Active clinical trials for "Short Bowel Syndrome"

The objectives of this clinical study are to evaluate the safety, efficacy, and pharmacokinetics (PK) of teduglutide in Japanese participants with short bowel syndrome (SBS) who are dependent on parenteral nutrition/intravenous (PN/IV) over a 24-week treatment period.

The investigators will be using a text messaging intervention to identify potentially dangerous and re- admission causing symptoms in patients with Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS) on Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN). Each consented patient will receive weekly text messages inquiring about potentially harmful symptoms identified by a team of physicians. If the patient screens positive via text message, an alert will be sent to the medical team. All patients with SBS on TPN will receive text messages. The investigators will be monitoring response rates to text messages screening for potentially harmful symptoms and compare the text- message response rate to historical rates of successful calls by nurses. All patients with SBS on TPN will receive text messages instead of weekly phone calls from a nurse. If the patient does not respond to the text messages or the text message responses suggest that the patient may be presenting with potentially harmful symptoms, the nurse will call the patient to inquire about more information.

This is a randomized, controlled, unblinded pilot study for patients with vitamin D deficiency in Intestinal Rehabilitation clinic. These patients are not able to absorb oral vitamin D efficiently and thus have a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, leading to low bone density. The investigators will use FDA approved portable Ultraviolet B lamp for the intervention group, 11 patients will be recruited from October 2013 to end of January 2014 and study period is 12 weeks for each patient. Study completion will be end of April 2014. Study hypothesis: Ultraviolet B light with a portable ultraviolet device will increase Total 25 hydroxy vitamin D level in Intestinal Rehabilitation Clinic patients.

The main aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness and side effects of teduglutide (Revestive®) in real-world clinical practice setting in adult participants with intestinal failure due to short bowel syndrome (SBS-IF) in Canada. This study is about collecting existing data only; participants receive teduglutide (Revestive®) by their doctors according to the clinical practice but not as part of this study. No new information will be collected during this study. Only standard care information available in the participant's medical charts will be reviewed and collected for this study.

This will be an open label, 4-cohort study. Non-randomized subjects will receive teduglutide in each of the 3 active cohorts. An attempt will be made to enroll additional subjects into an observational cohort who will receive standard of care. Three doses of teduglutide are to be investigated for 12 weeks. All subjects will be screened prior to the start of treatment (SOT) to establish baseline characteristics including safety, eligibility and nutritional support parameters.

This is a single-assignment study to evaluate whether Omegaven (IV fish oil) is effective at treating liver disease in children on long-term IV nutrition.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of an investigational treatment (teduglutide) in Japanese patients with PN-dependent SBS. This study will also look at how teduglutide moves through the body (pharmacokinetics).

Patients who are being asked to participate in this study have a short small bowel and will be prescribed to take the medication: Zorbtive® ("Zorbtive/Somatropin/(rHGH)"). Zorbtive® is an FDA approved recombinant human growth hormone (rHGH). The investigators want to see if taking this medication improves small bowel function by helping it to take in food, nutrients, vitamins and minerals. The investigators also believe that if the small bowel is absorbing food and nutrients better, liver function will improve as well. Therefore, liver function will also be monitored during the course of the study by performing blood tests.

This is a double-blind randomized controlled study on the clinical and metabolic effects and underlying gut mucosal mechanisms of modified diet, with or without recombinant human growth hormone, in adults with severe short bowel syndrome dependent upon parenteral nutrition. Clinical endpoints include ability to wean patients from parenteral feeding, metabolic endpoints include gut nutrient absorptive function and molecular endpoints include expression of growth factors and nutrient transporters in small bowel and colonic mucosa. The 6-month study is performed, in part, in the General Clinical Research Center for inpatient stays and outpatient visits.

This is a randomized controlled, parallel group, open label versus "no treatment" trial which evaluate the efficacy of rhGH on weaning off parenteral nutrition in children with short bowel syndrome.The total follow-up is 14 months; 4 months for each group after randomization; At the end of the first four months: the treated group will be followed within 6 months, the untreated group will receive compassionately rhGH for 4 months and followed-up for 6 months after the end of the treatment period.