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.
Intraabdominal fungal infections with Candida are constantly increasing. Their diagnosis and treatment is difficult. Morbidity and mortality are high. Β-D-Glucan has been proposed as a marker of systemic fungal infection in candidemia. Moreover, its kinetics is associated with therapeutic success. On the other hand, there are no data on intraabdominal infections that are much more frequent. The objective of the study is to evaluate the initial levels of β-D-glucan and its daily kinetics during the treatment of fungal peritonitis in resuscitation compared to a control group with a yeast-free peritonitis.
The goal of this study is to evaluate the diagnostic agreement between, on the one hand, ultra-low dose CT and MRI with UTE pulse sequences, and on the other hand, standard CT scan, to quantify lung parenchyma patterns in thoracic sarcoidosis.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a hypervascular tumor. The reference treatment of advanced forms of stage C according to the Barcelona classification (BCLC C) is sorafenib, a multi-target tyrosine kinase inhibitor with predominant anti-angiogenic action. In order not to underestimate the efficacy of sorafenib, scannographic evaluation of the tumor response should be performed with mRECIST criteria that are significantly better correlated with survival. These criteria take into account the tumor size and also the modification of the tumor contrast enhancement after anti-angiogenic treatment. It seems appropriate to evaluate tumor control rather than tumor response since sorafenib is more stable than tumor response. This evaluation will be made according to the mRECIST criteria after 3 months of treatment since the progression-free survival is of the order of 3 to 4 months. The determination of early predictive criteria for the response to sorafenib would optimize the management of advanced HCCs. Indeed, sorafenib only improves overall survival by 3 months in selected patients, and with undesirable effects and a significant cost. Predictive biological criteria have already been studied, such as alpha foeto-protein (AFP), whose early decrease with sorafenib is associated with better overall survival. The same applies to the early reduction at 4-6 weeks of tumor arterial contrast according to mRECIST criteria. The perfusion scanner appears to be an accessible and reproducible choice imaging technique for assessing tumor vasculature. In metastatic kidney cancers, it was demonstrated that some criteria for tumor perfusion prior to treatment with sorafenib were predictive of better control of the disease and even a better tumor response according to the RECIST 1.1 criteria. The determination of pre-therapeutic tumor perfusion criteria in order to predict tumor control or even overall survival has never been studied in advanced CHCs. On the other hand, an early variation in the criteria for tumor perfusion under treatment would tend to be correlated with the tumor response and even with overall progression-free survival. Therefore, the study of tumor vascularization by the perfusion scanner could make it possible to demonstrate early predictive criteria for tumor control under sorafenib in order to optimize the management of patients with advanced HCC.
Ventilator-induced diaphragmatic dysfunction appears to contribute to slow weaning from mechanical ventilation. Several trials of inspiratory muscle training to facilitate weaning in intensive care have been performed, with inconsistent results, utilizing different methods of IMT in different populations. To perform the best IMT program, we need to know the physio-pathology of the diaphragm in difficult to wean patients. This study proposes to discriminate the two main characteristics of the inspiratory muscles: strength and endurance. By analyzing the evolution of strength and endurance during all the weaning period, we want to know which characteristic has the more deficiency to adapt in a second time an effective program of IMT.
The tolerance of immune checkpoint inhibitors is unknown in patients with pre-existing autoimmune conditions. This retrospective nation-wide study will assess their tolerance in patients with pre-existing autoimmune conditions who received immune checkpoint inhibitors for an advanced cancer in clinical practice.
The purpose of this study si to define morphological and epidemiological parameters and identify new symptoms in French patients with Seckel syndrome (SCKL) or microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II (MOPDII).
The investigators hypothesize that the administration of pembrolizumab combined to metronomic cyclophosphamide may be an interesting therapeutic option for female patients breast cancer with lymphopenia. Include only patients with breast cancer with lymphopenia is based on the particularly poor prognosis of these patients. The approach suggested here is to deplete and active the immune response of these immunosuppressed patients. The combination of pembrolizumab and cyclophosphamide would provide a higher gain in anti-tumor response in these patients than in those without lymphopenia and in chemotherapy alone. The investigators proposal is to conduct a multicentric, non-comparative, single arm, two-stage, Phase II trial in lymphopenic patients with metastatic breast cancer. The study is divided in 2 parts: - a safety run-in Phase aiming to evaluate the safety of the combination therapy pembrolizumab + metronomic cyclophosphamide based on the occurrence of severe toxicities. - a two-stage Phase II aiming to evaluate the clinical activity of the combination therapy pembrolizumab + metronomic cyclophosphamide. In both parts of the study, patients will receive cyclophosphamide (50 mg/day, daily, per os) and pembrolizumab (200 mg every 3 weeks, intravenously [IV]). The adverse events of the two drugs are well known.
Evaluation of the impact of initiation of protease inhibitor/ritonavir on PCSK9 levels in HIV-infected antiretroviral-naïve patients from the ANRS C09 COPANA cohort.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate itacitinib or placebo in combination with corticosteroids as first-line treatment of participants with Grade II to IV acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD).
This is a multicentre, ambispective (both retrospective and prospective), and non-interventional study conducted in France in adult participants with BRAF V600 mutation-positive unresectable or metastatic melanoma treated with cobimetinib in combination with vemurafenib (Zelboraf®).