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 prospective, multicenter, single arm, phase II trial designed to evaluate activity and the safety of the combination of Carfilzomib (K), Lenalidomide (R) and Dexamethasone (D) in patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) relapsed/refractory (R/R) or intolerant to BTK inhibitor (BTKi) monotherapy or BTKi containing regimens with active disease necessitating treatment.
This is a single arm, open label, phase II study to evaluate the activity of avelumab (MSB0010718C) in patients with metastatic or locally advanced urothelial cancer considered unfit to cisplatin-based chemotherapy, to be conducted in conformance with Good Clinical Practices. Cisplatin-unfit patients will be defined if at least one of these characteristics is present: 1. ECOG-Performance status = 2; 2. Creatinine Clearance < 60 ml/min; 3. Grade 2 or worse peripheral neuropathy or hearing loss; 4. Previous treatment with cisplatin for adjuvant intent in six months before the progression of disease.
Post-operative pancreatic fistula (POPF) after pancreatic resection is a potentially life-threatening complication occuring in up to 27% of patients undergoing a pancreatic resection. Despite several strategies have been proposed further improvements are needed. Many studies suggest that amniotic membrane(AM) implantation is effective in tissue regeneration and prevention of fluid leakage at many surgical sites. However,the implantation of AM has never been used in pancreatic surgery. After having completed the first case of implantation of AM we proceed with this pilot study to determine in 20 consecutive patients undergone to pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) with high risk of POPF, the efficacy of AM in reducing this event and the related morbidity.
A total of 100 patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes with or without diabetes mellitus will be included. All patients will undergo coronary angiography with identification of the infarct-related vessel and percutaneous revascularization with implantation of a stent/scaffold. After revascularization patients will undergo a combined positron emission tomography (PET)-coronary computed tomography (CT) protocol to quantify atherosclerotic burden (i.e. plaque volume) and activity (i.e. 18 fluorum-sodium-fluoride [18FNaF] uptake) in non-infarct related vessels, to assess calcium score (aim 1), and to quantify the acute results of PCI in the infarct-related vessel (aim 2). At 12-month follow-up, all patients will repeat longitudinal 18FNaF PET-coronary CT evaluation to characterize progression of atherosclerosis in the non-infarct related vessels (aim 1) and to quantify neointimal suppression at the site of the treated coronary segment in the infarct-related vessel (aim 2). Blood samples will be collected at baseline and 12 months for all patients. The aims of the study are: 1. To evaluate coronary artery disease progression in acute coronary syndromes patients with and without diabetes mellitus, and to investigate the predictive value of metabolic profiles, patterns of circulating miRNAs and inflammatory mediators on coronary artery disease progression; 2. To evaluate the progression of disease within the infarct-related vessel treated with the use of bioresorbable stent/bioresorbable polymer stents in diabetic and non-diabetic patients with acute coronary syndromes.
The purpose of this study is to enable participants, currently receiving regorafenib in a Bayer-sponsored clinical trial, to continue treatment after their respective study has been closed. Patients participating in this study will be observed to collect information on how safe the drugs are and how this treatment is tolerated.
Single arm, prospective, multi-centric, phase II study. Patients with histologically confirmed follicular lymphoma, in need of a systemic approach and failing (i.e. with refractory disease [no response or response lasting less than 6 months at any previous line of treatment] or with a proven disease relapse) at least 2 previous lines of treatment, including any antibody directed against the CD20 antigen-containing chemotherapy, will undergo a combined chemo-free treatment with obinutuzumab and idelalisib.
The primary objective of this study is to evaluate whether cilofexor reduces the risk of fibrosis progression among non-cirrhotic adults with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC).
The incidence of node metastases in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is high, ranging from 20% to 90%. Prophylactic central lymph node compartment dissection (CLND), suggested from the latest guidelines for high-risk tumors, meets resistance due to the high incidence of postoperative complications. Recently, new molecular biologic techniques, such as One Step Nucleic Acid Amplification (OSNA), have spread widely, allowing to quickly isolate, amplify and quantify mRNA encoding for proteins selectively present in neoplastic cells, as Cytokeratine-19. The aim of this study is to evaluate the application of OSNA to intraoperative diagnosis of node metastases of PTC.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) witnessed relevant therapeutic progress in the last decade. Following the extraordinary progress in the treatment of relapsing-remitting (RR) multiple sclerosis (MS), two major unmet needs remain to be addressed by translational research in this field: progressive MS and the "dream" of a world free of MS. As far as the latter is concerned, the investigators can hope to make the dream come true by understanding the etiology of the disease and hence design definitive cures. A more realistic and pragmatic perspective may be the prevention of the clinical onset of the disease, a research field that promises to become increasingly important as the integration of genetic data with endophenotypes, magnetic resonance imaging and other biomarkers ameliorates the ability to predict the development of the disease under clinical circumstance. Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine has been tested with encouraging results in early MS and clinically isolated syndrome (CIS). The knowledge that disease-modifying therapies work best when used early in the demyelinating process raises the question about whether to try this approach - which is safe, cheap and handy - in individuals with radiologically isolated syndrome (RIS). Radiologically isolated syndrome is a new entity, diagnosed when the unanticipated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) finding of brain spatial dissemination of focal white matter (WM) lesions highly suggestive of MS occurs in subjects without symptoms of MS, and with normal neurological examinations. Conversion to clinically isolated syndromes (CIS) were described in 84% of RIS individuals with spinal cord lesions over a median time of 1.6 years from the date of the first MRI. Whether or not to treat this condition remains currently a clinical conundrum. Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine may have these characteristics since it resulted beneficial in early MS and first demyelinating episodes. Being safe, cheap and handy, the investigators propose to investigate its use to prevent progression of the demyelinating process in radiologically isolated syndrome. An approach such as BCG vaccine seems appropriate as a front-line immunomodulatory approach for RIS people. In a pilot study BCG vaccine was safe and effective in reducing disease activity at MRI, and the risk of developing persistent T1-hypointense lesions ('black holes' -BH- expression of tissue damage) in subjects with MS.
the study will investigate the effect of a specific type of touch intervention on the activity of autonomic nervous system measured using thermography