There are about 25560 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Germany. 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.
The aim of the study is to investigate pressure lowering effect of two surgical methods canaloplasty and trabeculectomy in patients with open angle glaucoma, in which under local pressure lowering therapy the progression of the disease could not be stopped, and thus a pressure lowering surgical intervention is necessary. The risks in the postoperative course in Canaloplasty in the literature as lower than for the trabeculectomy with mitomycin-C. Conversely, large glaucoma centers questioning the effectiveness of permanent pressure lowering of canaloplasty. Precisely this question is investigated in the study.
Efficacy - To assess efficacy of etanercept versus sulfasalazine when added to NSAIDs in patients with moderate to severe active early axial spondyloarthritis duration of ongoing axial symptoms of less than 5 years. Primary outcome is change of active inflammatory lesions in sacroiliac joints and spine as detected by MRI at 12 months. Secondary outcome parameters are clinical and laboratory efficacy parameters and MRI changes at 6 months and 2 years. Comparisons will be made within the two treatment arms and compared to baseline. At the 1 year extension phase comparisons will be also made between year 1 and year 2. At the end of the extended study a pelvic x-ray is planned.
Medication-related non-adherence increases the risk of rejections and associated graft loss after solid organ transplantation. A randomized controlled intervention will use adherence enhancing strategies out of a larger sample of 300 heart transplant recipients. Non-Adherence will be assessed by patients' self-report and based on immunosuppression level. All non-adherent patients will be randomly designed to either intervention or control group. Multi-module interventions include patient education, electronic medication event monitoring, and a combined behavior and symptom management. Longitudinal follow-up is envisioned after initial intervention.
60 patients with chronic major depressive disorder according to DSM-IV will be included into the study. Patients will be randomized to receive an open treatment either with CBASP, a psychotherapy for chronic depression, or pharmacological treatment with Escitalopram for 28 weeks.
The device is a dynamic annuloplasty ring/band that is able to be adjusted in order to correct for mitral regurgitation intraoperatively or postoperatively, off-pump.
Due to the potential for pregnancy-induced changes in the pharmacokinetics of medication, one cannot assume that the currently licensed doses of the medication to be tested under this protocol lead to adequate exposure in an HIV-infected pregnant woman. For the agents under study no or limited pharmacokinetic data during pregnancy are available. As the changes in pharmacokinetics during pregnancy are most prominent in the third trimester a pharmacokinetic curve will be recorded in the third trimester after attaining steady state.
The study aims to identify if intensive language training, consisting mainly of computer-based object naming, together with electrical brain stimulation, will lead to an improvement of language functions in patients that suffer from language disturbances after a stroke.
24 hour Holter monitoring (24HM) is commonly used to assess cardiac rhythm after surgical therapy of atrial fibrillation. This "snapshot" rhythm documentation leaves a large diagnostic window of non recorded atrial arrhythmias and as such a large amount of uncertainty in follow-up result assessment. To improve accuracy of rhythm surveillance thus gaining a more "real-life" scenario of post surgical ablation therapy cardiac rhythm a new insertable cardiac rhythm monitor device (Reveal® XT 9525, Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA) with full observational continuous heart rhythm documentation is implanted. In order to verify different follow-up strategies after surgical atrial fibrillation therapy, a comparison of different follow-up scenarios (symptoms, different cardiac documentation devices i.e. ECG and 24 hour Holter monitor, at different follow-up time points) is performed intraindividually. Thus the reliability of these devices and follow-up strategies to define success after ablation therapy is evaluated.
Primary: To compare the analgesic effect over 12 weeks of topical 2PX in stump pain. Secondary: To prospectively measure other efficacy and safety variables of topical 2PX in stump pain. Exploratory analyses will be performed to measure efficacy and safety variables of topical 2PX in phantom pain
Aim of the study is to detect the prevalence of chronic rhinosinusitis, pathogen colonization of the lower and upper airways and, in a sub-cohort the sense of smelling in patients with cystic fibrosis.