Active clinical trials for "Sarcoidosis"

In a study of Cardiac sarcoidosis, a serious heart condition, a radiotracer is being used to examine inflammation.

ACTHAR Gel has activity in sarcoidosis associated hypercalciuria and calcium dysregulation.

Study comparing pirfenidone versus placebo for patients with advanced fibrotic sarcoidosis

The aim of the study is to find better and more specific non-invasive methods to diagnose and stage cardiac sarcoidosis with the use of advanced imaging modalities, simultaneous 3T MRI and PET. Cardiac sarcoidosis is a disease of possibly fatal outcome in young people. The use of a combined PET/MRI system with 18F-FDG and a new inflammation-tracer (18F-GE180) can become a future game changer. Sarcoid induced focal inflammation in myocardium should show high 18F-GE180 uptake. 18F-GE180 PET scans will give reliable data about inflammatory sarcoidosis activity in the myocardium. 18F-GE180 PET is expected to improve diagnostic accuracy compared to 18F-FDG-PET and/or contrast enhanced MRI.

This prospective interventional study was done between May and September 2020. We included 20 patients from the chest department, Alexandria Main University Hospital (AMUH) with the inclusion criteria of having suspected pulmonary sarcoidosis (based on clinical and radiological presentation) and being ≥18 years of age. The bronchoscopy procedure was done under local anesthesia. Endobronchial biopsies and bronchoalveolar lavage were obtained.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the yield of endoscopic guided fine needle aspirations (by means of transoesophageal endoscopic ultrasound : EUS-FNA or transbronchial endoscopic ultrasound : EBUS-TBNA) in patients with a clinical suspicion for sarcoidosis stage I-II; but in whom the preceding bronchoscopy did not result in a qualifying diagnosis.

In the diagnosis of patients with sarcoidosis, there is paucity of literature on the diagnostic yield of the endobronchial biopsies obtained with narrow band imaging (NBI) bronchoscopy. The present study aims to compare the diagnostic yield of endobronchial biopsyperformed under direct narrow band imaging or white light bronchoscopy guidance in suspected sarcoidosis.We hypothesize that the use of NBI will improve the yield of endobronchial biopsy in patients with sarcoidosis.

The Researchers are trying to determine if 68Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT imaging will have a similar accuracy as 18FDG PET/CT in diagnosing cardiac sarcoidosis and if it will be able to do so without the need for complex patient dietary preparation that is required with 18FDG PET/CT.

Comparison of dusting rate of bronchoalveolar lavage in healthy volunteers and patients suffering from sarcoidosis. Blind analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage with Optical Microscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy and MicroAnalysis. For patients, comparison of bronchoalveolar lavage, pathological examination of biopsies (Optical Microscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy and MicroAnalysis) and specific Professional and environmental questionnary. Healthy volunteers matched with patients regarding to age (every 10 years), sex and tobacco consumption (non-smoking, smoking less than 5 pack-year, smoking between 5 and 10 pack-year, smoking more than 10 pack-year)

The study aims at assessing diagnostic and therapeutic impact of Rubidium-82 PET in cardiac sarcoidosis.