There are about 36176 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.
Heart failure affects more than 1.5 million people in France, resulting in over 70,000 deaths and more than 165,000 hospitalizations each year. Viral and bacterial infections are frequently associated with episodes of acute heart failure in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). Lower respiratory tract infections, such as influenza and pneumococcus, are common causes of hospitalization for decompensated heart failure, leading to increased morbidity and mortality. Studies have shown that pneumococcal vaccination can reduce the risks of heart attack or stroke in patients with heart failure. However, despite vaccination recommendations, coverage rates remain low, especially for pneumococcus. In this study, we will evaluate the impact of an incentive letter for pneumococcal vaccination on one-year hospitalization rate in patients with heart failure.
Colorectal cancers (CRC) extending beyond the muscularis mucosae and invading the submucosa without extending beyond it are classified as pT1. Among these, a number of lesions presenting pejorative criteria, notably histopathological, have a significant risk of lymph node invasion, and are therefore candidates for partial colectomy with lymph node dissection. Tumors deemed to be at low risk of lymph node involvement can be treated by endoscopy alone. It should be noted that further surgical intervention is not without comorbid consequences, and that a significant proportion of post-surgical surgical specimens are free of cancerous lesions. The aim of this study is therefore to analyze the current histopathological criteria predictive of lymph node invasion, in order to more accurately select candidates for surgical management.
The goal of the multicentric and interdisciplinary IMAGene project is to pursue early diagnosis for Pancreatic Cancers in high-risk asymptomatic subject groups, by developing and validating a comprehensive cancer risk prediction algorithm (CRPA) as a clinical support tool to calculate a personalized risk profile. The study is a longitudinal, non-randomized exploratory clinical study. A total of 170 asymptomatic first-degree relatives of PC patients.
Vitamin D plays an important role in phosphocalcic metabolism and bone homeostasis in newborns. Premature newborns are at risk of vitamin D deficiency and may require supplementation. In this context, the French Society of Pediatrics (Société Française de Pédiatrie) recommends systematic vitamin D testing at 1 month. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of vitamin D deficiency in premature newborns.
The contamination rate for blood cultures is high in pediatrics, due to different sampling techniques and the difficulty of sampling small-weight children, thus favoring contamination of the devices at the time of sampling. It is also more difficult to distinguish contamination from true bacteremia in children at an early stage, notably due to the limited number of vials that can be taken at any one time. On a daily basis, clinicians are faced with the choice of whether or not to initiate probabilistic antibiotic therapy when faced with the result of a positive blood culture, particularly when identification is not yet available, but only direct examination. Contamination has major consequences for patient management. Studies in adults have shown that contamination increases hospital length of stay by 4 to 5 days, laboratory costs by +20% and recourse to intravenous antibiotic therapy by +39%. In children, studies came to the same conclusion, with greater prescription of antibiotics, particularly intravenous antibiotics, in patients with contaminated blood cultures than in patients with sterile blood cultures. It also showed that 26% of patients with contaminated blood cultures were initially hospitalized because of the positivity of this test. The aim of this research is to determine the factors associated with contamination, in order to create a predictive score that would help clinicians in their decision-making when receiving the blood culture result as "positive".
This study will allow the investigators to better assess the efficiency of neoadjuvant chemotherapy before cystectomy by training a predictive model on different patient cohorts with bladder cancer.
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a gastrointestinal transit disorder characterized by chronic abdominal pain and impaired transit in the absence of demonstrated organic disease. Considered a non-fatal disease, its effects relate more to quality of life, work production and health care systems. Given the complexity of this disease, no treatment has been recognized as standard treatment. The treatment is rather focused on treating the symptoms caused (chronic pain or intestinal transit disorder). In general, therapy is considered individualized and includes lifestyle/diet modifications and pharmaceutical therapy. Several published case studies evaluating the effect of mesotherapy on improving the severity of the disease have demonstrated an improvement in the symptoms of this syndrome. Due to the limited number of case studies and the insufficient level of evidence to conclude, our study will therefore be a before-and-after intervention study, to evaluate the effect of four mesotherapy sessions on the treatment of IBS symptoms.
Physical abilities of teenagers with familial Mediterranean fever
The management of colorectal cancer often requires oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy, either as part of curative treatment plans or exclusively in palliative situations. Oxaliplatin therefore plays a key role in the management of colorectal cancer. In addition to its digestive and hematological toxicity, oxaliplatin frequently induces chronic, often limiting, sensitive peripheral neuropathy. Only early discontinuation of oxaliplatin can limit the risk of clinically limiting neurotoxicity (grade ≥ 3). In oncology, managing the side-effects of treatment is an essential objective of supportive care, and is open to a variety of complementary medicines, including reflexology. This technique, derived from traditional Chinese medicine, involves stimulating reflex points on the arch of the foot.
The MPL gene is implicated in two groups of hematological pathologies: congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia (CAMT) and Phi negative myeloproliferative neoplasia (MPN). Fifty germline mutations have been identified in CAMT, yet only a dozen activating mutations have been described in MPN. Most are somatic, distributed mainly in the transmembrane (TM) and juxtamembrane (JM) domains. However, a few rare germline mutations located in the extracellular domain (ECD) have also been reported: K39N, R102P and P106L. Next generation sequencing technology has been used to study the complete MPL gene, identifying numerous variants, most of unknown significance. The study investigators have a series comprising 41 variants of unknown significance, whose allelic frequencies suggest a germline origin for 80% of them. Their distribution within the MPL gene is similar to that of inactivating mutations, except that they were discovered in the context of suspected myeloproliferative disease. Characterizing the activity of these variants would confirm the diagnosis of MPN, opening the door to specific treatment (cytoreductive, JAK2 inhibitor or interferon). It also has an important prognostic value, particularly in the case of MPN, for which life expectancy varies from 5 to 7 years, with terminal progression to acute myeloid leukemia (AML in 15 to 20% of cases) or bone marrow failure. Using a battery of functional assays, this study aims to characterize these variants.