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Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is chronic fibroinflammatory disease of the liver. There is still no medical therapy proven to halt the progression of PSC or prevent its serious complications. This is a Phase 2 randomized, double bind, placebo-controlled, monocentric study evaluating the safety and efficacy of two doses of oral vancomycin (i.e. 750 mg and 1500 mg/day) in subject between 15 - 70 years old with PSC.


Clinical Trial Description

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is chronic fibroinflammatory disease of the liver characterized by chronic inflammation and sclerosis of the intrahepatic and/or extrahepatic bile ducts, and a risk for progression to liver failure and development of colorectal and hepatobiliary cancer. Both children and adults are affected. Patients with PSC have a diminished life expectancy with a median survival of 17 years after diagnosis. Despite the high mortality associated with PSC and the efforts to optimize its management, there is no medical therapy proven to halt the progression of PSC or prevent its serious complications. There is a strong yet poorly understood relationship between PSC and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); nearly 70%-80% of PSC patients have IBD, mainly ulcerative colitis (UC). Increasing evidence is pointing out the role of gut microbiota in the pathogenesis of PSC. The 'leaky gut' theory implies that either bacteria or their toxic metabolites translocate from the inflamed intestinal mucosa into the portal circulation and into the liver causing liver and biliary injury. The gut microbiota of PSC patients, compared to IBD patients and healthy controls, showed decreased microbial diversity, and over-represented intestinal pathobionts (i.e., organisms which, under normal circumstances, lives as a non-harming symbiont). Several antibiotics, including vancomycin and metronidazole, have been investigated in PSC. The use of oral vancomycin (OV), a glycopeptide antibiotic has been reported to be associated with improvement in clinical symptoms and laboratory abnormalities in patients with PSC; however, prospective studies in adult and young adult patients in Europe are lacking. Our scientific community therefore seeks to examine the safety and efficacy of OV in patients with PSC in a randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial. This is a Phase 2 randomized, double bind, placebo-controlled, monocentric study evaluating the safety and efficacy of two doses of oral vancomycin (i.e. 750 mg and 1500 mg/day) in subject between 15 - 70 years old with PSC with or without IBD. The study will consist of 10-week screening period (including a run-in phase), 24 weeks of treatment, and follow-up visits at 4 and 12 weeks after completion of treatment to evaluate what happens after treatment stop. Subjects will be randomized to placebo or treatment and stratifying by baseline presence of fibrosis by fibroscan value at baseline (< or ≥14.4 kPa corresponding to F4 fibrosis), as this parameter could affect the likelihood of reaching the primary composite outcome measure. The knowledge gained from our proposed clinical trial will help us determine if OV should be considered as a treatment option in patients with PSC. Furthermore, the use of state-of-the art technology applied in this study will shed light on the relationship between the gut microbiome, bile acids, immune-mediators, including cytokines, and PSC. ;


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NCT number NCT05876182
Study type Interventional
Source University of Milano Bicocca
Contact Marco Carbone, MD
Phone 0392334515
Email marco.carbone@unimib.it
Status Recruiting
Phase Phase 2
Start date June 15, 2023
Completion date June 2026

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