NCT05842681Recruiting
Azithromycin in the Management of Patients With Acute Exacerbation of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Role of Add-on Azithromycin in the Management of Patients With Acute Exacerbation of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 13 May 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This randomized controlled trial evaluates the therapeutic role of azithromycin in acute exacerbations of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (AE-IPF). Baseline severity classification and stratification were performed using the SCALE-IPF framework (Severity Classification and Lung Evaluation for Prognosis in IPF; locked April 2023) to ensure balanced disease severity across randomized arms. End-of-study analyses included descriptive and stratified phenotyping using the Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Phenotypes Identification Model (IPIM); locked April 2023). Following a protocol amendment approved in September 2025, the study expanded into a multi-arm therapeutic platform evaluating both azithromycin timing strategies and combination antifibrotic-immunomodulatory therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Additional treatment arms involving pirfenidone with or without azithromycin were incorporated without altering the original randomized comparisons or baseline study framework. Both frameworks were developed within the Assiut University IPF Research Program (2022-2026), a coordinated institutional effort investigating clinical, prognostic, and therapeutic dimensions of IPF. Neither framework altered randomization procedures, treatment allocation, or study endpoints; they were applied to improve standardization, reproducibility, and interpretability of results.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 1000 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 23 Apr 2023
- Start date
- 1 Jun 2023
- Primary completion date
- 1 Jan 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Assiut University
- Diseases
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- NCT number
- NCT05842681
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 1000
- From 1 Jun 2023 to the primary completion date, 1 Jan 2027
- 2 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Patients with multislice computed tomography with a radiological pattern rather than usual interstitial pneumonitis (UIP).
- Patients with end-organ failure.
- Patients with known hypersensitivity or contraindication to pirfenidone or azithromycin, significant hepatic impairment, severe drug intolerance, or other contraindications to study medications according to standard clinical judgment.
Age
- Age: less than 18 years.
Other
- Patients with any severity other than mild or early-moderate acute exacerbation of IPF according to SCALE-IPF (locked April 2023).
- Unstable patients need mechanical ventilation or Respiratory Intensive Care Unit admission.
Who the study is looking for
- Baseline disease severity classified as mild or early-moderate according to the SCALE-IPF (locked April 2023) threshold ≤ 13 points.
- Participation within the Assiut University IPF Research Program (2022-2026).
- Additional longitudinal therapeutic platform arms involving pirfenidone with or without azithromycin may include clinically stable idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients according to protocol-amended eligibility criteria approved in September 2025.
Age in the registry: 18 years to 80 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty of Medicine Assuit University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Asyut | Egypt | Active, not recruiting |
| Assiut University- Faculty of Medicine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Asyut | Egypt | Recruiting |
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