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 objective of this study is to retrospectively evaluate the symptomatic effects of crystalline glucosamine sulfate (GS), prescribed for the actually approved indication of knee OA, in addition to conventional therapy, in comparison to the conventional therapy alone in patients with primary hand osteoarthritis (HOA).This is a 6-months retrospective comparative study including patients with concomitant knee and primary HOA, according to the ACR criteria. To be eligible the patients had to present clinical symptoms of hand OA for at least 3 months, defined as global hand pain score superior to 40 mm on a 0-100 Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and a Functional Index for Hand Osteoarthritis (FIHOA) score of at least 6. Furthermore, the patients have had a radiographic evidence of HOA within the previous 6 months with a Kellgren-Lawrence score of II-III. The participants are stratified into two groups based on whether or not crystalline GS at the daily dose of 1500 mg was added to the conventional therapy for HOA, including exercise, acetaminophen and non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or cyclo-oxygenase (COX)-2 inhibitors. Primary outcome measures are the difference between the two groups in the change of VAS pain and in the FIHOA, from baseline after 6 months. Secondary outcomes were health assessment questionnaire (HAQ), medical outcomes study 36-item short form (SF-36) and symptomatic drugs consumption.
In this randomized controlled trial the investigators want to assess if, compared to controls, the administration of one single low-dose of rocuronium would increase the occurrence of absent or weak (i.e. amplitude <100 μV) signal at V1 and R1, indicating a residual NMBA activity. In addition, we also recorded: 1) the occurrence of difficult laryngoscopy; 2) the time-to-intubation; 3) the occurrence of difficult intubation; 4) the number of intubation attempts; 5) the intubation failure rate; 6) the need for oxygenation between intubation attempts; 7) the lowest peripheral saturation in oxygen (SpO2); 8) the number of severe desaturations; 9) the time-to-V1 and 10) the number of post-surgical complications.
AF and cancer frequently coexist. Since these patients are usually excluded from randomized trials, information on their management and outcome is scarce. Occurrence of relevant clinical events, such as ischemic and hemorrhagic and all-cause mortality and cardiovascular (CV) mortality occurring in patients treated or not with antithrombotic agents needs to be clarified. A prospective observational registry collecting information, in a real world setting, on the clinical profile of patients with these clinical conditions and on the use of antithrombotic drugs in patients with AF and cancer could improve our knowledge on the management of these high risk patients.
Cow's milk protein allergy is defined as an immunological reaction to one or more milk proteins. A variety of symptoms can be suggestive for cow's milk protein allergy . Cow's milk protein allergy is suspected clinically in 5-15% of infants, while most estimates of prevalence of cow's milk protein allergy vary from only 2 to 5 %. Confusion regarding cow's milk protein allergy prevalence is often due to differences in study populations, study design and a lack of defined diagnostic criteria. The importance of defined diagnostic criteria needs to be emphasised. It precludes infants from an unnecessary diet and avoids delay in diagnosis, which can lead to malnutrition. The treatment of cow's milk protein allergy is the dietary elimination of cow's milk proteins. In non-breastfed infants and children less than 2 years of age, a substitute formula is mandatory as prescribed by several international scientific societies. Extensively hydrolyzed formulas are used as therapeutic formulas. An extensively hydrolysed formula is often a whey or casein based formula in which the protein has been chopped up in smaller pieces that are less allergenic. Because of high cross-reactivity (up to 80%) and nutritional inadequacy, the use of any other animal milk or soy-based formula is precluded.The infant should be maintained on an elimination diet until the child is between 9-12 months of age or at least for 6 months, whichever occurs first. In most cases, symptoms will improve substantially within 2-4 weeks if diagnosis is correct. According to consensus in literature, a therapeutic formula is a formula tolerated by at least 90% (with 95% confidence) of cow's milk protein allergy infants. The primary study outcome will be the evaluation of the hypoallergenicity of a new aminoacid based formula in children with confirmed immunoglobulin (Ig)E- mediated CMA. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Subcommittee on Nutrition and Allergic Diseases a hypoallergenic formula must be tested in infants and children with hypersensitivity to cow's milk proteins, with findings verified by elimination-challenge tests under double-blind, placebo-controlled conditions (DBPCFC).
Previous studies that examined whether the presence of an additional observer, more specifically a GI fellow, during colonoscopy can enhance detection of all polyps and adenomas yielded conflicting results. Of note, all of the aforementioned studies were retrospective and robust evidence derived from well—designed randomized controlled trials are lacking. The study objective is to examine whether fellow participation during screening, surveillance, or diagnostic colonoscopy influence overall, size-specific, or location-specific adenoma or polyp detection rate. It will be planned to enroll 812 patients (406 per arms) within 1 year. Adenoma detection rate will be the primary outcome.
