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RecruitingNCT06761209HAI-NEGUpdated Jan 7, 2025

Is Negativity of Autoantibodies a Marker of Severity in Auto-immune Hepatitis?

An observational study in Auto-immune Hepatitis, sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Guadeloupe. Recruiting at 2 sites in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-01-07.

Sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Guadeloupe · Observational

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Jul 2022; still recruiting 4 years 4 months later.
Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
100
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Evaluate the proportion of seronegative auto-immune hepatitis and a possible relationship with the severity of the disease. Criteria of severity will be defined by corticodependance, corticoresistance and a severe form of the disease at diagnosis (cirrhosis or fulminant hepatitis). In case of predominant seronegative forms, other auto-antibodies related to this auto-immue hepatitis will be searched.

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Evaluate the proportion of seronegative auto-immune hepatitis and a possible relationship with the severity of the disease. Criteria of severity will be defined by corticodependance, corticoresistance and a severe form of the disease at diagnosis (cirrhosis or fulminant hepatitis). In case of predominant seronegative forms, other auto-antibodies related to this auto-immue hepatitis will be searched.

Patients from the Guadeloupean constitutive center of rare diseases (CCRD Filfoie) and from the Saint-Antoine hospital will be retrospectively analyzed, and new patients will be prospectively followed.

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Conditions studied

  • Auto-immune Hepatitis

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Keywords

  • autoantibodies
  • auto-immune hepatitis
  • prognosis
  • afrocaribbean population
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In context

Hepatitis

343 studies on the registry are indexed under Hepatitis; 51 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 100 is below the median of 358 across 90 observational studies indexed under Hepatitis.

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Lead sponsor

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Guadeloupe is the lead sponsor of 50 studies on the registry; 25 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

only acute or chronic AIH patients will be included in the study.

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

    • Any patient over 18 years old
  • Patient followed at Hôpital Saint-Antoine or treated for HAI or in Guadeloupe within the framework of the CCRD Filfoie for an acute or chronic AIH under treatment
  • Patient affiliate or beneficiary of a social security scheme
  • Free, informed and written consent signed by the patient and the investigator

    o exclusion criteria: - Patient under 18 years old

  • Patient not able to give his/her consent
  • Viral hepatitis: viruses A to E, Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus and herpes simplex virus
  • Isolated primary biliary cholangitis
  • Isolated primary sclerosing cholangitis
  • Drug-induced liver injury
  • Wilson disease
  • Alcoholic hepatitis
  • Hemochromatosis
  • Sickle cell disease and heart liver
  • Non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(1)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
100 participants (estimated)
Patient registry
No

Groups and cohorts

  • acute or chronic Auto-Immune Hepatitis patients

    For the study, a blood sample will be collected from the patient in order to build up a serological library which allow the search for rare autoAb whose interest has been demonstrated as prognostic factors of the disease

    Other: blood sampling

Interventions

  • Otherblood sampling

    For the study, a blood sample will be collected from the patient in order to do build up a serological library which will allow the search for rare autoAb whose interest has been demonstrated as prognostic factors of the disease.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. histological rereading of seronegative AIH

    Percentage comparisons will be made by a chi-2 test or a Fischer test.

    Time frame: Baseline

Secondary outcomes

  1. assessment of the severity of the disease

    - Number of corticosteroid HAI defined by the maintenance of corticosteroid therapy\> 20mg / d beyond 6 months of treatment - Number of corticosteroid-resistant AIH. Percentage comparisons will be made by a chi-2 test or a Fischer test.

    Time frame: 6 months, 12 months

  2. Constitution of a serotheque in order to search for other autoAb described as correlated to the severity of the AIH.

    Constitution of a serotheque in order to search for other autoAb described as correlated to the severity of the AIH.

    Time frame: At inclusion

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Study locations

1 of 2 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jan 7, 2025, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT06761209
Lead sponsor
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Guadeloupe
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jan 7, 2025
Start date
Jul 1, 2022
Primary completion
Dec 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 2026 (estimated)
Last update
Jan 7, 2025

Study contacts

Valérie SOTER, Promotion Unit manager
Contact
valerie.soter@chu-guadeloupe.fr
+590 590 934677
Eunice NUBRET, Project manager
Contact
eunice.nubret@chu-guadeloupe.fr
+590 0590934686
Moana Lemoinne, doctor
principal investigator · chu de pointe à pitre

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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