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.
Childhood obesity is increasing at a fast pace, together with its complications. The aim of the present study is to assess several candidate triggering agents, mechanisms and intermediate phenotypes of atherosclerosis during the post-prandial phase in the obese insulin-resistant child/adolescent.
Patients who undergo urgent/emergency coronary angiography can not receive any preventive treatment of contrast induced nephropathy. We tested the hypothesis that Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL), a new biomarker predictive for AKI, allows early and effective treatment of contrast induced nephropathy in patients with urgent/emergency coronary angiography
Postsurgical pain becomes chronic when it lasts more then two months after surgery. A neurogenic or neuropathic pathogenesis is hypothesized for this event that reaches high rates after urologic and gynecologic surgeries. Palmitoylethanolamide (PEA) binds to mast cells and regulates pro-inflammatory factors release, without adverse events. The investigators assume that perioperative administration of PEA can reduce chronic postsurgical pain incidence of patients undergoing to urologic and gynecologic elective surgery.
It has previously been shown that pretreatment with ranolazine 1,000 mg twice daily for 7 days can significantly reduce procedural myocardial injury in elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The investigators tested the hypothesis that twice overnight high-dose ranolazine loading before PCI can reduce the peri-procedural myocardial ischemic damage similarly to long-term pre-treatment with standard doses.
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with stenting may induce endothelial damage/dysfunction and inflammatory reactions, which in turn delay healing and endothelialization and may lead to restenosis and atherosclerosis within the stented segments. Drugs and polymers are considered the protagonists of these pathophysiologic processes whereas the role of stent platforms remains poorly defined.It remains unknown, conversely, if stent platforms affect the extent of post-PCI endothelial damage and inflammation.
The aim of this study is to confirm the efficacy and safety of the intra-articular injection of BT-A in a multicentric double blind randomised study. For this purpose intra-articular injection of BT-A will be compared with the intra-articular steroid injection that is the current "gold standard" for the treatment of HSP.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether liver transient elastography performed before the surgical procedure is able to predict liver failure in patients undergoing hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma.
BACKGROUND. Sustained lung inflation (SLI) associated to an adequate PEEP may help the efficacy of the respiratory effort in lung of preterm infants at risk for respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and reduce need of mechanical ventilation (MV). The investigators aim will be to demonstrate the hypothesis that the introduction of SLI in the delivery room protocol may reduce the need of MV in preterm infants. STUDY DESIGN: Multicenter prospective randomized controlled trial. The study will be carried out at the neonatal care units of the Careggi Infants with a gestational age between 25 and 28 weeks will be eligible and randomized at birth to receive SLI or not. Peak inflation pressure (PIP) of 25 cm H2O will be delivered for 15 seconds and then reduced to a positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) of 5 cm H2O. Primary endpoint will be the need of MV within the first 72 hrs of life (excluding the transient tracheal intubation for surfactant replacement: e.g. INSURE). Population size: hypothesizing that SLI maneuver might decrease the need of MV during the first 72 hours of life from 35 to 20% the investigators calculated that 138 newborns must be enrolled in each groups to detect this difference statistically significant with 80% power at 0.05 level.
This randomized, single-blind, parallel-group study will investigate the efficacy and the tolerability of a combination treatment of etoricoxib (30 mg/day) plus controlled-release oxycodone (10 mg/day) compared with a titrated dose of etoricoxib up to 60mg/day as monotherapy , in patients with Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP) who have not responded to the starting dose of Etoricoxib 30mg/day. A common clinical question is that is it better to increase the dose of the current monotherapy or to combine both treatments early on, in patients who do not respond to standard start doses of NSAIDs like etoricoxib.
The aim of this study is to assess possible differences between the LESS approach and the standard laparoscopic approach to cholecystectomy. In particular, the Postoperative Quality of Life (QoL) will be investigated by analyzing the followings: length of hospital stay (LoS), postoperative pain, cosmetics and the results of SF 36 questionnaire. Furthermore, operative time, conversion to standard LC rate, difficulty of exposure, difficulty of dissection, and complication rate will be compared.