Clinical trials: Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED), open to volunteers
Environmental Enteric Dysfunction
OCT Guided Trans Nasal Imaging of the Small Intestine in Adults
The investigators are seeking healthy adult participants 18-60 years and healthy pregnant women in their 2nd trimester of pregnancy for a research study to assess a new imaging device.
- Trial name
- NCT04984447
- Testing
- TNIB Catheter
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED)
Maternal Probiotic Intervention to Improve Gut Health - Trial II - Burkina Faso (MPIGH-II)
Burden: Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED) is an enteropathic condition characterized by altered gut permeability, infiltration of immune cells and changes in villous architecture and cell differentiation.
- Trial name
- MPIGH-II (NCT07134790)
- Testing
- VE818, Oral Vancomycin
- Where
- Burkina Faso
- Volunteers
- 144 people
- Sponsor
- University Ghent
Environmental Enteric Dysfunction
Indispensable Amino Acids Bioavailability in Children With Environmental Enteropathy Dysfunction (IAA-EED)
In Morocco, large efforts have been made to enhance nutritional status and health conditions of children. Accordingly, stunting was reduced and the prevalence of stunting have decreased from 28,6% in 1987 to 14,9% in 2011.
- Trial name
- IAA-EED (NCT07256028)
- Testing
- Indispensable amino acids supplemntation, Without Indispensable amino acids supplementation
- Where
- Morocco
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Morocco's National Centre for Energy, Sciences and Nuclear Techniques
Environmental Enteric Dysfunction
Capsule Endomicroscopy for Visualization of the Small Intestine in EED Population in Pakistan
This pilot study will test the feasibility and tolerability of the tethered OCT capsule and Trans Nasal Endomicroscopy probe and accessory devices for imaging the small intestine in subjects with EED and a matched non-EED cohort.
- Trial name
- NCT04275167
- Testing
- Tethered Capsule Endomicroscope/Trans Nasal Endomicroscope
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 170 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED), Malnutrition
The Maternal EED Study
Undernutrition among women of reproductive age is more common in South Asia than in any other region. In South Asia, the prevalence of maternal undernutrition varies between 10 and 40%.
- Conditions
- Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED), Malnutrition, Women of Reproductive Age, Gut Microbiota
- Trial name
- NCT05862363
- Testing
- Microbiota-directed balanced energy protein (MD-BEP), Ready-to-use supplementary food-balanced energy protein (RUSF-BEP), Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD)
- Where
- Bangladesh
- Volunteers
- 180 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED), Stunting
Maternal Probiotic Intervention to Improve Gut Health-Trial II-Pakistan
Burden: Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED) is an enteropathic condition characterised by altered gut permeability, infiltration of immune cells, and changes in villous architecture and cell differentiation.
- Trial name
- MPIGH-II (NCT07207434)
- Testing
- Oral Vancomycin, VE818
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 144 people
- Sponsor
- Aga Khan University
Environmental Enteric Dysfunction
Glucagon-like Peptide 2 (GLP-2) in Undernourished Women Improving From Histology-Confirmed Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED)
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether teduglutide, a medicine that helps the intestine heal, can improve environmental enteric dysfunction in undernourished women aged 18 to 35 years living in urban slums of Dhaka.
- Trial name
- GAME (NCT07537686)
- Testing
- Teduglutide 0.05 dose
- Volunteers
- 55 people
- Sponsor
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh