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Filter by:Neonatal mortality rate is the highest in Pakistan. And Birth Asphyxia is one of the main reversible causes. Outcomes related to birth asphyxia can be improved, if intervention done in time with proper measures. MgSO4 is cheaper and easily available drug.
This is a prospective, clinical, multicentre study aimed to collect biological samples and study microbiota from subjects with Clostridium Difficile (CDI), subjects affected by Multi Drug Resistant Organisms (MDRO) infection, subjects with Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), subjects with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), subjects with Hepatic Encephalopathy and from healthy volunteers. Microbiota is a complex consortium of microorganisms, located at the mucosal level (in particular intestinal, oral and vaginal) having a key role in human health and in the onset of several diseases. Microbiota alterations have been found in several diseases (gastrointestinal, metabolic, renal, oncological, gynaecological) The study will allow to: - Provide biological samples (faeces, saliva, blood, urine) from healthy volunteers and patients to the first Italian microbiota biobank; - Study microorganisms using different in vitro and in vivo techniques; - Study the link between the microbiota and the disease. This study is part of the BIOMIS project (Project Code: ARS01_01220), presented as part of the "Avviso per la presentazione di progetti di ricerca industriale e sviluppo sperimentale nelle 12 aree di specializzazione individuate dal PNR 2015-2020" and admitted to funding under the National Operational Program "Ricerca e Innovazione" 2014-2020 by directorial decree of MIUR - Department for Higher Education and Research - n. 2298 of 12 September 2018. BIOMIS includes several clinical studies that enrol patients with different pathologies to collect and store biological samples and study microbiota.
This study is being completed for patients with cirrhosis, including patients with a prior history of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) to evaluate the feasibility and benefits of medically-tailored meals as an intervention. Patients will be enrolled from the University of Michigan and will complete the baseline assessments in-person or remotely. In addition participants will complete study related materials before, during and after treatment with medically-tailored meals (MTM). After completing the study meals, participants will return for follow-up or have this visit completed remotely as well as have an observational period for 12 more weeks.
A pilot study to determine if a simple blood test can predict patients at risk for significant episodes of confusion and disorientation that can occur in patients who receive an artificial shunt through the liver to control complications of liver disease.
GRIN-related disorders encompass a new group of Inborn Errors of Metabolism according to the recent nosology published by Ferreira et al (Genet Med, 2019). These rare conditions represent a subtype of paediatric encephalopathies leading to intellectual disability, hypotonia, communication deficits and motor impairment (Orphanet entries: 178469, 289266, 101685, for GRIN1, GRIN2A and GRIN2B, respectively). Mutations leading to glutamatergic hypotransmission can be potentially treated with L-Serine leading to significant clinical benefits in patients according to a pilot study published by our group (Soto et al, 2019). In our study, the investigators will include about 20 spanish patients older than 2 years of age, harbouring GRIN variants functionally anotated as loss-of-function pathogenic variants. The investigators will evaluate dose tolerability, efficacy of the treatment according to neurocognitive and motor scales, as well as the effects of L-serine in microbiome composition.
Neonatal hypoxic ischemic (HI) injury is an unpredictable neurologic injury with devastating, long term consequences for parents who are expecting a normal child. Hypothermia for 72 hr within 6 hrs of birth improves the combined outcome of death or severe disability, and hypothermia is now standard of care in tertiary centers throughout the world. However, approximately 50% of infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) treated with hypothermia still have adverse neurologic outcomes, due to ongoing neuroinflammation and oxidative stress in spite of hypothermia. Further, the majority of HIE infants are insufficient or deficient in a critical neurosteroid, 25(OH)vitamin D, which has been shown to adversely affect outcome after adult stroke. By adding vitamin D to N-acetylcysteine (NAC), an antioxidant, the investigators hypothesized that both drugs would increase glutathione (GSH) concentrations in critical brain areas, mitigate continuing oxidative stress after injury during hypothermia and after rewarming, and improve neurodevelopmental outcomes. This is an open-label, non-randomized, escalating dose, pilot trial to evaluate the disposition and safety of NAC in combination with active vitamin D in neonates who present within 6 hrs of hypoxia ischemia/asphyxial event and received moderate hypothermia to 33 degrees C for 72 hours per routine protocol.
The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic is leading to a large number of patients in intensive care units due to severe hypoxemic pneumonia. After an acute phase that may require controlled mechanical ventilation and deep sedation, removal of sedation often reveals a pathological awakening in the vast majority of patients. This encephalopathy state remains, to date and to our knowledge, unexplained. Clinical features do not appear to fully correlate with regular delirium. This encephalopathy might be explained by deep and prolonged hypoxemia, a wide use of sedation drugs, systemic inflammation or the hostile ICU environment.
The main goals of this study are to further determine whether the study drug donanemab is safe and effective in participants with Alzheimer's disease and to validate video scale assessments.
To investigate the potential antiseizure effects of adjunctive XEN496 (ezogabine) compared with placebo in children with KCNQ2 Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy (KCNQ2-DEE).
This is a phase 2, double-blind study to assess the efficacy, safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of NBI-827104 when administered once daily for 13 weeks in pediatric subjects with Epileptic Encephalopathy with Continuous Spike-and-Wave During Sleep (EECSWS).