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Filter by:This household-based prospective cohort study aims to stablish the household transmission of Respiratory syncytial virus and S. pneumoniae especially in the elderly and infants/children as well as inter-relationship between S. pneumoniae and Respiratory syncytial virus.
This is a multicenter observational prospective study in smokers or ex-smokers with cumulative exposure ≥ 10 a / p (years / pack) with respiratory symptoms and presenting a normal spirometry. The patients who sign the corresponding informed consent, will undergo a DLCO and will be divided into two groups according to the result: - Group I. Patients with DLCO <80%. - Group II Patients with DLCO≥80%. Both groups will be followed for 5 years.
To explore the efficacy of treatment of pulmonary cytokine storm induced by SARS-CoV2 with a monoclonal antibody to IL-2 (Basiliximab) in addition to current standard of care vs current standard of care with the primary efficacy endpoint being the proportion of subjects alive and free of ventilator support, defined as intubation and requiring mechanical ventilation, at Day 28 from time of randomization.
The high frequency of unplanned hospital visits of patients with chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure (e.g., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, obesity-related hypoventilation) constitutes a major public health problem. Most patients admitted for acute exacerbations (AHRF) have additional comorbidities, especially sleep disorders. Often untreated, sleep disorders contribute to multiple readmissions (≈70% at one year) and increase readmission costs. The investigators will: 1) identify these patients early during unplanned hospital admissions and perform sleep studies using EEG and oximetry before hospital discharge and two months after to compare sleep abnormalities in the two moments; 2) investigate the association between sleep abnormalities in the two sleep studies with clinical outcomes (1-year readmission and death); 3) investigate the acute effects of high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) to treat sleep abnormalities as a simplified alternative. The investigators anticipate sleep abnormalities during the hospital stay and two months after discharge will be associated with poor clinical outcomes (readmission, death) and HFNC to acutely reduce sleep abnormalities.
This study intends to carry out a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of subanesthetic sevoflurane for treatment-resistant depression.
Resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs is a continually growing problem. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) is resistance to at least rifampicin and isoniazid, and extensively drug-resistant TB is additional resistance to a fluoroquinolone and a second injectable line drug. Methods currently employed in testing for resistance are inadequate and a contributing factor to the 40-50% MDR-TB treatment success rate. Current drug susceptibility testing methods are slow for most drugs, taking weeks. Rapid molecular methods such as the line probe assays, e.g. Hain GenoType MDRTBplus and sl, provide resistant calls to only a limited number of drugs, and are often less useful in smear negative patients. Molecular technologies such as sequencing can provide a comprehensive readout of drug resistance and are able to detect resistant populations at very low levels (≤1%), thus enabling individualized therapy. This can be done directly from sputum. Targeted sequencing amplifies regions of genomic DNA associated with resistance prior to sequencing. Rapid analytic software is used to process the raw sequence data, identify resistance causing mutations and provide a readout of clinically relevant information. However, the feasibility, and more importantly the impact, of this approach has not been evaluated in a clinical trial to establish proof of concept. Aim 1: To conduct a randomised controlled trial to determine the impact of sputum-based targeted sequencing in detecting resistance to second-line TB drugs compared to the current programmatic standard of care (Hain MDRTBplus/sl and adjunct phenotypic drug susceptibility testing) when used to inform of treatment for MDR-TB. Aim 2: To compare currently available drug resistant sequencing pipelines for diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and predictive value as compared to culture based phenotypic drug susceptibility testing. Aim 3: To compare the feasibility, accuracy, turn-aroundtime, and cost implications of the above-mentioned diagnostic approaches.
In multiple previous studies that have explored the use of dexmedetomidine in transsphenoidal tumor resection surgery, dexmedetomidine showed many beneficial effects like reducing the requirement of analgesics and anesthetics, improving hemodynamic stability and decreasing the emergence time, extubation time and visual analog scale at emergence. Therefore, the investigators hypothesized that dexmedetomidine would decrease neuroendocrine stress response and improve the quality of postoperative recovery.
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) can lead to adverse perinatal and long-term outcomes, and it is so important to manage this disease in pregnancy. Digitalized managements have been proved economical and effective in some chronic diseases like type II diabetes mellitus. The purpose of the current study was to develop and evaluate a digitalized mode for GDM management using mobile healthcare and some wearable devices. Subjects were randomly divided into a conventional management group and combined digitalized management group after diagnosed with GDM during 24-28 weeks of gestation. The conventional mangement group received conventional GDM management and could freely use the mobile healthcare application. The mobile management group received digitalized healthcare services from artificial intelligence under the supervision of obstetricians, in addition to conventional management. The effectiveness of digitalized management were evaluated mainly through the result values of the labotatory tests related to blood glucose controlling and perinatal outcomes.
The AFU has set itself the task of setting up a register of medical practices in order to define possible improvements in the therapeutic management and follow-up of NMIBC. In order to obtain representative data, all urologists who are members of the AFU may be invited to include their patients in accordance with the rules of clinical research.
A Prospective Randomized Open-Label Blinded Endpoint (PROBE) Pilot Trial of restarting antiplatelet therapy at 1 week versus 3 weeks after traumatic intracranial hemorrhage with a primary composite endpoint of major bleeding and vascular occlusive events.