Status:

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Profermin®: Prevention of Progression in Alcoholic Liver Disease by Modulating Dysbiotic Microbiota

Lead Sponsor:

Odense University Hospital

Collaborating Sponsors:

Region of Southern Denmark

Odense Patient Data Explorative Network

Conditions:

Alcoholic Liver Disease

Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic

Eligibility:

All Genders

30-75 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Investigators wishes to influence the gut microbiota in patients with alcoholic liver disease in a randomized controlled clinical trial. The investigators hypothesize that the alcohol-related dysbiosi...

Detailed Description

Chronic alcohol overuse is associated with increased gut permeability and in addition, the intestinal microbiota changes qualitatively (dysbiosis) and quantitatively (bacterial overgrowth) in alcoholi...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Prior or ongoing harmful alcohol intake defined as an average of ≥24g alcohol/day for women and ≥36g/d for men for ≥ 5 year.
  • Outpatients with compensated advanced chronic alcohol-related liver disease, defined as stable patients with:
  • liver stiffness ≥15 kPa and asymptomatic and/or
  • New liver biopsy (\<6months) with at least F3 fibrosis (kleiner) and/or
  • Liver biopsy older that 6 months with liver stiffness ≥10 kPa
  • Understand and speak Danish written and orally
  • Informed consent

Exclusion

  • Hospitalised
  • Moderete or severe Ascites, determined from imaging diagnostics
  • High-risk varices needing interventional treatment (endoscopy, TIPS)
  • Child-Pugh C score
  • MELD-Na ≥15
  • Lactose intolerance
  • Coeliac disease
  • Irritable bowel syndrome defined by ROME III criteria
  • Antibiotic treatment the prior 3 months
  • Treatment with nutritional drinks, probiotics or prebiotics within the last 3 months
  • The investigator judge that the patient would not be compliant with trial medicine
  • Pregnancy
  • Known liver disease other than alcoholic, of any aetiology
  • Severe malnutrition
  • Malignancy - except spino- or basocellular skin cancer. Patients with prior malignant disease are allowed if cancer-free for at least one year
  • Recent infectious gastroenteritis (for the last 6 weeks)

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

March 1 2019

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

February 1 2031

Estimated Enrollment :

56 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03863730

Start Date

March 1 2019

End Date

February 1 2031

Last Update

November 7 2023

Active Locations (2)

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FLASH - Centre of Liver Research

Odense, Fyn, Denmark, 5000

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Odense University Hospital

Odense, Denmark, 5000