IgAN is a progressive condition that causes chronic kidney disease. Over time, some patients develop end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) requiring dialysis or kidney transplant.
The purpose of this study is to see if an investigational medication is safe and effective in the treatment of IgA nephropathy.
If you are eligible for the study and decide to participate, you will come to MUSC for study visits for about 3 years. These visits will involve blood and urine samples, questions about your health, EKGs, and physical exams. Participants will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to receive either a weight-based IV infusion of ravulizumab or placebo for 106 weeks. Depending on your response to initial treatment, there is a possibility of additional treatment. An exploratory, open-label cohort of approximately 20 participants with eGFR 20-29 mL/min/1.73m2 may also be enrolled to expand the evidence of ravulizumab in participants with advanced kidney impairment at high risk for ESKD progression.
There is no guarantee that being in this study will help you. There is no cost to participate and compensation is available for the study visits.
M1095-HS-304 is a Phase 3, open-label, single-arm design that assesses the safety and tolerability of sonelokimab in adolescent patients with HS. The study population will comprise adolescent participants (aged ≥12 to ≤17 years) with moderate to severe HS.
This study is for patients that have been diagnosed with platinum-resistant, high-grade ovarian, primary peritoneal, or fallopian tube cancer who have received at least 1 and no more than 3 prior systemic lines of anticancer therapy. The investigational drug used in this study is Raludotatug Deruxtecan (R-DXd). Investigational means it has not been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The primary purpose of this study is to determine the optimal dose of R-DXd for further clinical development. In Phase 3, participants will be randomized between R-DXd and investigator's choice of chemotherapy. Randomization is like flipping a coin, essentially meaning that each option has an equal likelihood of being selected. The drug is given to participants through infusion. Participants can continue to receive the study drug until it no longer gives them benefit. Researchers will continue to follow up with patients long-term.
This phase 3 study is recruiting patients who have Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) who have an inadequate response to or are intolerant of hydroxyurea. This study will measure the safety and effectiveness of an inhibitor treatment called bomedemstat. Bomedemstat is an "investigational" (not yet FDA approved) treatment. The main purpose of the study is to how bomedemstat compares to BAT (best available therapy) as an effective treatment for ET. The study will enroll approximately 300 patients who will be randomly assigned 1:1 (like flipping a coin) to either bomedemstat or BAT. The study includes a screening phase, initial treatment phase, extended treatment phase, and posttreatment phase. The initial treatment portion of the study begins on study Day 1 and continues until the participant completes treatment at Week 52. The primary endpoint analysis will be performed on data from the first 52 weeks of treatment. Patients who have not discontinued study treatment at Week 52 will be eligible to continue receiving study treatment in the Extended Treatment Phase for up to Week 156. Patients in the BAT arm who have received a minimum of 52 weeks of treatment and discontinued study treatment due to intolerance/resistance/refractoriness/inadequate response (defined by the investigator as per the local product labels of BAT regimens) may be eligible to switch to the bomedemstat arm during the Extended Treatment Phase at the investigator's discretion (as per protocol defined eligibility to receive bomedemstat). Patients will continue treatment until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, study closure, death, or withdrawal of consent. The main risk is that medical treatments often cause side effects. Patients may have none, some, or all of the side effects listed or not listed in the protocol, and they may be mild, moderate, or severe. There is no direct benefit for them in participating in this study.
This study is an open label, Comparative Effectiveness Research study in patients who receive a heart transplant. Subjects will be enrolled into the study while under evaluation for heart transplantation or on the transplant waiting list prior to heart transplantation. All subjects will follow the center's standard of care surveillance schedule from transplant through 4 weeks post-transplantation. The study objective is to compare the effectiveness of rejection surveillance of heart transplant recipients with Prospera dd-cfDNA to rejection surveillance with endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) in the first post-transplant year.
The Prospera™ test is a non-invasive test intended to detect and quantify the fraction of donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) to supplement management and surveillance of allograft rejection in patients who have undergone organ transplantation. The subjects may undergo blood draws, echocardiogrphys, medical history and physical exams, antibody testing, nuclear imaging, and MRI as apart of the study. The study period will be during the first 12 months post-transplant. Quality of life questionnaires will be completed at week 4, month 6 and month 12 post-transplant.
