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.
Lowering the level of uric acid in the serum under 6mg/dL on the long term is a key factor of gout management success. Monitoring of uricemia in gout patients is therefore important and is presently done in the laboratory on serum samples obtained after venous puncture. This study aims at assessing the reliability of immediate uricemia measurement in a blood sample obtained by a mere fingertip puncture, by the HumaSensplus system, which is commercially available in the EU. Results obtained by the Humasens device will be compared to those of the standard measurement technique in serum and with a reference technique (liquid chromatography and mass spectroscopy). If the device appears reliable, it will allow self-measurement of uric acid by the gouty patient, in a similar way as diabetic patients measure their glycaemia following a fingertip puncture. This should improve patient monitoring and management effects.
The treatment of advanced ovarian cancer is based on the combination of chemotherapy based on platinum salt and surgery whose quality is the major prognostic factor. A meta-analysis of retrospective series had shown that for every 10% increase in the complete cytoreduction rates were increased by 5.5% overall survival time (Markman et al, 2001). Currently, it is recognized that the best chance of survival conferred to patients whose initial surgical residue is zero (Harter et al, 2009). However, even if macroscopically complete surgery and whatever the type of systemic chemotherapy, peritoneal recurrence remains high for more than 75%. To reducing it of recurrence, a therapeutic approach is to administer chemotherapy intraperitoneally. The intraperitoneal chemotherapy consists to administer the drug directly into the peritoneal cavity. Alberts et al, 1996 and Armstrong et al, 2006 compared the efficacy in terms of survival of an intraperitoneal chemotherapy according to this method with a conventional systemic chemotherapy. Alberts reported a significant improvement in the median overall survival. Armstrong shows in addition a decreased risk of recurrence. It must be remembered that: - The establishment of an intra-abdominal catheter does not always ensure complete flow of drugs into the peritoneal cavity (major postoperative adhesions). - There may be problems of catheters becoming blocked and requiring local treatment; these problems can cause abdominal pain whose care is difficult. Thus almost half of patients fail to get all six courses of intraperitoneal chemotherapy. Thus, the investigators propose to estimate the flow of intraperitoneal chemotherapy with IP peritoneal scintigraphy, using a radiotracer (nanocis®). The investigators hypothesize that the movement of colloids in peritoneal cavity is similar to the circulation of chemotherapy within the peritoneal cavity (From Forni et al, 1993, Varia et al, 2003, Young et al, 2003, Dawson et al, 2011). The accumulation of radiotracer will be more correlated with abdominal pain sites described by the patient as well as peritoneal recurrence sites found during monitoring.
The main objective of this study is to compare the distribution of Florbetaben (NEURACEQ: FBB) in the brain in amyloid cerebral angiopathy (ACA) manifested by isolated hemosiderosis in non-demented patients with that observed in healthy subjects, patients with ACA and with lobar hematoma(s) and patients with Alzheimer's dementia without MRI signs in favor of ACA.
Since the development in the last few years of the bipolar energy in the surgery by hysteroscopy, the hysteroscopic treatment of the submucosal uterine myoma can be performed by use of either monopolar or bipolar current. It seems that the use of the bipolar energy decreases the rate of adhesions but prospective data on the adhesion rate and fertility after the use of bipolar energy during the surgery are poor, and there is currently no recommendation as to the choice of technique to use. The main purpose of this study is to compare the rate of uterine adhesions six weeks after the surgical hysteroscopic treatment of uterine submucosal myoma, by using monopolar or bipolar energy. The pregnancy and spontaneous miscarriage rate will also be evaluated.
When patient presents a lung node, there is an important risk that this node was a tumor. For patients who have these nodes, the surgery is the best treatment. When the surgery is possible, the thoracoscopy may be more advantageous compared to thoracothomy (decrease of post surgery pains, decrease of recovery time and decrease of drugs consumption). Nevertheless, thoracoscopy needs specific materiels and nécessite un équipement spécifique and trained physicians. Moreover, this technic needs that nodes was well localized. For this, radiologists use CT-guided hook wire localization of these lung nodes before surgery. TThe hook wire laying is delicate. It can lead secondaries effects as pneumothorax, dislodgement of the hook wire before and after surgery. The success rate of hook wire fixation in lung near of the node is primary. The main objective of our study is to assess the success rate localization of node in surgery piece, that is to verify if the hook wire have allowed to localize the lung node in surgery piece.
The main objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the administration of a short acting beta-blocker in terms of effective increase in stroke volume (at least 15%) after 4 hours initiation of therapy in septic shock in patients with a hyperkinetic profile after 12-24 hours of care. This research seeks to demonstrate that the proportion of patients with an increase in the systolic ejection superior or equal to 15% (relative to baseline) at four hours is different between the two arms of the study: (1) an experimental arm where patients receive an esmolol infusion according to a predetermined procedure and (2) a control arm where patients receive a saline infusion according to a predetermined procedure.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether 3-week of SPA therapy improves sleep apnea in patients with chronic venous insufficiency and concomitant Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS).
The purpose of the study is to determine if combination therapy with daclatasvir (DCV) and sofosbuvir (SOF) for 8 weeks is safe and effective in patients who have never been treated previously without liver cirrhosis who are chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV)/HIV-1 Coinfection genotype (GT) 1, 2, 3, 4 patients.
The purpose of this study is to determine if 8 weeks of Daclatasvir plus Sofosbuvir with or without Ribavirin is safe and effective in the treatment of genotype 3 hepatitis C infected patients without advanced fibrosis or liver cirrhosis who have never been treated previously.
This study will highlight differences in cortical activation between asymptomatic and symptomatic patients.