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Filter by:Sequential left prefrontal Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS), with high frequency, for Treatment-Resistant Depression have been shown to have antidepressant effects. but doubts remain about the magnitude of previously demonstrated treatment effects.The aim of this study is To test whether daily weekday left prefrontal rTMS safely and effectively treats Resistant Depression disorder compared to sham controls.
The purpose is to elucidate the value of PET/CT applied early in the work-up of patients with a metastasising cancer of an unknown primary tumor. The management of patients with metastasising cancer of unknown primary often includes various and a large number of radiographic studies and invasive procedures, but the occult primary tumor is detected in less than 20%. Early PET/CT may be useful in Cancer of Unknown Primary (CUP) before expensive and invasive diagnostic procedures are carried out. The outcome may be higher tumor detection rate and quicker diagnosis, avoiding unnecessary, extensive procedures. Furthermore, a large number of the patients will receive treatment aimed at the correct diagnosis. Therefore, a prospective cost-effectiveness analysis is warranted.
Despite performing colonic surgery with strict asepsia measures, minimizing the contact of the colon lumen with the peritoneum, some contamination is nearly impossible to avoid. In stapled anastomosis, the hole opened in the colon is minimum, just the necessary for introducing the parts of the mechanical devices. In handsewn anastomosis, the colonic lumen is more exposed to the peritoneum, despite the colonic occlusion with clamps meanwhile the suture is performed. Hypothesis: After stapled anastomoses, the peritoneal contamination should be lower than after handsewn ones.
The purpose of this study is to assess whether triclosan-coated sutures reduces wound infections compared to regular non-coated sutures, after saphenous vein harvesting in CABG patients.
The purpose of this multicenter and double-blind clinical trial is to prospectively assess the sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value, positive predictive value, and accuracy in respectability of pancreatic head cancer with contrasted-enhanced MDCT and its various post processing techniques, taking operational and pathological records as the gold standard.
The purpose of this study is to determine the cost-effectiveness of using a cell saver for 2 to 3 level lumbar fusions. A secondary objective is to determine if there will be a decrease in the number of allogenic blood transfusions when a cell saver is used intraoperatively. Another secondary objective is to determine incidence of complications associated with cell saver use and transfusions.
The purpose of this study is to determine the safety and utility of 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) for identifying your tumor during surgery. 5-ALA is not FDA approved at this time. When the investigators remove the tumor from your brain, it is important that they remove all of the tumor and not remove parts of normal brain. Sometimes this can be difficult because the tumor can look like normal brain. In some brain tumors, 5-ALA can make the tumors glow red under blue light. This may make it easier for your doctor to take out all of the tumor from your brain. The purpose of this study is to: - Make sure that 5-ALA helps the doctor remove more of the tumor. - Make sure 5-ALA does not cause any side effects. If you do not want to participate in this study, your doctor(s) will still do their best to remove all of the tumor in your brain. Whether or not you join this study will not change your treatment for your brain tumor.
This research trial collects information about types of treatment and the cost of these procedures in women with elevated genetic risk for ovarian cancer who participated on the Gynecology Oncology Group (GOG)-0199 trial. Gathering information about women at elevated genetic risk for ovarian cancer may help doctors learn more about risk reduction procedures and the cost of these procedures.
The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy and tolerability of orally administered dimiracetam for 10 weeks to AIDS patients under treatment with antiretroviral agents presenting a disease and /or treatment related neuropathic pain.
The purpose of the study is to determine the safety and possible effectiveness of brain transplants of CD34+ stem cells obtained from umbilical cord blood (UCB) to treat stroke.