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.
This is a pilot, single-center, prospective, open-label clinical investigation of a medical device (ambulatory gamma camera " MoTI " (Mobile Therapy Imager)) for patients with hyperthyroidism (Graves' disease, toxic nodule and toxic multiheteronodular goiter) for whom 131I treatment is indicated. Its aim is to assess the feasibility of using this ambulatory gamma camera (MoTI) in the clinic in this patient population. The camera will be used to measure the 131I uptake/fixation rates during the thyroid scintigraphy. 20 patients will be included in the study.
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a rare disease affecting one out of 4,500 newborns in France (INSERM 2021). Despite major advances in patient care over the past two decades, with significant improvements in life expectancy, cystic fibrosis remains a pathology that considerably impairs quality of life. Several studies have reported the possibility of respiratory and non-respiratory sleep disorders (SD) in patients with CF. Respiratory disorders are reported to affect 30% of children with CF (Barbosa 2020). Among non-respiratory SD, sleep onset and maintenance insomnia are well known in these patients, while chronotype abnormalities (circadian rhythm disorders) are understudied. Chronotype refers to a person's tendency to be more efficient in the morning or evening. The existence of chronotype abnormalities has been suggested in CF patients, but no precise data are available (Louis 2022). The involvement of CFTR (Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator) protein dysfunction in the central nervous system (CNS) has been hypothesized as a contributory factor. In vivo, in a mouse model of CF, dysregulation of clock genes such as Clock, Cry2 and Per2 was found in the CNS (Barbato 2019). Among them, certain genes such as Rev-erbĪ± could regulate endobronchial inflammation and contribute to the severity of respiratory pathology. All in all, chronotype abnormalities could be at the origin of sleep debt, impaired cognitive functions or metabolic disturbances. In the era of highly effective modulator therapy (HEMT) for the treatment of CF, the impact of these new therapies on chronotype has been understudied. Assuming that chronotype abnormalities are a direct consequence of CFTR protein dysfunction in the retina and anterior hypothalamus, HEMT should improve sleep quality. However, between 20% and 30% of adult and pediatric patients express an increase in chronotype abnormalities following initiation of treatment. Paradoxically, the perceived gain in respiratory quality of life is counterbalanced by the occurrence of these disorders. Some patients would effectively reverse their treatment in order to limit the phenomenon. A single polysomnographic study evaluated the effect of HEMT Kaftrio-Kalydeco on sleep in adults with CF (Welsner 2022). After 3 months of treatment, patients had a significant reduction in respiratory events, with no change in total sleep time, sleep efficiency or sleep architecture. Chronotype was not mentioned. Currently, no studies on chronotype in children or adults with CF have been carried out. Our hypothesis is that CF patients treated with HEMT would develop an abnormal chronotype of late sleep onset. The aim of this study is to evaluate the chronotype of children with CF treated with HEMT. Chronotype abnormalities could have major consequences for quality of life, the immune system, cognitive functions and metabolism. Systematic detection of these disorders via anamnesis, followed by diagnosis by questionnaire, actimetrics and/or urinary melatonin dosage, would enable their early management, starting with the reversal of Kaftrio-Kalydeco intake between morning and evening.
This Phase 2, randomized, double-blind, multicenter, induction and maintenance study is designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of RVT-3101 in adult participants with moderate to severe active Crohn's disease.
Given the challenges of treating complex cases of VAP caused by P. aeruginosa and K. pneumoniae, TechnoPhage developed a bacteriophage cocktail (TP-122) against those pathogens, aiming to provide a hospital-based add-on therapy to the SoC including antibiotic therapy, administered by nebulization. TP-122 is a bacteriophage cocktail divided in two different components: TP-122A is comprised of three bacteriophages against infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and TP-122B includes three bacteriophages against K. pneumoniae . For this study, an effective sample of 15 subjects will be randomly allocated into two arms, in a 3:2 ratio, with 9 subjects receiving TP-122A, in addition to SoC, and 6 subjects receiving the SoC alone.
This study intends to assess safety, tolerability, and efficacy of SENS-501 in children between the ages of 6-31 months with pre-lingual hearing loss due to a mutation in the Otoferlin gene.
