View clinical trials related to Sarcoidosis, Pulmonary.
Filter by:The goal of the current study is to evaluate the potential of the selected PET tracers to detect sarcoidotic lesions in lungs. The tracers are already in clinical use for the detection of certain inflammatory processes or malignant tumors, and their targets present similarities with molecular mechanisms of sarcoidosis.
The purpose of this study is to determine if nicotine treatment is beneficial for the treatment of sarcoidosis. Sarcoidosis is a disease of unknown cause that leads to inflammation. This disease affects your body's organs.
The aim of the study is determining the non-inferiority in the overall success rate and the safety for a combination therapy with hydroxychloroquine plus low dose glucocorticoids compared to that for high dose glucocorticoids at 3 and 9 months in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis.
An randomized trial of two maintenance doses of Acthar Gel for patients with chronic pulmonary sarcoidosis. Patients will be observed for 24 weeks of treatment.
The primary objective of the study is to assess the improvement of daily activity in subjects with Stage IV Pulmonary Sarcoidosis one year after the conduct of a pulmonary rehabilitation program. The secondary objectives are the following: - assess the improvement of daily activity at several times : 2, 6 and 12 months after the beginning of a pulmonary rehabilitation program - assess the improvement of exercise capacity by tests used in medical practice - assess the correlation between daily activity and exercise capacity - assess the improvement of dyspnea - assess the improvement of quality of life and psychological state
The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy and safety of oral antimycobacterial therapy in patients with confirmed progressive pulmonary sarcoidosis. We suspect that the CLEAR regimen will improve the absolute FVC percent predicted in chronic pulmonary sarcoidosis participants.
The study proposes to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of PD 0360324 in subjects with chronic pulmonary sarcoidosis inadequately treated with standard of care therapies.
This is a pilot study investigating the effect of an antioxidant, N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine (NAC), on inflammation and oxidative stress in sarcoidosis.
The primary objective of the study is to assess the safety and tolerability of a single dose of PDA001 (given twice) in subjects with Stage II or III Pulmonary Sarcoidosis (PS) who are refractory to one or more of the following treatments for PS: methotrexate,immunosuppressants or cytotoxic agents.
Sarcoidosis is a heterogeneous multisystem disorder of unknown etiology which often presents with bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, pulmonary infiltration and ocular and skin lesions. In addition to possible changes in forced vital capacity (FVC) and carbon monoxide transfer factor (TLCO), a higher prevalence of clinical depression, reduced health status and exercise intolerance have been observed in patients with sarcoidosis. Reduced health status has been related to decreased pulmonary function, depressive symptoms, and to respiratory muscle weakness. Exercise capacity is believed to be limited by dyspnea, an insufficient heart rate response, decreased arterial oxygen tension during exercise, excessive and inefficient ventilation and by respiratory muscle weakness. In the past, exercise capacity was shown to be limited by skeletal muscle weakness in patients with chronic pulmonary or cardiac disease. 67% of the sarcoidosis patients studied by Miller et al terminated their peak exercise test due to "leg complaints". Skeletal muscle weakness is therefore still assumed to be present in patients with sarcoidosis. Treatment with oral corticosteroids, clinical symptoms of depression, myositis, self-reported complaints of fatigue and high circulating levels of tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) are all present in patients with sarcoidosis and can all affect skeletal muscle force and exercise capacity. Additionally, low levels of circulating insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I), which can be induced by high levels of TNF-α, and high circulating levels of interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-8 (CXCL8) have been associated with skeletal muscle weakness. These interleukins are part of the current concept of the immunopathogenesis of sarcoidosis16 and may be raised in patients with stable sarcoidosis. Recent studies have shown that pulmonary rehabilitation program can lead to improve in the health status and anxiety among patients with chronic obstructive lung disease .However, no study has evaluated the role of pulmonary rehabilitation among patients with sarcoidosis.