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Filter by:Hookwire and microcoil are currently the most widely used localization instruments. Although their success rate is relatively high in preoperative localization attempts, they may lead to consequences that negatively affect patient outcomes, such as pain because of the metal's hardness, localization failure due to wire detachment, and the presence of permanent traces of metal and foreign bodies . To overcome these disadvantages, we designed an absorbable semi-barbed suture to localize small intrapulmonary nodules (patent number: ZL201821444387.X). The results of the previous animal experiments were satisfactory, and it is now necessary to recruit 10 patients for clinical trials.
The study will compare the functions outcomes between two different rehabilitation protocol after operated weber b ankle fractures
The intention with the study is to have a better understanding of what happens to COPD patients' symptoms, lung function and markers of inflammation over 12 weeks. This information will increase the understanding of COPD and how to design new treatments for COPD in the future.
Malaria poses a serious burden in sub-Sahara Africa. Efforts are ongoing to scale up interventions that work. These include the use of Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLIN), Intermittent Preventive Treatment in children (IPTc), and test, treat and track (TTT). There is the need, however, for mass testing, treatment and tracking (MTTT) of the whole population to reduce the parasite load before implementing the aforementioned interventions. Though, Seasonal Malaria Chemoprophylaxis (SMC) is adopted for selected localities in Ghana, the impact of such interventions could be enhanced, if associated with MTTT in order to reduce the parasite load at baseline. MTTT of children in Ghana has demonstrated a parasite load reduction from 25% to 1%. However, unanswered questions include - could this be scaled up? What proportion of the community could be covered over a given time? What would it take to accomplish large scale MTTT? In designing interventions that aim at reducing the burden of malaria in children under five, for example, MTTT has largely been left out. Adults who are not often targeted by such interventions remain reservoirs that fuel transmission. This study explores the scale-up of interventions that work using existing community volunteer teams to lower cost. These volunteers will play a surveillance role by conducting home-based management of malaria. To avoid challenges posed by stockouts, short message service (SMS) will be used to monitor the level of stocks for malaria medicine and Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs). It is hypothesized that there are more asymptomatic malaria cases (those who carry the parasite but are not ill) than symptomatic cases reported by hospital records in the Pakro sub district and that, carrying out MTTT in combination with home-based management of malaria in specific communities could greatly reduce the burden. Through this study, the bottlenecks that hinder scaling-up of MTTT will be documented in order to facilitate the process.
Patients with infections caused by carbapenem-resistant enterobacteria treated with CAZ-AVI versus patients treated with BAT are compared. The BAT group includes fosfomycin, tigecycline, gentamicin, meropenem and colistin.
The aging of the population is a major public health problem, particularly with regard to the quality of life and the maintenance of autonomy. The fracture of the upper end of the femur (EFSF) is a pathology: - Frequent, affecting the elderly: in France, 80,000 patients / year, 83% aged ≥ 75 years (DREES, 2011), - severe, on mortality and autonomy: 40% will not recover their walking capacity earlier than 6 months, 13% of patients > 85 years old walk unaided at 4 months and 11% of patients will be newly admitted to an institution in 6 months after the fracture (UPOG / PSL data). - and costly: costs related to acute care (excluding prostheses and osteosynthesis equipment), are estimated at € 475 million for health insurance in France. Currently, despite optimized orthogeriatric management, it is difficult to predict how the individual will respond / recover from acute stress related to the EFSF. Physical resilience is an emerging concept in medicine that defines the dynamic ability of a subject to resist or recover from functional decline as a result of stress or disruption. In this context, developing new approaches to assessing resilience is important, to take into account this resilience specific to each patient in order to develop a personalized functional rehabilitation strategy. The objective of the HIPRESM study is to be able to identify, in elderly patients after an EFSF intervention, the muscular signature associated with good functional recovery (= physical resilience). The goal of the investigators is to develop software that will provide this muscle signature by measuring and analyzing parameters from high-definition surface electromyography (HD-sEMG). This technology is innovative, non-invasive and portable, CE marked but not yet used in clinical routine.
22 patients of incisional hernia underwent treatment by double mesh modification of the original Chevrel's technique the primary outcome was recurrence, skin necrosis secondery out come was pain hematoma seroma
OBJECTIVES: To assess the effect of concurrent training (CT) of an eight-week on strength, power and cardiorespiratory fitness on muscle condition, balance, load distribution in the lower limbs and aerobic capacity in patients with unilateral transtibial amputation (UTA). MATERIAL AND METHODS: Twenty-six individuals with prosthesis over 3-months were selected. Patients were randomly divided into two groups. Group 1 (n = 17) denominated UTA who performed the evaluation and training recommended by the prosthesis (bodybuilding vs. aerobic interval-training on the exercise cycle ergometer). Group 2 (n = 9) denominated untrained unilateral transtibial (UUT) amputees who after the evaluation were not included for the recommended training. All patients were evaluated at the baseline time of randomization and eight weeks after
Evaluation of Multi-Organ Metabolism and Perfusion in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) by Total Body Dynamic PET Scan on EXPLORER
Mitochondrial diseases, estimated prevalence 1 in 4,300 adults, is caused by pathogenic mutations in genes finally encoding for mitochondrial proteins of the various enzyme complexes of the OXPHOS. Among these mutations, the 3243A>G nucleotide change in the mitochondrially encoded transfer RNALeu(UUR) leucine 1 gene (MT TL 1) is the most prevalent one. The OXPHOS dysfunction resulting from such mutations leads to increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), ultimately leading to irreversible oxidative damage of macromolecules, or to more selective and reversible redox modulation of cell signaling that may impact (adult) neurogenesis. Despite advances in the understanding of mitochondrial disorders, treatment options are extremely limited and, to date, largely supportive. Therefore, there is an urgent need for novel treatments. KH176, a new active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), is an orally bio-available small molecule under development for the treatment of these disorders (see Section 1.4). The current study will further evaluate the effect of KH176 in various cognitive domains and evaluate the effect of different doses of KH176 (See Section 1.5). In view of the growing recognition of the importance of mitochondrial function in maintaining cognitive processes in the brain, as well as the understanding of the safety profile and pharmacokinetics of KH176 following the two clinical studies described above, a more detailed study is indicated of the effects of KH176 in various cognitive domains, using the confirmed safe and well-tolerated KH176 dose of 100 mg bid, as well as a lower dose of 50 mg bid. The primary objective is an evaluation of KH176 in the attention domain of cognitive functioning, as assessed by the visual identification test score of the Cogstate computerised cognitive testing battery.