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Hepatic Encephalopathy: full-pipeline trial registry

5 of 13 indexed Hepatic Encephalopathy trials are currently recruiting.

Corpus placement: #1,315 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

13 US clinical trials · 5 currently recruiting · #1,315 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Hepatic Encephalopathy: 13 US clinical trials tracked, 5 recruiting.

Hepatic Encephalopathy is the subject of 13 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 5 of them currently open to new participants. 4 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 5 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Bausch Health Americas, running 4 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition hepatic-encephalopathy

OPEN 5 | RECR 38% | LATE 4 | EARLY 5 | RANK #1315 | SPON 4

Nearest open-share peer: Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma (38% recruiting · 13 trials)

ACL Injury61.5%Acute Biphenotypic Leukemia46.2%Hepatic Encephalopathy (this)38%Accidental Falls30.8%Actinic Keratoses23.1%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Hepatic Encephalopathy

Hepatic Encephalopathy lists 5 open slots (38% of 13 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Hepatic Encephalopathy on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Hepatic Encephalopathy is recruiting below its size-band peers.

    5 of 13 indexed trials (38.5%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

  2. One sponsor concentrates Hepatic Encephalopathy research.

    Bausch Health Americas accounts for 4 of 13 trials (30.8%). 9 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Typical Hepatic Encephalopathy enrolment sits around 60 participants.

    Median target enrolment is 60 among the 13 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 7 of those (53.8%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Hepatic Encephalopathy research is mostly interventional.

    13 interventional and 0 observational studies make up this index (100% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 11Phase 24Phase 33Phase 41

Open and recent trials

13 total, page 1 of 1

RECRUITING Phase 2 163 participants

TReatment for ImmUne Mediated PathopHysiology

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

NCT04862221

RECRUITING NA 40 participants

Late Evening and Early Morning Protein Supplement to Reduce Readmissions for Hepatic Encephalopathy

The Cleveland Clinic

NCT04096014

RECRUITING Phase 2 30 participants

Hepatic Encephalopathy and Albumin Lasting Cognitive Improvement

Hunter Holmes Mcguire Veteran Affairs Medical Center

NCT06052176

RECRUITING NA 18 participants

Affect of Melatonin on Sleep and Cognition in Cirrhosis

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

NCT07046429

RECRUITING NA 11 participants

Pilot Open-Label Trial of Resistant Potato Starch in Patients With Cirrhosis and Overt Hepatic Encephalopathy

Mayo Clinic

NCT06425380

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 3 524 participants

Study to Assess Rifaximin Soluble Solid Dispersion (SSD) for the Delay of Encephalopathy Decompensation in Cirrhosis

Bausch Health Americas

NCT05071716

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 3 466 participants

Evaluation of Rifaximin SSD for Delaying Encephalopathy Decompensation in Patients With Cirrhosis

Bausch Health Americas

NCT05297448

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 2 30 participants

Fecal Microbiota Transplant as Treatment of Hepatic Encephalopathy

Massachusetts General Hospital

NCT03420482

COMPLETED Phase 3 322 participants

Safety and Tolerability Study of Rifaximin in Participants With a History of Hepatic Encephalopathy

Bausch Health Americas

NCT00686920

COMPLETED Phase 4 222 participants

The Safety/Efficacy of Rifaximin With/Without Lactulose in Participants With A History of Recurrent Hepatic Encephalopathy

Bausch Health Americas

NCT01842581

COMPLETED Phase 2 189 participants

A Study of Safety and Efficacy of HPN-100 in Subjects With Cirrhosis and Episodic Hepatic Encephalopathy

Amgen

NCT00999167

COMPLETED Phase 1 60 participants

FMT in Cirrhosis and Hepatic Encephalopathy

VA Office of Research and Development

NCT03796598

COMPLETED NA 42 participants

Rifaximin in Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy

Hunter Holmes Mcguire Veteran Affairs Medical Center

NCT00533910

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 1
Phase 2 4
Phase 3 3
Phase 4 1

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Hepatic Encephalopathy records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

Rifaximin Drug
3 trials
Placebo Drug
3 trials
Rifaximin SSD Drug
2 trials
Fecal Microbial Transplant Enema Drug
1 trials
Fecal Microbial transplant Capsules Drug
1 trials
HPN-100 Drug
1 trials
Lactulose Drug
1 trials
Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) oral capsules Drug
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Hepatic Encephalopathy trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

California 6 trials
New York 4 trials
Colorado 4 trials
Virginia 3 trials
Ohio 3 trials
Massachusetts 3 trials
Louisiana 3 trials
Indiana 3 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

What to do with this Hepatic Encephalopathy page

13 registered trials, 5 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Hepatic Encephalopathy condition card totals 13 registered trials; most-linked intervention Rifaximin; top US site state California. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.