There are about 21062 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Italy. 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.
The goal of this observational study is to learn and assess muscle morphological and electromechanical properties in patients affected with Marfan syndrome (MFS) and Ehlers Danlos syndrome (EDS). the main questions it aims to answer are: - To assess the ability to develop muscle strength; - Muscle and tendon morphology involved in muscle contractions/relaxation; - Neuromuscular functionality. Participants will be take part in the study by performing a test for the assessment of the neuromuscular activity (voluntary muscle contractions) and undergoing a muscle ultrasound for the study of muscles and tendons. Researchers will compare the two groups with a control group to see potential differences in the morphological and neuromuscular structures of syndromic patients.
Therapeutic-rehabilitative interventions supported by music can be considered important resources in many clinical contexts. Some studies report the improvement of psychological (i.e. anxiety) and physiological parameters such for example, dyspnea, blood pressure, quality of life, sleep disturbances, etc. through voice, singing, exercise with wind instruments, and sometimes listening to music. Among the various instruments proposed to support the physical training of COPD patients, music was also tested and, in particular, music as a distracting auditory stimulus (DAS) has been used to increase exercise and physical activity adherence and to reduce the perception of dyspnea in COPD subjects. This randomized controlled trial will compare -in patients with COPD and CRF- the effects of the addiction of music to the training on exercise capacity (possible improvement of endurance and reduction of fatigue and dyspnea) with respect to the usual rehabilitation modality (no music).
Background and overall goal: Poor comprehension and medication adherence are common in older people, especially after hospitalizations, in case of changes or prescriptions of new therapeutic regimes. The aim of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of a multidomain intervention with an integrated care approach, in improving medication adherence in older people after hospital discharge. A secondary aim is investigate the determinants of poor comprehension and medication adherence in such individuals. Target population: The project will involve older patients hospitalized in a Geriatric Department and discharged at home, and (when present) their caregivers. Methods and assessments: Upon hospital discharge, data from the comprehensive geriatric assessment and information on the present hospitalization and prescribed therapies will be collected for all participants. The comprehension of medical recommendations reported in the discharge summary will be evaluated for all patients/caregiver before and after the routine explanation by treating physicians. Participants will be then randomized in intervention vs. control group. The intervention will include: first, educational training of patients/caregivers at hospital discharge by a multidisciplinary team; second, after hospital discharge, a phone recall on the prescribed therapies and a one-week phone consultant service managed by a geriatrician, supported by the multidisciplinary team, to address potential concerns on prescribed treatments. Control group will follow usual care. After 7 days medication adherence will be assessed for both study groups through structured phone interviews. At 30 and 90 days from discharge, data on falls, rehospitalizations and vital status will be collected through hospital records.
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), are chronic, relapsing and destructive inflammatory disorder of the intestinal wall. A treat-to-target approach with tight monitoring of intestinal inflammatory lesions is recommended to prevent organ damage and impaired quality of life. Because clinical scores and laboratory assessments have shown poor correlation with intestinal inflammation, endoscopic investigation has to be performed frequently as a reference standard. Due to the fact that colonoscopy (CS) is poorly accepted by patients, expensive, time consuming and harbors the risk of complications, new imaging strategies are required to overcome invasive procedures. The aim of this non-interventional prospective cross-sectional observational study is to investigate the feasibility of using intestinal motility quantified by intestinal ultrasound (US) to evaluate disease activity. The outcomes of intestinal motility detected by ultrasound will be compared with endoscopic and histopathological reference standards in adult patients with IBD
Phase-IV, national, multicentric, non-randomized, observational real-life study. The goal of this stud is to investigate the patient's benefits in terms of quality of life and work ability resulting from the switch from infliximab i.v. to s.c. in patients with gastroenterological or rheumatological indication at month 12.Patients who are eligible but were switched before the inclusion in this study will also be enrolled, and the data already collected according to clinical practice and consistent with the study outcome measures will be used retrospectively. All patients will be followed up according to the standard of care of each participating center. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. To investigate the effectiveness at month 2, 6 and 12 after switching to infliximab s.c. 2. To investigate the safety profile at month 2, 6 and 12 after switching to infliximab s.c. 3. To investigate the difference between patients with rheumatological diseases and patients with IBD in terms of quality of life and work, effectiveness and safety at month 2, 6 and 12 after switching. 4. To investigate the presence of baseline predictors for drug persistence at month 12 (sex, age, disease type, disease severity, body mass index, concomitant medications, smoking habit, presence of comorbidities). 5. To investigate whether there is any change between baseline and week 52 in the following aspects: - Job type and need for any authorization to go to the hospital to receive the study drug - Distance and duration of the travel home-hospital - Mode of travel home-hospital - Need for a caregiver to be present - Time spent at hospital - Patient's preference for the way of study drug administration expressed on a 10-grades VAS scale. The study period for observation will be 12 months from the date of switch. At week 0, month 2, 6 and 12 from the date of the switch, clinical activity, safety data and biomarker levels will be collected. For those patients who have had an endoscopic evaluation of the disease within 2 months of inclusion and repeat the endoscopic evaluation at 12 months ± 8 weeks, endoscopic data will also be collected (valid only in the presence of IBD). In those centers where a blood sample to analyze the minimum levels and anti-drug antibodies of infliximab has been collected and/or stored within 2 months prior to the date of transition, the patient will be asked to give informed consent to the use of this sample and to provide a blood sample for the same analysis at week 0, month 2 and 12. These samples will be analyzed and compared to evaluate the immunogenicity of the drug. These analyzes will be centralized in one lab.
