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.
Empirical antifungal treatment is the gold standard for patients who are neutropenic and have persistent fever under broad-spectrum antibiotics. The rational is that fungal infections are difficult to early diagnose, and are life-threatening. Historical trials have shown a small benefit of survival when this strategy is used. According to the drug usde for this strategy, safety and costs may be concerns. However, since this routine practice has been implemented in hematology, new non-invasive biological diagnostic methods are available to early diagnose fungal infections, such as galactomannan antigenemia for aspergillosis. The goal of our study is to show that limiting the administration of antifungals in this setting to patients with clinical foci of infection, or to patients with a positive galactomannan antigenemia reduces the risk of toxicity of the antifungal drug, and has no impact on the overall mortality of patients treated with chemotherapy for hematologic malignancies.
Comparison of humidification devices during non invasive ventilation, in acute respiratory failure. The hypothesis was, due to dead space, lower humidification, a reduced efficiency of the technique (NIV) when HME are used in comparison with HH.
The hypothesis of this study was that transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) focused on hyperfunctional cerebral areas should be more effective in treating depressive symptoms than stimulations not taking into account the functional specificity of the patient. The goal was to compare the effects of "guided" TMS, using neuroimaging to guide TMS on dysfunctional cortical regions individually detected by neuroimaging, with "standard TMS", as used in most studies, over the left prefrontal cortex, and with sham TMS, in patients with resistant depression.
The purpose of this study is to determine if patients with malignant middle cerebral artery infarction have a better clinical outcome after early decompressive surgery compared to standard medical management.
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics has been a growing therapeutic problem since the late 1980s. Resistant strains of pathogenic bacteria can arise through initial selection of resistant strains in the commensal flora. The emergence of fluoroquinolone resistance in the commensal flora will be assessed in 48 healthy volunteers receiving variable doses of ciprofloxacin during 14 days. Emergence of resistance will be correlated to pharmacokinetic characteristics of ciprofloxacin.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether or not the addition of Herceptin may be of benefit to a standard regimen of carboplatin-paclitaxel.
This trial is conducted globally. The purpose of the trial is to evaluate that activated recombinant human factor VII (eptacog alfa (activated)) is safe and effective in severely injured trauma patients by assessing mortality and morbidity. Please note that this trial and trial F7TRAUMA-1648 (NCT00323570) have been merged.
Randomised study to compare the effect of r-Hu-EPO administration with transfusion of Red Blood cell concentrates and also with the administration of polyvitamins in anemic and tired patients presenting a bad prognostic in middle course.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the treatment of a cancerous disease of the peritoneum with complete cytoreductive surgery with intraperitoneal chemohyperthermia using oxaliplatin plus irinotecan. This is a Phase II study with 100 patients. Origins of the tumors: these include colon, rectum, appendix, peritoneum, and endocrine tumors.
This is a multicentric phase II study of Mabthera (rituximab) in children and adolescents with relapsed and refractory B-cell NHL/L3ALL. The primary objective is to determine the response rate of Rituximab as single agent in relapsed or refractory Burkitt lymphoma, L3 acute leukemia, large B-cell lymphoma and non subclassified aggressive B-cell NHL