There are about 36633 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in France. 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.
Intestinal obstruction is a frequent cause of emergency room visits and represents about 4-7% of the causes of acute abdominal pain syndrome and up to 30% in adults over 60 years old. Although 65 to 80% of patients are treated medically, small bowel obstruction remains a serious pathology, with a high mortality rate that can reach 25% in case of small bowel ischemia. It is necessary to systematically perform a CT scan in the initial workup of small bowel obstructions to confirm the diagnosis, identify the mechanism and detect signs of ischemia that would require emergency surgery. The best sign for the diagnosis of ischemia is the defect or asymmetry of parietal enhancement of the dilated small bowel. In the literature, this sign is described almost exclusively at portal time. In case of suspicion of mesenteric ischemia (another serious pathology affecting the small bowel), it is recommended to perform an examination with three acquisitions (without injection, arterial time, and portal time). The department's experience has shown that arterial time is sometimes more sensitive than portal time for visualizing a parietal enhancement defect of the small bowel in mechanical occlusions. Very few studies have investigated the diagnostic performance of parietal enhancement asymmetry on arterial time in mechanical occlusions of the small bowel.
The aim of the study is to show that auriculotherapy is effective in smoking cessation.
Some patients with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) progress to neurocognitive disorders (NCD), whereas others remain stable; however, the neuropsychological determinants of this progression have not been identified. The investigators objective was to examine baseline neuropsychological indicators that could discriminate between people in whom the SCD progressed to a mild or major NCD and people in whom the SCD remained stable. The investigators retrospectively included patients consulting for SCD at a university medical center's memory center (Amiens, France) and who had undergone three or more neuropsychological assessments at least 6 months apart. The relationship between domain-specific scores and the global cognitive score (GCS, as a function of final status (stable SCD vs. progression toward a mild or major NCD)) was examined using a generalized linear mixed model.
Pressurised intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy is a new surgical technique, developed for the treatment of initially unresectable peritoneal carcinomatosis. The objective of this study was to compare the results of PIPAC associated with systemic chemotherapy with those of systemic chemotherapy alone in patients with gastric peritoneal carcinomatosis without metastasis other than peritoneal, and WHO performance status <3.
Recently, the respiratory microbiota characterisation of a Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patients' cohort has highlighted the potential role of anaerobes, and specially species belonging to the genus Porphyromonas, in the first P. aeruginosa colonization. The aim of this project is to describe the bacterial anaerobic population in the respiratory microbiota of a CF cohort. At the end of this study, an inventory of the anaerobic microbiota in CF respiratory samples will be establish in relation to the patients' pulmonary function and P. aeruginosa colonization status in order to speculate about the pulmonary anaerobes roles, still unknown. The innovative aspect of the ANA-MUCO study is the use of a specific sample kit designed for the study which allows preserving anaerobic bacteria in sputum according to the recommendations of the International Human Microbiome Standards (IHMS). Extended-culture and molecular approaches will be performed to identify and describe the anaerobic bacteria which could be involved in the pulmonary homeostasis in CF respiratory samples.
CERTIM is a cohort created in July 2015 to set up a multidisciplinary follow-up of cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. From the CERTIM cohort, we conducted a longitudinal, prospective, observational study (ELY) in two tertiary university centers (Cochin hospital and European Georges Pompidou Hospital), which included patients between August 2016 and October 2019 and ended follow-up in April 2020. Patients were treated with nivolumab, at a dose of 3 mg/kg every 2 weeks, or pembrolizumab, at a dose of 2mg/kg every 3 weeks. The investigators report findings from an evaluation of rest energy expenditure (REE) assessed using indirect calorimetry in the outpatient setting before treatment with checkpoints inhibitors.
The purpose of the study is to assess the optimal fraction of inspired oxygen (0.5 or 1) for extubation or removal of a supraglottic airway device after general anesthesia.
Patient suffering from phenylketonuria have chronic hyperphenylalaninemia. Hyperphenylalaninemia is known to be toxic to central nervous system and cardiovascular system in particular through oxydative stress. In this context, research of low grade systemic inflammation through cytokine assay appears legitimate. The primary outcome of this study is to describe inflammation profile of patients with phenylketonuria.
Diffuse interstitial lung disease brings together a heterogeneous group of pulmonary pathologies, characterized by infiltrating and diffuse lesions of the pulmonary interstitium. The evolving risk of these ILD is pulmonary fibrosis, with the development of chronic respiratory failure. The process of the etiological diagnosis of ILD results from a multidisciplinary approach (pulmonologists, radiologists, occupational health specialists, anatomo-pathologists, etc…). Indeed, the multitude of possible causes of these diseases makes the etiological diagnosis difficult. Professional aetiologies are also frequently mentioned : pneumoconiosis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, as a differential diagnosis. It therefore appears essential to deepen the professional aspect during the diagnostic process for ILD. Since May 2020, a professional interview has been systematically offered by the Occupational Pathology Consultation Center of the Hospital Center Lyon Sud, to patients followed by the team of Professor Vincent COTTIN, whose file was discussed in a multidisciplinary meeting. The data collected to constitute a database are the following variables: age, sex, diploma, professional course coded in CITP (International Standard Classification of Professions) and NAF (French Nomenclature of Activities), occupational exposures, smoking, risk factors non-professionals, clinical elements of ILD and elements relating to an occupational disease certificate. This database is anonymized.
Acute heart failure current management turns out to be a relative failure considering its elevated economical and human costs and the poor results obtained in terms of disease outcome. Indeed this disease remains associated with a high rate of early re-hospitalizations and low adherence to therapeutic recommended settings and doses. Moreover, extra cardiological follow-up such as in social, geriatric or vaccination fields remain low compared to real needs. Current recommendations incite health professionals to better define care pathways and to rationalize resources. Guidelines toward creation of hospitalization alternatives or limitation of time spent in hospital are given. In the same time, lack of cardiologic care management within heart failure patient care pathway is associated to poor prognosis and medical desertification as well as resource concentration on important health centers exacerbate this phenomenon. Innovative projects are then needed to improve patient care pathways, to open up areas without specialized health professionals and to rationalize care management by encouraging communication and skill exchange between hospitals and private practices. FIL-EAS ic projet aims to compare a conventional care pathway in hospital with a follow up defined according to High Authority of Health recommendations to an organized care pathway favoring a short hospitalization (maximum of 4 working days) with early transition, when possible, to a medical and paramedical home care management with an approximately 10 day long combined follow up between hospital and private practices. This second care pathway should help to optimize therapeutics in home living conditions.