Adoptive immunotherapy using CAR-T cells is now one of the Advanced Therapy Medicines routinely used for relapsed or refractory lymphoid hemopathies. In 2023, in France, 5 types of CAR-T cells have marketing authorization for 6 different indications. However, these marketing authorizations are based on clinical trials involving a limited number of selected patients. Real-life data are essential for assessing the post-authorization use of these innovative treatments. The French national DESCAR-T registry, promoted by LYSARC and in which Toulouse University Hospital plays an active role, is an international reference for this real-life evaluation. It does not, however, allow precise evaluation of patient-centered indicators and care pathways. With the increasing number of indications and candidate patients, Toulouse University Hospital, the only healthcare facility authorized in the Western Occitanie region to administer CAR-T cells, is faced with growing hospital needs and longer treatment times. In 2023, this has necessitated the implementation of new ambulatory and inter-facility care pathways in collaboration with the referral centers of the Onco-Occitanie Ouest regional cancer network. The selection of patients for CAR-T cell treatment is based on objective clinical criteria linked to the pathology (histology, morphological localization, size and kinetics of the tumor mass) and the patient (physiological age, performance index, comorbidities, patient choice). Because of their innovative nature, in a difficult psychological and physical context for the patient (refractory disease), CAR-T cell care pathways also need to be evaluated in terms of their "quality of life" dimension. The impact of non-biological determinants (also described as social and territorial inequalities in health) such as place of residence and distance from healthcare provision, marital, economic and social status, has never been explored on the accessibility and progress of the CAR-T cell treatment pathway. The creation of a registry of patients eligible for CAR-T cells at Toulouse University Hospital will enable these lines of research to be explored on the scale of a region with a population of 3 million.
In patients requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT) in the intensive care unit (ICU), continuous techniques are predominantly using due to better hemodynamic tolerance. The most employed techniques in ICU are continuous venovenous hemodiafiltration (CVVHDF) and continuous venovenous hemodialysis (CVVHD). To our knowledge, there are no prospective studies comparing the efficiency of these two techniques with the same dose of dialysis (and the same filter). In the CompEER study, we aim to compare the efficiency of CVVHD and CVVHDF on urea reduction rate in intensive care patients with acute kidney injury. The research hypothesis is that CVVHD citrate technique is as effective as CVVHDF heparin technique for urea reduction and provides prolonged and stable clearance, facilitating antibiotic management during RRT.
Mupirocin is an old antibiotic used topically since the 1970s. Initially used in the treatment of skin infections for its antistaphylococcal action, it is now part of the decolonization strategy for Staphylococcus aureus (SA) carriage, in association with chlorhexidine. This decolonization strategy has been recommended in France for preoperative cardiac surgery in nasal SA carriers since 2013 by the French Hospital Hygiene Society, and recommended for cardiac and orthopedic surgery in SA carriers by the World Health Organization (WHO) since 2016. This strategy includes nasal decolonization using mupirocin ointment nasally (2 to 3 applications/day), a daily shower with chlorhexidine soap and + /- mouthwashes all over 5 days, often pre-operatively. As a result, mupirocin is now widely used throughout the world, all the more so as, for reasons of ease of organization, many centers use this decolonization procedure universally (i.e. without prior screening for Staphylococcus aureus carriage), thus further increasing the use of this molecule. Mupirocin administration methods are very vague, ranging from 2 to 3 applications per day and the application of "a match head", i.e. 50 mg, to 500 mg per nostril. Mupirocin is bacteriostatic at low doses, becoming bactericidal at higher concentrations; low concentrations could favor the selection of resistance, so using the most effective dosage seems essential. This lack of precision in administration is linked to an almost complete ignorance of the pharmacokinetics of mupirocin and its metabolite (monic acid) after nasal application. It therefore seems essential to conduct a pharmacokinetic study of this molecule, in order to eventually offer patients the regimen with the administration methods offering the best characteristics in terms of dosage and efficacy.
Chronic airways infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) is associated with increased frequency of exacerbations, deterioration in quality of life and increased mortality in adult patients with bronchiectasis. Current guidelines suggest the prescription of an eradication antibiotic treatment for a first episode of PA infection (early PA infection). Several antibiotic regimens may be proposed, ranging from a monotherapy with oral fluoroquinolone (FQ) to an intravenous cotherapy with the addition of inhaled antibiotics that seems to improve the rate of PA eradication. As no study strictly favoured one regimen, current practices are heterogeneous and could certainly benefit from stronger evidence, with both medical and economic impact.
French multicentric retrospective cohort study including patients who underwent an ano-perineal trauma following a personal watercraft/jet-ski accident and that were treated in France from January 2017 to December 2023. Aims of the study were to describe the initial management of the patients and to evaluate the digestive, urological and sexual functional outcomes as well as the quality of life, using validated questionnaires commonly employed in clinical practice.