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.
Background While several articles have reported about the effects of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) on the lower esophageal sphincter (LES), to date, just one paper has discussed this issue with regard the Mini/One anastomosis gastric bypass (MGB/OAGB). This is expected to be the first randomized trial exploring and comparing these two interventions. Setting "Federico II" University Hospital, Naples - ITALY. Methods Fifty morbid obese patients are going to be studied. All patients presenting with a normal preoperative LES function will be randomly assigned to undergo LSG (arm 1 - 25 pts) or MGB (arm 2 - 25 pts). Patients undergo clinical assessment for reflux symptoms, and esophago-gastro-duodenoscopy (EGDS) plus high-resolution impedance manometry (HRiM) and 24-hour pH-impedance monitoring (MII-pH) before, two months and 1 year after both LSG or MGB/OAGB. Objective Endpoint 1: Does this surgery affect the LES area function in both arm 1 or arm 2 patients determining a possible increase in gastroesophageal acid or non acid reflux? Endpoint 2: Does one between the two procedures outperform the other one in terms of eventual LES area modifications? Endpoint 3: In the case of a good performance of LSG or MGB/OAGB or both the procedures, is this to be primarily related to surgery per se or to weight loss?
Comparative study on surgery versus definitive radiation therapy in primary localized sacral chordoma
Revascularization of borderline coronary stenoses (40-70%) is usually driven by fractional flow reserve (FFR) which expresses the physiological significance of a lesion and tells the operator whether PCI may reduce the rate of adverse events as compared to medical therapy. Coronary stenoses with FFR value < 0.80 are indeed associated with a higher rate of adverse event and requires coronary revascularization whereas lesions with FFR > 0.80 show an excellent prognosis which cannot be improved by coronary stenting. Such a predictive value of FFR is theoretically based only on the degree of myocardial ischemia downstream from a given coronary stenosis: however, also plaque composition may play a crucial role in triggering future events especially in patients affected by acute coronary syndrome. Differences in plaque composition between FFR-positive and FFR negative lesions have never been assessed. Intracoronary Near-InfraRed Spectroscopy (NIRS) identifies lipid rich plaques that can potentially cause acute events. The aim of this study is to compare the lipid content expressed by LCBI (Lipid Core Burden Index) between functionally significant (FFR < 0.80) and non-significant (FFR > 0.80) stenoses in patients undergoing coronary angiography because of stable CAD and non-ST elevation acute coronary syndromes. This is an observational, prospective, multicentric study where we plan to collect 150 coronary lesions.
The aim of our study is to investigate the effects of 6 months oh HRT on total anti-oxidant capacity, clinical, endocrine and metabolic features in women affected by hypotalamic amenorrhea. The study group included 20 patients treated with 1 mg of transdermal estradiol daily and 10mg of oral Medroxyprogesterone acetate from 16th to 24th day of therapy for six months. Menstrual pattern, anthropometric parameters, hormonal assays, DXA and bone metabolism parameters are evaluated before and after therapy.
Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OPSCC) arises in the soft palate, tonsils, base of tongue, pharyngeal wall, and the vallecula. Most of the patients with early stage OPSCC are usually cured. Treatment of early stage OPSCC can be successfully achieved with primary surgery including neck dissection, as indicated, or with definitive radiotherapy. The current standard treatment for OPSCC is therefore based on either surgery and/or radiotherapy, both associated with comparable, high tumor control rates but with different side effects profiles and technical constraints. In order to decrease the potential morbidity of surgery, transoral approaches have been developed within the last decades, including transoral robotic surgery (TORS), transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) or conventional transoral techniques. On the other hand, patients with head and neck cancer treated with IMRT experienced significant improvements in cause specific survival (CSS) compared with patients treated with non-IMRT techniques thus suggesting that IMRT may be beneficial in terms of patient's outcomes and toxicity profile. It is as yet unclear however, which one of the new techniques is superior to the other in terms of function preservation. Given that the functional outcome of most importance is swallowing function, the preservation of swallowing is thus of major importance. The main objective of the study is to assess and compare the patient-reported swallowing function over the first year after randomization to either IMRT or TOS among patients with early stage OPSCC, SGSCC, and HPSCC.
The purpose of this European, multicentric, prospective, non-interventional study is to document and evaluate the efficacy and safety of the treatment of severely infected patients with intravenously administered fosfomycin, including patients with osteomyelitis, complicated urinary tract infection, nosocomial lower respiratory tract infection, bacterial meningitis/central nervous system infection, bacteraemia/sepsis, skin and soft tissue infection, endocarditis or other infections, each as far as covered by the respective nationally relevant SmPC.
The purpose of this study is to update the EORTC QLQ Breast (BR)-23 Module. Since the development of BR-23 published 1996 the standard therapy of breast cancer has changed. New therapies brought new side effects and different impact on QoL (quality of life) are not sufficiently covered by EORTC QLQ BR-23 and an update of the module could be useful, both from clinical and scientific point of view.
The aim of this registry is to collect clinical data on nitinol self-expanding STENTYS Xposition S™ in order to evaluate the efficacy and safety in patients presenting with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction
The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a clinical outcome measure to evaluate disability and disease progression of children 3 years of age and younger (infants and toddlers) with various types of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT).
Rationale: Haemophilia is a rare disease; to improve knowledge international collaboration is needed. Well-defined clinical data will be collected from complete cohorts in order to prevent selection bias. Objective: To collect data on bleeding during neonatal period, endogenous (genetic) and exogenous (treatment-related) determinants of inhibitor development and long term outcome.