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 is a national multicenter study that involves 54 Internal Medicine Units throughout Italy. It is designed as a replicate of two cross-sectional surveys interspersed with an educational program. The study is composed by three steps. Phase 1 concerns a retrospective data collection pertaining to patients with known diagnosis of T2DM. In phase 2 an educational training (focused on current Diabetes Guidelines recommendations and based on possible deviations from the best clinical practice observed during phase1) will be conducted in 36 randomized centres out of the 54 ones enrolled (cluster randomization). The ratio 2:1 has been selected in order to offer to the majority of Centres the opportunity to undergo a program of training and maximize the potential positive effect of the educational program on patient management. Randomization will be performed at the beginning of the study. Centres will be selected according to their ability to prescribe all classes of antidiabetic drugs. Phase 3 will occur around 6 months after the training and concerns a new data collection mirroring the previous one. In the phase 1, as well as in the phase 3, the data collection will be based on the review of the medical records of the last 40 consecutive patients with T2DM hospitalized in each Centre of Internal Medicine (in total, 80 patients for each Centre). After a period of 6 months from the hospitalization, a phone call follow up will be performed to know the clinical status of the patient enrolled, if he/she has been re-hospitalized after the index admission and current diabetes treatment.
Diminutive colorectal polyps (≤ 5 mm) represent most of the polyps detected during colonoscopy, especially in the rectum-sigmoid tract. The characterization of these polyps by virtual chromoendoscopy is recognized as a key element for innovative imaging techniques. As a matter of facts diminutive colorectal polyps are very frequent and, if located in the rectosigmoid colon, they present a very low malignant risk (0.3% of evolution towards advanced adenoma and up to 0.08% of evolution towards invasive carcinoma). The real-time characterization would allow to identify the lowest risk polyps (hyperplastic subtype), to leave them in situ or, if resected, not to send them for histological examination, allowing a huge saving in healthcare associated costs. Recently, the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) Technology Committee established the Preservation and Incorporation of Valuable endoscopic Innovations (PIVI) document, specific for real-time histological assessment for tiny colorectal polyps, to establish reference quality thresholds. Two performance standards have been developed to guide the use of advanced imaging: 1. for diminutive polyps to be resected and discarded without pathologic assessment, endoscopic technology (when used with high confidence) used to determine histology of polyps ≤ 5mm in size, when combined with the histopathology assessment of polyps > 5 mm in size, should provide a ≥ 90% agreement in assignment of post-polypectomy surveillance intervals when compared to decisions based on pathology assessment of all identified polyps; 2. in order for a technology to be used to guide the decision to leave suspected rectosigmoid hyperplastic polyps ≤ 5 mm in size in place (without resection), the technology should provide ≥ 90% negative predictive value (when used with high confidence) for adenomatous histology. Computer-Aided-Diagnosis (CAD) is an artificial intelligence-based tool that would allow rapid and objective characterization of these lesions. The GI Genius CADx was developed to help endoscopists in their clinical practices for polyps characterization.
Kinematic and temporal analysis of the movement helps researchers and clinicians to better understand the way humans move and interact within the environment in which they live, better describe the alterations coming from impairments, and finally allow to better tailor interventions for patients. In this perspective, motion analysis has become, in the last 30 years, a remarkable and important field of research. Even if movement assessment should be a cornerstone for definition and modulation of rehabilitation interventions, there are still few motion analysis devices that are able to influence the clinical decision process; motion analysis labs are among those, but their use is unfortunately limited due to the costs of instruments and analysis. Other small unobtrusive wearable devices, easier to use and cost-effective, have been developed, like Inertial measurement units (IMU), composed by accelerometers and gyroscopes. They could therefore represent an incentive for a more widespread use of motion analysis within daily clinical activity in Rehabilitaion. Timed Up and Go Test (TUG) is a simple, widely used, functional test which involves standing up from a chair, walking three meters, turning, and going back to sit. It is used to evaluate movement, mobility, dynamic and static balance in people with musculoskeletal impairment, neurological diseases, aging related conditions, and the quality of life in people with low back pain. The only and easy outcome considered is the time to completion. Nevertheless, the application of an IMU to a subject performing TUG can provide other objective, quantitative data, like temporal and kinematic parameters of the whole test and its sub-phases. The instrumented TUG (iTUG) has already been applied, mainly in the neurorehabilitation field, in particular for Parkinson's disease and for post-stroke impairments. cLBP is one of the most burdensome health problem worldwide. cLBP has been considered a bio-psycho-social disease, characterized by pain in the lumbar region, functional impairments, and condition-related disability. Despite the obvious motor problems affecting people with cLBP, to the best of our knowledge, chronic low back pain (cLBP) has not yet been explored using iTUG. The aim of study is to analyse temporal and kinematic parameters of cLBP subjects compared to BMI and age-matched healthy subjects, through iTUG and to explore the correlations of those parameters with pain and disability.
This is a biological study for adult MDS patients who undergo HSCT procedure. Viable bone marrow samples will be collected and cryopreserved from MDS patients before transplantation and at clinical disease recurrence. CD34+ blast cells at disease relapse after HSCT will be compared with CD34+ cells collected before transplant to study genomic and transcriptomic changes.
The optimal treatment strategy in patients with early progressive disease is not well known. In recent years, novel insights into the biology of Follicular Lymphoma (FL), and especially the role of the microenvironment, have resulted in the development of multiple novel treatment modalities. These new agents may ultimately improve the outlook for patients with FL with an unfavorable course, but for the development of the optimal therapeutic strategy, knowledge on the clinical and biological determinants of early refractory FL is needed.
Anemia is the most common extraintestinal manifestation of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), Although most cases of anemia in IBD are due to iron deficiency, many patients with iron deficiency anemia (IDA) are not treated with iron supplementation. In addition, it has not been firmly established which iron supplementation modality provides the best results in terms of effectiveness and safety. In the present study the investigators will compare the effectiveness and efficacy of three iron supplementation modalities in IBD-associated IDA. There will be two arms of parenteral (iv) iron supplementation (ferric carboxymaltose and ferric gluconate) and one arm of oral supplementation (sucrosomial iron). Primary objective of the study is is to compare the efficacy of oral iron with that of the iv iron supplementation regimens. The primary outcome is measured as the percentage of patients responsive to iron supplementation. Response is defined by Hb normalization or by an Hb increase ≥2 g/dL by week 8 from start of therapy. As secondary objectives the influence of anemia and its treatment on fatigue, quality of life, hospitalizations, additional outpatient visits, number of endoscopic examinations; further treatments and relative side effects will be evaluated.
This is a multicenter, open-label, randomized, Phase 2 umbrella study of various neoadjuvant treatment combinations in participants who have muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma of the bladder and are cisplatin-ineligible or refusing cisplatin therapy and awaiting radical cystectomy.
This study will compare the efficacy and safety of belzutifan + lenvatinib versus cabozantinib in participants with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) with clear cell component after prior therapy. The primary hypothesis is that belzutifan + lenvatinib is superior to cabozantinib in terms of progression-free survival or overall survival.
A study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of fenebrutinib on disability progression and relapse rate in adult participants with RMS. Eligible participants will be randomized 1:1 to either fenebrutinib or teriflunomide. Open-Label Extension (OLE) phase is contingent on a positive benefit-risk result in the Primary Analysis of the study.
A study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of fenebrutinib on disability progression and relapse rate in adult participants with RMS. Eligible participants will be randomized 1:1 to either fenebrutinib or teriflunomide. Open-Label Extension (OLE) phase is contingent on a positive benefit-risk result in the Primary Analysis of the study.