There are about 9403 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Switzerland. 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.
Prevalence of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in patients with MS increases with disease duration. Current management of urinary clinical symptoms in MS is mainly conservative. Its long-term outcome is often poor because of the progressive disease course and the treatment related side effects. Alternative therapeutic options are botulinum toxin injections, electrical stimulation of dorsal penile/clitoral nerve, and sacral nerve modulation. Posterior tibial nerve stimulation (PTNS) is a second minimally-invasive method of electrical stimulation. Multiple benefits may derive from the development and validation of a dedicated protocol of a new self-activated neuromodulation therapy, which may improve therapy compliance/effectiveness, quality of life and social life in MS patients with refractory LUTS. Furthermore, it may contribute to reduce outpatient visits, health costs and work absenteeism. To investigate the performance and safety of the medical device eCoin™ for the treatment of refractory LUTS in patients with MS over a period of 6 months.
The purpose of this clinical investigation is to characterize the procedural safety and device performance of transfemoral implantation of the Portico™ Transcatheter Aortic Heart Valve in patients with symptomatic degenerative aortic stenosis.
Phonak Hearing Systems pass through different development and study stages. At an early stage, feasibility studies are conducted to investigate new algorithms, features and functions in an isolated manner. If the benefit is proven, their performance is then investigated regarding interdependency between all available algorithms, features and functions running in parallel in a hearing aid (pivotal/pre-validation studies) and, as a result, they get optimized. Afterwards, and prior to product launch, the Phonak Hearing Systems undergo a final quality control in terms of clinical trials. This is a validation study, investigating optimized algorithms, features, functions and wearing comfort. This will be a clinical evaluation which will be conducted mono centric at Sonova AG Headquarters based in Stäfa (Switzerland).
This single center case control study will assess differences in bone structure between women and men with longstanding type 1 diabetes (diabetes duration>/= 25 years) and healthy controls.
To characterize the relationship of renal biomarkers (Creatinine, albumin, Cystatin C, NGAL, beta-trace protein, beta-2 microglobulin, and uromodulin) between each other and the variation over age, measured in serum and urine of healthy children. Unused residual blood and urine samples will be used for testing the renal Parameters.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effort and resources (incl. costs) required to detect 20 clinically relevant prostate cancer (PCA) in a screening program based on bpMRI of the prostate.
The purpose of the study is to compare first attempt success rates and time until intubation to establish the learning curves of the participating anaesthesiologists with two different intubation strategies: (Karl Storz C-MAC VS (Video Stylet) and the standard flexible intubation video endoscope at the study site.
It is already known from literature that exercise mobilizes stem and progenitor cells into the peripheral blood. However, the exact mechanisms thereof remain to be fully elucidated. The investigators hypothesize that exercise-induced oxidative stress could be at least one of the responsible mechanisms and therefore want to study the exercise-induced stem and progenitor cell mobilization in a group of healthy young men when they exercise with, compared to when they exercise without antioxidative supplementation. The primary outcome is numbers of stem and progenitor cells in the peripheral blood after an acute bout of exercise. As a secondary outcome, numbers of apoptotic mature and immature cells in the blood will be analysed.
The ability to assess ingestion in fine detail over the time course of a liquid meal allows for comparison of early and late meal features of drinking and may help dissociate manipulations (surgical, neural, pharmacological, etc.) that affect orosensory properties from those that are modulating postoral processes in the control of intake. The aim of the study is to asses microstructural changes in liquid meal intake over 1-year in severely obese patients after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB).
This is a prospective and randomized trial to compare two different techniques used in normal practice for the reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament in arthroscopy. The experimental group (group 1) will undergo a reconstruction technique where semitendinosus and gracilis will preserve their insertion at the level of the hamstring whereas in the control group (group 2) the semitendinosus and gracilis tendons will be disengaged from their insertion on the hamstring .