Global Prospective, Observational Cohort of Adult Patients With Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (WIND-PSC Study)

Exclusion Criteria22

• 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
• Small-Duct PSC.
• Clinically diagnosed secondary or IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis.
• 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
• Hospitalization in the past 7 days
• UDCA dose \>28 mg/kg
• 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
• Prior liver transplantation
• MELD 3.0 Score \>15. For subjects on anticoagulation medication, baseline INR determination for MELD score calculation should take this use into account.
• 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.
• 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.
• Participants who are impaired, incapacitated, or incapable of completing study-related assessments or giving informed consent.
• Prisoners or participants who are involuntarily incarcerated.
• 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