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Filter by:The goal of this study is to get a better understanding of the impact of Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) on the quality of life of patients with this condition. Patients with HS will be asked questions about demographics including gender, age, and ethnicity. They will also be asked to complete questionnaires to determine how their skin condition affects their life. Study participation will last for 1 day, with potential for follow-up in the future. We hope this information will help us improve our treatment for this skin condition.
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is an under-recognized and debilitating disease. Patients suffer from recurring painful abscesses and scarring in their armpits, under the breasts, groin and other areas of the body. The cause of the disease is still unknown and common treatments are only sometimes effective. Overactivity of the immune system has been associated with HS and molecules that cause inflammation have been found in the skin from people with HS. Current therapies have long-term risks including antibiotic resistance and the investigators aim to find new safe and effective therapies for HS. Hydroxychloroquine is a medication that has been used safely in other diseases for many years. The investigators believe that hydroxychloroquine has the potential to improve HS through multiple mechanisms. Patients enrolled in this study will be treated with hydroxychloroquine for 6 months. The investigators also aim to look at the blood of patients with HS to look for inflammatory molecules that we could possibly target for the treatment of HS. Blood samples will be taken at baseline and following 6 months of treatment.
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a painful, long-term skin condition that causes abscesses and scarring on the skin.
Chronic inflammatory diseases (CID) - including inflammatory bowel diseases (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis), rheumatic conditions (rheumatoid arthritis, axial spondyloarthritis, psoriatic arthritis), inflammatory skin diseases (psoriasis, hidradenitis suppurativa) and non-infectious uveitis are treated with biologics targeting the pro-inflammatory molecule tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF), i.e. TNF inhibitors. Up to one third of the patients do, however, not respond to biologics and lifestyle is assumed to affect the treatment outcome. However, little is known on the effects of lifestyle as a prognostic factor (possibly enabling personalised medicine). The aims of this multidisciplinary collaboration are to identify lifestyle factors that support individualised forecasting of optimised treatment outcome on these costly drugs. This prospective cohort study will enrol CID patients assigned for biologic treatment. At baseline (Pre-treatment), patient characteristics are assessed using patient-reported outcome measures and clinical assessments on disease activity, quality of life, and lifestyle together with registry data on comorbidity and medication. Follow-up will be conducted at week 14-16 after treatment initiation (according to the current Danish standards). Evaluation of a successful treatment outcome response will - for each disease - be based on most frequently used primary endpoints; the major outcome of the analyses will be to detect differences in treatment outcome between patients with specific lifestyle characteristics. The overarching goal of this project is to improve the lives of patients suffering from CID, by providing evidence to support dietary recommendations likely to improve the clinical outcome. The study is approved by the local Ethics Committee (S-20160124) and the local Data Agency (2008-58-035). The study findings will be disseminated in peer-reviewed journals, via patient associations, and presented at national and international conferences.
Randomized double blind placebo controlled pilot study/proof of concept-study to see if intradermal injection with Botulinum toxin B is an effective treatment of Hidradenitis suppurativa
This is a pilot study in which the the safety and feasibility of secukinumab in HS patients as well as information about the effect size will be determined in order to inform a future larger randomized control trial with an active comparator.
Patients with bilateral hidradenitis in the axilla, groin and/or inframammary will be treated on one side with the Alexandrite hair removal laser. The other side will serve as the control.
Study design: A double-blind randomised placebo-controlled trial Intervention: Randomized placebo controlled treatment of 20 HS patients of which fifteen patients will be randomized to apremilast and five patients to placebo. The total duration of the treatment period per subject is 16 weeks. Primary objectives: To evaluate the expression profile of inflammatory cytokines in HS lesional skin at week four (t=4) and week sixteen (t=16): - of patients receiving apremilast compared to placebo; - within both groups relative to baseline (t=0). Secondary objectives: - To prospectively evaluate the clinical efficacy of apremilast. - To assess the effect of apremilast on patient reported outcomes measures. - To assess the short-term safety and tolerability of apremilast in patients with hidradenitis suppurativa.
The trial enrolls patients with moderate to severe Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS). The primary goal of the trial is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of IFX-1 administered over 8 weeks in these patients. In addition the trial aims to characterize the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of IFX-1 as well as to generate preliminary data on the efficacy of IFX-1 on clinical endpoints (e.g., Hidradenitis Suppurativa Clinical Response (HiSCR), Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI), Visual Analog Scale (VAS) for disease, VAS for pain, Hidradenitis Suppurativa - Physician's Global Assessment (HS-PGA), Modified Sartorius Score (mSS)).
The objective of this study is to evaluate the safety profile of Adalimumab for Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) participants in normal medical practice.