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.
Patients are painful after total hip arthroplasty. These patients have significant co-morbidities. Analgesics cause significant side effects in this population. Locoregional analgesia is therefore an effective means of reducing the consumption of opioids in this surgery. The "gold standard" of locoregional analgesia after Total Hip Arthroplasty is the femoral block. However, a new technique has recently been described: the Quadratus Lumborum Block. The comparison of these two techniques is lacking in the literature. The comparison of the Quadratus Lumborum Block to the femoral block in Total Hip arthroplasty is important in the analgesic strategy of patients undergoing this surgery.
This is an open-label, multicenter, randomized, Phase 3 study in patients with ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas who have failed only one prior line of systemic anti-cancer therapy for advanced pancreatic cancer and have measurable disease.
Supraventricular arrhythmias (including atrial fibrillation) are the most common arrhythmias of the veteran athlete and have a major impact in terms of morbidity and mortality. Although moderate sports practice has been shown to decrease the occurrence of these arrhythmias, it has also been shown that very intense athletic activity is associated with an increased risk of developing atrial fibrillation. The pathophysiological mechanism is not clearly understood. However, it has already been shown that intensive sports practice leads to electrical and morphological atrial remodeling, which could be the cause of the occurrence of supraventricular arrhythmias for these athletes. For sedentary patients, two major tools predict the risk of the onset of supraventricular arrhythmia: the electrocardiogram (ECG) and transthoracic echocardiography (ETT), particularly with the study of atrial function by the analysis of myocardial deformities.
This study focuses on reduction of X-rays dose applied to eye's lens during cranial CT in children. Principal objective is to analyse the efficiency of ocular bismuth masks, which are associated with an eye's lens dose modulation
Introduction and background : Glomerulonephritis and auto-immune diseases are often associated. Lupus nephritis (LN) is one of the major clinical manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) which have a severe impact on prognosis. This complication is a real challenge for clinicians because of insidious-onset and no predictable relapses. Biomarker use is therefore essential, but conventional biomarkers such as proteinuria have poor sensivity and low specificity to predict LN occurrence, and new more reliable biomarkers (genetic, epigenetic or protein biomarkers) are difficult to use for daily medical practice. Anti-glomerular membrane basement disease (anti-GBM disease) is a rare (0.5 to 1/millions of inhabitants) and severe illness, characterised by rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis, pulmonary haemorrhage and the presence of anti-GBM antibodies, which are highly sensible (100%) and specific (92-100%) of this condition . Our experience and literature review In our department of internal medicine, we report one case of anti-GBM glomerulonephritis associated to an active SLE. After literature review, we note the following studies: - some similar association cases had been reported. - In 2006, a Chinese cohort study highlighted important rates of anti-GBM antibodies, in serum samples from patients with SLE (14 positives/157patients (8.9%) using ELISA method). Moreover, every SLE patient with positive circulating anti-GMB antibodies LN and a severer SLE (with significantly more anemias, pulmonary hemorrhage). According to histological data's, they also had more important kidney damages (10/14 had necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis lesions and 5/14 fulfil criteria's for anti-GBM disease diagnosis). - We also note that some authors published experimental studies showing that immunological and genetic links exist between LN and anti-GBM disease, which could explain this association. 3. Main Hypothesis: Based on these findings, we suspect that detection of significant levels of circulating anti-GBM antibodies may be more frequent in SLE followed patients than in general population, and that it could be an interesting biomarker of LN in patient with SLE. 4. Objectives First objective: based on 2 SLE patient groups (one having lupus nephritis and the other without it) we would like to compare the ratio of positive anti-GBM antibodies in each group, expecting a higher rate in SLE patients with LN. Second objective: will be to study the positive anti-GBM group patients in their clinical aspects, serological features and renal characteristics, in this SLE population. 5. Materials and methods We suggest a retrospective analytic transversal controlled study, based on serum samples from the Lupus Biobank of Upper Rhine (LBBR project), and based on serum samples from healthy voluntary blood donors (control group). We will then perform tests in each serum sample group in our immunology laboratory and compare the ratio of positive anti-GBM in each arm.
