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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to analyse effectiveness and safety signals of current treatment strategies in routine practice for patients with pediatric-onset inflammatory bowel disease (PIBD) and to correlate this to their individual risk factors.
This study will measure Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) values in men with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) before, during, and following a flare. In addition, the effect of any PSA increase will be analyzed and correlated to the location of disease (rectal vs. other). Study findings may help men with IBD by identifying pitfalls in prostate cancer screening for this population and help to stratify and understand the effect IBD has on the prostatic milieu. By optimizing how men with IBD are screened for prostate cancer, future unnecessary healthcare encounters and expenditures may be reduced for this patient group.
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) often suffer from muscle weakness and a low bone mineral density as a consequence of systemic Inflammation and disease treatment limiting Quality of life in a considerable way. Exercise interventions to build up muscle mass and increasing physical function are promising Tools to improve the whole muscular Status of those patients. However, in the acute Phase of IBDs conventional Training methods may be too strenous, also because patients are suffering from acute gastrointestinal symptoms and feel fatigued. Due to those symptoms, patients present low Food intake and great loss of nutrients and energy especially by diarrhea. Individualized nutritional Support may be helpful to avoid malnutrition. The aim of this pilot study is to investigate the effect of a combined exercise and Nutrition Intervention using the gentle Training method of whole-body electromyostimulation (WB-EMS) combined with a individual high Protein nutritional Support on muscle mass, Body composition, physical function, Quality of life and gastrointestinal symptoms in outpatients with IBD.
inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. A recent Canadian study from found that Canada has amongst highest incidence rates of childhood-onset IBD (10 per 100,000 for children <16y). In 2012, Crohn's and Colitis Canada estimated that direct medical costs of IBD in Canada were >$1 billion, and estimated indirect costs amounting to $1.8 billion. An American study demonstrated the direct costs of caring for children with IBD was double those for adults. Indirect health care costs in children with IBD have not been well-described. The Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium (CanGIEC) is a pan-Canadian network of new and established IBD clinician-researchers and methodologists from 6 provinces experienced in the use of health administrative data. CanGIEC is evaluating variation in care of children with IBD, and will expand this research stream to assess direct and indirect cost of care. This will involve a collaboration with the CIHR/CHILD Foundation Canadian Children IBD Network (CIDsCaNN), which comprises an inception cohort of children diagnosed at all 12 pediatric IBD centres across Canada. Hypothesis: Direct health costs are dominated by medication expenses (particularly biologics), with resulting variation within and across provinces in costs and out-of-pocket expenses to the families due to coverage disparity. Indirect costs include school and parental absenteeism, and productivity losses. Aims: 1. Determine the cost of care of children with IBD, incurred by caregivers,across Canada. Costs include: a Indirect costs - costs to the patient or family related to having the disease but not to direct health care. b. Out of pocket (OOP) - costs paid in cash or credit for health-related expenses not covered by the public health or private insurance systems. 2. Determine the sociodemographic and disease characteristics associated with higher costs Methods: Population: Incident cases of IBD (<16y) over 12 months (est. enrollment 250-300). Indirect and OOP disease-related costs will be determined with surveys conducted one year following diagnosis and every 6mo for 2y. These will be conducted querying families on the preceding 4 weeks including: school and work days missed, out-of-pocket expenses, distance travelled to appointments, medications expenses incurred, and disability benefits collected. Indirect costs will be calculated using the Human Capital Approach (gross income not earned due to disease).
Introduction: The pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) is characterized by dysregulation of the innate immune response it's associated with Th1, Th17 up-regulation, reflected by increased cytokine secretion including TNF-α. A main effective therapeutic interventions is blocking TNFα. Vedolizumab, an anti integrin, is a new class of treatment designed to block trafficking of lymphocytes in the gut. Clinical trials and real life experience response rates at week 6 range between 30-45%. Curcumin suppresses NFκβ levels via alteration of TLR2/4 pathways lowering TNF-α upstream. Curcumin is safe and efficacious in inducing response and remission in mild-moderate Ulcerative colitis (UC) and maintaining remission when used as an add-on to 5ASA derivatives, only with strict adherence to treatment overtime. Objectives: Facing the low rate of response to therapies in IBD, the need for new treatments and the use of combination strategies lead us to believe that combining vedolizumab and curcumin may have a synergistic effect and will enable optimal immunomodulation. Hypothesis: Concomitant oral curcumin in IBD patients with colonic involvement will augment remission rates as well as clinical and biochemical response. Type of research and methods of data collection: A randomized controlled trial in 84 adults with colonic IBD (UC and CD). Eligible patients are during vedolizumab induction, patients will randomized will be into curcumin or placebo. Data will managed by investigators.
This is a prospective observational cohort study, over 52 weeks, evaluating the the use of faecal microbiota transplantation amongst patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Microscopic Colitis
The availability of noninvasive biomarkers for diagnosis and stratification of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) courses is lacking. Thus, the aim of this study is to evaluated the accuracy of exhaled breath volatile metabolite analysis on diagnosis and stratification of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
Fecal microbiome of donor and recipient will be analyzed before and after fecal microbiota transplantation in IBD patients.
This study on biologics (Vedolizumab/anti-TNF) in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients in Germany extends the prospective documentation of efficacy in induction and maintenance therapy of anti-TNF to the use of Vedolizumab with a particular interest in the construction of a multifactorial model to predict long-term responses and favorable disease outcome or to predict severe side effects caused by therapy with biologics. Little data are available on the efficacy and safety of biologics in Germany in a real world situation. While the increasing use of anti-TNF-alpha antibodies in IBD-patients the new therapy with Vedolizumab opens up new opportunities in IBD-therapy, it may also pose new options and problems in terms of efficacy and predictors of response and potential side effects.
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) is a heterogeneous group of diseases regarding clinical presentation, disease course and treatment response. Pathogenesis is complex and multifactorial, based on interactions between genetic and environmental factors, gut microbiota and the immune system, leading to intestinal inflammation. As the immune reaction itself causes the intestinal damage, differences in components of this immune mediated inflammatory reaction between IBD patients might explain the heterogeneity in response to different therapy strategies. Identifying immune components that are associated to disease activity and prognosis would enable a more personalized treatment.