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The goal of this clinical trial is to determine the most effective timing for clipping in adults with ruptured intracranial aneurysms. It will also assess the safety of performing the surgery at different times of early period after the aneurysm has ruptured. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Does ultra-early surgical intervention ( less than 24 hours of rupture) improve survival rates compared to delayed surgery (24 to 72 hours after rupture)? 2. What are the complication rates associated with early versus delayed surgical intervention? Researchers will compare clipping in ultra-early period to surgery in early period to see if timing affects the outcomes for treating ruptured intracranial aneurysms. Participants will: - Be randomly assigned to undergo surgical clipping either within 24 hours of rupture or between 24 hours to 72 hours after the rupture. - Visit the clinic for follow-up assessments at 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months post-surgery. - Keep a diary of their symptoms, neurological function, and any complications they experience post-surgery.
The goal of this clinical trial is to investigate the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Based Intervention for Oncology Patients. The main questions it aims to answer are: - Does the Acceptance and Commitment to Therapy-Based Intervention for Oncology Patients affect the level of psychological distress? - Does the Acceptance and Commitment to Therapy-Based Intervention for Oncology Patients affect the level of reintegration into normal life? Researchers will compare Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-Based Intervention for Oncology Patients (ACT) to Psychoeducation for Oncology Patients and routine care (with no specific intervention) to see if Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-Based Intervention for Oncology Patients is effective in psychological distress and reintegration into normal living.
Schizophrenia is one of the most severe and costliest mental disorders in terms of human suffering and societal expenditure. About 15-30% of patients do not respond to all known antipsychotics, including clozapine, the current gold-standard in these cases. Hence, a recent Cochrane review stated that the quality of the existing studies is too poor to recommend any intervention in addition to clozapine and that new, randomized controlled trials independent from the pharmaceutical industry need to be performed to substantially improve patient care. Although electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was initially used to treat schizophrenia, it is nowadays by far underused in the therapy of schizophrenia in many countries. ECT is well known to be highly effective in clozapine-treatment-resistant schizophrenia (CRS), and synergistic effects of clozapine and ECT have been demonstrated. However, relapse rates after successful courses of ECT are still very high, and evidence for maintenance ECT (mECT) in CRS is scarce at best. In a multi-center trial the investigators aim to examine the effectiveness of mECT in treatment-resistant patients with schizophrenia who improved after a course of routine ECT. If mECT will lead to a later timepoint of relapse and/or to a higher proportion of relapse-free patients compared to those undergoing treatment as usual, this trial would have an enormous impact on therapeutic strategies for "treatment-resistant" patients and would induce a profound change of current treatment guidelines, where ECT still ranks at the level of ultima ratio, despite accumulating evidence suggesting otherwise.
Study Population: 4000 stable COPD patients, and among them approximately 2000 subjects with hypertension and/or type 2 diabetes complications. Design: Cohort Study Primary Objectives: The primary objective of this study is to access the effectiveness of IDM on changes in FEV1 from baseline to the 24th week visit in patients with COPD. Statistical Analysis: We plan to compare demographic differences between groups based on whether the data conformed to normal distribution and satisfied variance chi-square, and proposed to calculate p-values using the t-test or non-parametric test for continuous data and Person's χ² or non-parametric test for categorical data. A two-sided p-value < 0.05 is considered statistically significant.
This is a single-patient, phase I/II clinical trial that aims to evaluate the potential of a bacteriophage cocktail to treat and prevent the recurrence of a methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus prosthetic joint infection of the hip. The patient has exhausted all conventional therapies, both surgical and medical, at considerable detriment to his quality of life. The treatment involves a one time, intra-operative injection of bacteriophages into the joint and 14 days of intravenous phage therapy. The goal is to eliminate the infection and prevent further complications, providing a potential new treatment avenue for patients with difficult-to-treat infections.
PAMSARC is a non-commercial interventional Phase 2 clinical trial of academic research institutions, with its primary goal being to improve medical treatment of fusion driven Desmoplastic small round cell tumor (DSRCT) and Synovial sarcoma (SySa) in young adults and adolsecents with male predominance. Current management of DSRCT and SySa includes chemotherapy, radiation and aggressive cytoreductive surgery. Despite advances in multimodal therapy, outcomes remain poor with frequent disease recurrence and very limited options for patients with advanced disease. Selected somatostatin receptor (SSTR) family members, i.e., SSTR2, SSTR3 and SSTR5, are frequently overexpressed in DSRCT and SySa, providing the rationale for treatment with somatostatin analogues (SSA). Pasireotide is a SSA with high affinity for SSTR1, -2, -3, and -5 and is approved for the treatment of Cushing's disease and acromegaly and has also shown activity in other cancers. In patients with advanced stage DSRCT and SySa, conventional chemotherapeutic approaches frequently lead to disease response, however, the duration of progression-free time after chemotherapy is short. The targeted approach with pasireotide after initial intensive multimodal treatment may have the potential to significantly improve outcome.
The goal of this research is to understand whether it is practical and safe to use an intracervical balloon catheter in addition to standard of care medications at the time of an induction of labor for an abortion or fetal death. The medical device used in this study is cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is used for induction of labor at term gestational ages (at or above 37 weeks of gestation). The study team will also collect data about patient-level experiences with the procedure, time in labor, and labor-related complications, such as higher-than-expected blood loss or infection.
The objective of this clinical trial is to investigate the effect of weight reduction through a diet management application and an intelligent weight scale on a composite cardiovascular endpoint in obese patients with heart failure. The main questions are: Does the use of a diet management APP and intelligent weight scale reduce 1-year all-cause mortality, heart failure hospitalization, and first heart failure hospital stay? Does the use of a diet management APP and intelligent weight scale improve the outcomes of assessment of heart failure frailty and quality of life for heart failure? Researchers will compare using the fully functional diet management app and intelligent weight scale to using the limitedly functional app and intelligent weight scale to see if the app works to improve heart failure conditions. Participants will: Use the diet management app at every meal and the intelligent weight scale every day for 12 months, and visit the clinic at 12 months for checkups.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of Chinese Medicine on patients with severe AECOPD, and to provide a basis for the establishment of integrated CM and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment scheme for patients with severe AECOPD.