Clinical Research Directory

Virtual Versus Dye-based Chromoendoscopy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Surveillance Colonoscopy

People with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease affecting the colon, have a higher risk of developing colon cancer over time. To catch early signs of cancer, regular colonoscopies are recommended. In this study, the investigators are comparing two advanced methods of examining the colon during these surveillance colonoscopies. One method uses a special dye sprayed inside the colon to highlight abnormal areas (called dye-based chromoendoscopy). The other method uses new technology built into the camera to enhance the view without needing any dye (called virtual chromoendoscopy). Both methods use modern, high-definition equipment. The purpose of this study is to find out if the newer, dye-free method is as good as the traditional dye method at detecting pre-cancerous changes (called dysplasia) in people with IBD. Adults with IBD who are due for a routine surveillance colonoscopy may be invited to take part. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of the two methods. No additional procedures are involved, and only the way the colon is viewed differs. The investigators will also look at how long the procedures take, how many biopsies are needed, any complications, and how patients experience the exam. Participants will be followed over time using national health records to check for long-term outcomes. This research will help doctors better understand which method is most effective and comfortable for patients, and may guide future recommendations for cancer screening in people with IBD.

Partial Enteral Nutrition to Prevent Weight Loss and Sarcopenia in IBD Patients at Nutritional Risk - SIMBA

This is a multicenter, open-label, randomized two-arm interventional nutritional study evaluating the effects of partial enteral nutrition (LH VIOLA) in patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) at risk of malnutrition. A total of 146 patients (73 per arm) will be enrolled across 4 centers. IBD, including Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, is associated with malabsorption, weight loss, sarcopenia, and malnutrition, which negatively impact quality of life and treatment outcomes. Nutritional assessment using the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) will identify patients at risk. Participants will be randomized to receive either nutritional counseling alone or counseling plus oral LH VIOLA supplementation (≥412 kcal/day) for 16 weeks. The primary objective is to evaluate maintenance or recovery of body weight at 16 weeks. Secondary objectives include assessment of weight at 24 weeks, muscle strength (handgrip), body composition and metabolic parameters (BIA/BIVA, vitamin B12/D, pre-albumin), quality of life (SF-12), economic impact, adherence, gastrointestinal tolerability, and reduction in malnutrition risk (MUST score). The study duration per patient is 24 weeks (16 weeks of intervention plus 8 weeks follow-up), with a total study duration of 18 months. The sample size is powered to detect an increase from 40% to 65% in patients achieving weight maintenance or gain at 16 weeks, accounting for a 15% dropout rate.

Efficacy and Safety of Etrasimod in Elderly Patients With Ulcerative Colitis

Eligible patients will be identified in regular clinical practice. After providing thorough explanation and obtaining voluntary written informed consent, the clinical course, adverse events, endoscopic findings, and histopathological changes in biopsy specimens after Etrasimod administration will be prospectively collected and analyzed.

Effects of Pomegranate Juice on Ulcerative Colitis

The purpose of this study is to determine whether consumption of 237 ml of pomegranate juice daily for 8 weeks will: 1. lower inflammation (in the gut as well as generally in the body) and improve your overall quality of life 2. affect the microbes living in the gut (gut microbiota)

Impact of Prior Identification and Education of Patients Requiring a Digestive Stoma for Fecal Diversion

There are many indications for performing a fecal diversion stoma. In both scheduled and emergency situations, and whatever the context (indication or type of fecal diversion stoma), stomal complications can occur early (10-60%) or late (25%), and may require repeat surgery. The most frequent complications are necrosis, retraction, bleeding, evisceration, occlusion, abscess, hyperflow with hydroelectrolytic consequences, skin lesions, prolapse or eventration. What's more, a temporary stoma can become permanent. The positioning and fabrication of the digestive stoma for fecal diversion must therefore comply with well-defined criteria to reduce the risk of stomal complications and the difficulties of fitting the stoma, and thus improve the autonomy and therefore the quality of life of the ostomate patient. The guide to good stoma therapy practice recommends that the site of the future stoma should be marked out preoperatively. What's more, the psychological impact of a stoma is such that preoperative and regular postoperative education is essential. This identification and initiation of education is carried out by stoma nurses and/or surgeons. The impact of preoperative stoma identification and education on stoma complications, quality of life and patient autonomy has been reported in a few comparative series. The impact of preoperative education on quality of life has also been reported. However, despite this "Evidence Based Medicine", and the guide to good stoma therapy practice, the identification and education of the future fecal diversion stoma are not always carried out preoperatively. Reasons for this may include lack of time, lack of human resources, in the general context of a shrinking public hospital, or in the current context of distancing and dehumanization of the profession, or lack of conviction on the part of practitioners. To this end, the investigators would like to propose a prospective observational study aimed at evaluating the impact of identification and education prior to the performance of a fecal diversion stoma in a programmed situation on the one hand, and an emergency situation on the other. The main objective will be to compare quality of life specifically related to the stoma at 30 days postoperatively with the StomaQOL score, between 2 groups of patients: * unexposed group: no preoperative stoma identification and education * exposed group: preoperative stoma identification and education. This comparison will be stratified according to whether surgery is scheduled or emergency surgery. Total 100 patients : * In scheduled surgery: 30 exposed and 30 unexposed patients * In emergency surgery: 10 exposed and 30 unexposed patients Timeline: Inclusion period: 12 months Follow-up period: 12 months Total duration: 24 months

Evaluation of a Multimodal Day Hospital for the Overall Management of Patients With Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD)

