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Adjuvant Steroid Outcomes in Idiopathic Subglottic Stenosis

A Phase 3 interventional study of Triamcinolone 0.1% and Placebo in Idiopathic Subglottic Stenosis, sponsored by Johns Hopkins University. Recruiting at 10 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-22.

Sponsored by Johns Hopkins University · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started May 2026; still recruiting 5 months later.
Updated Oct 22, 2026Site recruiting status changedGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
226
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 80 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study will examine the ability of steroid injections into the site of stenosis following surgical dilation to delay the need for repeated surgical dilations.

02

Conditions studied

  • Idiopathic Subglottic Stenosis

Keywords

  • Steroid injection
  • Stenosis
03

In context

Constriction, Pathologic

456 studies on the registry are indexed under Constriction, Pathologic; 109 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 226 is above the median of 72 across 295 interventional studies indexed under Constriction, Pathologic.

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Lead sponsor

Johns Hopkins University is the lead sponsor of 1,815 studies on the registry; 315 are open to participants now.

Of its 208 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 144 (69%) have results posted.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 80 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Diagnosis of iSGS following the NoAAC criteria which involves ruling out known causes for airway stenosis. Participants may be newly diagnosed or carry an existing diagnosis of iSGS;
  2. Age Range: 18 years to 80 years old at the time of consent;
  3. Sex distribution: all eligible men and women will be included, and no one will be excluded;
  4. Have a of ≥6 months; and,
  5. performance status of 0 or 1.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. History of subglottic stenosis from identifiable cause (not idiopathic), including any of the below clinical criteria:

    1. Prolonged endotracheal intubation or tracheostomy (intervention greater than 7 days immediately prior to diagnosis of subglottic stenosis);
    2. External physical trauma (including but not limited to blunt, penetration, chemical, or thermal injury) that causes injury to the subglottis;
    3. Clinical diagnosis of granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA);
    4. Radiation exposure to the neck;
    5. Complications resulting from the Index Procedure, including needing an endotracheal tube or tracheostomy immediately following surgery or a perforation of the trachea;
  2. Current or previous treatment with SILSI;
  3. Use of systemic (oral, intravenous, or intramuscular glucocorticoids), regardless of indication, within 7 days before triamcinolone administration;

    1. Local administration of corticosteroids (ophthalmic, intranasal, inhaled) is not prohibited. However, the administration of intraarticular corticosteroids during the Study Drug Dosing phase is not recommended due to potential increased risk of infection.
    2. Intralesional administration, in a site other than the subglottis, of corticosteroids should be discussed with the site PI before enrollment.
    3. Use of inhaled steroids is permitted during the study if the participant was taking at the time of consent, and no new inhaled steroids can be started while enrolled in the study.
  4. Intraarticular corticosteroids during the Study Drug Dosing phase due to potential increased risk of infection;
  5. Use of anticoagulants other than aspirin (daily aspirin dose should not exceed 81mg);
  6. Pulmonary disease including interstitial lung disease or /emphysema;
  7. Systemic infection requiring treatment with antibiotics, antifungal, or antiviral agents within 21 days of Enrollment;
  8. Poorly controlled diabetes as defined by a value greater or equal to 8.0 in the last 180 days;
  9. Participants with active cancer or a history of cancer in the last 5 years prior to enrollment, except for squamous or basal cell carcinoma of the skin;
  10. Participation in any clinical trial involving an drug or device, within four weeks, or 5 half-lives of the investigational agent (whichever time point is longer) prior to enrollment or during this trial participation;
  11. Active disease requiring systemic treatment;
  12. History of solid organ transplant due to use of ;
  13. to any aspect of the index procedure;
  14. Inability to tolerate in-office SILSI procedure;
  15. Contraindication, , or history of intolerance to oral or injectable steroids;
  16. Contraindication to SMOFlipid including any of the below:

    1. Severe lipid metabolism disorders characterized by hypertriglyceridemia (greater than 500 mg/dL);
    2. Hypersensitivity to eggs, soybean, peanut protein, or any active ingredient in SMOFlipid;
    3. History of intolerance to SMOFlipid;
  17. Participants with known, suspected, or plan for becoming pregnant in the next 6 months after the index procedure, or participants who are breastfeeding;
  18. class II-IV heart failure within the past 6 months prior to Enrollment;
  19. History of angioedema;
  20. Lack of capacity to consent;
  21. Alcohol or substance abuse or dependence in the past 6 months prior to Enrollment;
  22. Participants who for any reason may not complete the study as judged by the PI;
  23. Participants planning to move to another city or state for 6 months after the Index Procedure;
  24. Not able to undergo phlebotomy as reported by the participant or determined by the study coordinator or physician.
  25. The presence of a medical condition, lab test result, and/or use of a medication and/or any substance, individually or in aggregate, that in the judgement of the site investigator could impair study participation.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(11)

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Life expectancy

The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.

ECOG performance status

A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

HbA1c

A blood test of average blood sugar over the past two to three months, given as a percentage or in mmol/mol. 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) or more is the usual threshold for diabetes, normally confirmed by a second test.

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.

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.

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.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Double (Participant, Care provider)
Enrollment
226 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Intralesional steroid injection with Triamcinolone

    Drug: Triamcinolone 0.1%

  • Placebo comparator
    Intralesional Placebo injection

    Drug: Placebo

Interventions

  • Intralesional Triamcinolone injection 3x at one, two, and three months following surgical dilation

  • DrugPlacebo

    Intralesional Placebo injection 3x at one, two, and three months following surgical dilation

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in Peak Expiratory Flow (Liters/min)

    Time frame: 6 Months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Clinical COPD Questionnaire

    Score range 0-60, Lower score indicates better health

    Time frame: 6 months

  2. Voice Handicap Index-10

    Score range 0 to 40, Lower score indicates better voice

    Time frame: 6 Months

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Study locations

6 of 10 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes

Supporting information: Study protocol, Informed consent form

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started May 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jan 2031, 55 months after the start.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Nov 11, 2025
First posted
Nov 14, 2025
StartActual
May 20, 2026
Primary completionEst.
Jan 1, 2031
CompletionEst.
Jan 2032
Last update
Oct 22, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
Sites
University of Rochester Medical Center is now Recruiting
Oct 22, 2026
Show all 1 update
  1. Oct 22, 2026
    University of Rochester Medical Center is now Recruiting
    + 1 other change: verification date

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT07228104
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 14, 2025
Start date
May 20, 2026
Primary completion
Jan 1, 2031 (estimated)
Completion
Jan 2032 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 22, 2026

Study contacts

Alexander Hillel, M.D.
Contact
ahillel@jh.edu
4432876006
Alexander Hillel, MD
principal investigator · Johns Hopkins University

Oversight

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