Active clinical trials for "Scleroderma, Diffuse"

Migration Inhibitory Factor has proliferative and antiapoptotic actions on fibroblasts which may be relevant to scleroderma because of the central role of a dysregulated fibroproliferative response in disease-affected tissues

The aim of this study was to assess serum N-terminal proBNP (NT-proBNP) in systemic sclerosis patients and to establish whether it reflects the severity of RV overload.

To explore the association among TCM pattern, TCM tongue diagnosis and TCM pulse diagnosis for Autoimmune disease and Dry eye syndrome

The purpose of this study is to assess the value in terms of sensitivity, specificity and likelihood ratio of the stress echocardiography in the screening of pulmonary arterial hypertension in patients with systemic sclerosis and indirect signs of pulmonary arterial hypertension.

This phase I/II pilot trial seeks to demonstrate that prolonged administration of Campath-1H without prior marrow or stem cell harvesting can result in immunoablation similar to that achieved by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) from either bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell sources in children and adolescents with severe treatment refractory systemic sclerosis (SSc).

The primary objective of the study is to assess the change in systemic sclerosis (SSc)-associated gastrointestinal (GI) tract symptoms over a 1-year period in participants with SSc.

Cuprimine (penicillamine) was made available in the Philippines by the Sponsor under a Compassionate Special Permit issued by the Bureau of Food and Drugs. Physicians were able to request the drug for their patients from the Sponsor. A Clinical Study Report form was completed for each purchase of Cuprimine.

To establish a new prospective cohort of Korean patients with systemic sclerosis and track the natural history of the disease over time. To generate new hypotheses for further investigation.

Scleredema is a scleroderma-like skin disorder appearing in 2.5-14% among patients with type 1 or 2 diabetes mellitus. This is a single centre study to screen consecutive patients with diabetes mellitus for the presence of scleredema,and to compare the clinical-laboratory data of patients with and without scleredema. Metabolic and vascular complications of these patients will be focused on.

Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) are a heterogeneous group of disorders, which encompass a wide range of conditions. In some patients with fibrosing ILDs, a progressive phenotype similar to that observed in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) may develop during the course of the disease (PF-ILD), including patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc)-related ILD. The aim of the study is to estimate the incidence and prevalence and to describe the characteristics of patients diagnosed with non-IPF PF-ILD and SSc-ILD, to describe the natural course of disease, and to explore the correlation between mortality and Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) of the patients with non-IPF PF-ILD. This study will be based on two data sources: the French national medico administrative database (SNDS) and the ILD cohort from the National French center for rare pulmonary diseases in Lyon, France.