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 aim of the study is to describe the long term use of Botulinum Neurotoxin Type A (BoNT-A) in adult subjects affected with upper and/or lower limb spasticity who received treatment with BoNT-A for a minimum of three injections cycles at three Italian centers. The study has a retrospective design and data relating to subjects' injections cycles occurred in the past are collected. Period of observation defined in the protocol is from 2008 to 2018, but it could change for each subject according to the number of injections cycles performed. Time frame for data collection is 12 months from study start.
The Coronavirus Emergency has severely affected Italian Healthcare National System. This event made it necessary to adopt extraordinary containment measures and to allocate extraordinary resources in Italian hospitals. In many centers routinely elective surgical activity has been decreased or even completely abolished. We believe that this exceptional condition is being consequently having a significant impact on surgical training programs.
The aim of this study is to evaluate if music listening relieves pain and discomfort during Extracorporeal Shock-Waves Lithotripsy (ESWL).
Several studies investigated the reproductive outcomes after surgical treatment of colorectal endometriosis, mainly segmental colorectal resection. Little information is available on the spontaneous fertility of patients with bowel endometriosis. This study aims to evaluate the fertility of patients affected by rectosigmoid endometriosis who did not undergo previous surgical treatment.
Music and music therapy, live or recorded, has been introduced in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Del Ponte hospital in Varese in addition to standard medical and nursing care, to improve premature neonates' neurophysiological development. Recent studies focused on the effects of the maternal voice or the entrained singing and live music, highlighting their benefits on neonates stress, on not-nutritive sucking and on the caloric intake. Aim of our study is to evaluate the effect of parents singing or musictherapist singing admistered by Pacifier Activated Lullaby (PAL) on infant's behavior and nutritional outcomes. Particularly, we will evaluate infants' Heart Rate Variability during music therapy session, exclusive oral feeding achievement, weigth increase and hospitalization in a group of preterm infants administered to PAL compared with a control group of preterm infants not exposed to PAL stimulus.
The regulation of clitoral vascularization by sex steroids is still under-investigated. We aimed to explore the effects of 6 months transdermal Testosterone (T) therapy on clitoral color Doppler ultrasound (CDU) parameters in pre- and postmenopausal women with female sexual dysfunction (FSD). In order to do that, we retrospectively recruited n=81 women with FSD, divided into 4 groups according to different treatments followed as per clinical practice, for 6 months: transdermal systemic 2% T gel; local estradiol ovules; local non-hormonal moisturizers; transdermal T plus local estrogens. Our main hypothesis is that systemic T treatment is able to positively modulate clitoral blood flow in basal conditions, specifically to increase clitoral artery Peak systolic velocity (PSV).
soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) plays a key role in endothelial function and may be a link for the known interaction of periodontitis and cardiovascular disease (CVD). The investigators compared the impact of gingival health, periodontitis (CP), CHD or of both diseases (CP+CHD) on saliva and serum suPAR levels.
Phase II, prospective, interventional, single-arm, multicentric, open label trial, with a parallel retrospective collection of data on not treated patients from IRCCS, San Raffaele Scientific Institute included in the institutional observational study. A sample of 50 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia will allow to detect an absolute reduction in the rate of Respiratory-failure at day+14 after treatment of 20%, assuming that the actual rate of failure in the corresponding not treated patients is 70% (alpha=5%, power=90%, two-sided test). The software PASS15 was used for calculations. The study will also include a parallel retrospective group of temporally concomitant patients from IRCCS, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, who did not receive an experimental treatment and who are enrolled in an already IRB approved observational study
The study was aimed to investigating the relationship between circulating level of prealbumin and parathormone (PTH), triglycerides and triiodothyronine (FT3) in overweight and obese subjects (BMI≥25 Kg/m2)
This prospective, concurrent controlled, open-label, multicenter study is designed to collect additional safety data through 5 years of follow-up for subjects randomized to either the treatment arm (PRESERFLO® MicroShunt with MMC) or the control arm (Trabeculectomy with MMC) of the INN-005 clinical study.