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Filter by:Objectives: To examine the effect of accelerated infliximab induction in children with moderate to severe UC. Design: A multi-center, prospective, randomized, open label study. Setting: Pediatric gastroenterology centers. Participants: Children 6 year to 17 years (Overall, 84 patients) with moderate to severe UC who are corticosteroid dependent/resistant thus planned to receive infliximab induction. Intervention: Group 1 (intervention) will receive an accelerated induction at 0,1,3 weeks (5 mg/kg) and then at week 7,11,15. Group 2 (standard) will receive a per protocol induction at 0,2,6 weeks (5 mg/kg) and then at week 14. Drug levels will be obtained prior to each infusion in each group (up to week 20). Further maintenance will be planned according to drug levels at weeks 15 and 14, respectively. Follow-up will continue without further interventions till 52 weeks following induction. Main outcome measure: Clinical remission, on infliximab at week 20. Secondary outcome measures: 1. Colectomy free rates at week 20 and 52. 2. Clinical remission on infliximab at week 52. 3. Drug levels and anti-drug antibodies prior to last study infusion. 4. Anthropometric and laboratory measures including calprotectin at the end of induction, week 20 and week 52 5. Changes in fecal microbiome, virome and bile acids content. Sample size: In order to demonstrate 30% difference in clinical remission rate between groups is significant, we will need to study 36 children in each group to be able to reject the null hypothesis that the failure rates between the groups are equal with probability (power) of 80% and a type I error probability of 0.05.
The purpose of this study is to determine the safety profile of long-term vedolizumab IV treatment in pediatric participants with UC or CD.
BACKGROUND: Granulocyte-monocyte apheresis has been proposed for the treatment of ulcerative colitis, although is limited by costs and variability of results.
It is planned to enroll 80 UC patients who will require optimization of golimumab after secondary LOR. The review of the study protocol and its approval by an Independent Ethics Committee of the University of Saint Etienne are pending. All patients enrolled will give their written informed consent before being included. This study will be conducted in accordance with the ethical principles that have their origins in the Declaration of Helsinki, in compliance with the approved protocol, good clinical practice and applicable regulatory requirements. Patients will visit the investigator from screening visit to visit 6 at W-1, W0, W2, W4, W8, and at the end of the follow-up at wk 24. During their participation, patients will record clinical parameters required to calculate the partial Mayo score reported over 3 days prior to the visit and endoscopy at W0, W2 (optional) , W4, W8 (optional) and at the end of the follow-up to calculate total Mayo score.
Establishing that mucosal healing (MH) has occurred after therapy is an important treatment goal, and the gold standard is endoscopic evaluation. In UC it is unclear if clinical parameters are adequate. The pediatric ulcerative colitis activity index (PUCAI) has demonstrated good correlations for clinical remission and disease severity, but its role for establishing mucosal healing after therapy has not been validated . The ability to predict mucosal healing may be different for patients in long term remission compared to assessment after obtaining clinical remission. No previous study has prospectively validated the use of PUCAI as a proxy for MH specifically during clinical remission after therapy.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate efficacy of cobitolimod treatment at different dose levels and frequencies compared to placebo in patients with moderate to severe left-sided ulcerative colitis.
Flare-up of ulcerative colitis (UC) is characterized by the inflammation of colon mucosa that requires the use of immunosuppressive therapies. In previous studies, the active role of cytomegalovirus (CMV) has been demonstrated, with a correlation between the cytomegalovirus DNA ((deoxyribonucleic acid) load in the inflamed tissue and the resistance to successive lines of immunosuppressive therapy (Roblin et al., Am J Gastroenterol 2011). The main aim of this monocentric prospective study is to evaluate the DNA viral load by qPCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) of 3 herpesviruses (Epstein-Barr virus, herpes virus 6 and herpes simplex) together with that of CMV in colonic mucosa depending of the local inflammation (endoscopically normal region, inflamed mucosa or ulcer) in patients suffering of moderate to severe UC flare-up (Mayo score >6 with endoscopic score higher or equal than 2). The viral load will also be correlated to the Mayo endoscopic score and the response to immunosuppressive drugs (steroid and anti-TNF (Tumor Necrosis Factor) monoclonal antibodies).
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is one of the most common infectious diseases in humans.
This is a Phase 1b, open-label, dose-escalation, signal-finding, multi-center study. The study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and short-term efficacy of MDGN-002 in adults with moderate to severe, active Crohn's disease or Ulcerative Colitis who have previously failed anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha (anti-TNFα) treatment.
We analyzed the diversity of the fungal and bacterial within colon mucosa between patients with different degree of inflammation of Ulcerative Colitis.