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Filter by:The purpose of the study is to determine the safety and tolerability of 8.0 mg of ASM8 when given daily for 14 days by the Aeroneb® Go nebulizer to subjects with moderate to severe asthma.
Ex vivo effect of fragments and modified forms of surfactant protein D on pulmonary immune cells derived from bronchoalveolar lavage after segmental allergen challenge in patients with asthma and pilot study to assess local inflammation induced by segmental allergen challenge by magnetic resonance imaging.
Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD) are common diseases, which tend to even increase in many countries. Both from a clinical and a pathophysiological point of view, this is an important issue. However, an understanding of the relationship between the complex array of cells and mediators involved in asthma and COPD is not yet fully dissected which makes difficult to find a specific and sensitive panel of biomarkers that can reflect intensity of these pathological processes and can help to predict the individual outcome.
The economic cost of asthma is considerable both in terms of direct medical costs (such as the cost of pharmaceuticals and hospital admissions) and indirect medical costs (such as time lost from work and premature death). The costs of asthma depend on the severity of disease and the extent to which exacerbations are avoided. Moreover, poor control of asthma symptoms is a major issue that can result in adverse clinical and economic outcomes. According to GINA guidelines, the goal of asthma treatment is to achieve and maintain asthma control. Such an objective can be reached in a majority of patients with a pharmacologic intervention strategy developed in partnership between the patient/family and the doctor. Validated measures for assessing asthma control score goals as continuous variables and provide numerical values to distinguish different levels of control. Among them, the Asthma Control Test (TM - QualityMetric Incorporated) is widely recognized. Few data exist on the relationship between asthma control and health care consumption. Some models for predicting asthma costs have been proposed. However, these models only attempt to assess costs associated with medications and/or asthma exacerbations. Furthermore, in such studies, asthma control was not defined accordingly to current international criteria. Considering the increasing interest of health authorities in reducing asthma associated costs and improving quality of care, it appears necessary to study the relationship between the cost and the level of control.
The CPASMA trial is a descriptive, prospective, multicentre clinical trial, with a before/after Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) assessment in participating patients. It aims to answer the following question: Is there an improvement in asthma in those patients with both asthma and obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) treated with CPAP after six months?. It is hypothesized that treatment of OSAS with CPAP in patients with both OSAS and asthma concommitantly, may have a beneficial effect also on asthma outcomes. This clinical effect in asthma could be assessed objectively by applying validated questionnaires for quality of life and asthma control.
The purpose of this first time into human study is to investigate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of GSK2239633 in healthy male subjects.
The Predictors for asthma control by stepwise treatment during 6 months in Korean elderly
This study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics (PK) of multiple dose treatment with MK-1029 in adults with mild to moderate persistent asthma.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate, at steady-state, the systemic exposure and the lung deposition of B17MP (active metabolite of BDP) as AUC0-12h,ss and Cmax,ss, after inhalation of BDP (Clenil® Modulite®) with the AeroChamber Plus™ spacer device or with the Volumatic™ spacer device without or with charcoal block.
To investigate how a switch from fixed combination treatment (ICS and LABA) to other treatments influence asthma or COPD treatment failure