An interventional study of Gala Airway Treatment System in Chronic Bronchitis and COPD, sponsored by Gala Therapeutics, Inc.. Completed at 3 sites in Canada. Open to participants aged 40 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-08-04.
Sponsored by Gala Therapeutics, Inc. · Not applicable, Interventional, and Device feasibility
Feasibility trial (FIH) to assess the safety and clinical utility in patients with chronic bronchitis in Canada.
The Gala Airway Treatment system is a device-based, energy delivery system that delivers high frequency short duration energy to the airway epithelium and sub-mucosal tissue layers. The energy is delivered via a proprietary catheter through the bronchoscope.
Two sessions of treatment will be delivered one month apart. The right lung is treated at the first treatment session and the left lung is treated at the second treatment session (approximately one month after the right side is treated). Treatment will be delivered by a respiratory physician (interventional pulmonologist) in a tertiary teaching hospital during a bronchoscopic procedure. The bronchoscopy will be delivered during general anaesthesia. It is anticipated that the bronchoscopic procedure will last less than 60 minutes in total. Treatment will be deemed to have been delivered following the successful treatment during the two bronchoscopies.
A third bronchoscopy will be performed three months following the second treatment session where treatment is not delivered but a cryo-biopsy will be taken from the airway sites that have been treated during the two previous bronchoscopic treatment session to evaluate the effect of the treatment on the airways producing excessive mucous.
Subjects will be required to submit to several tests during the study including two CT scans (lung), respiratory function tests, exercise testing.
209 studies on the registry are indexed under Bronchitis, Chronic; 14 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 10 is below the median of 101 across 154 interventional studies indexed under Bronchitis, Chronic.
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Exclusion Criteria:
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.
A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.
Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
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FEV1
From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Biopsy and archival tissue
A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.
Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Clinically significant
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
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Autoimmune disease
A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.
Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Investigational drug or device
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Gala Airway Treatment System (GATS)
Device: Gala Airway Treatment System
The Gala Airway Treatment system is a device-based, energy delivery system that delivers energy to ablate soft tissue such as the airway epithelium and sub-mucosal tissue layers. The energy is delivered via a proprietary catheter through the bronchoscope.
Also known as: GATS
Safety: Incidence of serious adverse events associated with the Gala Airway Treatment System through 6 months.
Incidence of serious adverse events associated with the Gala Airway Treatment System through 6 months.
Time frame: 6 months
Clinical Utility - Histology
Histopathological evidence of change in mucus producing cells within the airway
Time frame: 3 months following bilateral treatment
Clinical Utility - Pulmonary Function
Pulmonary function testing (PFT) utilizing Forced Expiratory Volume (FEV1)
Time frame: Through end of study (12-months post-bilateral treatment)
Quality of Life - CAT
COPD Assessment Test (CAT) questionnaire
Time frame: Through end of study (12-months post-bilateral treatment)
Quality of Life - SGRQ
St. George Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ)
Time frame: Through end of study (12-months post-bilateral treatment)
Acute Exacerbations
Detection of acute exacerbations (measured by clinical examination of a suitably qualified physician)
Time frame: From 48 hours post procedure through end of study (12 months post-bilateral treatment)
Non-Acute Exacerbations
Detection of non-acute exacerbations (measured by clinical examination of a suitably qualified physician)
Time frame: From 48 hours post procedure through end of study (12 months post-bilateral treatment)
Six Minute Walk Test
Change in 6MWT at 6 months compared to baseline
Time frame: 6 months post-bilateral treatment
CASA-Q
Patient reported outcome respiratory questionnaire: Cough and Sputum Assessment Questionnaire
Time frame: Through end of study (12 months post-bilateral treatment)
Plan to share: No
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Ran from Aug 2017 to primary completion in Jul 2020, 35 months.
Of 24 interventional studies with no phase under Bronchitis, Chronic, half reached primary completion within 35 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 28 and three quarters within 47. This study's 35 months is close to that.
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