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.
Primary objective: • To evaluate the potential efficacy of safinamide 100 mg once daily (OD), compared with placebo, as add-on therapy for PD-related chronic pain Secondary objectives: - Percentage of pain responders - Clinical Global Impression for pain - Patient Global Impression for pain - Reduction in use of pain drugs - Mood - Motor and non-motor symptoms Safety Objectives: • Safety and tolerability
Following food intake, the body activates several processes to degrade and digest it. Studies show that there is an adaptation of gastric emptying and gastrointestinal motility to a food component; therefore, considering the intestinal adaptation to chocolate, the effect on gastrointestinal motility in relation to the intake of chocolate will be investigated. The organoleptic perceptions of dark chocolate will also be analyzed to evaluate the appreciation of the product ingested by the subject.
To determine if there is a relationship between coronary flow reserve (CFR) and platelet/plasma BH2 and BH4 levels in patients with high cardiovascular risk .
Phase II study on advanced Solitary Fibrous Tumor (SFT) treated with eribulin
The aim of the study is to define a set of quantitative parameters related to articular biomechanics, which will be evaluated during some specific motor tasks. The goal is the prevention of primary and secondary anterior cruciate ligament injury in athletes. Specifically, the validation of a new comparative methodology of biomechanics analysis will be performed, based on inertial sensors and musculoskeletal models. This way, brief but exhaustive description of functional characteristics of athletes could be created and easily used in ambulatory environment.
This longitudinal study aims to research cognitive and gait phenotypes of Parkinson's disease and Supranuclear Palsy as well as to provide markers to track diseases progression using a multi-modality approach based on 3D-gait analysis and MR Imaging. Specifically, this study want to identify cognitive pattern and gait-related cerebral diffusion/functional connectivity in PD and PSP patients and to verify their progression over a period of 18 months. In summary, the current protocol proposed to investigate the following issues: - to perform a multifactorial quantitative analysis of outcomes for PD and PSP compared to a control group in order to categorize cognitive and gait pattern in the group of patients and verify if the gait can be useful as discriminator for diagnosis. - to analyze whether diffusion and resting-state functional connectivity indices are correlated with clinical disease severity scores and motor scores and how they change over time (18 months later).
This is a study in participants with advanced breast, ovarian, or prostate cancer to investigate the dose, safety, pharmacokinetics, and preliminary efficacy of ipatasertib in combination with rucaparib. The study consists of two parts: a Dose-Escalation Phase (Part 1) in participants with previously treated advanced breast cancer, ovarian cancer, or prostate cancer and a Dose-Expansion Phase (Part 2) in participants with advanced prostate cancer who have had at least one line of prior therapy with second-generation androgen-receptor (AR)-targeted agents (e.g., abiraterone, enzalutamide, apalutamide).
BACKGROUND In the context of a progressively aging population, monitoring the status of Vascular Calcifications (VC) and Vertebral Fractures (VF) over time would be of primary importance, as VC and VF are recognized to be hallmarks of severe cardiovascular events (hospitalization and/or death) and hip fractures respectively, and VF represent an under-diagnosed cause of progressive disability and pain on its own. Moreover, there is an acknowledged relationships between VC and VF. However, data about the emergence/progression of VC and the emergence/worsening of VF over time are lacking. This is likely due to the absence of monitoring instruments for VC and VF that are both precise and easily accessible/applicable. OBJECTIVE This study aims to define the observer variability of a new software developed by the study sponsor and collaborators, called Calcify2D. Calcify2D offers physicians a computer-assisted procedure to simultaneously score vascular calcifications at the abdominal aorta and lumbar vertebral fractures (according to Quantitative Vertebral Morphometry principles) based on a latero-lateral thoracolumbar spine radiography. Secondary aims are the validation of the scores obtained from latero-lateral thoracolumbar spine radiography with more invasive and/or costly gold-standard imaging modalities (Computed Tomography for VC, Magnetic Resonance for VF) that may have been acquired near-simultaneously to radiographs on the patients enrolled for the study. STUDY DESIGN Not-for-profit monocentric observational study to be conducted on the diagnostic images of the thoracolumbar spine already collected at Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli (IOR) within a previous interventional study. Scoring of VC and VF will be performed by four clinicians from four relevant specialties, chosen among those who may often see VC and VF and are already familiar with the traditional scoring systems for both VC and VF (one radiologist and one spine orthopaedics from IOR, one nephrologist from the National Research Council and one internist from University of Padua). Each clinician will assess all radiographs to score VC and QVM, both via computer assisted procedures and via traditional visual inspection. To avoid bias, an interval of at least one week will be left between the computer assisted and visual scoring. To define intra-observer variability (i.e. repeatability), the whole dataset will be re-assessed three times.
A well-functioning vascular access is essential for providing adequate life-sustaining treatment in patients with end stage renal disease on maintenance hemodialysis. The preferred long-term vascular access is the arteriovenous fistula (AVF), which is created using the vessels of the patient by surgically connecting an artery with a superficial vein to increase the blood flow (Qa) in the venous system, which will dilate allowing the insertion of two needles, one to carry the blood to the dialyzer, and the other to return the cleansed blood to the body with the aid of a dialysis machine. Unfortunately, the high prevalence of vascular disease of the hemodialysis patients make difficult to create an adequate AVF in as many as 20 to 60% of the patients.In these persons, a valid alternative is the arteriovenous graft: in graft method an artery is surgically connected to a vein with a short piece of synthetic soft tube which is implanted under the skin. Needles are inserted in the graft during the dialysis treatment. Compared to an AV, however, graft is at higher risk of complications. The most frequent complication is thrombosis (i.e. the formation of blood clot inside the graft). Usually, thrombosis is the consequence of an underlying significant stenosis (i.e. a greater than 50% narrowing of the vessel or graft lumen by comparison with the lumen of a normal adjacent vessel or graft) and its hemodynamic consequences of decreasing the access blood flow (Qa) and/or increasing pressure within the graft. Therefore, all vascular access guidelines recommend regular noninvasive screening programs of grafts for timely identification of a stenosis associated with some type of functional or hemodynamic impairment, because its repair may prevent thrombosis and lengthen the useful life of the access. Screening methods include clinical monitoring and surveillance, which uses special equipment either to assess the hemodynamic consequences of stenosis by measuring Qa and static venous intra-access pressure ratio (VAPR) or to visualize the stenosis by means of duplex ultrasound (DU). Guidelines also state that there is insufficient evidence to prefer one method to another due to the lack of adequate comparative studies. The purpose of our study is to identify an optimal screening program for stenosis detection and elective repair by comparing the diagnostic performance for stenosis and incipient thrombosis of all the available screening tools in the same graft population
To evaluate an integral approach to the maternal-fetal diad. A randomized non farmacological monocentric trial. 400 women with single spontaneous pregnancies are randomized. 200 recieve standardized traditional obstetrical care 200 recieve nutritional advice, osteopathic treatment, yoga classes, mindfulness classes and coaching as well as regular obstetrical care. We evaluate the psychological status at recruitment, at the end of pregnancy and 40 days after birth.