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.
Oligoanalgesia1 has been widely recognized as an issue in emergency department.The purpose of our study is to assess the impact of the implementation of a computer-assisted support program to improve pain management in our ED.
The triage of patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome in the emergency room is a time-consuming diagnostic challenge. Therefore high sensitive early markers for myocardial damage are needed for more rapidly rule out of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) - especially for the first 3 to 4 hours after onset of chest pain in AMI ("troponin-blind" period). Therefore we test the hypothesis that the use meticulous patient history and novel cardiac markers can provide a faster detection or exclusion of AMI in patients presenting with acute chest pain to the emergency department. The prospective cohort study is designed to enrol patients presenting with acute chest pain at rest within the last 12 hours to the emergency department. Several blood samples for detection of the new markers will be drawn and compared with the gold standard for the diagnosis of AMI (high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T). All patients will be contacted by telephone at 3, 12, 24 and 60 months to determine functional status, major adverse cardiac events (death, myocardial infarction, coronary artery bypass grafting, percutaneous coronary intervention), and the results of cardiac examination (stress test, coronary angiography) if performed.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether adalimumab (a TNF-alpha inhibitor) is effective in the treatment of severe and acute sciatica.
Allergen specific immunotherapy (SIT) is the only causative treatment of IgE-mediated allergies. The disadvantages of SIT, however, are the requirement of numerous allergen administrations over three to five years, and that the treatment itself causes frequent allergic reactions. We aim at enhancing grass pollen SIT in hay fever patients by injecting the allergen directly into subcutaneous lymph nodes. In a monocentric randomized trial safety and efficacy of intralymphatic immunotherapy (ILIT) with 3 low dose grass pollen extract injections over 2 months are compared to subcutaneous immunotherapy (SCIT) using 54 injections over 3 years. - Trial with immunodulatory product / biological
Hypotheses: 1. The addition of tumour bed boost after BCS in women with non-low risk DCIS reduces the risk of local recurrence (invasive or intraductal recurrence in the ipsilateral breast). 2. The risk of local recurrence in the shorter fractionation arm is not worse than that for the standard fractionation arm. 3. A molecular signature predictive of invasive recurrence of DCIS will be detectable and the molecular signature may eventually have clinical utility for therapy individualization. Overall Objectives: 1. To improve the outcome of women with non-low risk DCIS treated with breast conserving therapy. 2. To individualize treatment selection for women with DCIS to achieve long term disease control with minimal toxicity.
Context: Oral formulations of GLP-1 and PYY3-36, two satiety peptides, were studied. An oral delivery system would be preferable in many of the possible therapeutic indications of these peptides. Objectives: Our objective was to establish the pharmacological profile of increasing oral doses of GLP-1 and PYY3-36 in healthy volunteers. In addition, the pharmacological effects of GLP-1 were investigated. Setting: Single center escalating dose study with oral applications. Subjects and Methods: In the first part, GLP-1 was given orally to 6 male subjects; the treatment consisted of one of the following oral doses of either GLP-1 (0.5, 1.0, 2.0 and 4.0 mg) or placebo. In the second part, PYY3-36 was given orally to another 6 healthy male subjects; the treatment consisted of one of the following oral doses of either PYY3-36 (0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0 and 4.0 mg) or placebo.
This survey has two aims. First, we would like to be informed about the health condition of our patients two years following heart surgery at University Hospital, Basel. Second, we are interested in determining whether a patient's long-term outcome can be predicted by the analysis of blood samples taken shortly after heart surgery.Troponin T, the blood parameter that we are interested in, is routinely assessed in the Intensive Care Unit. The purpose of this survey is to determine whether or not it is also possible to infer the long-term outcome from this blood parameter.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether chenodeoxycholic acid decreases de novo hepatic lipogenesis, hepatic fat content, hepatic triglyceride production and plasma triglyceride concentrations and improves hepatic glucose metabolism in patients with the metabolic syndrome, Familial Hypertriglyceridemia and Familial Combined Hyperlipidemia.
This study will investigate the efficacy and safety of incobotulinumtoxinA (Xeomin) in the treatment of arm tightness (upper limb spasticity) using two different dilutions of incobotulinumtoxinA (Xeomin).
First, to quantify, by means of comet assay analysis, systemic oxidative stress in patients with non-exudative and exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and compare results to healthy controls. Second, to quantify systemic oxidative stress in patients with exudative AMD prior to and after photodynamic (PDT) therapy.