One-group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design in which primary outcomes were: a) the evaluation of pain intensity, by a 30-days Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and b) the assessment of knee function by Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index and by Tegner Lysholm Knee Scoring collected at baseline, at 15 and 30 days after treatment. Secondary outcomes were the evaluation: c) of Health-related quality of life, by the ShortForm36, d) of inflammation by C-reactive protein and Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate, and e) of body composition by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry measured at baseline and 30 days after treatment.
The prevalence and incidence of anemia tend to increase with advancing age. Relatively low hemoglobin concentrations are a common laboratory finding in the elderly, for the most part judged by physicians as a sign without clinical relevance or as a marker of an underlying chronic disease having no independent influence on health. In recent years several studies have started to challenge the widespread and self-perpetuating perception of anemia as an innocent bystander, reporting worse cognitive and quality of life outcomes and increased risk of hospitalization and mortality in the general population. Focusing on elderly people, anemia has a clear association with the phenotypic features of frailty syndrome affecting 3-5% of individuals of 65-70 years of age and, more importantly 30% of those aged 85 years or older. Among frail older adults, anemia is a powerful prognostic factor for the development of frailty-related problems such as muscle weakness, reduced performance, falls, and mortality. Nutrient deficiency, chronic inflammation and renal insufficiency account for the large majority of cases of anemia in the elderly, while underlying cause remained unexplained in 25% of the cases. Preliminary evidence indicates that a significant proportion of ''unexplained anemia'' may account for myelodysplasia(MDS). MDS is a condition typically occurring in elderly people, characterized by clonal proliferation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), which partly retain their capacity to differentiate and maturate, but do so in an inefficient manner (ineffective hematopoiesis). Anemia represents the most important prognostic factor in MDS. With time a portion of patients evolve into overt myeloid malignancy (i.e., acute leukemia). Somatic mutations occur in the genomes of healthy HSC at a low, but detectable frequency during normal DNA replication. Although most mutations are rapidly corrected by DNA repair mechanisms, those that persist are propagated during HSC self-renewal. Some evidence suggest that these early driver mutations dictate future trajectories of evolution with distinct clinical phenotypes. There has been much excitement in the research community about the translational opportunities offered by genome sequencing, possibly leading to the identification of specific types of mutational processes of how genome interact with environmental factors in determining clinical conditions associated with aging and to the implementation of a personalized molecular diagnosis and treatment for every patient. In this translational research project, using an integrated genomic analysis based on next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies,the investigators plan to dissect the genomic architecture of MDS, significantly contributing to many features of frailty and to individual vulnerability. The investigators will perform mutation analysis of candidate genes in a large and well characterized cohort of individuals belonging to the "Health and Anemia'' study. "Health and Anemia" is a prospective population-based observational study (2003-2013) of all elderly residents in the municipality of Biella, Piedmont, a town in the north-west of Italy. Hematological parameters together with data on cognition and functional status, mood and quality of life, fatigue, hospitalization and mortality were collected for all patients. Moreover, complete information on the development of hematological malignancies was provided by local tumor registry up to 2018. The investigators aim to identify genes associated with the induction of clonal hematopoiesis in elderly people, and then to correlate somatic mutations with clinical/hematological features and progression into MDS and/or overt leukemia. Moreover, The investigators will genotype single-cell-derived hematopoietic colonies from CD34+ compartments (hematopoietic stem cells, multipotent progenitors, common myeloid progenitors, and granulocyte progenitors) in order to clarify the clonal architecture of marrow dysplasia in HSC, the dynamics of clonal establishment and expansion during hematopoietic differentiation, and their relationship with the disease phenotype and evolution. Finally, by analysing clinical data from "Health and Anemia study" the investigators will investigate the clinical contribution of myelodysplasia-related anemia to the development of frailty syndrome and its clinical sequela. The definition of molecular architecture of marrow dysplasia would allow us to improve the current diagnosis and classification of anemia in the elderly and the assessment of individual patient's risk of disease associated morbidity/mortality. Finally, in patients with marrow dysplasia, gene sequencing is expected to predict the vulnerability of a particular genotype to specific treatment, thus providing a basis for optimizing at individual level timing and modality of therapeutic intervention. The study population of the MOnzino 80-plus study will be used as validation cohort.
This will be a single-centre, randomized, pilot study. 30 patients with diabetes who previously had received Argon laser photocoagulation will be enrolled.
This clinical study is a prospective, multicenter, post-market, single-arm, observational study designed to characterize the usage of the Lesion Index (LSI) with the market-released TactiCath Contact Force Ablation Catheter, Sensor Enabled (TactiCath SE) in subjects with Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation (PAF) in a real-word environment.
This study will evaluate safety, efficacy, pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of multiple doses of CFZ533 (iscalimab) in patients with Sjögren's Syndrome.