There are about 28871 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Canada. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
This will be a 5 year randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trial of 7 days of oral prednisone in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients receiving intravenous (IV) antibiotic treatment for a pulmonary exacerbation at the Hospital for Sick Children and other study sub-sites across Canada. The intervention will be oral prednisone 2 mg/kg/day (max 60 mg) divided twice daily for 7 days as an adjunctive therapy for pulmonary exacerbations in CF patients who have not recovered their baseline forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) after 7 days of IV antibiotic treatment. The primary outcome will be the proportion of subjects who achieve >90% of their baseline FEV1 % predicted at day 14 of IV antibiotic treatment for a pulmonary exacerbation in each treatment arm.
A clinical decision support rule/tool for classification of TIA/mimic that will enable rapid detection of ACVS in hyper-acute settings is being developed. Also under development is a multi-protein test using mass spectrometry (MS). This test will provide TIA results within an hour or two for a fraction of the price of neuroimaging. With guidance provided by this test at their disposal, physicians can inform patients whether they can go home safely or whether they need further testing. The right patients will receive the right treatment, reduce unwarranted imaging risks and costs, and reduce the burden of stroke. The Heart and Stroke Foundation will work to ensure that physicians, allied healthcare providers, the public and other stakeholders are aware of the outcomes and clinical impacts of this project. Further, work is being done to establish the mechanisms to develop a strong phenotype for TIA that includes medical imaging (MRI), cardiac monitoring, cognitive assessments, and surveillance of health outcomes for extended periods of time.
This was a Phase 3b, open-label, non-randomized, multicenter study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of glecaprevir/pibrentasvir (GLE/PIB) in participants with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype (GT) 1 - 6 infection without liver cirrhosis or with compensated liver cirrhosis and with chronic renal impairment in participants who were either HCV treatment-naïve (TN) or prior treatment-experienced (TE) with interferon (IFN) or pegylated interferon (PegIFN) with or without ribavirin (RBV), or sofosbuvir (SOF) plus RBV with or without pegIFN.
This is a non-comparative, prospective, non-randomized single centre phase II clinical trial of Rituximab and alpha interferon immunotherapy following autologous stem cell transplant in patients with relapsed follicular lymphoma conducted at Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre/Sunnybrook and Women's Health Sciences Centre.
Total hip replacement (THR) is a common and major surgical procedure performed in elderly patients with significant comorbidities. Optimizing a patient's anesthetic and analgesic modalities could play a significant role in minimizing the risk of adverse events in the perioperative period and potentially shorten time to discharge and recovery. Establishing a safe and effective post-operative analgesic plan is of central importance to successful THR anesthesia care. The application of ultrasound visualization has improved the efficacy of the fascia iliaca compartment block (FICB). However, ultrasound-guided suprainguinal FICB has not yet been evaluated clinically in a large trial as a method of providing post-operative analgesia following THR. The investigators hypothesize that by performing the suprainguinal fascia iliaca block with ultrasound, it will be possible to achieve superior and more reliable analgesia in the first 24 hours than without a block.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether an investigational immunotherapy Nivolumab, when combined with Ipilimumab, is more effective than Nivolumab by itself, in delaying the return of cancer in patients who have had a complete surgical removal of stage IIIb/c/d or stage IV Melanoma
Preterm birth (PTB), preeclampsia (PE), fetal growth restriction (FGR) and intra-uterine fetal death (IUFD) constitutes the main causes of perinatal morbidity and mortality and are called "Great Obstetrical Syndromes". Algorithms to predict those outcomes have been developed by combining maternal characteristics (history, age, BMI, blood pressure), biochemical (sFlt-1, β-hCG, PlGF, AFP) and sonographic (uterine artery Doppler, 3D of placenta, cervical length, nasal bone measurement, nuchal translucency) markers. Another prospective observational study ("PREDICTION study" NCT 02189148) is also ongoing, which aims to validate those algorithms at the first trimester of pregnancy. Recent data suggest that repeating the same measurements later in pregnancy could improve the detection rates, allowing closer monitoring of high-risk patients and potential therapeutics under investigation. The current study (PREDICTION2) is an ancillary study of PREDICTION and aims at validating the use of these markers in a combined iterative manner in the prediction of preeclampsia and other obstetrical outcomes.
The objectives of this study are to assess the pharmacokinetics, safety, and efficacy of glecaprevir/pibrentasvir adult formulation in adolescents ages 12 to 17 years and a pediatric formulation of glecaprevir and pibrentasvir in children ages 3 to < 12 years.
Most youth with MS experience symptoms such as depression and fatigue. In addition, cognitive issues, especially with attention and memory occur frequently. However, little is known about interventions that might work to improve these symptoms. In other work, the investigators have shown that higher levels of physical activity are associated with lower levels of depression and fatigue. Importantly, sleep problems are frequently encountered in youth with MS, and were seen in 60% of surveyed youth with MS in the investigators preliminary work. Modifiable lifestyle factors such as sleep and physical activity (PA) may play a key role in ameliorating common symptoms in pediatric MS. However, sleep has not been objectively described in pediatric MS, and the relationship between PA and sleep is poorly understood. This study aims to address these gaps.
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the superiority of LCZ696 over individualized medical therapy for comorbidities in reducing N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and improving exercise capacity and HF symptoms in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).