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.
This clinical study will test the effects of a drug called apremilast in oligoarticular psoriatic arthritis with less than 5 years of disease duration. In previous studies, apremilast has been shown to be safe and efficacious in reducing signs and symptoms of psoriatic arthritis, as well as improving physical function. This study will compare the effects of apremilast to placebo on psoriatic arthritis subjects in which the number of affected joints is limited (greater than 1 but less or equal to 4). About 285 patients worldwide will take part in this study.
Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) and Hypoparathyroidism (HP) are two of the most frequent disorder of Calcium-Phosphorus (Ca-P) metabolism. The Ca/P ratio is an accurate tool to differentiate patients with PHPT from healthy subjects, according to a previous single-centre study. The reliability of this index is based on the fact that serum Ca and P are inversely related together either in healthy subjects or in patients with PHPT and HP.
HIV infection is associated to premature decline of serum testosterone. However, prevalence and biochemical characterization of hypogonadism in HIV-infected men are still to be well defined. HIV-infection is strongly associated to erectile dysfunction in men, but preliminary data suggest that it is poorly associated with serum testosterone in this context.
Several imaging technologies have been developed in order to enable the endoscopists to differentiate neoplastic from non-neoplastic lesions. The real-time prediction of polyps histology is clinically relevant as diminutive polyps represent the majority of polyps detected during colonoscopy and have a very low risk of harboring advanced histology or invasive carcinoma. Thus, an optical diagnosis would allow diminutive polyps to be resected and discarded without pathological assessment or left in place without resection, with an enormous cost-saving potential. Recently, the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) has set the Preservation and Incorporation of Valuable endoscopic Innovation (PIVI) which defined accuracy threshold to be met, in order to consider a new technology ready to be incorporate into clinical practice. Blue Light Imaging (BLI) is a new chromoendoscopy technology integrated in the latest generation ELUXEOTM 7000 endoscopy platform (Fujifilm Co, Tokyo, Japan), based on the direct (i.e. not filtered) emission of blue light with short wavelength (410nm), that enhances visibility of both microvascular and superficial mucosal pattern. In a recent randomized trial BLI was superior to high-definition white light (HDWL) in the real time characterization of subcentimetric and diminutive colonic polyps. Nevertheless, in this study the paucity of diminutive rectosigmoid polyps analyzed does not allow to draw definite conclusions as the meeting of PIVI thresholds are concerned. Similarly, the low numbers of patients evaluated limited the per-patient analysis. Therefore further studies adequately powered to this clinically end-point were advocated. Additionally, when the study was performed a BLI dedicated classification for optical diagnosis of colonic polyps was not available, whereas recently a specific classification (the BLI Adenoma Serrated International Classification-BASIC) has been developed and a specific training set has been settled. In the present study the investigators prospectively evaluate whether the use of BLI-assisted optical characterization of diminutive polyps using BASIC classification by specifically trained endoscopists may met PIVI thresholds and particularly if it allow the endoscopists to achieve > 90% correct assignment of post-polypectomy surveillance intervals when combined with the histopathology assessment of polyps >5 mm in size.
The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of twice daily ruxolitinib cream in adolescents and adults with Atopic Dermatitis (AD).
The incidence of secondary cancer (SC) in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) is high and comparable to that of thrombosis. However, the identification of patient subgroups that might be at increased susceptibility of developing SC has not been systematically addressed. This international case-control study (MPN-K) is aimed to elucidate the prognostic role of JAK2V617F mutation in predicting the occurrence of SC in patients with classical MPN, polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET) and myelofibrosis (MF)
The objective of the study is to assess angiographic and clinical performance of Xlimus Drug Eluting Stent (DES) compared to Synergy Bioabsorbable Polymer Everolimus Eluting Stent in patients treated with percutaneous coronary angioplasty
Multicentric retrospective study about the comparison of two different techniques of vaginal breach suturing after eradication surgery for deep infiltrating endometriosis and the surgical approaches (laparoscopic or vaginal) in terms of surgical, clinical and functional outcomes.
This is a Phase 1/2, open-label, single arm, multicohort study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of JCAR017 in pediatric subjects aged ≤ 25 years with CD19+ r/r B-ALL and B-NHL. Phase 1 will identify a recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D). Phase 2 will evaluate the efficacy of JCAR017 RP2D in the following three disease cohorts: Cohort 1 (r/r B-ALL), Cohort 2 (MRD+ B-ALL) and Cohort 3 (r/r B-NHL, [DLBCL, BL, or PMBCL]). A Simon's Optimal two-stage study design will be applied to Cohort 1 and 2 in Phase 2.
Multicenter, randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of anamorelin HCl. Approximately 316 patients with advanced NSCLC with cachexia will be randomized 1:1 to anamorelin HCl 100 mg or placebo, taken orally once daily (QD) for a total of 24 weeks. Patients will be instructed to take the study drug at least 1 hour before their first meal of the day