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Filter by:The primary objective of this study is to assess pharmacokinetics of tiotropium + olodaterol fixed-dose combination (2.5 µg/ 5 µg, 5 µg/ 5 µg) delivered by the RESPIMAT inhaler after 3 weeks once daily treatment in Japanese patients with COPD.
The objective of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of GSK573719 Inhalation Powder 125 mcg once-daily over 52 weeks in Japanese subjects with COPD.
The overall objective of this study is to assess efficacy and safety of 12 weeks, once daily, orally inhaled co-administration of olodaterol 5 µg (delivered by the Respimat® Inhaler) and tiotropium (delivered by the Handihaler® as Spiriva Handihaler®), compared to tiotropium (Spiriva Handihaler®) monotherapy on lung function in patients with COPD.
Patients afflicted with Chronic Heart Failure (HF) typically do not maintain stable cardiac function for the remainder of their life and consequently require continuous medical management and intermittent hospital admissions. Several investigations have demonstrated that electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) produces positive physiologic and psychological adaptations in patients with HF. However not all the EMS modalities were been evaluated on this population or not even were tested based on present recognized gold standard clinical parameters after a short period of treatment. The primary aims of the proposed study is to: Determine the effect of a five week home based of three EMS modalities on prognostics markers, perceived quality of life, muscle force and electrical activity in subjects diagnosed with HF.
The overall objective of this study is to assess efficacy and safety of 12 weeks, once daily, orally inhaled co-administration of olodaterol 5 µg (delivered by the Respimat® Inhaler) and tiotropium (delivered by the Handihaler® as Spiriva Handihaler®), compared to tiotropium (Spiriva Handihaler®) monotherapy on lung function in patients with COPD.
The primary objective of the study is to test the hypothesis that lung hyperinflation contributes to cardiac dysfunction in COPD and that the treatment of lung deflation with FF/VI Inhalation Powder 100/25 mcg administered once daily (QD) will result in the reversal of this cardiac dysfunction compared with placebo. This will be assessed by measures of right and left global and regional systolic and diastolic cardiac function as assessed using a 30 minute CMR. A secondary objective will be to investigate the effect of FF/VI inhalation powder 100/25mcg QD on measures of arterial stiffness in the form of pulse wave analysis and distensability in the pulmonary and systemic circulation.
This is a double-blind, single dose (four inhalations), four-way cross over study in healthy subjects that will assess the systemic pharmacokinetics (PK) and systemic pharmacodynamics (PD) of Fluticasone Furoate, (FF), Umeclidinium, (UMEC) and Vilanterol (VI). Study drug will be delivered through a novel single-step activation dry powder inhaler (NDPI) which has a two strip configuration. The NDPI will be configured with different combinations of each compound and also a new blend of UMEC/VI inhalation powder within a single strip of the NDPI device. Study drug will be administered through the inhaled route to healthy subjects in single doses (four inhalations). Each subject will receive treatment in a randomized order Treatment A FF (400 microgram [µg]) and UMEC (500 µg)/VI (100 µg), Treatment B UMEC (500 µg) and VI (100 µg), Treatment C FF (400 µg) and VI (100 µg) and Treatment D FF (400 µg) and UMEC (500 µg) over four treatment periods. Each treatment period will be separated by a washout of 7 to 21 days. After the four treatment periods, a follow up visit will take place 7 to 21 days following the final dose of study medication and the maximum duration a subject will be involved in the study is eighteen weeks. Pharmacokinetics will be assessed by the measurement of plasma and urine concentrations of FF, UMEC and VI. Safety and PD will be monitored using blood glucose, serum potassium, heart rate, 12-lead ECGs and clinical laboratory tests. Plasma samples for PK will be collected throughout the study, urine, blood glucose, serum potassium, heart rate, 12-lead ECGs and clinical laboratory tests will be assessed on Day 1 only. AEs will be assessed throughout the study.
The objective of this study is to assess the daily variation in bronchodilator response to an inhaled short acting beta2-agonist (albuterol/salbutamol) and an inhaled short acting anticholinergic (ipratropium) individually and when used in combination in subjects with COPD.
This study is conducted to determine the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of NOX-H94 in patients with anemia of chronic disease (ACD). Furthermore, this study is intended to provide data needed to correlate plasma concentrations of NOX-H94 with its efficacy and to choose the appropriate dose and dose schedule of subsequent efficacy studies. Some chronic diseases, e.g. tumors, inflammation, renal disease, are associated with high hepcidin concentrations in the blood. These hepcidin concentrations cause a reduction in iron concentrations in the blood and subsequently impair formation of red blood cells. Treatment with NOX-H94 is expected to inhibit this patho-mechanism by binding and inactivating hepcidin.
Surgical reconstructive procedures for rotator cuff tears present a number of limitations. The few studies in which the repair integrity is evaluated, have shown the existence of a high rate of reruptures in spite of the fact that the functional results obtained short-term are satisfactory. Morphologic analysis from the sutures, after different follow-up periods, has not shown satisfactory results. Thus, the purpose of the current study was to test the hypotheses that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) included in a membrane into rotator cuff tears improves, the radiograms and the function compared to cell-free tendon defect treatment.