NCT06742606

Efficacy of Biological Therapy in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: EARLY_Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Ain Shams University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Month – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Compare efficacy of different biologicals in induction of remission including clinical, laboratory and histopathological remission.

Detailed description

IBD are multifactorial disorders characterized by chronic relapsing intestinal inflammation (Fousekis et al .,2021). Main subtypes of pediatric IBD are Crohn's disease (CD), ulcerative colitis (UC), and IBD unclassified (Corica \& Romano .., 2017) Mechanism of IBD involves uncontrolled immune mediated inflammatory response in genetically predisposed individuals to an unknown environmental trigger that interacts with gut microbiome and primarily affects gastrointestinal tract ( Iyer \& Corr ..,2021) Pediatric onset IBD is more aggressive and rapidly progressive disease compared to adult onset IBD. Nearly a quarter of all patients with IBD develop this disease during childhood (Moon .., 2019), mean age at diagnosis ranged from 4.5 to 16 years in pediatric cases (Mosli et al ..,2021) Rates of pediatric onset IBD continue to rise around the world (Kuenzig et al ..,2022 ). In2018, the highest annual incidences of pediatric IBD were 23/100000 person in Europe, 15.2/100000 in North America, and 11.4/100000 in Asia/ Middle East and Oceania (Sýkora et al .., 2018) Pediatric IBD management and therapeutic approach can be chall enging, especially in younger patients (Romeo et al .., 2020 )). Biologic agents have revolutionized the treatment paradigm of pediatric IBD (Kapoor \& Crowley ..,2021) Biological drugs are monoclonal antibodies target specific cytokines involved in inflammatory cascade, such as tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), integrins or interleukin 12/23, and have been approved for both pediatric CD and UC (Romeo et al 2020)

Conditions

• Effect of Drug

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BIOLOGICAL	Group 1 of patients will receive Adalimumab while Group 1 will receive ustekinumab	All the patients will be treated according to guidelines of ECCO/ESPGHAN and will be followed up regularly for 12 months by assessment • response to treatment Frequency of relapses, Regular assessment will be: Clinically every 2 to 4 weeks at gastroenterology outpatient clinic by using activity scoring systems: pediatric Ulcerative Colitis Activity Index pediatric Chron's Disease Activity Index Laboratory follow up will done at weeks 12,24,36,48 of starting or changing to other biological by doing inflammatory markers( CBC, ESR, CRP, albumin. At the end of study(week 48) each patient will be reassessed by: Disease activity: Laboratory Endoscopy will be repeated at week 48 of starting or changing to other biological to assess effect of biologicals on reach mucosal healing.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-01-15
• Primary completion: 2026-04-13
• Completion: 2026-12-13
• First posted: 2024-12-19
• Last updated: 2024-12-19