This study is enrolling subjects with coronary artery disease (blockages in the arteries that supply blood to the heart) who need to undergo a procedure called a Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) to open up a blocked heart artery. At times, a heart pump is used during a PCI to help reduce the work the heart during the procedure. This study is evaluating a heart pump called the KARDION CORY P4 pump. The KARDION CORY P4 pump is investigational meaning it has not been approved for commercial use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This study will randomize subjects, meaning assign by chance, to receive either the KARDION CORY P4 pump or the Impella CP, which is commercially available.
Study participation will last about 30 days and include up to 6 visits. The study includes blood work, questionnaires, an electrocardiogram (ECG) - a tracing of the heart's electrical activity and an echocardiogram (Echo) - an ultrasound test of the heart.
Risks include risks related to the study device including bleeding, infection, and injury to the blood vessel where the device is placed. There are also risks related to study procedures. There may be benefit and the information learned may benefit others in the future.
This phase 3 study is recruiting patients who have myelofibrosis who have never had a JAK inhibitor. This study will measure the safety and effectiveness of a tumor protein inhibitor treatment called navtemadlin combined with another tumor protein inhibitor called ruxolitinib. Navtemadlin is an "investigational" (not yet FDA approved) treatment, Ruxolitinib is FDA approved. The main purpose of the study is to see if navtemadlin combined with ruxolitinib is an effective treatment for myelofibrosis. The study will enroll approximately 180 patients with each patient initially receiving ruxolitinib. The study includes a screening period, run-in period, and a randomized (like flipping a coin) add-on period. The first two periods will be over the course of 18-24 weeks while the randomized add-on period is for those whose treatment with ruxolitinib is not effective enough and will last for a different amount of time for each patient. In the run-in period after screening, patients will take ruxolitinib at the dose determined by their study doctor for 18-24 weeks. If treatment with ruxolitinib alone is not effective, the participate will be randomized into one of two groups. In the randomized add-on period, participants will either receive ruxolitinib with navtemadlin 240 mg or a matching placebo (a pill that contains no medicine) daily for one week out of the 28-day cycle in combination with ruxolitinib at a dose determined by their study doctor. Patients in this group will continue treatment until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, study closure, death, or withdrawal of consent. The main risk is that medical treatments often cause side effects. Patients may have none, some, or all of the side effects listed or not listed in the protocol, and they may be mild, moderate, or severe. There is no direct benefit for them in participating in this study.
The purpose of this study is to determine the best strategy to help individuals improve blood pressure control after a stroke. The study will test two different interventions (an intervention is an action taken to prevent or treat disease and/or improve health).
1) Intensive Clinic Management (ICM), which consists of clinic visits, home blood pressure monitoring, text message health reminder from Carium®, a care management application, and health education.
2) Intensive Tailored Telehealth Management (ITTM), which consists of telehealth (video) visits, health coaching with lifestyle coaching company INTERVENT International, LLC, and remote blood pressure monitoring captured in Carium®.
This study is for patients that have been diagnosed with high risk neuroblastoma. This study is testing an investigational drug called Dinutuximab, which will be combined with standard care induction and transplant. "Investigational" means it has not been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The primary purpose of this study is to compare treatment outcomes of participants who are assigned to early chemoimmunotherapy (Dinutuximab and Sargramostim) during Induction to treatment outcomes of participants who are not assigned to treatment that includes early chemoimmunotherapy. Participants will be randomized to the standard of care arm of the trial or the standard of care arm plus chemoimmunotherapy (like flipping a coin). The investigational drug is given to participants through IV infusion. Participants in this study can expect to be in this study for a total of five years.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an arrhythmia in which the heartbeat becomes irregular due to abnormal electrical signals in the upper chambers of the heart, called the atria. This leads to ineffective pumping of blood by the atria. Complications related to atrial fibrillation are heart failure, stroke, heart palpitations and fatigue. This study is motivated by the need to address the increasing prevalence of AF, which is the most common sustained arrhythmia worldwide. While treatment options for AF include the use of antiarrhythmic drugs which are a group of medications used to treat irregular heartbeats, and catheter ablation procedures, the latter have been associated with significantly better outcomes. Participation in this study consists of 2 phases, 1- randomization 2- ablation procedure and follow-up period.
The randomization to the different groups is considered the research part of the study. Subjects will have equal chance of being randomized (like tossing a coin) to one of two AF ablation treatment groups. All follow up will be according to stand of care practices. Risks include stroke, pericarditis, acute and delayed perforation, hemolysis, acute kidney injury, and coronary artery spasm.