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 purpose of this study is to compare the sustained long-term benefit between two treatment paradigms of migraine prophylactic agents (erenumab versus a control arm of oral prophylactics) in episodic migraine patients who have previously failed 1 to 2 prophylactic migraine treatments.
Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic granulomatous disease that affects individuals worldwide without known pathogenesis, and the role of comorbidities has not been fully assessed in the scientific literature. An increased incidence of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS) has been described in Sarcoidosis although this association has not been explained yet and no data is available about the effect of treatment with Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) in Sarcoidosis. Also, patients affected by Sarcoidosis usually experience a state of physical and mental weariness called fatigue and reported in approximately 60-80% sarcoid patients and thought to be a consequence of inflammatory mediators but the high prevalence of OSAS could be a remarkable bias in clinical evaluation because fatigue is also strongly associated with sleep disorders. Thus, there is a real need for assessing not only the real prevalence of OSAS in Sarcoidosis but also the effect of CPAP treatment on fatigue status experienced by sarcoidotic patients.
The reason for this study is to see if the study drug mirikizumab is safe and effective in participants with moderately to severely active Crohn's disease.
About 50-70% only of inpatients who undergo colonoscopy have an adequate bowel cleansing, which is far below the recommended threshold of 90%. Variables associated to inadequate colon preparation have not been assessed yet. Identifying such variables would allow to augment the diagnostic yield of colonoscopy, and also to reduce costs related to the need to repeat colonoscopy. Aim of the present study is to find variables independently associated to an inadequate bowel cleansing and to subsequently build and validate a predictive model, which could prove useful in clinical practice to identify hard-to-prepare inpatients. Secondary endpoints are (i) to assess the proportion of patients with inadequate colon cleansing, (ii) to run a cost-effectiveness analysis between patients with adequate cleansing and patients who need to repeat colonoscopy. Patients undergoing urgent colonoscopy, and patients who take the preparation at home will be excluded.
Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) pulmonary lobectomy is currently widely employed as the first treatment option for surgical management of early stage (stage I-II) non-small-cell-lung-cancer (NSCLC). Thanks to recent technological advances in high definition display systems, three dimensional VATS (3D) has been developed in an attempt of overcoming some optical limits of two dimensional (2D) VATS. In this single center randomized trial our aim is to comparatively assess ergonomics of 3D versus 2D VATS lobectomy for early stage NSCLC.
Critically ill patients are characterized by wide variations in their carbohydrate, lipid, and protein metabolism. Such variations can lead to increase in their energy requirement with accelerated protein catabolism and ultimately alterations of their immune and gastrointestinal systems, and in a variable frame time, it lead to a disruption of muscular function that increased the ICU and hospital stay and mortality. There are multiple methods to conduct these measurements. However, the accuracy of these measures could be very scares. Skeletal muscle wasting in the critically ill is often masked by fluid retention. For these reasons, in the last few decades, several different tools have been developed to integrate the clinical and biochemical nutritional evaluations. Among these, the bioimpedance analysis (BIA) and the muscular ultrasonography (MU) seem to be promising tools for this purpose. The aim of this project is to compare and integrate the data collected by BIA and MU and the routinely clinical used parameters of nutrition to define the nutritional status of critically ill patients. The data from these tools and the biochemical and anthropometric nutritional data (including the nutritional support) will be collected at the admission in ICU and followed up within the first week of ICU stay.
High rates of HCV infections occur in individuals with Substance Use Disorder (SUD), particularly in subjects with Alcohol Use Disorder and in People Who Inject Drugs (PWID), but also in subjects taking psychiatric medications. In our geographic area, HCV prevalence data are available for PWID only, with >25% of them infected with HCV. The best strategy to achieve micro-elimination is targeted active screening. In Italy, SERDs assess and manage SUD individuals, but are not allowed to treat patients. Moreover, they have limited resources to perform HCV screening and to ensure linkage to care for SUD individuals living in peripheral areas. Fifteen SERDs are present in Northern Puglia and Molise, a geographical area of about 7500 Km2 usually served by our Hepatology Unit. This geographic area is not very well served by public transport leading to a logistical barrier to access needed services delivered by our unit. This issue can negatively affect engagement with clinical services for viral hepatitis even in the era of DAA. Moreover, during treatment, it is not infrequent for patients to discontinue therapy due to a chaotic lifestyle, poor income conditions and the limited access to public transportation which is needed to adhere to on-treatment monitoring. Primary objective to plan and deliver a program of dedicated transportations and cure for patients with SUD and hepatitis C who live in peripheral areas of our region. It will translate in higher rates of screening, successful linkage to care, commencement and completion of DAA treatments leading to HCV microelimination. We plan to expand our collaborative work involving up to 15 SERDs form Northen of Puglia. The program consists of -peer to peer meetings with SERDs physicians and teams, educational campaigns for patients and screening of SUD individuals and their partners using oral Quick HCV test at each SERD, - dedicated transportation services, - complete virological and liver disease evaluation at our Hospital. This organization will guarantee direct connections between Hospital and patients included in the program. This program will ensure screening of patients with suspected infection at SERD, linkage to care of newly diagnosed subjects and completion of treatment for subjects who need to start DAA therapy. The rate of screening and successful linkage to care for each SUD subgroup will be characterized as well as the cascade to care.
This is a non-interventional medical chart review study aiming to examine the treatment patterns, effectiveness, and safety of ceftazidime-avibactam in approximately 12 countries (including but not limited to Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Russia, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico), with possible expansion to other countries as ceftazidime-avibactam is launched. Eligible patients are adults who have been treated with ceftazidime-avibactam in routine practice at participating sites since 01 January, 2018 onwards or since the date of launch in the country if it is posterior to 01 January, 2018. As this is an observational study, patients will be treated based on the standard of care at the discretion of their physician. No drugs will be supplied for this study and patients will receive treatment through standard local practice.
The Six Minute Walking Test (6MWT) efficiently represents the exercise capacity in subjects with chronic respiratory disease, as asthma. The variation of the walking distance is a parameter used to evaluate the effectiveness of pharmacologic ando non-pharmacologic interventions, as Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR). However, statistically significant changes in the walking distance do not always represent clinically significant variations.The aim of this prospective study is to determine the Minimal Important Difference (MID) for the 6MWT in subjects affected by asthma, regardless of the severity of the disease.
This study compares insulin 287 (a possible new medicine) to insulin glargine (a medicine doctors can already prescribe) in people with type 2 diabetes. Different ways of switching from the insulin which the participants are already on to insulin 287 are also compared. This is done to find the best way to switch to insulin 287. The participants will either get insulin 287 that they will have to inject once a week or insulin glargine that they will have to inject once a day. Which treatment any participant gets is decided by chance. The study will last for about 5 months (23 weeks). The participants will have 14 clinic visits and 6 phone calls with the study doctor. At 3 of the clinic visits participants will be asked not to eat or drink anything (except for water) in the last 8 hours before the visit. During the study, the doctor will ask the participants to: 1) measure their blood sugar every day with a blood sugar meter using a finger prick; 2) write down different information in a diary daily and return this to their study doctor. 3) wear a medical device (sensor) that measures the participants blood sugar all the time for 18 weeks (about 4 months) during the study.