There are about 9745 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Israel. 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.
We assume that the combination of systemic steroids and inhaled steroid in the first hour of treatment in the ER will decrease the admission rate and improve faster the pulmonary function. 120 patients refferd to the ER due to asthma attack aged 18-60 with PFR < 60% 0o predicted will participate in the study after giving informed consent. The usual treatment in the ER is inhalation of Beta 2 short acting and I.V solumedrol 120 mg . The study group will recieve in addition 3 inhalation of Budesonide 1000 microgram each during the first hour. The controlled group will recieve Nacl 0.9% PFR will be followed 0 30 60 120 min.
Electrocoagulation effect of neonatal brain waves after cesarean section
Cognitive and neurological dysfunction after coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) is common and multi-factorial in origin. Several previous studies have shown that intraoperative aprotinin administration may be neuroprotective.in the current prospective randomized study, the effect of intraoperative aprotinin administration on the integrity of the optic nerve and retinal nerve fiber layer will be examined. Optical coherance tomography will be used to examin the optic nerve and retinal nerve fiber layer.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory systemic disease. It has a worldwide distribution and can affect all age group. The peak incidence is between fourth and sixth decade. It is more prevalent in women, and it’s prevalence in the general population in North America is between 0.2-1.5%. The etiology of RA is unknown, although clusters of the disease in families and high concordance in mono-zydotic twins support genetic predisposition. The prevalence of fatty liver disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis is currently unknown. We wish to study the link between the two conditions by performing a son graphic imaging of the liver in a cohort of RA patients. If indeed a high prevalence of NAFLD will be found in the RA patients, further support will be landed for the link between inflammation and fatty liver disease. These findings may also have implications regarding the management and follow up of RA patients. The validity of sonographic imaging for detection of fatty liver diseases is currently accepted: On ultrasonographic, fatty infiltration of the liver produces a diffuse increase in echogenicity as compared with that of the kidneys. Ultrasonography has a sensitivity of 89% and a specificity of 93% in detecting steatosis and sensitivity and specificity of 77% and 89% respectively in detecting increase fibrosis. In view of all the above data, we expected to find higher prevalence of fatty liver in the patients with higher inflammation markers compare with patients with lower markers.
Study of the urinary vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) levels in patients with glioblastoma, receiving standard therapy. Hypothesis: that urinary VEGF levels can serve as a predictor of treatment response and survival.
The aim of this study is to investigate the inflammatory response in children with this disorder.
Pneumonia in general and CAP in particular is considered as one of the most common bacterial infections, associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality and is highly significant economically since all respiratory infections, and pneumonia especially, cause about 80% of antimicrobials use in the community. The high frequency of respiratory infections and the excessive use of antimicrobials are major contributors to the development of pathogens resistant to antimicrobials. In addition, in CAP almost all patients are treated empirically, without identification of causing pathogen. Aim of study: To identify common pathogens causing CAP in hospitalized patients in north Israel.
Composite resins are presently among the most popular esthetic restorative materials in dentistry. These materials offer excellent esthetic appearance, allow for conservative cavity preparation and are now becoming widely accepted for clinical use in primary molars 1-23. Despite the improvement of their properties, achieved with better materials and incremental placing techniques, composite resin restorations appear to have still several drawbacks: although similar to amalgam in short terms studies, they have a high long term failure rate, mainly due to discoloration, loss of retention and secondary caries3,11,19, are time-consuming and technique sensitive, lack anti-cariogenic potential and can be amenable to secondary caries at the cervical dentin margins 1, 2. Continued interest in providing advance in restorative esthetic materials led to the development of new generations of composites. Among the newest material developed is the use of minute amount of nanoparticles which convert composites to possess permanent antibacterial properties. It is of great interest to observe the clinical behavior of this new material when utilized in clinical practice. Thus the aims of the present in-vivo study are: 1. To evaluate the clinical and radiographic performance of the New Restorative System when placed with adhesive systems in class II restorations of primary molars. 2. To assess, by SEM, the micromorphology of the cervical, buccal and lingual margins of the proximal surfaces of the restored teeth retrieved after exfoliation or extraction. 3. To asses, by means of polarized light microscopy, the integrity of the cervical margins of the same retrieved teeth.
CT of the abdomen is a very common examination performed for various indications.One of the common findings is vascular calcifications including calcifications of the renal arteries.Calcifications in the carotid arteries and coronary arteries are good predictor for obstructive atherosclerotic disease.Stenosis of the renal arteries can cause symptomatic or asymptomatic hypertension with subsequent clinical sequelae. Therefore early diagnosis of this condition is imperative. The goal of our study is to investigate the correlation between incidental calcifications of the renal arteries in CT examinations and the presence of actual stenosis of these vessels in patients with and without hypertension.
Crohn's disease (CD) in childhood is a chronic relapsing and remitting condition that has a significant impact on growth and development. The disease is characterized by an increased and unregulated immune response. The main therapy over the last 30 years has been corticosteroids leading to remission in 50-80% of patients within 2-4 weeks. However, the use of steroids in children is limited by side-effects including acne, moon-face, hirsutism, hypertension, metabolic disturbances and above all reduced growth. Hence, pediatricians are very interested to find alternative therapies. Therapeutic manipulation of gut flora with probiotics promises to be a useful strategy for several disorders including inflammation of the gut. The efficacy of the highly concentrated probiotic VSL#3 has been documented in maintenance and prophylaxis treatment of pouchitis in double blind, placebo controlled studies in adults. The aim of this study is to compare probiotic therapy with VSL#3 versus placebo in maintenance therapy of children with mild to moderate CD, treated with either 5-ASA, corticosteroids (local or budesonide), imuran/6 mercaptopurine (MP), as long as no change in medication dosage has been made in the previous 12 weeks (for imuran/6MP) or 4 weeks (for corticosteroids).