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Filter by:Background: Bacteria that live inside the stomach and intestines are important for health. Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can make people have unhealthy bacteria. This can lead to gastrointestinal (GI) problems. Researchers want to see if people with CGD and IBD feel better when they change the bacteria in the stomach by following a special liquid diet. Objective: To see if an elemental diet can change the bacteria in the stomach and intestines of people with CGD and IBD. Also, to see if this helps GI symptoms. Eligibility: People ages 8-65 years with CGD, CGD-associated colitis, and IBD. Design: Participants will first be screened with: Upper GI endoscopy and/or colonoscopy. A long, thin tube with a tiny camera at the end will be passed into the participant s body through the mouth or anus. Tissue will be collected. Participants will be sedated for the procedure. They will be sedated using a special mask or small plastic tube placed in an arm vein using a needle. Participants will be put on the special diet for up to 4 weeks. They will stay in the hospital for the first 1-2 weeks. They will have check-ups. They will have blood, urine, and stool samples collected. They will keep a symptom diary to record how they feel and any GI symptoms. Participants will have 2 follow-up visits. The first will be right after they finish the diet. The second will be 4 weeks later. They will have blood, urine, and stool samples collected. They will learn about re-introducing other foods into their diet.
To investigate the ability of tofacitinib, a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, to treat patients with cutaneous sarcoidosis and granuloma annulare during 6 months of therapy.
Background: CGD causes infections and inflammation. The only cure currently is a bone marrow transplant. Most often a perfectly matched bone marrow donor is used. Researchers want to see if they can lower the risks of using a mismatched donor. Objectives: To see if it is safe to use a related bone marrow donor who is only a partial match to a person with CGD. To see how well drugs given to a person before and after transplant help the body accept the transplant. Eligibility: People ages 4-65 with CGD for whom stem cell transplant may be a cure and who do not have a perfectly matched donor, related or unrelated. Design: Participants will be screened with: Medical history Physical exam Blood tests Participants will be admitted to the hospital about 2 weeks before the transplant. They will have blood, urine, breathing, and heart tests. They may have CT and/or MRI scans. They will have a needle inserted into their hipbone to remove marrow. They will have dental, neurologic, and psychologic tests. They will have a central catheter placed: A line will be placed into a vein in their upper chest. They will get drugs, chemotherapy, and radiation to prepare for the transplant. Participants will receive the donated cells through their catheter. The cells will be from one of their relatives. Participants will stay in the hospital about 6 weeks after the transplant. After they leave the hospital, participants will have to stay in the area with visits about 2 times a week for approximately 100 days post transplant. Then visits will be every 3 to 6 months for 2 years. Then visits will be once a year.
This is a Phase I/II clinical trial of gene therapy for treating Chronic Granulomatous Disease using a high-safety, high-efficiency, self-inactivating lentiviral vector TYF to functionally correct the defective gene. The objectives are to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the TYF-CGD gene transfer clinical protocol.
Corticosteroid therapy, including intralesional and topical applications, has many indications within the fields of Dermatology, Plastic Surgery, and Orthopedics. However, these injections can be quite painful, which leads many patients to discontinue treatment. Often, the injection involves a mixture of local anesthetic and corticosteroids despite a lack of evidence that the use of lidocaine improves pain. Due to the acidic pH, the lidocaine component of the injection can actually cause a significant burning sensation during the procedure. Lidocaine does not have anti-inflammatory properties and does not treat the underlying pathology. By including another medication, lidocaine also adds cost and risk to the procedure. The purpose of this study is to see if removing lidocaine from intralesional injections decreases the pain of injection.
An open-label, multi-center, phase 2 study of the efficacy of denosumab in subjects with giant cell rich tumors of bone. The population will consist of subjects with the following tumor types: aneurysmal bone cysts (ABC), giant cell granuloma (GCG) and other giant cell rich lesions (primary bone, non-malignant).
The overall goal of the study is to investigate the functional, biochemical, and gene expression effects of Interferon-gamma 1-b (IFN-γ) on the neutrophils of patients with Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD). The investigators hypothesize that the clinical effects demonstrated in patients with CGD treated with IFN-γ (decreased number and severity of infections) are the result of biochemical processes and upregulation of specific genes, which lead to enhanced functionality of this immune cell population.
Treatment Study to assess of safety and efficiency of conditioning with Plerixafor and G-CSF as additional agents for prevention of graft failure after transplantation in patients with chronic granulomatous disease
The purpose of this proposed research is to investigate the efficacy and safety of the therapy with pioglitazone for chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) patients severe infection.
Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a rare genetic disease of innate immune due to the malfunction of phagocytic cells unable to destroy pathogens during infection. The four genes implicated are CYBB, CYBA, NCFA and NCF2 respectively encoding Nox2, p22phox, p47phox and p67phox. Nox2 analogs have recently been discovered in cells other than phagocytes. So the question arises on physiopathological impact of the absence of theses proteins not only in phagocytes but also in other cells types such as fibroblasts or neurons. The principal objective is thus to study the impact of protein deficits Nox2 and p22phox, in the pathophysiology of neurons from inducible pluripotent bone marrow cells (iPSC). For this purpose, a collection was built of fibroblasts and keratinocytes from patients with different forms of CGD to get iPSC similar to embryonic marrow cells and differentiable into several cell types (neurons, phagocytes).