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Study of Factors and Mechanisms Influencing the Effects of Treatments in Crohn's Disease

Conditions
Crohn Disease
Interventions
Other: no interventions
Registration Number
NCT04135027
Lead Sponsor
Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University
Brief Summary

The course of Crohn's disease (CD) varies considerably between patients, but reliable prognostic markers are not available in clinical practice. Even though several parameters have been associated with prognosis in CD-including clinical features, serology and genetic variants-none are sufficient to guide therapy in clinical practice. Trying to find out the mechanisms influencing the effectiveness of treatments and develop a personalized therapy is an urgent problem in the era of biologics as the investigators now have a growing armamentarium of IBD therapies. Several scientists found that the levels of T cells subsets ratio and inflammation cytokines were significantly increased in the intestinal mucosa and serum in active IBD patients, whereas mucosal innate lymph cells had specific effects in inflammation. However the studies about the differences of lymph cell levels between subgroups of IBD patients and their relationships with effectiveness of treatments are relatively rare. Based on above, the investigators plan to recruit patients diagnosed and suspicious of Crohn's disease and a group of diseases in differential diagnosis of CD to keep track of their disease characteristics, therapy and response, collect their blood sample at specific points of time, to investigate the mechanisms of heterogeneity of therapy effectiveness.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
500
Inclusion Criteria
  • Newly diagnosed or Previously diagnosed of Crohn's disease according to 2010 WGO criteria for Crohn's disease
  • Aged 14-80 years old.
Exclusion Criteria
  • History of malignancy
  • Pregnant/breastfeeding at screening
  • Other serious medical or psychiatric illness.
  • Unable to comply with protocol requirements

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
CD groupno interventionsno interventions
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
time to first treatment escalation6 months to 1 year

time to first treatment escalation

bowel surgery1 month to 1 year

time to receive bowel surgery after diagnosis

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
side effects of medications1 month to 1 year

side effects of medications including infection and malignancy etc.

Trial Locations

Locations (4)

The Chongqing Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chongqing People's Hospital)

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Chongqing, Chongqing, China

Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital (Nanjing Gulou Yi Yuan), the Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School

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Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

2nd Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine

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Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Huadong Hospital affiliated to Fudan University

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Shanghai, China

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