Active clinical trials for "Urea Cycle Disorders, Inborn"

Montmorillonite (MONT) is a phyllosilicate layered mineral with unique physicochemical properties, such as swelling and cation exchange capability. The aim of this project is to study, in healthy volunteers, the in vivo ability of MONT to reduce protein intestinal uptake. Furthermore, the study analyzed in vitro the MONT ability of immobilizing proteins.

The purpose of this study is to assess the long-term safety follow-up of patients having been treated with HepaStem.

Urea cycle disorders (UCD) are genetic disorders caused by the liver's inability to break down ammonia from proteins; ammonia then accumulates and is toxic to the brain. UCD cause brain damage and intellectual and developmental disabilities and even death. Treatment for UCD is either conservative management which involves a low-in-protein diet, drugs, and amino acid supplements or liver transplantation; each carries their own risks. This study aims to help patients to make the decision about different management alternatives by providing them with scientific information that is currently lacking. Aim 1 of this study will compare survival, neurocognitive function, and patient-reported quality of life.

lnborn errors of metabolism (IEM) are a heterogeneous group of rare, sometimes debilitating or even fatal diseases . In IEM, both definition and assessment of meaningful outcome parameters is often extremely difficult resulting in a limited body of evidence. Limited evidence results in weak recommendations which are perceived as unbinding and thus sustains heterogeneous study designs, choice of outcomes and interventions again producing non-uniform data. The goal of the current study is to identify and select reliable instruments, that measure patients' and their parents' perception about relevant (social, emotional, cognitive and physical) aspects in their lives. This set of instruments will secure the comparability of future research findings. Furthermore this instruments will improve the screening of paediatric IEM patients regarding their need for additional (psychosocial or consultative) support in daily hospital routine.

Urea cycle disorders (UCDs) are a group of rare inherited metabolism disorders. The purpose of this study is to evaluate how UCD-related neurologic injuries affect adults with one of the most common types of UCD.

Infection-related hyperammonemia in patients with urea cycle disorders is an important cause of morbidity and mortality. The relationship between immune system cells and the metabolic pathways used by these cells and inborn errors of metabolism is still under investigation. Current studies are generally based on experiments in mice. The investigators' goal is to study specific T cell subsets to understand the effects of the urea cycle on T cells. The investigators collected blood samples from participants with lysinuric protein intolerance and urea cycle disorders for basic immunophenotyping, lymphocyte proliferation in response to phytohemagglutinin and CDmix, and cytokine analysis involving Th1, Th2, and Th17 and compared them with age-matched healthy controls. They also examined amino acid profiles in sera and supernatants before and after stimulation with PMA-ionomycin.

The purpose of this study is to determine if patients participating in "The Longitudinal Study of Urea Cycle Disorders" are different than participants in the Urea Cycles Disorders Consortium (UCDC) Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN) Contact Registry and to determine if patients are a good source of medical information.

This is a pilot, cross-sectional study to assess liver stiffness and markers of hepatic injury, function, and fibrosis in patients with urea cycle disorders. This study will be conducted at 3 UCDC sites: Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California and Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle,Washington