This project aims to identify common pharmacogenetic biomarkers predisposing children with cancer to develop hepatic VOD during their cancer treatment including HSCT. The impact of VOD occurrence and significant biomarkers will also be evaluated on outcome at day 100 and one year after HSCT. It should help to highlight factors that can contribute to the initiation of hepatic VOD. Understanding mechanisms of this toxicity and to know individual parameters of disease susceptibility becomes an important issue in the care of these children. The ultimate goal of research in this area would be to develop a personalized predictive medicine and, hopefully, prevent the occurrence of VOD from a therapeutic adaptation to each patient according to his pharmacogenetic profile (adapted prophylaxis, dose adjustment, drug combinations ...). A prospective identification of patients at risk of hepatic VOD will increase the safe use of anticancer.
In the rituximab era, one-third of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients experience relapse/refractory disease after first-line anthracycline-based immunochemotherapy (IChemo). Optimal management remains an unmet medical need. The aim of this study was to report the outcomes of a cohort of refractory patients according to their patterns of refractoriness and the type of salvage option. The investigators performed a retrospective analysis, which included 104 DLBCL patients treated at Lyon Sud University Hospital (2002-2017) who presented with refractory disease. The investigators retrospectively evaluated the outcomes of a cohort of 104 refractory patients according to their patterns of refractoriness and the type of salvage option.
Anti-PD-1 therapy provides high response rates in Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) patients who have relapsed or are refractory (R/R) to autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) and brentuximab vedotin (BV), but median progression free survival (PFS) is only one year. The efficacy of treatment following anti-PD-1 is not well known. In this context, the optimal treatment for patients who failed after anti-PD-1 therapy is an issue. To better assess their outcome, the investigators retrospectively analyzed the characteristics and outcome of patients from 14 LYSA (The Lymphoma Study Association) centers who lost response to anti-PD-1 therapy and received additional CT.
Bladder cancer is the 5th most common cancer in Europe, with more than 151,000 new cases diagnosed in 2012 (4% of the total). Bladder cancer has the highest recurrence rate of any malignancy, often as high as 70% within 5 years of successful treatment. This high recurrence rate requires diligent and accurate monitoring as a means for early diagnosis and treatment. Considering the burden associated to repeated invasive cystoscopies, there is a need for robust but accurate tests for surveillance. In that prospect, urinary molecular tests have been developed although none were deemed adequate in the European clinical guidelines to replace cystoscopies. The Xpert Bladder Cancer Monitor Assay is a qualitative in vitro diagnostic test designed to monitor for the recurrence of bladder cancer in patients previously diagnosed with this cancer. The test provides a fast and accurate result, is non-invasive and easy to perform. The aim of this study is to assess the non-inferiority of the Xpert Bladder Cancer Monitor assay in detecting recurrences in comparison to cystoscopy in the follow-up of patients with low or intermediate risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC).
There are no studies on practitioner-related factors influencing decision-making in the field of carcinology of aerodigestive carcinomas. The objective of the study is to determine what are the anthropo-sociological factors in the surgeon, the oncologists and radiotherapists influencing decision making in ear, nose, and throat carcinology. Special attention will be paid to the practitioner's gender, age, geographical origin, place and institution of training, place of practice, volume of patients treated, access to or without reconstruction by microsurgery, his tendency or aversion to risk taking. - Main objectives : To determine the individual professional and non-professional characteristics influencing physicians' decision-making in oncology of aerodigestive carcinomas between choices: 1. Surgery 2. Radio and / or chemotherapy 3. Support care 4. Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy and reassessment - Secondary objectives : Identify if certain patient profiles may lead to heterogeneous treatment decisions i.e. Human Papillomavirus status, age, comorbidities, autonomy, etc.