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Filter by:The purpose of this research study is to find out if the combined therapy lumacaftor-ivacaftor effects how people with cystic fibrosis respond to an oral glucose tolerance test, a test for diabetes.
CF patients are at risk for hepatic disease. Vaccination is recommended to all CF patients according to European consensus. The aim of the study is to vaccinate as many patients as possible and to follow up whether immunization has been complete.
This multicenter, randomized, open-label study will assess the safety and efficacy of oral treprostinil in subjects diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension associated with pulmonary fibrosis.
Methicillin-susceptible (MSSA) and Methicillin-resistant (MRSA) Staphylococcus aureus (SA) are two of the most important infectious pathogens in CF, with 69% of CF patients having lung infection with MSSA or MRSA in the last year. Wolter and co-workers recently demonstrated that a specific morphologic subtype of MSSA and MRSA, small-colony variant Staph aureus (SCV-SA), is associated with greater decline in lung function and worse clinical outcomes. SCV-SA is already recognized for its ability to contribute to persistent infection, likely due to SCV-SA's ability for intracellular growth, as well as its increased antibiotic resistance compared to normal-colony SA. To investigate the epidemiology and clinical significance of SCV-SA in CF, and explore the hypothesis that SCV-SA may require unique antibiotic treatment strategies to optimize clinical response, the investigators will perform the following: 1. Characterize the epidemiology of SCV-SA infection in both an adult and pediatric CF population and investigate the clinical significance of SCV-SA infection in CF by comparing clinical characteristics and outcomes of CF patients with SCV-SA compared to those with to normal-colony MSSA/MRSA. 2. Characterize the unique microbiologic characteristics of SCV-SA infection in CF by evaluating antibiotic susceptibility profiles and molecular characteristics of SCV-SA in a two large CF patient populations. 3. Perform a 16-patient pilot study of a novel treatment for SCV-SA infection in CF, utilizing low dose rifampin in combination with standard anti-SA antibiotics. These investigations will delineate the role of SCV-SA as a pathogen in CF and provide guidance to optimize treatment strategies of MSSA/MRSA CF lung infection.
The purpose of this study is to determine the safety and efficacy of anticoagulation in the treatment of non-occlusive portal vein thrombosis in patients with liver cirrhosis.
The study will be conducted on patients admitted to Department of Hepatology from MARCH 2015 to DECEMBER 2016 at ILBS, New Delhi.All patients presenting to ILBS fulfilling the inclusion criteria will be included in the study and will be categorized and evaluated. The patient will followed over a period of 3 months.
Open-label, multicenter study in adults with Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC) designed to evaluate the long-term safety and tolerability of daily dosing with LUM001.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether an investigational drug DCB-BO1202 is effective and safe in the treatment of liver fibrosis in HBV patients having experienced intermediate stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
This study evaluates the supervivence of cirrhotic patients that develop portal vein thrombosis in comparison to cirrhotic patients that do not develop portal vein thrombosis.
The investigators are trying to understand the role of specific genes in the function of airway surface cells. The investigators know that there are some common genetic markers that are associated with various lung diseases. However, most people with these genetic markers never develop any evidence of lung disease, so it is not understand how or if these markers play a role in disease. Investigators are asking healthy people to provide three (3) tubes of blood as well as a sample of cells from their nose. Investigators will use the blood sample to provide genetic information (specifically, presence or absence of alleles known to be associated with pulmonary fibrosis). Nose cells from individuals with the genetic markers that investigators are studying will be grown in the the lab to allow investigators to learn more about how the cells respond to various forms of environmental stress, such as exposure to cigarette smoke. The goal of this study is to understand how specific genes affect airway cell function.