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Filter by:This clinical food study aims to explore the effect of KB195, a novel mixture of oligosaccharides, on the metabolism of nitrogen by the microbiome in patients with urea cycle disorders (UCDs). This will be done using a stable isotope to assess nitrogen metabolism in the blood, urine, and stool. The study will also assess the safety and tolerability of KB195 in patients with UCDs.
Urea cycle disorders (UCD) are genetic disorders caused by the liver's inability to break down ammonia from proteins; ammonia then accumulates and is toxic to the brain. UCD cause brain damage and intellectual and developmental disabilities and even death. Treatment for UCD is either conservative management which involves a low-in-protein diet, drugs, and amino acid supplements or liver transplantation; each carries their own risks. This study aims to help patients to make the decision about different management alternatives by providing them with scientific information that is currently lacking. Aim 1 of this study will compare survival, neurocognitive function, and patient-reported quality of life.
The aim of the study is to assess the efficacy of HepaStem treatment in paediatric patients suffering from urea cycle disorders.
The purpose of this study is to determine if patients participating in "The Longitudinal Study of Urea Cycle Disorders" are different than participants in the Urea Cycles Disorders Consortium (UCDC) Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN) Contact Registry and to determine if patients are a good source of medical information.
This is a study involving a dietary supplement. Patients with argininosuccinic aciduria will be randomly assigned to receive either a nitric oxide dietary supplement or placebo for 2 weeks, and then crossed-over to receive the other treatment for two weeks. The investigators expect to see that : 1) Patients with ASA will have a decreased ability for their arteries to dilate due to nitric oxide deficiency, 2) Treatment of ASA with the nitric oxide supplement will improve the ability of their arteries to dilate, and 3) Through the testing of subjects' fibroblasts (cells in connective tissue that produce collagen and other fibers), the investigators hope to predict which patients may respond NO supplementation.
The purpose of this study is to assess the long-term safety follow-up of patients having been treated with HepaStem.
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and to appraise the efficacy of one cycle of Hepastem (Heterologous Human Adult Liver-derived Progenitor Cells, HHALPC) infusions in paediatric patients suffering from CN or UCD. The study duration: 12 months starting from the day of treatment: 6 months active surveillance and 6 months observation post-infusion.
This is a pilot study which will test the safety and feasibility of hypothermia treatment as adjunct therapy to conventional treatment of hyperammonemic encephalopathy (HAE) in neonates versus conventional treatment (dialysis, nutritional therapy, and ammonia scavenging drugs) only. The endpoint of the pilot study will be reached when either 24 patients have been enrolled and no serious adverse events were observed, when no patient has been enrolled in 5 years, or when serious adverse events occur which are clearly linked to the use of hypothermia. These would be serious complications not seen in patients on conventional therapy (dialysis , nutritional therapy, ammonia scavenging drugs) for HAE.
This diagnostic study will be performed to investigate the performance of the urea cycle in healthy subjects, asymptomatic carriers of Urea Cycle Disorders (UCD) mutations and subjects with genetically proven urea cycle disorders. The ureagenesis rate will be measured by 13C incorporation assay, a method for in vivo measurement of urea cycle performance with stable isotopes.
This non-randomized, open-label study was approximately one year in duration and consisted of a short term NaPBA to HPN-100 switchover part involving two overnight stays followed by a 12-month long term treatment period involving monthly visits.