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.
Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive disease caused by a mutation of exon 7, in 95% of cases, encoding the gene for the motor neuron survival protein called SMN1 (Survival Motor Neuron) located on chromosome 5q. Patients with an SMA-5q mutation suffer from progressive muscle deficiency and subsequent atrophy induced by degeneration of motor neurons in the spinal cord. Gene therapy is now available for the management of spinal muscular atrophy and nusinersen is the first approved treatment. Nusinersen has been granted marketing authorization in France since May 30, 2017. Nusinersen has a high level of medical service rendered (MSR) for types I, II, and III, but the improvement in medical service rendered (IMSR) is assessed as moderate for types I and II. For Type III, IMSR is not known.
The primary objective of the study aims to compare the immune profiles (circulating cytokines and lymphocytes) before and after (6 to 8 weeks) the first infusion of immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with melanoma treated in the adjuvant setting(cohort A) or in metastatic setting(cohort B); and to study the association of these immune profiles with relapse- or progression-free survival.
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the overall survival of participants treated with imetelstat compared to best available therapy with intermediate-2 or high-risk Myelofibrosis (MF) who are relapsed/refractory to Janus Kinase (JAK)-Inhibitor treatment.
Primary knee arthroplasty by total prosthesis is a painful surgery, performed on patients with advanced gonarthrosis (stage III), thus already presenting hyperalgesia and hyperalgesia and allodynia. This terrain makes the risk of postoperative hyperalgesia but also of persistent postoperative risk of persistent post-surgical pain. Nefopam is a non-opioid centrally acting analgesic drug used as a part of multimodal analgesia. The opioid-sparing effect of nefopam is still controversial across various surgical procedures. In France nefopam is only available as a parenteral formulation; however it is often administered orally. There is currently no study addressing the efficacy of oral nefopam for the postoperative pain management including pain prevention. The investigators conduct a prospective, double-blinded randomized controlled study with the main objective to examine the effect of perioperative orally administered nefopam on postoperative pain after a total knee arthroplasty. Secondary objectives include the quantification of wound allodynia, analysis of adverse events, clinical outcomes, and a pharmacokinetic study of orally given nefopam (plasma and cerebrospinal fluid dosage).
Bariatric surgery is increasingly practiced, as it is the most efficient treatment for morbid obesity. More than eighty percent of the operated patients are women. Nethertheless, few is known about gynecologic long-term impact of such surgeries, especially regarding pelvic floor disorders (PFD). This work aims at studying the evolution of PFD in women following a bariatric surgery more than 18 months ago in a French university center Hospital.
In France the prevalence of low back pain is 70 to 80 %. It's the leading cause of health expenditure in Europe and costs 900 million euros per year to health insurance in France. This is the second reason to consult a general practitioner. Acute low back pain is defined as low back pain lasts less than 6 weeks. It represents 60 to 70 % of low back pain but only 20% of the costs induced by low back pain in general. In fact, acute low back pain often heals spontaneously. Risk factors for acute low back pain and risk factors for chronic low back pain have been the subject of many publications. They remain very difficult to prevent in practice because of their multiplicity. Preventing acute low back pain is part of the prevention of chronic low back pain. Patient care management of low back pain is well codified and consensual in the various international recommendations. However, their application is sometimes very disparate and bad habits on both patients and professionals persist. Advices recommended in the case of low back pain are widely disseminated but their applications are little studied. In 2017, in France, health insurance started a "back pain" prevention campaign with the objective of raising awareness of good attitudes in the event of back pain. It made an initial assessment of the different knowledges concerning spinal pain in the general population but also in the medical population with the aim of improving them. It appears that number of patients would not consult physician in this case. The many proposals of care and the diversity of medical professionals, paramedics and other stakeholders, proposing to cure low back pain form as many different clinical pathways. Use of alternative or unconventional medicines is poorly assessed. In this context, it seems relevant to evaluate patient clinical pathways and patients' attitudes.
This study aims to evaluate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of molnupiravir (MK-4482) compared to placebo. The primary hypothesis is that molnupiravir is superior to placebo as assessed by the percentage of participants who are hospitalized and/or die through Day 29
This study aims to evaluate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of molnupiravir (MK-4482) compared to placebo. The primary hypothesis is that molnupiravir is superior to placebo as assessed by the rate of sustained recovery through Day 29.
The purpose of the study is to assess seroprevalence of COVID-19 infection in a cohort of HIV + patients and in a cohort of patients taking PrEP by emtricitabine / tenofovir.
In last decades, several advances in the neuro-intensive management have lead to decrease mortality in Intensive Care Units. A significant morbidity remains as patients survive after a traumatic coma with uncertain quality of awakening and a high risk of functional disability. Predicting awareness recovery and functional disability of those who will awake constitutes a major challenge to inform patients' relatives, to give the best chances in terms of rehabilitation resources or to adapt intensive cares to a reasonable level. Tools currently available are not sufficient neither to predict bad awakening outcome nor to predict good functional outcome. In many countries, life's support cessation is a constant call for robust evaluation as soon as possible in ICU but it is mandatory to reach a positive predictive value of non-awaking close to 100%. Many clinical, electro-physiological, biological, radiological and functional parameters have been conducted with comatose patients assuming the purpose to predict outcome. Regarding unfavourable outcome, the gold standard is the abolition of the N20 component of somatosensory evoked potentials but the specificity is high enough only for patients with anoxic coma. Several neurophysiological markers such as MMN, P300 are correlated to a favourable outcome but the sensitivity and specificity remains low for patients who suffered a severe traumatic brain injury. New Diffusion Tensor imaging sequences provide complementary information to detect small structural lesions (diffuse axonal lesions). Recently, functional MRI analyzing Resting State has also been proposed as a prognostic marker during coma. PET using Fluoro-Desoxy-Glucose is able to assess the metabolism in key regions of the awakening network in either anaesthesia or sleep. Recent studies have reported interesting results at the chronic stage but to our knowledge, these tools have only been used to address pathophysiology's issues and never to improve coma prognosis at the initial stage. We hypothesize that the heterogeneity of the population requires a global and accurate assessment of the central nervous system, combining structural, metabolic and functional information in order to refine the prognosis. Our protocol integrates in one-sequence most radiological markers of brain injury within a unique PET-MRI in Lyon. Our most relevant originality consists in confronting FDG-PET and MRI sequences to a large clinical, electrophysiological and biological battery. The added clinical value would be to question the synergistic effect of each parameter and to find out which ones are the most useful for awakening prediction, as they have not been compared in a multi-parametric database. PET-MRI, as a new device combining physiological and prognostic questioning, allows us: - to implement a more integrative physio-pathological analysis - to avoid the cofounding effect of awareness' fluctuations in recording simultaneously multiple functional imaging techniques. The RS will be analyzed at 2 epochs in order to assess the stability of brain connectivity, related to neuronal activity (glucose metabolism) and brain perfusion. The interest of imaging result will be compared across morphological and functional sequences and in comparison, to classical marker (clinical, electrophysiological and behavioural) to build the most precise prognostic tool for acute comatose patients in ICU or diagnostic/prognostic tool for chronic patients in rehabilitation unit.