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 objective of the study is to investigate clinical outcomes following single versus dual stenting strategies for the treatment of true bifurcation distal left main coronary artery lesions.
This study aims to assess the presence and the intensity of voluntary and cough reflex in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), comparing the results with the healthy control group. The assessment of the cough is fundamental to verify the mechanism of airways protection which is particularly compromised in ALS patients. Objective parameters of voluntary and reflex cough would be measured by the spirometer. The reflex of cough would be elicited by a solution of citric acid through an ultrasonic nebulizer.
The cough assessment is fundamental in the weaning process as it gives information on the possibility to expel food and secretion out from the airways. The majority of persons suffering from severe acquired brain injury are not able to cough voluntary due to severe cognitive deficit. In the present study, it would be evaluated the intensity of the reflex cough (RC) and the results would be correlated with weaning outcome.
Advanced airway interventions are common high risk, high stakes events for children in intensive care units (ICU) and emergency departments (ED), with risk for life and health threatening consequences.
Open label, randomized, multicenter, phase II study to compare the efficacy, in terms of non-inferiority of progression-free survival (PFS), of maintenance with panitumumab alone (arm B) as compared to panitumumab with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and leucovorin (LV) (arm A) following induction treatment with 5-fluorouracil + leucovorin+oxaliplatin (FOLFOX-4) and panitumumab in patients with RAS wild-type, metastatic colorectal cancer. The study involves an induction phase with panitumumab as 1 hour intravenous infusion at the dosage of 6 mg/kg, given every two weeks, plus FOLFOX-4 chemotherapy as standard guidelines. Before start of FOLFOX-4 plus panitumumab, at the time of enrollment, patients will be immediately randomized electronically 1:1 to one of the two maintenance arms. Induction treatment with FOLFOX-4 plus panitumumab will continue until progressive disease, unacceptable toxicity or informed consent withdrawal, or for up to 8 cycles. At the end of induction treatment, in presence of complete or partial response, or stable disease, non-progressing patients will be allocated to one of the two pre-assigned maintenance arms: A) 5-FU/LV (De Gramont regimen) plus panitumumab given at 6 mg/Kg every two weeks until progressive disease, unacceptable toxicity or informed consent withdrawal B) Panitumumab alone given at 6 mg/Kg every two weeks until progressive disease, unacceptable toxicity or informed consent withdrawal Imaging studies (thorax and abdominal CT or MRI scan) will be performed at baseline (4 weeks prior enrollment) and every 8 weeks (4 cycles) during treatment.
Celiac disease is one of the most common forms of food intolerance (prevalence 1/200). The disease occurs in genetically predisposed individuals after ingestion of foods containing gluten. Celiac patients can suffer from severe malabsorption syndrome, mainly characterized by diarrhea and weight loss. The only therapeutic approach currently recognized is a life-long gluten-free diet. Specific regions of gluten molecule become recognizable by lymphocytes and activate them, due to changes made by tissue transglutaminase. These changes consist in the conversion of specific residues of glutamine into glutamic acid. The consequence is an increased binding affinity between gluten and histocompatibility molecule (HLA-DQ2), localized on the surface of the "antigen presenting cells" (APC); the exposure of the fragments of modified gluten on the surface of APC is a phenomenon that eventually activates T lymphocytes. Recent studies on modified gluten confirmed the hypothesis that it is possible to block the presentation of gluten to lymphocytes by means of lysine ethyl ester binding exclusively to those gluten regions responsible for lymphocyte activation. The enzymatic treatment is performed directly on flour instead of extracted gluten, maintaining the same anti-inflammatory effectiveness. The procedure uses a food-grade enzyme, the microbial transglutaminase (mTGasi) isolated from Streptoverticillium mobarensis, able to catalyze the formation of intermolecular "cross-links" that modify the functional properties of the products. Objective of the study is to validate the ability of the enzyme treatment of wheat flour with mTGasi and lysine ethyl ester to block the toxic effect of gluten in celiac patients.
This cross-over study will investigate the efficacy and safety of BIMMD and TUDPF in a clinical setting.
The objectives of the study are to confirm safety and performance of the Zimmer Nexel Total Elbow when used in primary or revision total elbow replacement.
This Phase 3, open-label, triple arm study aims to evaluate the overall survival (OS) of fotemustine versus the combination of ipilimumab and fotemustine or the combination of Ipilimumab and nivolumab in patients with metastatic melanoma with brain metastasis.
In this prospective multicentric study, the University of Pavia together with the Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia and the IRCCS Fondazione Maugeri, Pavia, Italy will provide a systematic analysis of gene mutations in hematological malignancies by using NGS techniques. Patients with a conclusive diagnosis of haematological malignancies according to WHO criteria referred to the Rete Ematologica Lombarda clinical network (REL, www.rel-lombardia.net) will be enrolled. The investigators will analyse genomic DNA extracted from hematopoietic cells at different time points of patient disease. The study contemplates the use of molecular platforms (Next Generation Sequencing, NGS) aimed at the identification of recurrent mutations in myeloid and lymphoid neoplasms, respectively. Screening of gene mutations by NGS will be prospectively implemented in the context of REL clinical network. Patient samples will be analyzed at diagnosis and sequentially during the course of the disease at specific timepoints. The researchers will analyze the correlations between somatic mutations, specific clinical phenotypes (according to the WHO classification) and disease evolution. This will allow to: 1) identify new recurrent genetic mutations involved in the molecular pathogenesis of hematological malignancies; 2) define the role of mutated genes, distinguishing between genes which induce a clonal proliferation of hematopoietic stem cells, and genes which determine the clinical phenotype of the disease; 3) identify mutations which are responsible for disease evolution; 4) define the diagnostic/prognostic role of the identified mutations, and update the current disease classifications and prognostic scores by including molecular parameters. A systematic biobanking of biological material will be provided.