View clinical trials related to Other.
Filter by:This non-randomized clinical trial was performed to clarify the effect of cigarette smoking reduction on liver function and some anthropocentric indices in smoker patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.
This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Medicurtain®, an antiadhesion barrier in patients who underwent In Situ Decompression for single level and unilateral herniated lumbar intervertebral disc. Subjects were randomly assigned either into Medicurtain® treatment group or control group. Adhesion formations between the two groups at 12 weeks after surgery were compared by using MRI-applied scar score, ODI (Oswestry Disability Index) and VAS.
All participants underwent three experimental trials, namely downhill running (DR), level running (LR), and the control (CON) in a cross-over design. Each trial lasted for 2 days. The participants were fed the same breakfast and lunch on day 1 in each trial. The participants arrived at the laboratory at 18:00 on day 1 and ran on the treadmill at 60% VO2max (downhill and level surface trials) or rested (CON trial) for 30 min. Subsequently, they were fed a standardized dinner (A meal box containing chicken, vegetables, and rice, 692 kcal, with 50% energy from carbohydrate, 32% from fat, and 18% from protein) within 20 min. The participants returned to the laboratory at 07:30 on day 2 after an overnight fast. After baseline blood and gas samples were collected, the participants were fed a high-fat meal that included cereal, white bread, whipping cream, cheese, and butter. The high-fat meal provided fat 1.2 g/kg (65% energy), carbohydrate 1.1 g/kg (27% energy), protein 0.33 g/kg (8% energy), and 16.5 kcal/kg. A 10-mL blood sample was collected from a forearm vein into nonheparinized tubes before and immediately after exercise or rest on day 1. On day 2, postprandial blood samples were collected from forearm veins into nonheparinized tubes by using an indwelling venous needle and a three-way stopcock. A 10-mL blood sample was collected before (0 h) and 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 h after the high-fat meal.
Interventional non-randomized trial. The duration of study will be 47 months. After haploidentical transplantation, patients without complications, mainly a GVHD ≥ grade 2, will receive mDLI. mDLI consists of donor lymphocytes infusion, harvested by apheresis the day before the day planned for infusion (or up to -7 days) as outpatient basis in the Day Hospital using a cell separator. The mDLIs preparation will be performed using a CliniMACS® (Miltenyi). A CD45RA-depletion Product LineTM from Miltenyi, including disposable reagents and devices, will be used. The planned number of mDLI is 3. 1. Day +50 (+/- 7 days) from allogenic transplant, 1st mDLI 5x105CD3+/kg of recipient. 2. 4-6 weeks after 1st DLI, 2nd mDLI 1x106CD3+/kg of recipient. 3. 4-6 weeks after 2nd DLI, 3rd mDLI 5x106CD3+/kg of recipient. Day +50 was chosen as the starting time-point because at that time over two thirds of all acute GvHD episodes have already occurred in the absence of DLI (internal data, median +49 after bone marrow, +27 after peripheral stem cells); acute GvHD will thus be less likely a confounding factor. The choice of a maximum number of 3 mDLIs is based on the relatively narrow time interval where outcome improvement is expected, that is mainly in the first 6 months after haplo-HSCT. The planned doses are those mainly used in conventional DLIs during haplo-HSCT setting. Stopping infusion rules: If GvHD ≥ Grade 2 or relapse occurs, mDLIs will not be administered at any time and patient will be permanently discontinued from treatment. If any severe adverse event (SAE) occurs after the first mDLI, the administration of mDLI will be interrupted for a maximum of 6 weeks until event resolution. If the SAE does not resolve after 6 weeks from last mDLI infusion, patient will be permanently discontinued. At any time, the experimental treatment may be stopped according to clinical judgement or patient's willing.
N=104 juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients diagnosed after ILAR criteria with unilateral persistent knee arthritis. They will be randomly assigned into two groups; group 1 will receive genicular nerve block, group 2 intra-articular triamcinolone. Both groups will be examined by SOLAR ultrasound scoring system, Visual analogue scale and Lysholm score at 0, 2 and 12 weeks. A semi-quantitative score will be used to assess tenderness and swelling at the same intervals.
To obtain more knowledge about the generation of aerosol and droplet dispersion and deposition during naso-gastric intubation for gastrointestinal motility investigations
Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is an inherited myocardial disease which leads to the muscle in the wall of the heart growing and thickening to the point that it blocks blood flow exiting the heart with increasing risk of sudden cardiac death, heart failure, and atrial fibrillation. Surgical septal myectomy and alcohol septal ablation are two invasive therapies for drug-refractory symptomatic patients with HOCM. Unfortunately, some patients may be unsuitable for both the two procedures. Recently, stereotactic ablative radiotherapy, usually used for the treatment of tumours, was confirmed to be feasible, safe and effective in destroying abnormal tissue in heart by targeting high energy heavy ion beams at a specific area of the body precisely. In this study we will determine whether radiation ablation, can be used to destroy the thick heart muscle at the point of obstruction safely and effectively.
This is a multi-center, open-label, dose-escalation, phase I study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK), preliminary efficacy, and pharmacodynamics of CAL056 mesylate in cancer patients with resistant or refractory solid tumors.
The research study is being conducted to evaluate the efficacy of a virtual support intervention to reduce stress and poor self-care for caregivers of persons with behavioral variant Frontotemporal Degeneration (bvFTD) compared to receiving health information alone.
Patients with metastatic prostate cancer will undergo two protocol 68Ga-PET scans within 24-48 hours with 68Ga-PSMA-cyclotron and 68Ga-PSMA-generator radiotracers. The goal of the study is to evaluate repeatability and equivalence across the different 68Ga-PSMA production methods. This research study is being conducted to assess whether the PET/CT imaging results, as generated from the two different 68Ga production methods, are equivalent.