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.
Stair climbing up and down is an essential part of everyday's mobility. Physiotherapy is focused on muscle strengthening, real floor walking and stairs climbing tasks, but these methods do not stress in terms of intensity stair-climbing practice. The aims of this study is to compare whether an intensive robot-assisted stair climbing training (RASCT) is more effective than conventional physiotherapy (CP) for improving stair climbing ability, gait and postural control in stroke patients.
This is a study to compare two different, but normally, used methods of colonoscopy in patients that require a routine or repeat colonoscopy. There will be three arms in this study: WE water control, water plus Cap-1, and water plus Cap-2. The patient will prepare himself/herself for the colonoscopy as per normal instructions and he/she will be given the information for the study at that time so that he/she can make a decision to participate in the study. The control method will use water instead of air inserted into the colon. The study method will use a new accessory, a cap that will fit onto the end of the colonoscope plus water during the procedure. This study will also confirm if using the cap method with water is a better way of detecting polyps in the colon and possibly cancer.
The main purpose of this study is to: - Learn about the safety of REGN4018 and to find out what dose of REGN4018 can be given alone or with cemiplimab to patients with ovarian cancer or cancer of the uterus - The study will also look at the levels of REGN4018 and/or cemiplimab in your body and measure how well your body can remove the study drug(s). This is called pharmacokinetics - The study will also look at any signs that REGN4018 alone or with cemiplimab can treat recurrent advanced ovarian cancer or cancer of the uterus - To find out how safe and tolerable the sarilumab pretreatment is, in combination with REGN4018 and cemiplimab
The very low carbohydrates diet (VLCKD) induces liver steatosis amelioration. Lysosomal acid lipase (LAL) deficiency plays a role in fats accumulation in liver. To date, no studies have assessed LAL activity in morbid obesity. The aim of our study is to evaluate VLCKD impact on metabolic/vascular parameters and LAL activity in obese patients. A VLCKD is administered for 25 days to 52 morbid obese patients (BMI 44.7±8.3 kg/m², age 49±12.5 years); at baseline and after diet we evaluated: BMI, glyco-lipidic pattern, abdominal ultrasonography (liver steatosis and visceral fat area) and flow-mediated dilation (FMD). In a subgroup of 20 patients we also tested lysosomal acid lipase (LAL)-activity. A group of healthy normal weight subjects (age 43±13, BMI 22.8±2.6 kg/m²) was also included in the study.
The purpose of the present study is to prospectively investigate the correlation between the metabolic parameters on FDG-PET before and during immunotherapy treatment with the immune infiltrate and other tissue or circulating markers in a NSCLC patients candidate to immunotherapy.
This is an international (North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia), multi-center, prospective, open-label treatment study, designed to continue to provide the study medication to all patients who completed 12 months of treatment (including those treated with placebo) in the IEDAT-02-2015 trial, completed the study assessments, do not present safety contraindication to continuation of treatment, and provided informed consent. The study aims to collect information on the long-term safety and efficacy of the trial treatment.
Functional assessment of non-culprit lesions during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute coronary syndrome could improve risk stratification and long-term prognosis. It was previously demonstrated the diagnostic accuracy of instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) in functional assessment of non-culprit lesions in multivessel patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), also highlighting the intralesional reproducibility of both fractional flow reserve (FFR) and iFR between baseline and staged. In this study the investigators aimed to verify the clinical impact on long-term outcome of iFR assessment in the acute multivessel setting.
