Active clinical trials for "Sclerosis"

Examination of efficacy, safety and tolerability of vitamin D3 in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Systemic sclerosis (ssc) is characterised by extensive tissue fibrosis. Using drugs that are capable of inhibiting fibroblast activity may be beneficial if administrered early in the disease course. Thirty adult patients with early SSc will be treated with the endothelin-1 antagonist bosentan for 6 months.Disease progression will be assessed.

This will be a 1:1 randomized open label trial. European and outside Europe centres will be involved. Aim of the project is to conduct a head-to-head comparison of effectiveness of two approved disease modifying treatments (DMTs) in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). The term effectiveness refers to efficacy in a real life setting: this is intended to be in fact the first pragmatic multi-centre randomised controlled trial to directly assess the effectiveness of the new oral agents approved for MS (fingolimod/FTY versus dimethyl-fumarate/DMF) on disease activity, disability progression, quality of life, functioning and symptoms. It will be a randomized trial taking place in clinical care setting and comparing existing therapies, any of which may constitute standard care for naive patients or sub optimal responders to first-line drugs. Post hoc analysis will also identify the better treatment strategy on the different patient subgroups. Patient overall disease experience will be considered for the first time as the most important outcome. In fact, in addition to classical "no evidence of disease activity" (NEDA), a new composite NEDA taking account also of patient point of view and quality of life, will be proposed. Finally,the specific effectiveness profile of the two DMTs will be addressed, by exploring comparative benefits on different outcomes (disease activity, disability progression, brain atrophy, quality of life, fatigue, psychiatric and cognitive symptoms, medication satisfaction).

This is a pilot trial to test perampanel (Fycompa; Eisai, Inc.) in ALS patients. The investigators will focus on safety and preliminary signs of efficacy. Perampanel is approved by the FDA for treatment of seizures in patients with epilepsy. In this study, perampanel will be used off-label for adults with ALS at an oral medication dose on the low end of the recommended dose range for epilepsy. This study will consist of two treatments arms: perampanel and matching placebo randomized at a 1:1 ratio. Subjects will receive medication for 9 months.

A double-blinded, placebo-controlled study of Dimethyl fumarate (DMF) in 34 Systemic Sclerosis-Pulmonary Hypertension (SSc-PAH) patients. The study will determine safety and the primary outcome variability for DMF in treating SSc-PAH; the primary outcome of clinical efficacy in this pilot trial will be improvement in 6-minute walk distance (6MWD).

This study, being conducted under the auspice of the CReATe Consortium, will enroll patients with ALS and related disorders as well as healthy controls, with the goal of facilitating clinical validation of leading biological-fluid based biomarker candidates that may aid therapy development for patients with ALS and related disorders.

This randomized, placebo-controlled phase 2 study was seeking to evaluate the efficacy and safety of belumosudil (KD025) for the treatment of diffuse cutaneous systematic sclerosis. Enrolment was terminated earlier than planned for business reasons unrelated to safety. A total of 36 participants were enrolled and randomized into 3 groups to either receive orally administered belumosudil (200 milligrams [mg] once daily [QD] and 200 mg twice daily [BID]) or matched placebo in 1:1:1 ratio in the double-blind (DB) period of this study. Study drug dosing was for 52 weeks: double-blinded for the first 28 weeks followed by an open-label extension of 24 weeks. After unblinding, the participants on belumosudil continued on the same belumosudil dose whereas the participants in the placebo group were re-randomized to one of the belumosudil doses in a 1:1 ratio.

The purpose of this study is to to determine how implementing a home-based virtual reality video (VR) game exercise program in young people with Multiple Sclerosis(MS) can improve disability outcomes by measuring its impact on cognitive assessments (BICAMS), subjective measures of cognitive, physical and psychosocial disability, and motor assessments (6MWT).

To evaluate the effectiveness, patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and safety of cladribine tablets in participants with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (RMS) including relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) and active secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (aSPMS),who transition to cladribine tablets after suboptimal response to any injectable disease-modifying drugs (DMDs) approved in the United States (US) for RMS in a real-world setting.

This is a Phase 2a single-centre, open single-arm study in patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) of intermediate progression rate. Eligible subjects will be administered weekly doses of ILB. A total of 5 subcutaneous (s.c.) doses will be administered at the study clinic. The study consists of 10 visits; One 2-part screening visit, 5 ILB administration visits, and 3 follow-up visits. Each individual patient's study participation will be 4 months, including the screening and follow-up visits. Fifteen patients are planned to be included. The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of ILB in patients diagnosed with ALS. ILB is a solution for subcutaneous (s.c.) injection in saline solution. The dose administered will depend on the subject's body weight at the second study visit, prior to the first ILB administration. No formal sample size calculation has been performed for this study. The proposed sample size is considered sufficient in this early phase 2 development to provide adequate information on the patients. Categorical data will be presented as counts and percentages. Continuous data will be summarised using descriptive statistics.