There are about 5161 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Norway. 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.
The investigators decided to make a study with a cohort of patients as homogenous as possible with a cross clamp time around 70 min. Adult patients with a severe aortic stenoses without any other significant heart disease was included in our prospective randomised study. This group of patients was chosen for two reasons. First, these patients have left ventricular hypertrophy making the myocardium vulnerable to ischemia, secondly the investigators wanted to avoid the possible confounding effect of ischemia found in patients with variable degrees of coronary artery disease. Therefore, patients with additional significant coronary artery disease (≥ 50% stenoses) were excluded from the study.
The objectives of this study are to evaluate the safety and efficacy of intravitreal administration of Fovista® administered in combination with either Avastin® or Eylea® compared to Avastin® or Eylea® monotherapy in subjects with subfoveal choroidal neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Use of vasopressor to maintain Mean Arterial Pressure on Cardio Pulmonary Bypass can lead to decreased cerebral flow and oxygenation in individual patients and this can be detected by means of cerebral oxymetry.
Vasopressor for current treatment protocols for acute traumatic brain injury can lead to vasoconstriction and thus cerebral hypoperfusion that can be detected with cerebral oxymetry as a drop in SCO2.
The purpose of this randomised controlled trial is to compare a new standardised summary format for presentation of synthesised evidence from systematic reviews for the public (a new plain language summary format) to the current format used in Cochrane systematic reviews. The study will evaluate if the new presentation improves understanding about the benefits and harms of an intervention, if it improves the accessibility of the information, and if it is preferred over other versions by the public over the current format.
The investigators are planning to do a cluster randomized trial to test the effect of different educational programs for staff according to nursing home patients FI (fecal incontinence). Since there are very few published trials of treatment of FI in older people, and no rigorously evaluated studies on interventions for FI in nursing homes, or rigorously evaluated continence education program for staff concerning continence care, a pilot study is necessary. The aim for the pilot study is to evaluate feasibility, acceptability and adherence according to the educational intervention, methods used and outcome measures. This is designed to be an external pilot study. External pilot studies are small scale versions of the main study which are not intended to be part of the main study. The pilot intervention period is 3 month.
The overall is aim of this pilot study is to give a preliminary estimation of key parameters of the pharmacokinetics of a proper formulation of intranasal naloxone. These data will be used to design a well justified protocol for the final estimation of these parameters: - Preliminary estimation of bioavailability of this intranasal naloxone in human, healthy volunteers - Preliminary estimation of the maximum serum concentration (Cmax) of this formulation - Preliminary estimation of the time to maximum serum concentration (Tmax) of this formulation - Safety of the formulation
This study aims to determine if treatment with apixaban, compared with aspirin, will reduce the risk of ischemic stroke and systemic embolism in patients with device-detected sub-clinical atrial fibrillation and additional risk factors for stroke.
This is a prospective study of patients receiving radiotherapy or chemoradiotherapy for anal cancer. Treatment effect in terms of survival and local recurrence will be analyzed. The utility of PET-CT and MRI for radiotherapy and for prediction of treatment effect will be investigated. Molecular and genetic markers in tumor and blood will be analyzed for prognostic and predictive effects. Patient-reported outcomes, such as faecal incontinence, sexual dysfunction and quality of life will be assessed. A structured intervention program for management of late effects will be evaluated. Symptom relief of palliative radiotherapy will be investigated. The main purpose of the study is to increase the knowledge of anal cancer treatment, improve treatment results, and improve anal cancer survivor care.
Eligible subjects must have completed 6 doses of treatment of radium-223 dichloride and experienced no radium-223 dichloride-related SAEs (serious adverse events) or CTCAE (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events) Grade 3 or 4 adverse event during or after the initial course of radium-223 dichloride that led to the discontinuation of treatment. 40 Subjects will be enrolled and will receive up to 6 doses of radium-223 dichloride 50 kBq/kg IV every 4 weeks. The subject will be evaluated for AEs (adverse events) and laboratory tests at each visit every 4 weeks, prior to receiving radium-223 dichloride. After the end of treatment visit the subjects will enter the active follow up period. Related AEs and SAEs and Lab tests will be evaluated at each visit every 4 weeks for the first 12 weeks, then every 12 weeks for up to 2 years after the last dose of radium-223 dichloride. After the 2 years of active follow-up, subjects will enter the long-term follow-up period and will be followed via telephone follow-up at 6-month intervals for late toxicities and survival up to 7 years after the last dose of radium-223 dichloride or until death. Joint safety reviews will regularly take place to oversee safety of the subjects conducted at regular intervals. An interim analysis of the safety data will be conducted during the study.