View clinical trials related to Liver Cirrhosis.
Filter by:Liver cirrhosis represents a worldwide health problem and is a major cause of mortality. Cirrhosis is the common end for chronic alcohol abuse and hepatitis C and B virus infections. Patients who have cirrhosis have varying degrees of compensated liver function, and clinicians need to differentiate between those who have stable, compensated cirrhosis and those who have decompensated cirrhosis. It is shown various complications: portal hypertension, hepatocellular carcinoma, hepato-renal syndrome, etc. Thus, it is important to have this information to manage disease and determine specific therapy. However, register-based studies in have not been reported in Korea. The goal of this study is to describe the natural history of a large number of patients with liver cirrhosis prospectively followed, and to identify predictors of the occurrence of Hepatocellular carcinoma.
This study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells transplantation in liver cirrhosis patients.
Patients with chronic hepatitis B histologically confirmed of early cirrhosis S4 (similar to metavir F4, Ishak 5/6) are randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio. One arm is entecavir alone for 2 years; the other is entecavir for the first 0.5 year, entecavir plus thymosin for 1 year, entecavir for another additional 0.5 year. Patients will be assessed at baseline, at every six months for blood count, liver function test, HBVDNA, AFP, prothrombin time, liver ultrasonography, and Fibroscan. The second liver biopsy will be performed to evaluate regression rate of liver fibrosis 1.5 years after initial therapy.
Patients with chronic hepatitis B histologically confirmed of liver fibrosis S2/S3 (similar to metavir F2/F3, Ishak 2/3/4) are randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio. One arm is entecavir alone for 2 years; the other is entecavir alone for the first 0.5 year, entecavir plus pegylated interferon (peg-IFN) for 1 year, entecavir for another additional 0.5 year. Patients will be assessed at baseline, at every six months for blood count, liver function test, HBVDNA, AFP, prothrombin time, thyroid function, liver ultrasonography, and Fibroscan. The second liver biopsy will be performed to evaluate regression rate of liver fibrosis 1.5 years after initial therapy.
The study will evaluate the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, safety and preliminary efficacy of IDN-6556 in subjects with cirrhosis of the liver who are hospitalized for more than 24 hours due to acute deterioration of liver function.
Chronic hepatitis C is both a virologic and a fibrotic disease, with mortality resulting mainly from the complications of cirrhosis and HCC. The investigators' aim will be to evaluate the impact on of supplementation with a new pharmaceutical complex of silybin-vitamin E-phospholipids in patients with chronic hepatitis C treated with Pegylated-Interferon-α2b plus Ribavirin.
"Mortality related to complications of cirrhosis, (hemorrhage, hepatic insufficiency and primary liver cancer) is 15,000 per year in France. These mortality increases, despite that advanced fibrosis can be identified by non-invasive biomarkers and treated, more than 10 years before the onset of complications and cancer. The main goals of the FIBROFRANCE project which started in 1997 (initially called the MULTIVIRC group) were to demonstrate the performance of serum biomarkers in the more frequent chronic liver diseases, to estimate the dynamic of fibrosis progression and finally to demonstrate the feasibility of the fibrosis screening in French people. The different cohorts of the FIBROFRANCE (HCV, HBV, ALD, NAFLD) permitted many publications among the 186 publications of our group since 1986 in the field of liver fibrosis. These publications included discovery and validation of non-invasive biomarkers (Poynard Gastroenterology 1997, Imbert-Bismut Lancet 2001, Poynard BMC Gastro 2007), modelling fibrosis progression or regression (Poynard Lancet 1997, Poynard Gastroenterology 2002, Poynard J Hepatol 2003) and fibrosis screening (Ratziu APT 2007, Jacqueminet Clin Gastrenterol Hepatol 2008). This research was conducted in Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital for the biochemical and clinical part in connection with national and international networks. Several panels have been identified and the most predictive FibroTest has been patented (US Patent Office 6.631.330) and launched in 2002. This is the first fibrosis biomarker available worldwide (50 countries including USA as FibroSURE) with more than 1 million prescriptions between 2002-2013. FibroTest, has been validated first in hepatitis C and then in hepatitis B alcoholic liver disease and metabolic syndrome. Therefore it is now possible to screen advanced fibrosis in the 4 most frequent liver diseases: alcohol, hepatitis C and B, and metabolic syndrome (diabetes, overweight, and hyperlipemia). For all the patients detected there are therapeutic options to cure the fibrosis or to reduce the progression to cirrhosis and cancer. FibroTest has been recommended as alternative to biopsy in several guidelines (AFEF, APASL, EASL and CASLD) and more recently in US overview (Chou Annals 2013). It reimbursed in France in chronic hepatitis C. Several factors of fibrosis progression can be present in the same subject, i.e. an overweight and an excessive alcohol consumption. Therefore no realistic screenng strategy can be conducted without taking into account the Interdependence of the different risk factors. Three biomarkers of fibrosis-associated liver injuries have been developed and validated in FIBROFRANCE cohorts: SteatoTest for steatosis (Poynard Comp Hepatol 2005), NashTest for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (Poynard EASL 2006), and AshTest for alcoholic steatohepatitis (Naveau J Hepatol 2006). For this purpose different cohorts already used for diagnostic validation will be followed at long term for prognostic validations: FIBROFRANCE-ALD (Naveau Hepatology 2010), FIBROFRANCE-NAFLD including dyslipidemia cohort (Ratziu APT 2007) and diabetes cohort (Jacqueminet Clin Gastrenterol Hepatol 2008). These cohorts will allow assessing the prevalence of fibrosis and the specific risks of fibrosis progression imputable to steatosis and steatohepatitis.
This trial was intended to investigate the pharmacokinetics, safety and tolerability of BI 201335 NA soft-gel capsules in patients with compensated liver cirrhosis, i.e. grade A according to Child-Pugh classification (< 7 points).
Recent, research has focused on the evaluation of non-invasive methods for the assessment of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic liver disease. Among these methods, transient elastography is the most promising. The method has been investigated mainly in patients with viral hepatitis. Several studies have shown, that the optimal cut-off value of TE for detection of liver cirrhosis by transient elastography is highly dependent on the aetiology of the underlying liver disease. Only a few studies have evaluated the value of transient elastography for patients with autoimmune liver disease and here primarily patients with PBC and PSC. For patients with autoimmune hepatitis the data is limited. We prospectively investigated the diagnostic accuracy of TE in autoimmune hepatitis compared to liver histology with and without inclusion of the macroscopic appearance using mini-laparoscopy
The primary objective of this study is to assess the efficacy of rifaximin SSD versus placebo in preventing complications of liver cirrhosis, such as all-cause mortality (death due to all causes) or hospitalization, in subjects with early decompensated liver cirrhosis. Rifaximin, a non-systemic antibacterial agent, is currently marketed as a 550 mg tablet for the reduction in risk of recurrent overt hepatic encephalopathy, a complication of liver cirrhosis. The rifaximin SSD tablet was formulated to maximize the efficacy of rifaximin. Subjects will receive 1 of 5 doses of rifaximin SSD tablets or placebo tablets every day for 24 weeks.