Prospective evaluation of early diagnosis of anastomotic leak after colorectal resection through evaluation of Dutch leakage score, serum C-reactive protein and serum Procalcitonin
Despite the wide range of studies concerning the positive effects of bariatric surgery on metabolic state of morbid obese patient, it is necessary to further investigate the specific role of the "sleeve-gastrectomy" intervention, going not only to research results in terms of safety or efficacy on the treatment of comorbidities, but also aimed to understand whether the improvement of metabolic and cardiovascular parameters is due to total weight loss or rather to visceral fat loss, and how much of this improvement is attributable to changes in inflammatory status. The primary endpoint of the study is to evaluate the effect of sleeve-gastrectomy on metabolic parameters (glyco-lipidic assessment, vitamins), bone-remodelling parameters (vitamin D, parathormone) and cardiovascular parameters (blood pressure, flow-mediated dilation, indexed left ventricular mass, inter-ventricular septum, carotid intima-media thickness) in a large obese population on the basis of total weight loss (TWL), variation of visceral fat area (VFA), variation of peri-renal fat thickness and insulin resistance index ("Homeostasis Model Assessment-insulin resistance" - HOMA). In addition the investigators set themselves the objective of assessing whether the presence of comorbidities (diabetes and hypertension) can influence the effects of the intervention on the above parameters, and whether the levels of the NETs and of adipokines such as chemerin in the pre- and post-intervention can correlate with the metabolic-vascular dysfunction, and play a role in its eventual improvement.
INTRODUCTION: About 6-8% of patients undergoing PCI have an indication for long-term oral anticoagulants (OACs) due to various conditions such as atrial fibrillation (AF), mechanical heart valves, or venous thromboembolism. The addition of single or double antiplatelet therapy to OACs therapy results in an increase in bleeding complications (1-4). The standard of care of management in this patients, indicated by 2017 ESC focused update on dual antiplatelet therapy in coronary artery disease (5), recommends the use of a triple therapy (Aspirin, clopidogrel and OAC) for 1-6 months (depending on the ischemic and hemorrhagic risk), then continue with double therapy only up to twelve month (Aspirin or clopidogrel and OAC) and after twelve months continue with the OAC only; the use of prasugrel or ticagrelor as part of triple therapy should be avoided (6). Only RELY study enrolled a small number of patients, less than one thousand, treated with dabigatran plus DAPT. Moreover, In the recent RCTs (WOEST(7), PIONEER AF-PCI study(8) and REDUAL-PCI(9)) only the double therapy (Aspirin or Clopidogrel/ticagrelor and DOAC) against triple therapy with warfarin was tested; and furthermore patients enrolled in RCTs represent only a small and not always representative sample of people treated in everyday clinical practice, who report a large burden of comorbidities and an older age. Randomized head to head comparison of warfarin and DOACs life-long (over 12 months from the PCI) have not been performed yet with clinical events as end points. AIMS: Aim of the present study is to describe the contemporary management of patients who underwent a PCI and have an indication to OAC for AF evaluating the different types of combination therapies used (triple therapy with warfarin or with DOAC, single anti-platelet therapy plus warfarin or DOAC) and their management in the first year after a PCI in a "real-life" setting. Secondary we would also evaluate the safety (in term of bleedings) and the efficacy (in term of ischemic and cardioembolic events) of the use of the different combination of single or double antiplatelet with OACs, in patients with coronary artery disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a retrospective, multicenter study including patients presenting with coronary artery disease (acute or stable setting) undergoing to PCI, in single or double antiplatelet therapy (aspirin, clopidogrel, ticagrelor, prasugrel, aspirin and clopidogrel, aspirin and ticagrelor, aspirin and prasugrel) with an indication to anticoagulant therapy (warfarin, dabigatran, rivaroxaban, edoxaban). The different groups will be compared with a propensity score analysis with matching. Primary (efficacy) end-points: - A composite end points including death, myocardial infarction, stent thrombosis, revascularization stroke (MACE). - A composite end points including death, myocardial infarction, stent thrombosis, revascularization, stroke and BARC [Bleedings according to the Bleeding Academic Research Consortium] 2,3,5 (7,8): all events mutually exclusive (NACE). Secondary end-points: Individual components of NACE; Cardiac death; Stroke; Target vessel revascularization (TVR) and non TVR and the number of the revascularization.