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.
This study is observational and double blind. It evaluates the validity of presepsin (a serum biomarker of bacterial infections) as early biomarker of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia. It will be measured at day 0 (ICU admission) and every 48 hours in every patient with Sars-Cov 2 interstitial pneumonia requiring invasive mechanical ventilation (see inclusion ad exclusion criteria) until Day 30, ICU discharge or ICU death. There will be no change in clinical practice and in pneumonia diagnosis. We will examine how the elevation of presepsin level could be an early marker of ventilator associated pneumonia or a marker of bacterial pneumonia at ICU admission, before the microbiological results or clinical diagnosis.
This study evaluates the structural parameters, by spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT), retinal vessel density, using OCT angiography, and visual acuity in patients that received endoscopic endonasal approach for the removal of an intra-suprasellar pituitary adenoma compressing the optic nerve.
The "CenTEnari" study is a cross-sectional study aiming at suveying the dietary and lifestyle habits of nonagenarians and centenarianss of citizens of the Abruzzo region, Italy.
The investigator analyzed the data of the patients admitted to the surgical department during the period 1St September - 10Th December 2020 to estimate the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the setting of a non-dedicated COVID-19 hospital and in a mild CoV-2 incidence area and to evaluate the difference of seroprevalence between Spring and Fall seasons in a cohort of patients undergoing surgery.
The anesthetic techniques for videolaparoscopic surgery include general anesthesia, and locoregional anesthesia in association with general anesthesia in order to reduce or abolish post-operative pain with a simultaneous reduction in the use of opioids and days of hospital stay. From the studies published so far on videolaparoscopic surgery in general, it is clear that the transversus abdominal plane (TAP) block could have a role in reducing the stretch wall pain secondary to pneumoperitoneum and incisional, although its role in this regard is not yet clear, nor significant statistically results have been produced. The use of erector spinae plane (ESP) block for the management of visceral pain is finding more and more space in the literature, with promising results. For videolaparoscopic gynecological surgery, the techniques of locoregional anesthesia studied in association with general anesthesia, up to now, include wall blocks, TAP block and ESP block, while neuraxial anesthesia has no indications in this regard. Although videolaparoscopic hysterectomy is considered less painful than the open-abdomen technique, it requires careful management of post-operative pain. The pain of this surgery is the result of the sum of incisional pain, at the insertion points of the laparoscopic trocars, pain due to pneumoperitoneum usually referred to the shoulder, and visceral pain purely dependent on surgical maneuvers. There is currently no strong evidence to support the use of locoregional anesthesia techniques in videolaparoscopic gynecological surgery. Few studies have been produced about this topic, and they are mostly case series or randomized controlled trials that take into consideration only one technique among those possible. To date, no study compares the various techniques to evaluate the possible superiority of one over the other. In our hospital anesthesists carry out, in normal clinical practice, all the aforementioned local anesthesia techniques. The purpose of our work is to evaluate, with a randomized non-sponsored study, the efficacy of the ESP block and the TAP block for intra and post-operative pain control in videolaparoscopic hysterectomy, and to compare the two techniques. Based on the evidence available in the literature, the two techniques are already part of the current clinical practice of the Anesthesia Unit of our hospital and the choice of one technique over the other is based on anesthetist clinical evaluation to date. The anesthetists involved in the study are adequately trained on both anesthetic procedures.
The purpose of this protocol is to generate a large registry of patients with AL amyloidosis.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the diagnostic performance of [18F]CTT1057 as a PET imaging agent for detection and localization of PSMA positive tumors using histopathology as Standard of Truth (SoT). Tissue specimens from both the primary tumor and pelvic lymph nodes dissected during surgery from patients with newly-diagnosed high-risk prostate cancer (PCa) will be used for the histopathology assessments. Approximately 195 participants will be enrolled to ensure that at least 156 participants are evaluable (i.e. have both an evaluable PET/CT scan and histopathology assessment and have not received any prohibited systemic antineoplastic therapy before the completion of PET/CT and surgery), which will be required for the calculation of the co-primary endpoints.
Large for gestational age infants (LGA) have increased risks of adverse short-term perinatal outcomes. This study aims to develop a multivariable prediction model for the risk of giving birth to a LGA baby, by using biochemical, biophysical, anamnestic, and clinical maternal characteristics available at first trimester. This prospective study includes all singleton pregnancies attending the first trimester aneuploidy screening at the Obstetric Unit of the University Hospital of Modena, in Northern Italy.
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear is mainly caused by sport injuries. 40% of injuries are attributed to noncontact mechanisms involving pivoting. Regaining quadriceps strength is a primary focus of patients pursuing a rehabilitation program after ACL reconstruction (ACLR). Unfortunately, despite rehabilitation programs aimed at reversing this muscle weakness, quadriceps strength deficits may persist for years. Moreover, this deficit leads to increased risk of sustaining another knee injury, and increased risk for developing posttraumatic osteoarthritis. At present, neither the optimal rehabilitative program nor the clinical and instrumental parameters to take into account at the time of return to activity have reached a consensus among clinicians. The investigators hypothesize that: - a persistent deficit in voluntary activation, that is an inability to achieve complete activation of a muscle, is present after ACLR. - this deficit in voluntary activation is associated with a phenomenon of "learned/acquired non-use" both in balance and during gait. This phenomenon will be demonstrated by investigating asymmetries in the recruitment of the injured lower limb in balance tests and during gait. - the "learned/acquired non-use" paradigm is associated to asymmetries in the hemispheric cortical activity. This phenomenon will be investigated through transcranial magnetic stimulation. The primary endpoint is the demonstration that the quadriceps muscle weakness after ACLR may represent a case of "learned non-use". This behaviour looks automatic and unconscious, so that the adjective "acquired" seems preferable to "learned". It consists of the under recruitment of the impaired side, once healed, as a form of unconscious protection, which is adopted when the contralateral side may carry out the function. The secondary outcome is the investigation of the correlation among the deficits in voluntary activation, in balance tests, during gait, and in the neurophysiologic trials, with the clinical conditions of the patients. It is expected that the injured lower limb show a deficit in the activation of the quadriceps muscle with respect to the contralateral one and with respect to normative data. The impaired limb will present lower recruitment in balance tests and a deficit in power production during gait. The contralesional hemisphere will demonstrate higher interhemispheric inhibition, lower short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI) and higher short-interval intracortical facilitation (SICF) with respect to the ipsilesional hemisphere. The evidence for an asymmetry between the two lower limbs would support the hypothesis that the "acquired non-use" paradigm has a role in the deficits following ACL lesions and that it is unspecific across asymmetric impairments, and independent of the underlying disease. Results from the present study will allow: - the identification of clinical and instrumental criteria to guide the return-to-sport decision following ACLR. - the estimate of the sample size for future experimental protocols and new rehabilitative programs.
A randomized, placebo-controlled study designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of paltusotine (also known as CRN00808; an orally administered nonpeptide somatostatin agonist) in subjects with acromegaly previously treated with somatostatin receptor ligand (SRL) based treatment regimens.