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.
Chronic airway changes, such as smooth muscle hypertrophy/hyperplasia, reticular basement membrane (RBM) thickening, goblet cells hyperplasia characterize severe asthma. Chronic inflammation, and especially eosinophilia and T2 cytokines are involved in these structural changes. The aim of this prospective observational study is to assess airway changes, assessed by bronchial biopsies before treatment, then after 6 months and 12 months, induced by mepolizumab in 40 severe asthma patients who will receive the treatment as part of their standard care. Changes in RBM thickening, in airway smooth muscle (ASM) area, in the number of PGP9 sections will be assessed on bronchial biopsies after 6 months and 12 months of mepolizumab treatment. Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) levels of inflammatory and remodeling mediators and of extra-cellular matrix (ECM) components will be measured after 6 months and 12 months of mepolizumab treatment. Relationship between clinical response to mepolizumab and remodeling changes after 6 months and 12 months will be assessed.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate guselkumab efficacy versus placebo in participants with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and an inadequate response to Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha (TNF-alpha) therapy by assessing the reduction in signs and symptoms of joint disease.
Prevalence of alexithymia in multiple sclerosis (MS) is closed to 50% but is unknown in clinically isolated syndrome (CIS).The present study sought to characterize alexithymia in CIS patients and his link between psycho behavioral and cognitive disturbances. In this context, the objectives of the present study were to (a ) define the prevalence of alexithymia in CIS patients, (b ) to study this relation between psycho behavioral and cognitive disorders frequently encountered in MS.
In France, according to current legislation, termination of pregnancy could be performed without any upper gestational age limit, if there is a strong probability that the fetus will be affected by a particularly severe and incurable disease. When there is a lethal fetal diagnosis most of parents wish to terminate their pregnancy. However, and despite some medical resistance a few of them do wish to continue pregnancy. In these situations, palliative care seems to be a good way to prepare to welcome the child and surround him until death. The aim of the study is to describe parents' experience for a better understanding and a better care.
Lower extremity peripheral arterial disease (LEPAD) is a highly prevalent chronic disease. Cardiovascular mortality of LEPAD patients at five years ranges between 18 to 30%. LEPAD is primarily caused by atherosclerosis that induces an inadequate blood flow to meet the tissues demand due to the narrowing of the arteries. An aggravation of the arterial lesions in LEPAD patients induces a worsening of patients' symptoms and a severe limitation of their walking capacity, contributing to an impairment of their quality of life. Interventions designed to improve walking impairment may have a significant impact on the functional capacity in LEPAD patients. Lower extremity electrical stimulation is an older technique that relies on different types of electrical stimulations with different expected physiological effects on hemodynamics, skeletal muscle functions or pain pathway. The aim of the ELECTRO-PAD study is to assess the effect of a 12 weeks program of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) on the absolute walking distance (AWD) measured during a treadmill test in peripheral artery disease patients.
Study D9108C00002 (NeoCOAST) is a platform study assessing the effectiveness and safety of neoadjuvant durvalumab alone or in combination with novel agents in participants with resectable, early-stage (Stage I [>2cm] to IIIA) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in Europe. Therefore, breast cancer has become a chronic disease and patients need to learn to live with it as well as with the adverse effects related to the disease itself or to the therapies used. As noted in the third "Plan cancer", pain is a major criterion in the quality of life of patients treated for breast cancer. Neuropathic pain was defined in 2011 by the international Association for the Study of Pain (I.A.S.P.) as the direct result of a lesion or disease affecting the somato-sensory system. Surgical treatment is often the first treatment of breast cancer. It can be conservative by performing a partial mastectomy (lumpectomy or quadrantectomy) or non-preservative by total mastectomy. Intercostobrachial neuralgia (NICB) or Post mastectomy painful Syndrome (MPRR) was first described by Wood in 1978 as "chronic pain beginning immediately or early after a mastectomy" Or a lumpectomy affecting the anterior thorax, armpit and/or arm in its upper half. These post-surgical pains are related to a lesion of the nerves in the breast area. In particular, the intercostobrachial nerve can be severed, stretched or crushed during surgery. Post-operative neuropathic pain in patients with breast cancer is underdiagnosed either by general practitioner or in a specialized environment. The diagnosis of neuropathic pain is performed during examination and clinical examination. Several scales allow to detect neuropathic pain but only the DN4 is recognized to be the most specific and sensitive scale. Patients do not always express this pain. They do not always reconcile with the surgery. Either because the pain occurs a long time after the surgery, or they find it normal to get hurt. These diagnostic difficulties cause a delay in setting up a suitable analgesic treatment. However, neuropathic pain responds poorly to common analgesics. Diagnosis, evaluation and early management of neuropathic pain are a priority in order to avoid their chronicization, to improve the quality of life of patients with breast cancer and to enable them to return to work quickly. We therefore assume that the diagnosis of early neuropathic pain at 2 months of surgery associated with initiation of appropriate topical treatment without the systemic effects of conventional oral treatments, would reduce the incidence of Chronic neuropathic pain 6 months after surgery.
the aim of this study is to show that training session with nintendo WII requires the same cardiorespiratory demand than training session on ergocycle or treadmill, traditionally used in pulmonary rehabilitation program.
The aim of this study is to measure the impact of pulmonary rehabilitation program on fear of falling in COPD patients
A phase 1 study evaluating the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and efficacy of prostate specific membrane antigen half-life extended bispecific T-cell engager acapatamab in subjects with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, and to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) or recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D).