There are about 20863 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.
Adult patients (>18 years) with newly diagnosis of Ph negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) according to WHO 2016 criteria, will be recruited to this study. This study is the result of the collaboration the Hematology Division of Federico II University Medical School of Naples (Italy), that performed the US investigation and the IRCCS SYNLAB SDN where the patients carried out MR. The study is conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. All subjects gave informed consent to receive both US and MR scans of the spleen. All spleen US scans were performed by the same operator (with>10 years of experience in abdominal US), who used an EPIQ 5 Philips instrument with a 1-5 MHz broadband curvilinear probe. The spleen was scanned in patients who were fasting, in the longitudinal and transverse planes by using an intercostal approach, a subcostal approach, or both. The patient was placed in a supine or right-sided position until complete organ visualization was achieved. Perimeter, longitudinal diameter (LD), and area, defined as the maximum measurements with splenic borders and angles clearly defined, were measured, and SV (in milliliters) was calculated automatically. For each subject, the mean value of 3 measurements repeated on the same imaging session was calculated and recorded for final analysis. Within two weeks from the US, each patient underwent an MRI of the upper abdomen to evaluate the splenic volume. MRI examinations were performed using a 3T Biograph mMR scanner (Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany) with 4-channel flex phased-array body coil. Routine clinical abdominal MRI acquisition includes coronal T2W Half-Fourier Acquisition Single-shot Turbo spin Echo imaging (HASTE), axial T1 Dual-echo FSE, axial T2 TSE Fat Sat, and an axial diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI). The DWI includes an apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) map that was automatically generated at the time of acquisition. At last, an isotropic 2mm3 axial Volumetric Interpolated Breath-hold Examination (VIBE) sequence for SV evaluation was acquired. For the latter, attention was paid to optimize the field of view to the spleen, in order to reduce patient's apnea and possible respiratory artifacts. A radiologist with mote than 10 years of experience in abdominal MRI reporting performed measurement of the three orthogonal diameters of the spleen for each patient. Subsequently, SV was calculated using ITK-SNAP software and semi-automatic 3D segmentation approach, firstly based on a signal threshold.
The goal of this observational study is to compare in participant population the effect of stress condition on cerebral EEG activity Participants will do an 8 minutes EEG registration. Researchers will compare EEG activity of heathcare workers.
The main objective of the study is to evaluate the presence of predictors (single characteristics at the baseline and / or a combination of two or more parameters) useful for predicting the development of Drug-Induced liver Injury (DILI) during treatment with cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors (CKI) with the possibility of obtaining a pre-treatment prognostic score that can assist the clinician in pre-therapy decision making.
Evaluation of DOACs treatment on post-extraction bleeding
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common cause of chronic liver disease, ranging from pure steatosis to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and ultimately to liver cirrhosis. In order to study the association between NAFLD and nephrolithiasis while minimizing the confounding effect of metabolic syndrome, we investigated the impact of different degrees of NAFLD severity on potential risk factors for stone formation.
To evaluate the long-term effects of oral citicoline, vitamins A, B, C and E, and blackcurrant therapy in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) using optical coherence tomography (OCT), OCT angiography (OCTA) and microperimetry parameters.
Objectives: To test the impact of clinical inflammation and molecular expression profile (senescence-associated secretory phenotype; SASP) in the gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) on the outcomes of minimally-invasive periodontal regeneration in intra-bony defects. Methods: Sites associated with intrabony defects ≥ 3 mm requiring periodontal regeneration through minimally-invasive surgical technique were included. Pre-operatively, GCF was sampled for inflammatory biomarker analysis related to SASP [interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-6 and IL-12; matrix-metalloproteinases (MMP)-8 and -9]. Correlation analyses and logistic regression models were performed to assess the impact of predictors on clinical and radiographic outcomes.
