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Filter by:HIV+MSM (men who have sex with men) that have been cured of a hepatitis C viral infection (HCV) are at risk for HCV re-infection (5-10% per year). One intervention to reduce HCV incidence in this population may be to decrease the time to diagnosis of HCV re-infections in order to decrease the duration that these re-infected patients may transmit their HCV to sex partners. Diagnosis of HCV re-infection is followed by counseling on transmission risk in combination with prompt initiation of HCV therapy, which will prevent new HCV infections on the population level. In this study the investigators evaluate the effect and feasibility of more frequent and home-based testing for HCV on the time to diagnosis and treatment of HCV re-infections.
This study was to assess the safety and efficacy of Seraprevir in combination with sofosbuvir administered for 12 weeks in patients with Hepatitis C (HCV) genotype1. Efficacy was assessed by the rate of sustained viral response (SVR) 12 weeks after the discontinuation of therapy (SVR12).
The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of a combination of motivational interventions and a brief therapy session to increase the adherence to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioids.
This study assesses the effect of quadruple therapy for H. pylori, with the addition of probiotics Saccharomyces boulardii. In addition, he assesses whether this combination reduces the frequency of adverse effects of eradication therapy, and whether it affects the compliance.
The aim of this cohort is to identify environmental, lifestyle and genetic factors that modify the human intestinal microbiota development during the first years of life, and to identify early microbiota features that associate to child health and well-being with focus on the development of allergic diseases and overweight.
The rational of this study is to provide evidence on the safety and efficacy of a new chewable tablet of mebendazole compared to the standard tablet in preschool- and school-aged children infected with hookworm.
This proposal will investigate the wound condition between different drainage methods of the stoma closure wound. Anastomotic leakage is a major complication after colorectal surgery. The protective stoma will decrease the anastomosis leakage rate and severity1. Stoma closure is often performed after the condition of the previous protecting site improved. Wound infection is not a rare complication after stoma closure, with a reported infectious rate from 3% to 43%. Wound infection will result in wound dehiscence, incisional herniation, ileus and the length of hospital stay. Lots of the stoma wound closure technique have been developed, including subcutaneous antibiotic material implantation, wound irrigation with iodine, closure wound with a drain tube, secondary closure, delayed primary closure and pursestring closure. But there still is in a debate about the best skin closure test. In Division of Colorectal Surgery Shuang Ho Hospital, two current stoma wound closure methods were subcutaneous Jackson-Pratt drainage and cutaneous Penrose drainage insertion. In the project, clinical outcomes of these two drainage methods will be compared. The subcutaneous. Jackson-Pratt drainage is used to create negative pressure in subcutaneous closure wound. The negative pressure will extract actively the tissue debris and fluid, avoiding the seroma and pus accumulation. The cutaneous Penrose drainage is used to create delayed skin healing, and the tissue debris and fluid will drainage passive by capillary phenomenon. Two groups will be distributed randomly. The demographic characters like age, gender, BMI, nutritional status, under chemotherapy, diabetes and past medication history will be reviewed. Perioperative clinical data like the method of the anastomosis, operation time, postoperative hospital day, surgical site infection, prolonged ileus, anastomosis leakage, and incisional hernia will be collected. From this study, these two stoma wound closure methods will be evaluated and analyze the risk factors of complication for the stoma wound closure.
HIV patients are likely to suffer from opportunistic infections, in absence of highly active retroviral therapy. This happens due to lack of awareness of HIV status among patients or unresponsive to anti retroviral drugs. This study is for the prevalence of AIDS defining OIs among treatment naive HIV patients.
Background: Survival in Granzyme A gene (gzmA) knocked-out mice was significantly longer than in wild-type mice in a murine peritonitis model (cecal ligation puncture). Hypothesis: GZM A has a pathogenic role in sepsis in humans and gzmA polymorphisms can help to predict the risk of sepsis among patients with systemic infections (E. coli bacteremic urinary tract infections). Objectives: 1. To assess the correlation between GZM A serum levels and systemic inflammatory response in a human model of infection/sepsis (E. coli bacteremic UTI) 2. To characterize gzmA polymorphisms among patients with E. coli bacteremic UTI 3. To determine GZM A serum kinetics among patients with E. coli bacteremic UTI 4. To characterize E. coli strains causing bacteremic UTI: antimicrobial phenotype and virulence factors ("virulome"). Methods: - Design and setting: Prospective nested case-control study - Study population: consecutive adult patients with bacteremic urinary tract infections (UTIs) caused by E. coli - Exclusion criteria: Patients with conditions that significantly compromise immune status or patients exposed to urologic procedures - Estimated sample size: 50 patients with a sepsis/ non sepsis 1:1 ratio. Septic and non septic patients will be matched on gender, age (+/- 10 years), comorbidity (Charlson score +/-1), time symptom onset to blood culture (+/- 24h) - Measurements: GZM A serum levels will be determined on day 0, day 2-3, day 30. GZM A kinetics, gzmA polymorphisms (whole exome sequencing).Whole genome sequencing of E. coli isolates retrieved from blood cultures will be performed. - Analysis: Association between GZM A levels and gzmA polymorphisms and sepsis will be analyzed adjusting for patient, infection and microorganism-related factors (multivariate analysis).
This trial is a multi-center, double-blinded, randomized (1:1) clinical trial. The aim is to compare the postoperative infection rate between the 3 days postoperative AMP group and the placebo group in HCC patients undergoing hepatectomy.