Status:

RECRUITING

A Study to Evaluate the Effect of Fecal Transplant and Dietary Changes on Disease Activity in Patients With Crohn Disease on Advanced Therapies

Lead Sponsor:

All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Conditions:

Crohns Disease

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-75 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Advanced therapies including biologics and small molecules target specific inflammatory pathways. IBD's multifactorial etiology means that blocking a single pathway may not be sufficient for all patie...

Detailed Description

This is a multicenter, double-blind, factorial randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluating the efficacy of microbiome manipulation strategies in patients with active Crohn's Disease (CD) undergoing a...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patients with active Crohn disease in whom FMT is feasible
  • Active Crohn's disease who are candidates for advanced therapy (steroid refractory, Immunomodulator intolerant or refractory and moderately severe disease at the time of inclusion) or patients who have an intolerance to or have lost response to advanced therapies must have had their last treatment at least five half-lives prior randomization.
  • Aged between 18-75 years
  • CDAI greater than 150 and/or SES-CD equal or greater than 6 (or equal or greater than 4 if isolated ileal disease)

Exclusion

  • Patients in remission (CDAI less than 150)
  • Stricturing disease (non-passable stricture) in whom FMT is not feasible
  • Fistulising phenotype or Perianal fistula or abscess
  • Isolated L4 disease
  • Active TB or Sepsis
  • Pregnant or lactating women
  • Patients with co-morbidities like CAD/CLD/CKD
  • Previous surgery for CD
  • Declining consent or not willing for FMT or diet advice
  • Patients with current or recent history of clinically severe, progressive, or uncontrolled renal, hepatic, hematological, gastrointestinal, metabolic, endocrine, pulmonary, cardiac, or neurological disease.
  • Positive assay or stool culture for pathogens (ova and parasite examination, bacteria) or positive test for Clostridioides difficile toxin at screening#
  • Patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) #The patients with positive assay will be treated appropriately and tests will be repeated.
  • Those with negative assay and persistent activity will be included in the study

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

March 15 2025

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

March 15 2028

Estimated Enrollment :

168 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT06890637

Start Date

March 15 2025

End Date

March 15 2028

Last Update

April 4 2025

Active Locations (6)

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Department of Gastroenterology, Lisie Hospital

Kochi, Kerala, India

2

Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Sion

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

3

Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

New Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi, India

4

Department of Gastroenterology, Dayanand Medical College

Ludhiana, Punjab, India