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Asthma clinical trials at UCSF

16 in progress, 9 open to eligible people

Asthma causes your airways to swell and narrow, making breathing difficult. UCSF is doing studies on how proteins and mucus affect asthma, and how removing mucus plugs can help. They are also collecting airway samples to learn more about asthma.

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  • Lung Function Outcomes Following Removal of Airway Mucus Plugs in Patients With Asthma (FOCUS)

    open to eligible people ages 18-80

    This is a single-center study that will evaluate the safety and tolerability of removal of mucus plugs by bronchoscopy in patients with asthma. This protocol will also plan for the analysis of the features of the mucus plugs removed.

    San Francisco, California

  • Pulmonary Specialist-Health Coach Consult Model Study

    open to eligible people ages 18 years and up

    The Pulmonary Specialist-Health Coach Consultation (PuSHCon) study examines the implementation of health coach-assisted consultations to improve access to specialist care and implementation of specialist recommendations for patients with COPD, asthma, and asthma COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS) for low-income and vulnerable patients seen at public health clinics. Three hundred sixty (360) patients from ten clinics will be enrolled in the study and randomized at the individual level to receive health coaching or usual care; 180 patients will receive usual care and 180 patients will receive the PuSHCon model.

    San Francisco, California and other locations

  • Simultaneously Implementing Pathways for Improving Asthma, Pneumonia, and Bronchiolitis Care for Hospitalized Children

    open to eligible people ages up to 17 years

    This study's objective is to identify and test pragmatic and sustainable strategies for implementing a multi-condition clinical pathway intervention for children hospitalized with asthma, pneumonia, or bronchiolitis in community hospitals. The hypothesis is that the multi-condition pathway intervention will be associated with significantly greater increases in clinicians' adoption of evidence-based practices compared to control. The study is a pragmatic, cluster-randomized trial in US community hospitals. The primary outcome will be adoption of evidence-based practices over a sustained period of 2 years. Secondary outcomes include length of hospital stay, intensive care unit transfer, and hospital readmission/emergency department revisit.

    San Francisco, California

  • NAC on Lung Function and CT Mucus Score

    open to eligible people ages 18-80

    This study evaluates 20% n-acetylcysteine (NAC) in the treatment of moderate-to-severe asthma that is complicated by mucus in the airway, as determined by CT imaging. The study is a crossover design, which means that half the study participants will get 20% NAC in the first 14-day treatment period and placebo in the next 14-day treatment period; and the other half will get placebo in the first 14-day treatment period and 20% NAC in the next 14-day treatment period.

    San Francisco, California

  • Positive Airway Pressure on the Mucolytic Effects of NAC (TEAM)

    open to eligible people ages 18-85

    The goal of this clinical trial is to determine if positive pressure during inspiration will improve penetration of aerosolized N-Acetylcysteine (NAC) into airway mucus plugs in the lungs of patients with asthma or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). The main questions it aims to answer are: - Does delivery of aerosolized NAC with positive inspiratory pressure have a greater effect on mucus plug burden in the lungs than delivery of NAC without positive pressure. - Does delivery of aerosolized NAC with positive inspiratory pressure have a greater effect on lung function than delivery of NAC without positive pressure. Participants will be assigned (in a single blind design) to the NAC via jet nebulizer group or the NAC via AeroEclipse-VersaPAP nebulizer group. Participants will each complete 5 treatment visits over the course of 30 days. Each treatment visit will consist of two treatments of a 10% NAC (3 mL) and 2.5 mg albuterol (0.5mL) inhalation solution separated by 4 hours, via the nebulization method specific to their group.

    San Francisco, California

  • Blood Lymphocytes in Asthmatics Treated With Therapeutic Proteins

    open to eligible people ages 18-80

    This is an observational, clinic-based, single center study of 120 subjects. Participants will be comprised of patients seen in the outpatient faculty practice in ambulatory care at the UCSF Parnassus campus. Study investigators will enroll 20 healthy participants with no history of lung disease, 50 asthmatics who are newly prescribed therapeutic proteins for their asthma, and 50 asthmatics already being treated with therapeutic proteins for their asthma. Participants will be seen at 1 to 3 visits and provide blood samples at each visit.

