time at home, increasing dependency on others, and decrease HRQoL. Physical activity is a cost-effective intervention, which increases the HRQoL, exercise capacity and ability to perform activities of daily living in people with chronic respiratory diseases. However, few home-based physical activity programmes are available, especially in people with ILD. Thus, it is urgent to develop innovative models of PA, closer to patients and adjusted to the patients' routines, to engage and change patients' physical activity levels, enhancing HRQoL. iLiFE might be promising as it focuses on establishing new behaviours, within selected contexts to stimulate home-based PA. Therefore, iLiFE will be developed, implemented and evaluated in people with ILD.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common disorder that affects approximately 400,000 Danish citizens. About 3,000-3,500 Danes die yearly because of the disorder, and the costs associated with hospital admissions are estimated to be 535 million Danish kroner (DKK). Patients with COPD risk a worsening of their disorder, and in most cases, this will require hospitalization. One of the used treatments is providing oxygen to the patients via e.g. masks. The recommendations on oxygen treatment are currently based on a study from 2010 where 37% of the participants in this study did not receive the intended treatment, which may have had massive effects on the results. It is worrying that no other studies have shown which oxygen treatment is safest for the patients. As such, we deem it important to study how best to treat the patients. Our study is of high clinical relevance as hospitals receive patients with worsening of COPD daily. We need more, better data regarding the oxygen treatment of our patients, in order to provide our patients with the best possible care. The purpose of our study is thus to determine which oxygen treatment is best for patients with acute worsening of COPD symptoms. We will use a prospective, randomized controlled open-label trial. We will use two treatments: Treatment 1 is giving oxygen to the patient to reach a peripheral oxygen saturation of above 94%. Treatment 2 is giving oxygen to reach a peripheral oxygen saturation of between 88% and 92%. Our primary outcome is 30-day all-cause mortality, with secondary outcomes being 7-day all-cause mortality, need for non-invasive ventilation, intubation or intensive care admission, over-all length of hospital stay and respiratory acidosis. We believe that a lower oxygen saturation percentage may be superior as one study (Austin et al., 2010) showed a lower mortality rate in the group of patients that had a lower peripheral oxygen saturation. Additionally, the risk of respiratory acidosis and hypercapnia were lower. We wish to perform our study in the hospital sector as this study was performed in the prehospital sector and thus their results cannot be translated directly.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics (PK) of ARO-MUC5AC in normal healthy volunteers (NHVs), patients with moderate-to-severe asthma and patients with moderate-to-severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In part 1 NHVs will receive a single dose of ARO-MUC5AC or placebo. In part 2 of the study, NHVs, adult patients with asthma, and adult patients with COPD will receive 3 doses of ARO-MUC5AC or placebo.

The aim of the study is to determine the effectiveness of different exercise programs applied to 3 groups randomly formed in patients with fibrosing interstitial lung disease (FILD). Secondary purpose: To determine the feasibility and effectiveness of telerehabilitation in FILD cases.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a condition characterized by airway obstruction. Patients with COPD experience significant shortness of breath on exertion. The mechanisms responsible for shortness of breath on exertion are well understood in moderate and severe COPD, but, are poorly understood in mild COPD where symptoms appear disproportionate to the degree of airway obstruction. Mild COPD patients show an exaggerated breathing response to exercise, determined by the breathing response to carbon dioxide production (V̇E/V̇CO2). Recent work suggests that the increased V̇E/V̇CO2 during exercise in mild COPD is secondary to increased deadspace (i.e. lung regions with ventilation but no perfusion) and/or ventilation/perfusion (V̇A/Q) inequality (poor matching of ventilation to perfusion). Researchers have proposed that the increased deadspace or V̇A/Q inequality is secondary to pulmonary vascular dysfunction and hypoperfusion of the pulmonary capillaries. Recently, we have shown that inhaled nitric oxide, a potent dilator of pulmonary vasculature, reduces shortness of breath and V̇E/V̇CO2, and improves exercise capacity in mild COPD. This preliminary finding suggests that pulmonary vascular dysfunction is an important contributor to exercise intolerance in mild COPD. Here, we aim to test whether sildenafil, an oral pulmonary vasodilator, can improve exercise tolerance and shortness of breath in mild COPD.

This study will evaluate the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of astegolimab in combination with standard of care chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) maintenance therapy in patients with COPD who are former or current smokers and have a history of frequent exacerbations.

The aim of this multi-center, randomized controlled pilot- and feasibility trial is to evaluate the user satisfaction, reach and safety of My COPD, a novel eHealth tool for remote delivery of evidence-based treatment targeting people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In addition, the investigators aim to collect and synthesize data on clinical outcome measures to inform the sample size estimation of a later, definitive trial.

Primary Objective: Primary population (former smokers cohort): Evaluate the efficacy of itepekimab compared with placebo on the annualized rate of acute moderate-or-severe COPD exacerbations in former smokers with moderate-to-severe COPD Secondary Objectives: Primary population (former smokers cohort): Evaluate the efficacy of itepekimab compared with placebo on pulmonary function in former smokers with moderate-to-severe COPD Evaluate the efficacy of itepekimab compared with placebo on occurrence of acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD) in former smokers with moderate-to-severe COPD Evaluate the efficacy of itepekimab compared with placebo on severe AECOPD in former smokers with moderate-to-severe COPD Evaluate the efficacy of itepekimab compared with placebo on corticosteroid-treated AECOPD in former smokers with moderate-to-severe COPD Evaluate the efficacy of itepekimab compared with placebo on respiratory symptoms in former smokers with moderate-to-severe COPD Evaluate the efficacy of itepekimab compared with placebo on Forced Expiratory Volume in 1 second (FEV1) slope in former smokers with moderate-to-severe COPD Evaluate the efficacy of itepekimab compared with placebo on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) as assessed by St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) in former smokers with moderate-to-severe COPD Evaluate the safety and tolerability of itepekimab in former smokers with moderate-to-severe COPD Evaluate the pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of itepekimab in former smokers with moderate-to-severe COPD Evaluate immunogenicity to itepekimab in former smokers with moderate-to-severe COPD Secondary population (current smokers cohort) Estimate the efficacy of itepekimab compared with placebo on the annualized rate of acute moderate or severe COPD exacerbations in current smokers with moderate-to-severe COPD Estimate the efficacy of itepekimab compared with placebo on pulmonary function in current smokers with moderate-to-severe COPD Estimate the safety and tolerability of itepekimab in current smokers with moderate-to-severe COPD Estimate the PK profile of itepekimab in current smokers with moderate to severe COPD Estimate immunogenicity to itepekimab in current smokers with moderate-to-severe COPD

This Phase 3, 2-part, open-label, multicenter study aims to demonstrate the safety and tolerability of L606 in patients with PAH or PH-ILD. The study will determine the short-term and long-term safety and tolerability of L606 in this patient population; also evaluate the steady-state pharmacokinetics (PK) of L606 as compared to Tyvaso, effects on exercise ability, quality of life, and treatment satisfaction with L606.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of oral omadacycline as compared to placebo in the treatment of adults with Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) pulmonary disease caused by Mycobacterium abscessus complex (MABc)