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Filter by:The reason for this study is to see if the study drug baricitinib given orally is safe and effective in participants with active juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)-associated uveitis or chronic anterior antinuclear antibody-positive uveitis from 2 years to less than 18 years old.
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) machines are non-contact instruments that can provide micrometer scale imaging of biological tissue. Applying the image processing allows us to automatically measure the choroidal thickness with good interclass correlation coefficient to the manual measurements.
Non-infectious intermediate, posterior, and panuveitides are chronic, potentially-blinding diseases. Vision-threatening cases require long-term therapy with oral corticosteroids and immunosuppression. Based upon preliminary data, adalimumab, a fully-human, anti-TNF-α monoclonal antibody, now US FDA-approved for uveitis treatment, may be a superior corticosteroid-sparing agent than conventional immunosuppressive drugs. The ADVISE Trial is multicenter randomized, parallel-treatment, comparative effectiveness trial comparing adalimumab to conventional (small molecule) immunosuppression for corticosteroid spring in the treatment of non-infectious, intermediate, posterior, and panuveitides.
The proposed study is a stratified, block-randomized, double-masked, controlled trial to determine the feasibility of discontinuing adalimumab treatment in patients with quiescent uveitis associated with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) or chronic anterior uveitis (CAU).
In this study, PP-001 is assessed for safety and efficacy in patients diagnosed with non-infectious chronic uveitis. PP-001 is a novel small molecule that inhibits a specific enzyme (Dihydroorotate Dehydrogenase) and has shown pre-clinical efficacy in treatment of non-infectious uveitis. PP-001 will be administered to participants as a single intravitreal injection in ascending doses.
Non-infectious inflammatory eye disease, such as uveitis and scleritis, is a chronic, auto-immune process that leads to vision loss. While steroids are effective in the short term, the side-effect profile of chronic steroid use necessitates the identification of effective steroid-sparing therapies. Tofacitinib is a small molecule that inhibits the signaling pathways of multiple inflammatory cytokines. The investigators plan to evaluate whether tofacitinib may have efficacy for patients with uveitis and / or scleritis.
25 patients who are diagnosed with Cytomegalovirus (CMV) anterior segment infection, either uveitis or endotheliitis, will be started on 2% guttae ganciclovir, 1 drop 5 times a day for 6 weeks. Following 6 weeks of continuous application of 2% guttae ganciclovir, patient will be reviewed at the clinic within 3 hours following the last application of topical ganciclovir and clinical features will be documented for activity assessment. An aqueous sample 0.2ml is drawn. 0.1ml will be sent for RT-PCR for CMV viral load and another 0.1ml will be sent for ganciclovir drug level by HPLC method.
The trial will compare the effect on disease control and immunosuppression treatment of adding simvastatin 80mg once daily, over a follow-up and treatment period of 2 years. Patients will be randomised in a 1:1 fashion to standard treatment with placebo or standard treatment with the addition of simvastatin (80mg daily). They will be followed at 3 months intervals for 2 years with a primary end point of mean reduction in corticosteroid dosage at the 12 month follow-up visit.
In the STOP-UVEITIS study, we propose to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and bioactivity of two doses of Tocilizumab (4mg/kg and 8mg/kg), administered monthly, in patients with non-infectious intermediate, posterior, or panuveitis.
TNF alpha Inhibitors have been very effective in treating rheumatologic diseases as well as uveitis. Adalimumab is the first member of a new class of TNF antibody compounds developed to contain exclusively human sequences. We want to test the efficacy and safety of the TNF alpha Inhibitor Adalimumab in patients with active uveitis despite standard immunosuppressive therapy.