    San Francisco, California

  • Metabolic Dysfunction and Mucus Plugging on Asthma Physiology

    open to eligible people ages 18 years and up

    This is a single-center study of 80 subjects with asthma including those with obesity and metabolic dysfunction (MD), those with obesity and without metabolic dysfunction, those with severe asthma and mucus plugging and those with severe asthma and without mucus plugging. Screening data will be reviewed to determine participant eligibility. Participants who meet all inclusion criteria will participate in a cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) visit to compare lung function markers and change in oxygen saturation between obese patients with and without MD and severe asthma patients with and without mucus plugging.

    San Francisco, California

  • Mechanistic Insights From Bronchoscopy Airway Samples

    open to eligible people ages 18-70

    The purpose of this study is to examine the mechanisms of asthma. The investigators are comparing the cells of individuals with and without asthma and looking at the roles various parts of the cell play in the production and secretion of mucus.

    San Francisco, California

  • Tissue Immune Interaction in Nasal Polyposis

    open to eligible people ages 18-80

    This is a cross-sectional study of up to 100 subjects who are undergoing clinically indicated sinus procedures to treat chronic rhinosinusitis. Participants will be asked to donate leftover sino-nasal secretions, sino-nasal tissue and blood as well as undergo partial characterization. As optional extensions of the main study, participants may also undergo a biopsy of extra sino-nasal tissue for additional tissue analysis and/or a more detailed characterization visit performed in the UCSF Airway Center Research Center (ACRC).

    San Francisco, California

  • Characterization of Adult Subjects for Asthmatic Research Studies

    Sorry, currently not accepting new patients, but might later

    This study is designed to characterize subjects in terms of the nature and severity of their asthma and in terms of conditions that may alter the clinical expression of asthma. Some features will be obtained in all subjects. These include a medical history and baseline lung function tests. This characterization forms the basis for our database that facilitates research protocols.

    San Francisco, California

  • Mechanisms of Exacerbation of Asthma

    Sorry, currently not accepting new patients, but might later

    The purpose of this study is to identify the causes of asthma that were not previously suspected, to better understand the effects of inhaled steroids on asthma and to identify new way to treat asthma.

    San Francisco, California

  • PT027 Compared With PT007 Administered As Needed in Participants 12 to < 18 Years of Age With Asthma

    Sorry, not currently recruiting here

    The purpose of this study is to compare the effect of budesonide/albuterol metered-dose inhaler (BDA MDI) with albuterol sulfate metered-dose inhaler (AS MDI), both administered as needed, on the annualized rate of severe asthma exacerbations in adolescents with a documented clinical diagnosis of asthma and at least one severe exacerbation in the prior year.

    San Francisco, California and other locations

  • Medication Adherence With Telehealthcare Medication Therapy Management

    Sorry, in progress, not accepting new patients

    Improving Medication Adherence with Telehealthcare Medication Therapy Management to Change Health Outcomes in Adolescents and Young Adults with Asthma (MATCH) is a multi-center, randomized parallel group study targeted to an at-risk population of Adolescents and Young Adults (AYA) with uncontrolled asthma who have poor adherence with prescribed Inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) therapy.

    San Francisco, California and other locations

  • Oral Bacterial Extract for the Prevention of Wheezing Lower Respiratory Tract Illness

    Sorry, in progress, not accepting new patients

    The primary objective of this study is to evaluate if Broncho-Vaxom® given to high risk infants for 10 days, monthly, for two consecutive years can increase time to occurrence of the first episode of wheezing lower respiratory tract illness (WLRI) during a three year observation period off therapy.

    Oakland, California and other locations

  • PrecISE (Precision Interventions for Severe and/or Exacerbation-Prone Asthma) Network Study

    Sorry, in progress, not accepting new patients

    The primary objective of this study is to evaluate several interventions given to participants with severe asthma. Interventions are administered in a crossover manner with 16-week treatment periods followed by 8 to 16 week washout.

    San Francisco, California and other locations

  • Severe Asthma Research Program

    Sorry, in progress, not accepting new patients

    The mission of the SARP is to improve the understanding of severe asthma through integrated study of its clinical and biological features and to evaluate their changes over time. The ultimate goal of these efforts is to promote better treatments for severe asthma.

    San Francisco, California and other locations

Our lead scientists for Asthma research studies include .

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