NCT06890650Recruiting
A Study to Evaluate the Effect of Fecal Transplant and Dietary Changes on Disease Activity in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Active Crohn Disease
Efficacy of Microbiome Manipulation Strategies (fecAL Microbial Transplantation OR CDED OR Both) in Combination Standard Medical Therapy for Induction and Maintenance of Remission in Mild to Moderate tReatment naÃive Active Crohns Disease (ALTER-CD): a Multicentre Double-blind Factorial Randomized Controlled Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 4 Apr 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Dysbiosis can be rectified by several methods: antibiotics, prebiotics, probiotics, dietary modulation, and fecal microbiota transplantation. There has been limited success with the isolated use of antibiotics and pre/probiotics in the treatment of IBD. Among the measures of dietary manipulation, the use of exclusive enteral nutrition (EEN) has shown superior, or at least equivalent, efficacy compared with steroids in pediatric CD. Although the results in adults are not as encouraging, recent cohort studies in patients with complicated CD have shown good success rates. Definite exclusion diets that exclude pro-inflammatory dietary constituents have also been tested with good clinical efficacy in patients with CD, who even failed treatment with anti-TNF agents. Various dietary approaches, inclusive of exclusive enteral nutrition, partial enteral nutrition, and Crohn's disease exclusion diet have been reported to be of benefit and are associated with changes in gut microbiome. Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) defined as the infusion of fecal suspension from a healthy individual into the gastrointestinal tract of an individual with GI disease carries a diverse population of microbiota and their metabolites and has been tested with varying efficacy in IBD. In general, FMT has shown good success rates in randomized control trials in patients with UC who failed conventional agents. Although limited small RCTs exist in CD, cohort studies have also shown good success rates. Therefore, the use of FMT in addition to standard medical therapy, is a concept that has not been previously explored and forms the basis for the present study. Therefore, a well-powered RCT is required to resolve the role of FMT in CD. In this study, patients will be recruited in four arms. Group A includes FMT+CDED+SMT, in Group B FMT+SMT+SHAM DIET, in Group C Sham FMT+CDED+SMT, in Group D Sham FMT+ Sham Diet+ SMT given. 168 patients will be recruited across 6 centers for around 3 years. Follow-up of the patient will be done at 0,2,6 and 10 weeks and 8 weekly up to 48 weeks.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 168 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 3 Mar 2025
- Start date
- 15 Mar 2025
- Primary completion date
- 15 Mar 2027
- Lead sponsor
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- Diseases
- Crohn's disease
- NCT number
- NCT06890650
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 168
- From 15 Mar 2025 to the primary completion date, 15 Mar 2027
- 6 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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Prior treatment
- Patients who have been received on corticosteroids, immunosuppressants (azathioprine/ 6- mercaptoprine/methotrexate) for greater than 2 weeks
- Previous surgery for CD
Other illness
- Patients with severe disease (CDAI greater than 450, SES-CD greater than 16) or requiring hospitalization
- Stricturing (non-passable stricture), fistulising phenotype or perianal fistula/abscess
- L4 disease
- Patients with current or recent history of clinically severe, progressive, or uncontrolled renal, hepatic, hematological, gastrointestinal, metabolic, endocrine, pulmonary, cardiac, or neurological disease.
- 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.
Other
- Biologicals or small molecule exposure
- Pregnant or lactating women
- Declining consent
- Not willing for FMT/Dietary advise
- Positive assay or stool culture for pathogens (ova and parasite examination, bacteria) or positive test for Clostridioides difficile toxin at screening#
Who the study is looking for
- Patients with treatment-naive Crohns disease accessible with ileocolonoscopy
- Symptom onset of less than 12 months
- Mild to moderate disease activity with endoscopically active disease
- CDAI of greater than 150 and less than 450
- SES-CD of or equal to or greater than 6 (or equal to or greater than 4 if isolated ileal disease)
- Aged between 18-75 years
Age in the registry: 18 years to 75 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (6)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Gastroentrology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chandigarh | India | Not yet recruiting |
| Department of Gastroenterology, Lisie Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kochi | India | Not yet recruiting |
| Department of Gastroenterology, Dayanand Medical College Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ludhiana | India | Not yet recruiting |
| Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Sion Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mumbai | India | Not yet recruiting |
| Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New Delhi | India | Recruiting |
| Department of Gastroenterology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Varanasi | India | Not yet recruiting |
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