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.
Preterm infants (PT) often need to spend their first weeks of life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) where they are exposed to several adverse conditions. Whereas a consistent number of studies suggest that NICU-related experiences may have effects on infant development including long-term impairments in emotional regulation, the underlying mechanisms remain partially unexplored. Spectral analysis of EEG signal has demonstrated that frontal alpha-band asymmetry represents a reliable biomarker of social-emotional functioning. In the literature, higher right frontal activation has been associated with worse emotional regulation but no study has measured this value during a condition of social-emotional stress such as the Still Face paradigm. Our hypothesis is that higher alpha activity will be recorded in right frontal areas in premature infants compared to healthy controls and that this activation will be associated with higher negative emotionality (i.e., worse socio-emotional regulation) expressed during the Still Face paradigm. Moreover, despite several changes in epigenetic patterns have already been reported in association with prematurity and early adverse experiences, the relationship between epigenetic changes and electroencephalographic patterns (i.e. frontal alpha asymmetry) remains unexplored. The investigators therefore expect to find associations between increased methylation levels of socio-emotional and stress related genes (i.e. SLC6A4, NR3C1, OXTR, Piezo1, Piezo2, TRPV1 and TRPM8) with spontaneous oscillations of neural activity at frontal sites measured by EEG (i.e. frontal alpha asymmetry). Finally, there is ample evidence that infant's socio-emotional regulation abilities are highly dependent on the behaviors of their caregivers. More recent studies have shown that behavior can be influenced by interoceptive awareness, i.e., the ability to perceive the physiological condition of one's body in this way and to represent one's internal states. Better interoceptive awareness is associated with better recognition of others' needs, more empathetic behaviors, and better emotional regulation. Therefore, with the present exploratory study, the investigators will compare the interceptive awareness of mothers of preterm infants with that of mothers of full-term infants by exploring possible associations of this dimension with the socio-emotional responses of preterm infants and healthy controls. The investigators expect that better socio-emotional regulation of infants is predicted by a higher level of interoceptive awareness in mothers, regardless of prematurity condition.
Computed tomography (CT) has become an established tool in the diagnostic workup of patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). The availability of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) before the invasive procedure allows stratifying case complexity and can be used to improve patient selection for PCI, to plan and guide therapeutic interventions. Beyond the diagnostic and therapeutic phase, it helps to better organize the catheterization laboratory workflow. The P4 study is an investigator-initiated, multicenter, randomized study with a non-inferiority design of patients with an indication for PCI aiming at comparing clinical outcomes between two imaging strategies to guide PCI, being coronary CT-guided PCI strategy (investigational technology) and IVUS-guided PCI strategy (comparator). After identifying the presence of a significant coronary stenosis, the patient will be randomized either to CT- or IVUS-guided PCI groups. Both CT and IVUS-guided PCI will be performed following the P4 trial protocol. When the procedure is completed, post-PCI FFR will be measured. All patients will be followed in hospital, at 30 days (±15 days), 12 months (±1 month) and yearly until 5 year.
This study is being done to find out if tucatinib with other cancer drugs works better than standard of care to treat participants with HER2 positive colorectal cancer. This study will also test what side effects happen when participants take this combination of drugs. A side effect is anything a drug does to the body besides treating your disease. Participants in this study have colorectal cancer that has spread through the body (metastatic) and/or cannot be removed with surgery (unresectable). Participants will be assigned randomly to the tucatinib group or standard of care group. The tucatinib group will get tucatinib, trastuzumab, and mFOLFOX6. The standard of care group will get either: - mFOLFOX6 alone, - mFOLFOX6 with bevacizumab, or - mFOLFOX6 with cetuximab mFOLFOX6 is a combination of multiple drugs. All of the drugs given in this study are used to treat this type of cancer.
Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Like other chronic diseases, patients with CD may be affected by other diseases called comorbidities. The prevalence of comorbidities in IBD patients ranges from 30 to 70 %. Unlike other chronic diseases, there is currently no CD-specific tool to assess the impact of comorbidities on patients' lives in order to take appropriate medical measures. Several clinical indexes have been developed for the study of comorbidities, including the Charlson index and the Groll index, which are widely used. The disadvantage of these indexes is that they are not adapted to patients with CD. The primary objective of this study is to develop and validate a clinical index to evaluate the impact of comorbidities on disability in patients with CD.
This is a Phase 1/2, open-label, first-in-human (FIH) study designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK), pharmacodynamics (PD), and anticancer activity of BLU-222, a selective inhibitor of CDK2.
This is a single arm, open-label, multi-center, phase II study to determine the activity and the safety of a therapeutic strategy that allows a second CARCIK-CD19 cells infusion, driven by the status of disease from one month after the first infusion, in adult and pediatric patients with r/r BCP- ALL.
This is a randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind study to assess the efficacy and safety of Atuliflapon administered once daily over a 12-week treatment period to adult participants with moderate to severe uncontrolled asthma.
The purpose of this study is to characterize cardiac safety of Daratumumab, Cyclophosphamide, Bortezomib, and Dexamethasone (D-VCd) treatment regimens (Arm A: daratumumab + immediate VCd treatment and Arm B: daratumumab + deferred VCd) in newly diagnosed systemic amyloid light chain (AL) amyloidosis with cardiac involvement and to identify potential mitigation strategies for cardiac toxicity (cohort 1); to characterize the pharmacokinetics of subcutaneous (SC) daratumumab, among racial and ethnic minorities, including Black or African American, with newly diagnosed AL amyloidosis treated with D-VCd (cohort 2).
Since colchicine is known to have anti-inflammatory effects and inflammation is an early component of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), this study aims to evaluate the acute effects of low-dose colchicine, in addition to atorvastatin, administered on-admission to statin-naive patients with non-ST elevation ACS scheduled for early invasive strategy.
This is a prospective, phase 2, multicenter, open-label, single-arm study. Primary objective is to assess the efficacy of loncastuximab tesirine given as consolidation therapy after salvage immunochemotherapy in BTKi (Bruton Tyrosine Kinase inhibitors) -treated (or BTKi intolerant) R/R (Relapse or Refractory) MCL (Mantle Cell Lymphoma) patients. The sponsor of this clinical trial is Fondazione Italiana Linfomi (FIL).