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.
Retrospective, non-interventional, observational multi-center field study. Patients diagnosed with wet Age-related macular degeneration (wAMD) and having started treatment with ranibizumab between January 1, 2009 and August 31, 2009 must be consecutively screened and, if eligible, enrolled. Patients will be followed up at maximum until August 31, 2011. Switch to any other Anti vascUlar endothelial growth factor (anti VEGF) treatment will be documented and followed up. For each patient, demographics, medical history, administered treatments, results of ocular and visual assessments and other tests (where available) will be documented.
High fructose intake is increasingly recognized as causative in development of prediabetes, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease (CVD). The mechanisms underlying fructose-induced metabolic disturbances are unclear but are beginning to be unraveled. In contrast to metabolism of glucose, the breakdown of fructose leads to the generation of metabolites that stimulate hepatic de novo lipogenesis (DNL) and increased levels of both fasting and postprandial triglycerides. The key lipogenic transcription factor seems to be activated by fructose independently of insulin. However, it is still controversial whether fructose consumption increases DNL in man to the extent that it induces metabolic disturbances. Animal studies have shown that also the adipose tissue is responsive to fructose feeding fructose, and that high fructose-feeding induces insulin resistance and inflammation in the adipose tissue. The role of intestinal insulin resistance in fructose-induced dysmetabolism has not been studied in detail. The critical question is whether the metabolic disturbances are induced by calorie excess or by fructose per se.
This is a multicenter, international, prospective, observational study of patients who are receiving systemic chemotherapy for solid tumour cancers (breast, colorectal, ovarian, prostate, lung, bladder, endometrial, renal, pancreatic, esophageal or gastric) and who are receiving darbepoetin alfa (Aranesp®) or other erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA) to treat symptomatic anaemia. Quality of Life will be assessed electronically with the aim of estimating improvement in quality of life for those patients receiving darbepoetin alfa (Aranesp®) who also have an increase in haemoglobin (Hb) of ≥1 g/dL
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the safety of Symbicort compared to inhaled corticosteroid alone during 6 months in adult and adolescent patients with asthma
A Safety Study using Entocort EC for children with mild to moderate Crohn's Disease
To demonstrate the additional benefit of roflumilast when added on to fixed-dose combination (FDC) LABA/ICS in the reduction of exacerbations in subjects with severe to very severe COPD.
The CONFIRM study was developed to examine the prognostic value of cardiac computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) findings for prediction of future adverse cardiac events related to coronary artery disease (CAD) in a large, international patient population. The purpose of this multicenter registry is to correlate coronary and non-coronary cardiac findings by CCTA with demographic and clinical data for refinement of risk stratification of individuals with suspected or known CAD.
This is a multi-center, open label study to assess pharmacokinetics (PK) of TKI258 at single-dose and steady state in adult cancer patients either with mild, moderate or severe hepatic impairment or with normal hepatic function. Hepatic function in study patients will be categorized as normal, mild, moderate or severe based upon pre-dose (Day 1) total bilirubin and AST/ALT levels. Starting dose of TKI258 will depend on total bilirubin and ALT/AST levels at baseline. Patients will be treated until disease progression (assessed by RECIST 1.1), unacceptable toxicity, death or discontinuation from the study treatment for any other reason.
The study aims to evaluate the predictability of early response to Certolizumab pegol in combination with Methotrexate at one year in patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis.
Intravesical treatment for superficial bladder cancer has been used for the past 4-5 decades. Intravesical chemotherapy is beneficial in terms of recurrence and time to recurrence in grade 1-2 stage Ta tumours, usually non-invasive. Intravesical chemotherapy has negligible effect on disease progression in high-risk superficial bladder cancer—ie, grade 3, stage T1, and carcinoma in situ. However, BCG as induction and maintenance treatment effectively delays progression. Electromotive mitomycin increases tissue uptake compared with that of passive diffusion. Electromotive mitomycin has emerged as an alternative or complementary treatment to BCG. The rationale for combining anticancer drugs is based on the need to increase efficacy and reduce emergence of resistant malignant cells. This approach is not frequently applied to use of intravesical agents for treatment of superficial bladder cancer, for which immunotherapeutic BCG and chemotherapeutic mitomycin seem to be a potentially effective combination. Studies have addressed concurrent use of mitomycin and BCG, and assigned two roles to mitomycin: antitumor action and tissue-scarifying (ie, surface-modifying) effect that enables BCG to attach more efficiently to the urothelium. The investigators therefore aimed to assess whether induction of inflammation by use of BCG before mitomycin treatment makes the bladder mucosa more permeable and thus enables mitomycin to reach the target more easily. This randomised trial to compare the efficacy of sequential BCG and electromotive mitomycin with that of the current standard of BCG alone for patients with high-risk superficial bladder cancer. After transurethral resection and multiple biopsies patients with stage pT1 bladder cancer are randomly assigned to: 81 mg BCG infused over 120 min once a week for 6 weeks; or to 81 mg BCG infused over 120 min once a week for 2 weeks, followed by 40 mg electromotive mitomycin (intravesical electric current 20 mA for 30 min) once a week as one cycle for three cycles (n=107). Complete responders underwent maintenance treatment: those assigned BCG alone had one infusion of 81 mg BCG once a month for 10 months, and those assigned BCG and mitomycin had 40 mg electromotive mitomycin once a month for 2 months, followed by 81 mg BCG once a month as one cycle for three cycles. The primary endpoint was disease-free interval; secondary endpoints were time to progression; overall survival; and disease-specific survival. Analyses were intention to treat.