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) is a bacterial respiratory infection that patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) often get when they cannot breathe for themselves and require mechanical ventilation. It is linked to higher chances of death, a longer stay in the hospital, higher costs, and the use of more antibiotics. Options to help prevent or treat this disease are in development and will require evaluation in future clinical trials. The goal of POS-VAP is to build and continuously train a network of ICUs to be prepared for doing these trials, to facilitate their execution.
Both HIV infection and Covid-19 are associated to cognitive and psychiatric impairment, like anxiety and depression. These disturbs are well-known in HIV infection and partially characterized in Covid-19.
RAISE is an international, multicentre, single-arm phase II trial. The trial treatment consists of the addition of niraparib, 200 mg orally once daily to anti-PD-L1 antibody maintenance. The primary objective of this trial is to assess the clinical efficacy of the addition of niraparib to anti-PD-L1 monoclonal antibody maintenance treatment in patients with SLFN11-positive ED-SCLC which has not progressed following standard first-line chemo-immunotherapy.
People with migraine typically show impaired responsivity to visual, auditory and pain stimuli (Burstein et al, 2015). The electrophysiological study of the nociceptive blink reflex (nBR) is widely adopted for the instrumental evaluation of trigeminal afferent function. Migraine sufferers characteristically show deficits in the habituation to repeated stimulations of various sensory modalities, in the interictal phase of the disease (Bohotin et al, 2002; Di Clemente et al, 2005). It has been described how the habituation / sensitization pattern presents a characteristic pattern over the course of the migraine cycle. Past evidence suggests that the habituation deficit may turn towards a normalization of the pattern near the acute migraine attack (Coppola et al, 2013; Katsarava et al, 2003). However, the study of the spontaneous attack shows various limits and difficulties, mainly due to the impossibility of predicting the onset of the next attack and of standardizing the experimental conditions. The use of human models of migraine allows us to overcome these obstacles. Di Clemente et al. (2009) evaluated the electrophysiological changes in nBR after administration of nitroglycerin (NTG) in healthy subjects. The authors described a modification of trigeminal circuits and cortical responses (visual evoked potentials) after NTG. However, NTG administration does not induce migraine attack in healthy subjects, therefore this model cannot be directly translated to migraine pathology (Ashina et al. 2017). Our group has previously used the human model of migraine based on the administration of NTG to study central and spinal level sensitization through the nociceptive avoidance reflex in the lower limb (RIII) (De Icco et al. 2020). The results of the previous study deepened our understanding of the central mechanisms of sensitization. The investigation of the nBR allows to study the modulation of the caudal trigeminal complex (TCC). In the present study we therefore intend to evaluate, under well-controlled experimental conditions, the modulation of the trigeminal caudal complex during an experimentally induced migraine attack. The study will allow us to confirm or not the normalization of habituation described in the acute phase through the adoption of a solid cross-over and placebo-controlled study design.
BOUNCE is an international multicentre randomised phase II trial. The trial treatment consists of brigatinib 180 mg once daily p.o., with seven day lead-in at 90 mg once daily, for 3 years or until progression of disease. The primary objective of this trial is to evaluate the efficacy in terms of progression-free survival (PFS) for brigatinib consolidation, compared to observation/durvalumab, in patients with unresectable stage III NSCLC and ALK-rearrangement who completed definitive chemo-radiotherapy without disease progression.