Active clinical trials for "Colitis, Ulcerative"

The purpose of this study is to evaluate if retarded phosphatidylcholine is as effective as mesalazin in preventing an acute episode in ulcerative colitis. The hypothesis is, that ulcerative colitis is cuased by a defect in the barrier function of the colonic mucus. The background of the study is the finding that the phosphatidylcholine content of the colonic mucus is reduced in patients with ulcerative colitis, in both healthy and inflamed parts of the colon.

The purpose of this study is to study the loss of vedolizumab in stool in patients with active ulcerative colitis (UC). Patients with moderate-to-severe UC who are commencing induction therapy with vedolizumab will be enrolled into a prospective study and stool will be collected for faecal vedolizumab measurement at days 1, 4 and 7; and again at weeks 2, 6 and 14. They will also be evaluated at three time-points (weeks 2, 6 and 14) for clinical and biochemical UC disease activity as well as serum vedolizumab concentrations and anti-vedolizumab antibodies.

The aim of this study is to determine the efficacy and safety of Beta-1,3/1,6-D-Glucan from mycelium extract of Ganoderma lucidum on ulcerative colitis

This is a phase 2, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study in patients with moderate to severe active ulcerative colitis.

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation(FMT) - reconstitution of normal flora by a stool transplant from a healthy individual, is increasingly being recognized as a therapeutic modality for diseases that are associated with gut dysbiosis. This is a placebo-controlled, double blinded interventional study evaluating multiple, oral, fecal microbiota transplantation, administered in newly diagnosed pediatric patients with mild-moderate UC. The primary objective is to assess the safety and feasibility of multiple, oral, fecal microbiota transplantation, in newly diagnosed pediatric patients with mild-moderate UC. All processing will occur at the Center for Microbiome Research at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, under GMP conditions.

The aims of our study are to evaluate the feasibility and safety of endoscopic injection of adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells in human subjects with moderate active ulcerative colitis, assessing the absence of adverse events associated to the investigational drug, and to evaluate the efficacy of the treatment to induce remission of moderate active ulcerative colitis, by improvements in disease activity index, quality of life index, and endoscopic index.

The objectives of this study are to explore the fecal calprotectin (fC) levels of UC patients under adalimumab therapy and the correlation with their general wellbeing (Quality of Life [QoL]), workability, and disease activity.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy and safety of erythrocyte-mediated delivery of dexamethasone in steroid-dependent ulcerative colitis patients

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) for treating patients with mild to moderate Ulcerative Colitis (UC). Even with the expanding choices of medication for UC, physicians and patients are still in search of highly effective and safe medications with minimal side effects. FMT has been approved for the treatment of a bacterial infection called Clostridium difficile. In this setting, FMT has been proven to be an effective and safe alternative therapy with zero reported serious adverse events from patients that have had this treatment. The providers that are conducting this study hypothesize that delivering microbes from a healthy human gut can help treat the damages caused by UC. This is done by "transplanting" fecal material, which contains a highly complex and dense community of healthy microbes, including bacteria, fungi and viruses. This collection of microbes is referred to as a microbiome. Preliminary studies suggest that alteration of the microbiome can help treat UC.

This is a multicenter, prospective study of dose adjustment of golimumab in patients with ulcerative colitis who will initiate golimumab treatment (naïve to anti-TNF) or after failure (or exposure) to one anti-TNF, which aims to analyze serum golimumab levels and anti- golimumab antibody (ADA) levels during the induction (week 6) and maintenance phases (week 14, 30 and 54) and correlate them with efficacy parameters.