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Filter by:The goal of the study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of P-1037 and to determine whether the combination of P-1037 with hypertonic saline or P-1037 alone has a greater effect on lung function in patients with CF than placebo (0.17% saline).
Non-invasive methods of the quantification of fibrosis may help to assess the development of fibrosis at a specific moment of the evolution of the disease, in the order to decide the initiation of treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid which may slow the progression to hepatic cirrhosis: - FibroTest, - The ultrasound impulse elastography, Fibroscan (FS) - Ultrasound Elastography by ShearWave (SWE) - Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE). The purpose of this study is to assess the contribution of these methods in the diagnosis of hepatic fibrosis during the evolution of the cystic fibrosis.
The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy of a non invasive method of detecting the pulmonary disease in order to initiate treatment against cystic fibrosis as soon as possible. Moreover this screening procedure permits to note the improvement following the treatment and to choose the optimal treatment in term of efficacy.
The prevalence of portal vein thrombosis (PVT) in patients with liver cirrhosis is 5-20%. Current evidence regarding the effect of portal vein thrombosis on the prognosis of cirrhotic patients remains under debate. Considering that PVT potentially elevates the portal pressure and thereby increase the risk of variceal bleeding, we focus on the patients with high-risk varices and variceal bleeding as the study population. Thus, the main goals are to analyze the effect of PVT on the incidence of first variceal bleeding in patients without any prior bleeding history but with high-risk varices, the incidence of recurrent variceal bleeding in patients with a history of variceal bleeding, and the treatment failure rate of variceal bleeding in patients with acute variceal bleeding. Certainly, the survival is also observed in all patients.
Liver biopsy is the reference method for the measurement of liver fibrosis. But it has many limitations, such as sampling error and individual variation in interpreting the results. Currently, serum liver fibrosis markers have been employed as non-invasive diagnosis of liver fibrosis and evaluation of the severity of liver fibrosis. They include laminin (LN), hyaluronic acid (HA), collagen type IV (CIV), and N-terminal propeptide of collagen III (PIIINP). However, few study was conducted to explore the role of these liver fibrosis markers in evaluating the prognosis of liver cirrhosis. Our hypothesis is that LN, HA, CIV, and PIIINP in combination or alone can predict the prognosis of liver cirrhosis.
The study is aimed to evaluate the additional role of ciprofloxacin therapy in severe alcoholic hepatitis combined to prednisolone therapy in an open-label placebo controlled manner.
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that Miglustat restores the function of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) in adult patients with cystic fibrosis homozygous for the F508del mutation.
The purpose of this study is to determine if the use of Daclatasvir, Sofosbuvir, and Ribavirin in combination is safe and effective in the treatment of Genotype 3 Chronic Hepatitis C (HCV) in patients with compensated cirrhosis. Patients in this study may have already been treated prior for HCV or may have never received treatment for their HCV.
This observational cohort study studies the impact myocardial fibrosis has on patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing aortic valve replacement.
Background: - Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic lung disease that becomes worse over time. There is currently no effective treatment for it. Researchers want to study the disease and learn new ways to treat it. Objectives: - To discover new pathways that are involved in pulmonary fibrosis. To develop new drugs that may be used to treat pulmonary fibrosis. Eligibility: - People at least 18 years old with IPF. - Healthy volunteers at least 18 years old. Design: - Participants will be screened with medical history, questionnaire, and physical exam. They will have blood, lung, and walking tests and chest scans. - All participants will have 1 study visit, including: - Medical history and physical exam. - Questions about their breathing. - Blood tests. - Breathing tests. - Six-minute walk test. - Pregnancy test. - Chest x-ray (healthy volunteers) or chest CT scan (people with pulmonary fibrosis ). - Small area of skin may be removed. - Genetic tests of blood and skin samples. Participants will probably not be informed of any findings. Samples may be used to make stem cells for use in research. Participants may be contacted in the future to give consent for this research. - Some participants will have repeat visits over many years, repeating many of the study tests.