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Moving Beyond Inflammation as a Therapeutic Target for Crohn's Disease
Sponsor: Washington University School of Medicine
Summary
The purpose of this research study is to evaluate what type of treatment will be beneficial for people with Crohn's disease and difficult to treat inflammation in the small bowel. Current therapies are used to control the inflammation due to Crohn's disease in your digestive tract. In some patients, those therapies are not sufficient to fully treat the disease. This objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a different type of therapy, tirzepatide, that may promote healing of the affected intestinal segment. To evaluate the efficacy of this medication, a member of the research team will ask patients questions about how they feel and observe whether this medication heals the their bowel at colonoscopy. A member of the research team will also use blood samples, stool samples and samples of the small intestine taken during a colonoscopy to understand how tirzepatide helps heal the intestine.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 80 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
60
Start Date
2025-05-13
Completion Date
2028-08
Last Updated
2025-06-11
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Tirzepatide
Addition of tirzepatide to current biological therapy
Standard of care treatment
Intervention will be to change patient's current therapy to a 3rd or later advanced biologic patient have never been exposed to
Locations (3)
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Beverly Hills, California, United States
Washington University School of Medicine
St Louis, Missouri, United States
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York, United States