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.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the long-term safety and clinical utility of IPX203 in the treatment of participants with advanced Parkinson's disease (PD) who have motor fluctuations.
The clinical study will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the ALLEVYN Gentle Border. The study is a post-market clinical follow-up to assess clinical performance and safety of ALLEVYN Gentle Border with new wound contact layer to support performance claims.
Melasma is a fairly common condition resulting in hyperpigmented macules on the face. Melasma is difficult to treat and has a significant negative impact on the patient's quality of life. Melasma is worsen when exposed to high energy visible light (blue and violet light) of the solar spectrum. Blue light emitted by LED screens from computers, tablets, televisions and even mobile phones is currently suspected (via media channels) to induce harmful effects on the skin, including pigmentation and photoaging. These screens, however, emit much lower irradiances than those of the solar spectrum, and the probability that these irradiances impact the skin is very low. The objective of the study is to assess the effect of blue light emitted by computer/television screens on the intensity of melasma pigmentation. To do this, it is proposed to use maximized conditions that could be encountered in normal daily life, namely a simulation of blue light exposure (420-490nm) at 20 cm from a laptop LED screen, 8 hours a day for 5 days. Since it is not proposed to expose a person for 8 hours a day, a solar simulator with appropriate filters will be used to emit a spectrum of between 420 and 490 nm with a compatible intensity for an acceptable duration of exposure (around 30 minutes a day). Twelve patients will be included in the study and exposed on a half-face from Day1 to Day5. The other half-face will serve as unexposed control. The effect of blue light on the melasma lesions will be assessed from Day 1 to Day 6 using chromametry and a modified MASI on standardized photographs. A final evaluation visit will be performed at Day 15.
The objective of this study is to identify the difficulties when first applying for a first Resource Allocation (Personal autonomy allowance - APA) by beneficiaries and their relatives through a qualitative study and secondarily identification of the role of the attending physician during this request.
The goal of this study is to take into account channel interaction in the cochlear implant (CI) fitting process. Designing a fast and accurate method of measurement would help to customize the fitting procedures to patients' specificities in order to maximize speech understanding in every day conditions especially in noise.
Non-pharmacological treatments for pain relief are more and more used in clinical care although any scientific validation. Among the non-pharmacological treatments of neuropathic pain relief, TENS (Electrical Nerve Stimulation Therapy) is the major treatment with the best benefit. Unfortunately, the use of TENS by patients appears very difficult. Because of this inconvenience, more than 40% of TENS users interrupt the treatment despite treatment benefit. A new TENS device: actiTENS that seems to be less constraining than TENS is now available in France. ActiTENS efficacy and safety compared to TENS need to be investigated. The main objective is to evaluate and to compare the use of actiTENS, with TENS Eco 2, the classical device in patients with chronic neuropathic pain.
This study evaluates the clinical benefit of a rapid test for fast diagnosis of bacteremia and fungemia from positive blood cultures in case of sepsis. This assay enables rapid identification of bacteria and fungi and allows to evaluate bacterial resistance to first line antibiotics. The clinical and medico-economic impact of this assay used in addition to the current diagnosis strategy (half of the patients) will be compared to the current diagnostic strategy alone (other half of the patient).
The study consists in collecting umbilical cord blood cells from newborns at risk of sickle cell disease, to perform laboratory experiments aiming to characterize the cells with HbS/HbS mutation, to develop methods to prepare, to gene-modify and to preserve these cells.
Postpartum urinary retention is an uncommon complication of the vaginal delivery. Failure to diagnose it may have a real impact both on the urinary plane but also on the psychological level. The hypothesis is that the identification of risk factors for the emergence of acute urinary retention would allow preventive management. The investigator conducted a retrospective, comparative, case-control study, including 2 groups of 96 patients who have had a vaginal delivery in the department between 2011 and 2015. The first group included patients with postpartum acute urinary retention (PAUR). The second group, control group, without PAUR, was selected randomly, respecting a 1:1 matching criteria, including the year of delivery and the age of the patient at delivery. The goal was to identify the potential risk factors of post-partum acute urinary retention in order to define a better prevention.
Extended arthrodesis of the spine is indicated in the treatment of deformities. The principle of the intervention is to correct the spinal imbalance and to obtain a fusion of the vertebral segment operated in order to guarantee the durability of this correction, in order to guarantee a functional result the best possible one. There is a great disparity in the techniques available to obtain this result: as regards the correction of the deformation itself, it is possible to resort to various types of gestures aimed at "freeing" the spine to allow the getting the correction. It may be staged or transpedicular osteotomies or previous releases (staged discectomies). Regarding the arthrodesis itself, this can be obtained by an isolated posterior graft or by a circumferential graft itself performed in a time using interbody cages PLIF type (posterior lumbar interbody fusion) or TLIF (transforaminal interbody fusion) or in two stages by a complementary anterior graft. These are heavy interventions with a high complication rate. The choice of this or that technique is based on data from the literature and remains at the discretion of the surgeon who makes the surgical indication. However, it has never been possible to compare these different techniques in a prospective study. The few articles comparing the different techniques tend to show that there is no significant difference between the techniques with a higher complication rate for the two-step techniques. However, these are retrospective studies, with all the biases that this implies and despite these results the disparity in surgical indications remains substantial. The objective of this work is therefore to evaluate, according to an identical protocol, the different surgical techniques for the treatment of spinal deformities associated with a fusion in order to determine the morbidity associated with each of the techniques and if this morbidity is justified by a better functional result at a minimum follow-up of two years.