The goal of this observational study is to investigate the prevalence of Neurological Soft Signs (NSS) in various categories of dementia patients compared to matched controls. The main questions it aims to answer are: - Does the prevalence of NSS significantly differ among patients with neurodegenerative dementias compared to controls? - Are NSS associated with neuropsychiatric alterations in dementia patients? - Do NSS correlate with cognitive screening tools? - Do NSS increase over time in patients with neurodegenerative dementias? Participants will undergo assessments including: - Evaluation of NSS using the Heidelberg scale - Neuropsychiatric assessments - Cognitive screening using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) Researchers will compare dementia groups (Alzheimer's disease, Frontotemporal dementia, Corticobasal syndrome and Lewy body dementia) to controls to determine differences in NSS prevalence. Additionally, associations between NSS and neuropsychiatric symptoms, as well as cognitive performance, will be explored.
Conducted at a single-center, this prospective-retrospective study focused on all couples who initiated their journey at the Fertility Center of Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano (Milan), Italy. The prospective study focused on the couples whose first consultation occurred in 2021. A tailored questionnaire was administered via telephone by staff members to gather insights into the personal reasons for treatment discontinuation among non-returning patients. Conversely, the retrospective study included all infertile couples initiating treatment between January 2012 and December 2021 at the Fertility Center. Data encompassing personal history and demographic details were extracted from the internal database of Humanitas Fertility Center to assess the factors involved in a treatment discontinuation.
The correct differential diagnosis between benign and malignant adnexal masses is the main goal of preoperative ultrasound diagnostics and is very important to plan the correct treatment for the patient in terms of surgical team (gynecologist oncologist or benign pathology center), surgical access (laparoscopy / laparotomy) and type of surgery (conservative / demolitive). Several ultrasound models have been developed to help gynecologists define the risk of malignancy of adnexal masses. In order to use the predictive models, the examiner had to collect certain ultrasound features of the lesion which, integrated with the patient's clinical and / or biochemical characteristics, provided a risk of malignancy of the mass. Recently radiomics is emerging as an interesting tool to be applied to diagnostic imaging (computed tomography, magnetic resonance and even ultrasound). Radiomics is the evaluation of images through complex software that allows to 'read' the intrinsic characteristics of the tissue identifying aspects that are not visible by subjective interpretation of the operator, in a fully automated and therefore reproducible way. Radiomics applied to artificial intelligence for the creation of predictive models represents an interesting tool to overcome the limitations of previous models, at least partly dependent on the operator's experience. Among the serous ovarian cancer, those with BRCA gene mutation represent an interesting subgroup and are characterized by a different pathophysiological history than wild type tumors due to greater chemosensitivity and the possibility of targeted treatment with antiangiogenic drugs and PARP-inhibitors. The application of radiomics to preoperative ultrasound images could identify BRCA mutated tumors before surgical planning (radiogenomic analysis) and allow a personalized treatment. The aim of the study is to validate a predictive model to define the risk of malignancy of adnexal masses that the investigators developed at the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano. The model, based on the integration of radiomics and artificial intelligence, uses complex software capable of 'reading' the ultrasound images in a completely automatic way and is able to estimate the risk of malignancy of the mass. If the patient decide to participate in the clinical study, the patient will undergo transvaginal ultrasound (eventually supplemented by transabdominal ultrasound in case of large adnexal masses, if the patients are virgo or if the patients will refuse transvaginal approach for any reason). This exam is part of the routine preoperative evaluation for adnexal pathology and therefore the patients don't have to undergo any additional clinical, biochemical or imaging examination, according to national and international guidelines. Thereafter, the images stored during the preoperative ultrasound will be exported in anonymous format from the ultrasound system, and sent to the coordinating center (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano). There, images will be submet to radiomic analysis through the application of a dedicated software; that will allow to evaluate the intrinsic characteristics of the tissue according to different parameters (shape, intensity, grade of heterogeneity and many others) of the 'pixels' (gray dots) that constitute the ultrasound image. This analysis, once validated, will provide clinicians an additional tool to identify malignant adnexal masses prior to surgery. If the final histological diagnosis is of serous epithelial ovarian cancer, through the use of the same radiomics software described above the investigators will try to identify the intrinsic characteristics of the tissue associated with the presence or absence of the BRCA 1 or 2 mutation