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.
Chronic Venous Disease (CVD) is a widespread clinical condition widely spread in the western countries that may negatively impact the quality of life (QoL) of affected patients. Chronic venous leg ulcers (CVLUs) are the most severe form of CVD, and several genetic and molecular alterations have been studied in order to understand the progression of CVD towards CLVUs. Chronic inflammation is a key element in CVLUs onset, and recently T helper 17 (Th-17) cells, a subtype of pro-inflammatory T helper (CD4+) cells defined by the production of a cytokine signature of which IL-17 represents the progenitor, seem to be related to several chronic disease. The aim of this study is to evaluate Th17- Gene Expression profile in patients with CVD and CVLUs.
This study is researching a clinical treatment combination with two experimental drugs called pozelimab and cemdisiran. The study is focused on patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH). The aim of the study is to see how safe and effective the pozelimab + cemdisiran combination is for patients with PNH and how the combination compares with 2 existing treatments, one called ravulizumab and the other called eculizumab. The pozelimab + cemdisiran combination may be referred to as "study drugs". Ravulizumab and eculizumab may also be called the "comparator drug". The study is looking at several research questions, including: - How effective is the pozelimab + cemdisiran combination compared to ravulizumab? - How effective is pozelimab + cemdisiran combination compared to eculizumab? - What side effects may happen from taking the study drugs? - How much study drugs are in the blood at different times? - Whether the body makes antibodies against the study drugs (which could make the study drugs less effective or could lead to side effects)
This study is being done to see if tucatinib works better than placebo when given with other drugs to treat participants with HER2-positive breast cancer. A placebo is a pill that looks the same as tucatinib but has no medicine in it. 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 will have cancer that has spread in the body near where it started (locally advanced) and cannot be removed (unresectable) or has spread through the body (metastatic). In this study, all participants will get either tucatinib or placebo. Participants will be assigned randomly to a group. This is a blinded study, so patients and their doctors will not know which group a participant is in. All participants will also get trastuzumab and pertuzumab. These are 2 drugs used to treat this type of cancer.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the Western world. Overall survival (OS) remains poor, with 50% estimated 5-year survival. In Italy, current estimates indicate that in 2020 a number of 43.700 patients have been affected by colorectal cancer, with an increasing of diagnosed cases in both men and women. It is clear that it is worthwhile to investigate the evaluation of colorectal cancer which could reflect a different spread of screening programs or be the effect of different timing in the start of the programs themselves. To improve the overall survival of colorectal cancer patients, robust biomarkers for screening and predicting disease recurrence could help identify high-risk patients, facilitate a close patient follow-up, and decide appropriate treatment regimens during the postoperative care. Colonoscopy remains the most efficient method for detecting CRC, yet its general application in the setting of screening is limited due to the uncomfortable experience and the high costs. accumulating studies have revealed the potential of systemic inflammatory markers such as C-reactive protein (CRP), albumin, neutrophils, platelets, and lymphocytes, and also biomarker combination ratios [(eg, CRP-albumin ratio (CAR), neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR)] as prognostic biomarkers in different cancers, including CRC. Chronic inflammation affects all stages of tumor development. Several studies have shown that various preoperative markers reflecting systemic inflammatory response, including NLR and CRP ratio, offer predictive potential for postoperative morbidity and mortality in CRC patients. However, several issues require addressing prior to the adoption of these inflammatory markers in the clinical practice for CRC patients undergoing surgery: a) the combination of inflammatory factors that might be best in predicting oncological outcomes in colorectal cancer patients remains unclear; b) previous studies for systemic inflammatory markers have mainly interrogated their prognostic potential for oncological outcomes but have not laid emphasis for evaluating their predictive value for postoperative complications; c) there is a lack of consensus on the cut-off thresholds used for each marker for determining mortality risk resulting from surgical and oncological outcomes.
Aim of this phase 2 study is to evaluate the safety and the efficacy of the combination of induction chemotherapy plus durvalumab followed by reduced-dose hypo-fractionated thoracic RT (concurrent with durvalumab) and durvalumab maintenance for stage 3 unresectable NSCLC patients candidate to sequential chemo-RT.
The primary objective of the study is to identify which features of platelet activation promote the inflammatory response that underlies the progression from NAFL to NASH. Therefore, the investigators plan: 1. To characterize and compare the platelet inflammatory phenotype in NAFL vs NASH patients 2. To study if and how the signaling pathways controlled by ITAM/ITIM-coupled receptors is dysregulated in NAFL vs NASH As a secondary objective the investigators will analyze platelet activation and inflammatory response in a subset of NAFL and NASH patients after 2, 4 and 6 hours from consumption of a high fat meal to test if and how the platelet inflammatory phenotype is promoted by post-prandial plasma lipids.
This trial will evaluate efficacy, safety, and tolerability of subcutaneous (s.c.) ianalumab given every 4 weeks (q4w) or every 12 weeks (q12w) compared to placebo, in combination with SoC, in adult participants with active LN
This is a retrospective and prospective non-interventional multicenter observational study. Neither diagnostic approaches nor experimental drugs/procedure will be applied and the samples will take place at the same time as the samples will be taken during routinary clinical practice. The aim of this study is to analyze the immunobiology of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) relapses after allogeneic HSCT for the generation of guidelines and personalized therapeutic pathways.
This multicenter, single-arm retrospective registry (chart review) is being conducted to confirm the clinical performance and safety of GORE-TEX® Vascular Grafts and GORE® PROPATEN® Vascular Graft throughout the device functional lifetime for each indication area.
This double-blind, double-dummy study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of ocrelizumab compared with fingolimod in children and adolescents with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis aged between 10 and < 18 years over a duration of at least 96 weeks.