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 aim of this study is to investigate the mechanisms underlying the complex interaction between Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer. Therefore, in order to identify a possible role of immune checkpoints not only in the susceptibility to COPD development but also in its evolution towards lung cancer, will be evaluate the correlation between PD-L1 expression and cigarette smoke exposure in COPD patients. Although there are many epidemiological studies highlighting the interconnections between COPD and lung cancer and the influence of cigarette smoke, the molecular bases of this association are less well defined. Initially they were thought to be driven just by innate inflammation, however, recent studies have also demonstrated the influence of the adaptive immune system. Despite this, the role of immune checkpoints in chronic lung inflammatory diseases such as COPD is less well understood. COPD is currently the 4th leading cause of death worldwide but is assessed to be the 3rd by the end of 2020 resulting in an economic and social burden that is in continuous progression.
Venous ulcers are defined by the presence of open lesions which represent the final stage of chronic venous disease or post-thrombotic syndrome. The risk factors for the development of venous ulcers include age, obesity, female sex, trauma, immobility, factor V mutation, thrombosis, venous agenesis. Recommendation by the current guidelines includes compression and advanced dressing. However, in several cases, they fail to change patients' outcome. The aim of this study is to identify an alternative therapy to treat venous trophic lesions not responding to traditional therapeutic approaches using extracellular vesicles obtained from autologous serum.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex group of behavioral disorders characterized by defects in social interaction and communication associated with restricted and repetitive behaviors and activities. The prevalence in pediatric age is continuously increasing in Western countries (58-67 / 10,000). The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders version 5 (DSM-5) describes a worldwide population prevalence of approximately 1%. According to the latest data from the National Observatory for the monitoring of ASD, in Italy 1 child out of 77 (age 7-9 years) has the disease with a higher prevalence in males: males are affected 4.4 times more than females . The clinical manifestations of ASD are the result of complex interactions between genetic, epigenetic, environmental and microbiological factors. Alterations in nutritional status, eating habits and adverse reactions to food appear to be more frequent in children with ASD. It is estimated that 46-89% of children with ASD have feeding problems which can include unusual eating patterns, rituals and food selectivity. These types of eating behaviors can lead to severe alterations in nutritional status. Furthermore, the data present in the literature concerning the eating habits of children with ASD suggest a high consumption of "junk food" and foods rich in calories together with a refusal of fruit, vegetables or proteins. These data suggest that the dietary and behavioral problems frequently present in these children could favor a condition of obesity. Finally, a high percentage of children with ASD undergo elimination diets, characterized by exclusions of foods relevant to the diet of a child such as milk and gluten to alleviate the symptoms of the disease. Such elimination diets are only rarely supervised by a nutritionist with further consequences on nutritional status.
It is a retrospective observational study based on the analysis of the medical records of patients treated for chronic pelvic pain and benign gynecological pathologies at the Gynecology Unit of the University Hospital of Modena from 2010 to 2019. The aim of the study is to analyze the effects of medical and surgical treatments on chronic pelvic pain and associated pathologies.
The present study is an open-label, randomized, controlled, two-arm multi-center study of the efficacy of L19TNF treatment in combination with doxorubicin versus doxorubicin alone in advanced or metastatic soft-tissue sarcoma patients. In the study, 102 patients will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to receive doxorubicin treatment (Arm 1) or L19TNF treatment in combination with doxorubicin (Arm 2). The primary objective of the trial is to evaluate if L19TNF in combination with doxorubicin (Arm 2) given for unresectable or metastatic soft tissue sarcoma improves efficacy measured as progression free survival, as compared to doxorubicin alone (Arm 1).
The objective of this study is to capture the change in pain intensity, physical/emotional function, and pain impact for patients diagnosed with neuropathic pain who undergo an Exablate treatment.
The CAvEAT study is a not for profit, international, multicenter study aimed to assess the feasibility of selective coronary angiography (CA) after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), to investigate predictors of successful selective cannulation (anatomical, technical, etc.) and to investigate if there is a significant difference among different type of transcatheter valves in selective coronary cannulation.
For one-third of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy alternative approaches must be investigated in order to improve the quality of their life. A possible approach is to find automatic methods to detect/predict seizures, in order to adopt interventional actions to stop or abort the seizure or to limit its side effect. The main problem in this case is to evaluate the reproducibility of such methods and to standardize them, because there is a lack of availability of long-term electroencephalography (EEG) data. In this study we want to create a large long-term EEG database, called NEED (Neuromed Epilepsy EEG Database), whos aim is to give researchers a way to test their method in a large collection of data. The database will contain long-term EEG recordings of 200 patients as well as extensive metadata and standardized annotation of the data sets and will be made freely available for the download to the research community.
There is no specific therapy for acute kidney injury. It is presumed that supportive measures improve the care and outcome of patients with acute kidney injury. The investigators hypothesize that the implementation of a bundle of supportive measures adapted to patients undergoing major surgery reduces the occurrence of AKI. This randomized prospective multicenter trial is needed to investigator whether the implementation of the bundle of measures is effective to prevent AKI in high risk patients undergoing major surgery.
This research is designed to determine if experimental treatment with PARP inhibitor, AZD5305, alone, or in combination with anti-cancer agents is safe, tolerable, and has anti-cancer activity in patients with advanced solid tumors.