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are long-term conditions affecting more than 250,000 people in France. They typically begin in young adults and are characterized by flare-ups interspersed with periods of remission. The impact of these diseases goes beyond digestive symptoms, with fatigue present in 50 to 80% of cases. The overall effect on health leads to a decline in quality of life and work productivity. Therapeutic management relies on long-term immunosuppressive treatments aimed at inducing prolonged remission. While therapeutic management has become more complex with an increasing number of available treatments, evaluating the effectiveness and tolerance of these treatments requires a multimodal approach, including therapeutic education and specific follow-up based on the patient's profile and treatment, with the goal of comprehensive care and precision medicine. Recently, multimodal day hospitalizations have been developed, particularly in response to the recent evolution of treatment administration routes toward subcutaneous or oral forms. In 2022, the gastroenterology and nutrition department of Saint Antoine Hospital, which follows 3,500 patients with CIBD, created a multimodal day hospital (DH) (four interventions) dedicated to patients treated with biologics and Janus kinase inhibitors. In a single session, this approach systematically combines (1) specific biological tests, especially pharmacokinetics, (2) a consultation with a gastroenterologist, (3) a consultation with a therapeutic education nurse, (4) and, depending on the identified needs of the patients, a dietary workshop or fatigue management session; a specialized dermatology or rheumatology consultation; and an ultrasound of the intestinal wall. The goal of this study is to assess the benefits of a multimodal day hospital on the management and skills of patients with IBD.

Study of Tissue Repair in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Exploiting Organoid Technology

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) are chronic inflammations of the gastrointestinal tract. Regardless of the etiology, a common trait of IBD pathogenesis is the inflammatory damage inflicted on the intestinal mucosa and the loss of intestinal epithelial barrier integrity. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms that govern IEC's capacity to maintain barrier function and to orchestrate mucosal healing is considered a major goal in translational research. The investigators are interested in understanding how the inflammatory environment present in the intestinal mucosa, of IBD patients influences epithelial cells capacity to govern repair. The complexities of the cytokine and metabolic milieu present in IBD patients render the study of the contribution of each cytokine, metabolite, and intracellular pathway extremely complicated. Therefore, most of the processes that govern tissue regeneration are studied with the use of mouse models that recapitulate one or multiple features of IBD and allow for genetical modifications of the gene and pathway of interest. While mouse models are uniquely suited to study the complex crosstalk between the immune system, the microbiota, and the intestinal epithelia, they introduce the important problem of species-specific differences, which can hamper the translational value of mouse studies. To overcome these shortcomings, the investigators propose to explore the influence of cytokines and metabolites in digestive organoids derived from patients and controls. Importantly, it was demonstrated that gene expression and innate immune responses are altered in primary organoids derived from patients with IBD, including altered ability to proliferate, respond to cytokines, metabolic capacity, and efficiently form organoids suggesting that major differences between patient's and control's epithelial cell biology can be faithfully replicated in this system. Given these premises, the investigators propose the following objectives: Primary objective: The main objective of this study is to establish that patient's epithelial cells from inflamed mucosae have decreased ability to repair the intestinal mucosa, as compared to epithelial cells from non-inflamed regions in the same patient, or to control subject with no inflammatory digestive diseases. The investigators will explore this question both deriving organoids from clinical samples and exposing them to pro inflammatory cytokines and metabolites in vitro, as well as by analyzing repair responses from the aforementioned clinical samples ex vivo. Secondary objective The secondary goals of this study are: \- To compare organoids derived from: epithelia in inflamed mucosa of IBD patients, epithelia in non-inflamed mucosa of IBD patients, and epithelia from the mucosa of non-IBD controls in their capacity to mount a repair response in response to inflammatory cytokines or luminal metabolites. Namely the investigators will evaluate the following parameters: * Their capacity to proliferate. * Their ability to survive treatment with pro-inflammatory cytokines * The activation of intracellular pathways associated with cell death. * Their overall metabolic activity. * The balance between stem and differentiated epithelial cell types. * The transcriptional activation of protective pathways such as those associated with proliferation, migration, differentiation and cell survival. * To evaluate hallmarks of tissue repair in biopsies derived from epithelia in inflamed mucosa of IBD patients, epithelia in non-inflamed mucosa of IBD patients, and epithelia from the mucosa of non-IBD controls, and to correlate them to the levels of inflammatory cytokines, luminal metabolites and overall disease severity. Namely the investigators will evaluate the following parameters: * The abundance of proliferating cells. * The activation of intracellular pathways associated with cell death and survival. * Their overall metabolic activity. * The balance between stem and differentiated epithelial cell types. * The transcriptional activation of protective pathways such as those associated with proliferation, migration, differentiation and cell survival.

Administration of Hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) to African Americans and Hispanics for the Treatment of Mild to Severe Ulcerative Colitis

The objective of this study is to assess the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) when combined with Mesalamine in reducing clinical and histologic disease activity in patients who have active mild to severe Ulcerative Colitis (UC) and also to assess the immunological effects of hydroxychloroquine in this population. These outcomes will be evaluated both clinically and experimentally. In vitro, flow cytometry will be employed to measure the expression of CTLA-4 on activated CD4+CD25+CD127- Tregs from patients prior to treatment with HCQ, and then at the end of a 4 month follow up period. Suppression assays will be used to determine the functional capacity of the patient derived Tregs. Clinically, patients will be monitored for remission as defined by reduction in patient reported stool frequency and rectal bleeding (mayo sub-score 0 or 1) and endoscopically, by improvement in mucosal appearance (mayo sub-score 0 or 1), all objective measures in the mayo score.

The PODIUM Study - a Three-arm Comparison of Target Therapies After Anti-TNFα in Ulcerative Colitis

The goal of this observational study is to compare the real-life effectiveness and safety of vedolizumab, ustekinumab and JAK inhibitors in patients with UC who had been exposed to at least one anti-TNF-alpha therapy.