Possible Efficacy and Safety of Mebendazole in Patients With Ulcerative Colitis Treated With Mesalamine

Ulcerative Colitis Clinical Trial

Official title:

Clinical Study to Evaluate the Possible Efficacy and Safety of Mebendazole in Patients With Ulcerative Colitis Treated With Mesalamine

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06335160
• Other study ID #: Mebendazole Ulcerative Colitis
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 2024
• Est. completion date: May 2025

Study information

• Verified date: March 2024
• Source: Tanta University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

To evaluate the possible efficacy and safety of mebendazole in patients with ulcerative colitis treated with mesalamine

Description:

A randomized, controlled, and parallel study will comprise 46 patients with UC. Patients will be recruited from GastroEnterology Department, Mansoura University Hospital. The participants will be randomly assigned into two groups as follow: Group 1: control group (Mesalamine group, n =23) who will receive 1 g mesalamine three times daily for 6 months. Group 2: (mebendazole group, n = 23) which will receive the standard treatment for UC plus mebendazole 500 mg twice daily for 6 months.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 46
• Est. completion date: May 2025
• Est. primary completion date: April 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age = 18 years old Both male and female will be included Mild and moderate UC patients diagnosed and confirmed by endoscope Patient treated with 5-aminosalislic acid (mesalamine)

Exclusion Criteria:

• - Patients with severe UC
• Significant liver and kidney function abnormalities
• Diabetic patients
• Patients with Colorectal cancer patients
• Patients taking rectal or systemic steroids
• Patients on immunosuppressants or biological therapies
• Addiction to alcohol and / or drugs
• Known allergy to the studied medications
• History of complete or partial colectomy.
• Patients with congestive heart failure, other heart disease (arrhythmia, ischemic heart disease including angina and myocardial infarction).
• Patients with other inflammatory diseases and active infection.
• Patients with stressful condition (COPD, morbid obesity).
• Patients with liver disease.
• Patients with thrombocytopenia and neutropenia.
• Patients with any type of seizures (case report for mebendazole induced convulsion).
• Patients with renal disease (case report for mebendazole induced nephrotoxicity).
• Patients with coagulation disorders.
• Patients on metronidazole (to avoid Stevens-Johnson syndrome).
• Patients with hypersensitivity to mebendazole, albendazole or benzimidazole
• Patients using antioxidants.
• Pregnant and lactating females.
• Patients receiving, metronidazole, warfarin, low dose of aspirin, clopidogril, enzyme inducers (phenytoin, carbamazepine) and inhibitors (valoproate) to avoid potential pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetic interactions.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Colitis
• Colitis, Ulcerative
• Ulcer
• Ulcerative Colitis

Intervention

Drug:
• Mebendazole
mebendazole group, n = 23) which will receive the standard treatment for UC plus mebendazole 500 mg twice daily for 6 months

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Tanta University

References & Publications (15)

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	change in disease activity	Disease severity which will be assessed according to the modified Truelove and Witt's classification based on number of bloody stools per day plus one or more of 4 additional criteria including pulse, temperature, hemoglobin and Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) . Remission will be defined as disappearance or improvement of symptoms such as normal stool and stooling pattern without blood, no fever, no tachycardia, hemoglobin level normal or returning toward normal, ESR normal or returning toward normal, and patient gaining weight.	change in baseline
Primary	change in Partial Mayo Scoring Index (PMSI) assessment for Ulcerative Colitis Activity	depends on three items; stool frequency, rectal bleeding (blood in stool) and Physician's Global Assessment. Each item has a score from 0 to 3 and total PMSI is the sum of scores for the three items.; Remission is defined as total PMSI = 0-1, mild disease is defined as total PMSI = 2-4, moderate disease is defined as total PMSI = 5-6 and severe disease is defined as total PMSI =7-9.	change in baseline
Secondary	Change in Hemoglobin Concentration	Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)	Blood samples will be taken from all patients at baseline then six months of therapy
Secondary	Change in Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)	Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)	Blood samples will be taken from all patients at baseline then six months of therapy
Secondary	Change in Serum albumin	Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)	Blood samples will be taken from all patients at baseline then six months of therapy
Secondary	Change in Serum Interleukin -6 (IL-6)	Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)	Blood samples will be taken from all patients at baseline then six months of therapy
Secondary	Change in Serum Nitric oxide (NO)	Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)	Blood samples will be taken from all patients at baseline then six months of therapy
Secondary	Change in Serum Intra cellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1)	Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)	Blood samples will be taken from all patients at baseline then six months of therapy