Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

PSC Partners Seeking a Cure

Code:

NCT06297993

Conditions

PSC

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Study Details

Brief summary:

Develop an appropriate real-world data comparator cohort to support the design, execution, and serve as an external control for interventional clinical trials in PSC.

Conditions

PSC

Study ID

NCT06297993

Start date

May 6, 2024

Status verified date

Feb, 2026

Completion date

Jan, 2031

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jan, 2029

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Adult patients between 18 and 75 years of age (inclusive) who can comprehend instructions, follow the study procedures and are willing to sign an Informed Consent Form (ICF).
2. Confirmed clinical diagnosis of large duct PSC.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Clinically significant acute or chronic liver disease of an etiology other than PSC (including but not limited to metabolic-dysfunction associated steatohepatitis (MASH), PBC, HCV, HBV, or alcoholic hepatitis, Wilson's disease, alpha-1 antitryp-sin deficiency, acute or chronic drug-induced liver injury)

  • Patients with PSC and elements of AIH overlap are allowed to enroll
  • Patients with metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) or benign steatosis are allowed to enroll
2. Small-Duct PSC.
3. Clinically diagnosed secondary or IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis.
4. Clinically diagnosed infections (including acute cholangitis) and receiving treatment within the past 7 days; patients on chronic suppressive antibiotics for acute cholangitis will be allowed to enroll
5. Hospitalization in the past 7 days
6. UDCA dose >28 mg/kg
7. Evidence of current or historical decompensated cirrhosis based on the following clinical events:

  • Ascites > Grade 2 and requiring treatment
  • Esophageal or gastric variceal bleeding requiring hospitalization
  • Hepatic encephalopathy (as defined by a West Haven score ≥ 2)
  • Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis defined as ascites absolute neutrophil count >250/mm3 in the absence of an intra-abdominal source of infection
  • AKI-HRS according to AASLD Guidelines (Flamm 2021)
  • Portal hypertension based on a platelet count < 150 × 109/L and LSM > 15 kPa with clinical, laboratory, imaging and/or other relevant parameters
8. Prior liver transplantation
9. MELD 3.0 Score >15. For subjects on anticoagulation medication, baseline INR determination for MELD score calculation should take this use into account.
10. History, evidence, or high suspicion of hepatobiliary malignancies or active colon cancer based on imaging, screening laboratory values, and/or clinical symptoms. Patients with a history of colon cancer who have undergone a colectomy and have no current evidence of colon cancer will be allowed to enroll in the study.
11. Participants with current clinical or laboratory evidence of any severe, progressive, or uncontrolled disease, related or unrelated to PSC and which, in the opinion of the investigator, has an expected survival of less than 52 weeks.
12. Participants who are impaired, incapacitated, or incapable of completing study-related assessments or giving informed consent.
13. Prisoners or participants who are involuntarily incarcerated.
14. Participants who are currently participating in an investigational PSC therapy clinical study or who have participated in such a study within the past 12 weeks
15. Absence of data in medical records to assess inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Study Design

Enrollment

2000 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

Adult patients with a confirmed diagnosis of large duct PSC.

1. Adult patients between 18 and 75 years of age (inclusive) who can comprehend instructions, follow the study procedures and are willing to sign an Informed Consent Form (ICF).
2. Confirmed clinical diagnosis of large duct PSC

Primary outcome measure

  • Develop an appropriate real-world data (RWD) comparator cohort to support the design, execution, and serve as an external control for interventional clinical trials in PSC. [ Time Frame: Quarterly for five years from enrollment ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Locations

UC Davis

Recruiting

Sacramento, California, United States, 95817

Contacts

Principal Investigator:

Christopher Bowlus, MD

California Pacific Medical Center

Recruiting

San Francisco, California, United States, 94109

Contacts

Principal Investigator:

Kidist Yimam, MD

University of California, San Francisco

Recruiting

San Francisco, California, United States, 94143

Contacts

Principal Investigator:

Michael Li, MD, MPH

Yale University

Recruiting

New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06510

Contacts

Principal Investigator:

Marina Silveira, MD

Schiff Center for Liver Diseases / University of Miami

Recruiting

Miami, Florida, United States, 33136

Contacts

Principal Investigator:

Cynthia Levy, MD

Indiana University

Recruiting

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46202

Contacts

Rebecca Gerstorff

rebgerst@iu.edu

Principal Investigator:

Craig Lammert, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital

Recruiting

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114

Contacts

Principal Investigator:

Daniel Pratt, MD

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Recruiting

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215

Contacts

Principal Investigator:

Vilas Patwardhan, MD

Mayo Clinic

Recruiting

Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55901

Contacts

Principal Investigator:

John Eaton, MD

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Recruiting

Dallas, Texas, United States, 75390

Contacts

Principal Investigator:

Marlyn Mayo, MD

Virginia Commonwealth University

Recruiting

Richmond, Virginia, United States, 23298

Contacts

Principal Investigator:

Obi Aseem, MD

University of Alberta

Recruiting

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2X8

Contacts

Principal Investigator:

Aldo Montano-Loza, MD, MSc, PhD, FAASLD, FACG

University Health Network

Recruiting

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G2C4

Contacts

Principal Investigator:

Gideon Hirschfield, FRCP,MD

Centre de recherche du centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM)

Recruiting

Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2X 0A9

Contacts

Principal Investigator:

Julian Hercun, MD

More Information

Sponsor

PSC Partners Seeking a Cure

Last update posted

Jun 29, 2026

Last verified

Feb, 2026

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by PSC Partners Seeking a Cure on 2026-06-29.