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Filter by:According to the comprehensive evaluation, the completion of vaccination and the prevention and treatment strategy of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine have obvious advantages in improving the symptoms of infection in patients with autoimmune diseases, shortening the course of disease and controlling disease activity, and can play a positive role in the whole process of epidemic prevention and treatment. Now the investigators plan to conduct multi-center clinical and basic research to observe the preventive effect and safety of the vaccine on COVID-19, as well as the preventive effect of the combination of traditional Chinese medicine, in order to obtain high-quality evidence-based evidence and provide scientific basis for the clinical value of the drug.
The goal of this clinical trial is to test the ATH-063 drug (single and multiple doses) in Healthy Subjects. The clinical trial aims to evaluate the below. 1. Safety of the drug 2. Tolerability of the drug 3. Pharmacokinetics (PK) (how the human body affects the drug) 4. Pharmacodynamics (PD) (how the drug affects the human body) This will be a single center, Phase 1, First-In-Human, Randomized, Double-Blind (neither the subjects nor the experimenters know which subjects are in the test and control groups), Placebo (a look-alike substance that contains no active drug) - Controlled Study.
Over the past 10 years, the rates of multiple sclerosis (MS) have nearly doubled in the United States. This chronic, neuroinflammatory, and neurodegenerative disease is most often diagnosed between the ages of 20-40. Cognitive impairment effects up to 70% of people with MS (PwMS) and has a detrimental impact on mental health, social connections, and employment. Further, up to 50% of PwMS also struggle with depression. Numerous cognitive rehabilitation programs are available to address cognitive impairment, but few interventions have simultaneous effects on cognition and emotional well-being. Music interventions have potential to fill this gap. Brain imaging studies on music and emotion show that music can modulate activity in the brains structures that are known to be crucially involved in emotion. Further, music engages areas of the brain that are involved with paying attention, making predictions, and updating events in our memory. The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of an online musical training intervention (MTI) for PwMS and explore the potential effect on cognition, psychosocial, and functional well-being compared to an active control group (music listening (ML)). The specific aims are to: 1) determine the feasibility and acceptability of delivering the MTI virtually over three months to PwMS; 2) evaluate the effect of the MTI on cognitive functioning (processing speed, working memory, cognitive flexibility, response inhibition), psychosocial (anxiety, depression, stress, quality of life, self-efficacy) and functional (insomnia) well-being compared to ML; and 3) (exploratory aim) to utilize non-invasive neuroimaging to determine if pre-intervention brain activity predicts post-intervention cognitive functioning.
This study has been designed as a 12-month, open-label randomized controlled clinical trial. The study aims to compare the efficacy and safety of three treatment strategies in IgG4-RD patients with superficial organ involvement: Diprospan plus iguratimod, Diprospan plus leflunomide and prednisone plus leflunomide.
This study has been designed as a 18-month, open-label randomized controlled clinical trial. The study aims to compare the efficacy and safety of two treatment strategies in active IgG4-RD patients with internal organ involvement during maintenance remission period: low dose mycophenolate mofetil group and leflunomide group.
Aim: Investigate whether patients undergoing specialist rehabilitation after complex neurological injury show different functional outcomes if music therapy is included in their rehabilitation program compared to usual care. Background: Patients with complex needs following a brain, spinal cord, and/or peripheral nerve injury often require a period of specialist neurorehabilitation. This involves multiple therapy disciplines, led by a Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine, Neurology, or Neuropsychiatry. Although music therapy is suggested to enhance neuroplasticity and recovery in patients with brain injury, it is not routinely commissioned in clinical care due to a lack of supportive evidence. Hypothesis: Patients undergoing music therapy in addition to complex specialist rehabilitation show better functional outcomes compared to usual care. Number of participants: 75, aged 16-80 years. Methods: Patients undergo baseline assessments and are randomised to MUSIC or CONTROL Therapy. Both arms receive 1-3 additional therapy sessions per week, matched for duration and number, total 15 hours. After approximately 10-weeks intervention, assessments are repeated. All participants then have access to music therapy until they are discharged from Neurorehabilitation Unit (NRU), with additional qualitative data collection using semi-structured interviews, field notes, staff reports, staff stress surveys, and broader ecological observations. Duration for Participants: From consent to discharge from NRU. Primary Outcome: Change in Functional Independence Measure+Functional Assessment Measure (FIM+FAM), Northwick Park Dependency Scale (NWPDS), and Barthel Activities of Daily Living pre and post 15 hours intervention. Secondary Outcome: Change in quality of life (Flourishing Scale), psychological distress (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Depression Intensity Scale Circles), social interaction (Sickness Impact Profile Social Interaction Subscale), well-being (WHO Well-Being Index), and communication (Communication Outcomes After Stroke Scale), pre and post 15 hours intervention. Mean difference in well-being (WHO Well-Being Index) throughout the intervention period between music therapy and control therapy groups. Mean difference in post-intervention pain and mood visual analogue scores between music therapy and control therapy groups.
To examine the prevelance of autoimmune disorders and rheumatic manifestations in egyptian patients with inflammatory bowel diseases,and asses the relation between prevelance of autoimmune disorders ,rheumatic manifestations and disease activity of IBD
Phenotypic characterization of patients with Hu-Abs, including the different neurological presentation and the presence or not of an underlying cancer. Analysis and clinical correlation of the diagnostic techniques for Hu-Abs detection (immunofluorescence, immunodot/Western blot, and CBA) in serum and/or CSF. Genomic and transcriptomic features of tumors (histological and immune infiltrate characteristics, transcriptomic profile, mutational status).
This is a 26-week randomized, free-living, open-label, two-arm, two-phase, crossover trial. Participants will receive two interventions at different phases, including the Android artificial pancreas system(AndroidAPS-rt-CGM) and sensor-augment pump(SAP), and use marketed rapid-acting insulin analogs (insulin Aspart, insulin Lispro, or insulin Glulisine) normally used in their usual clinical care. The safety and efficacy of AndroidAPS-rt-CGM and SAP in adult T1DM with suboptimal glycemic control will be compared to explore whether the use of AndroidAPS-rt-CGM in adult T1DM with suboptimal glycemic control will be associated with better glycemic control with no increased hypoglycemia.
The ITAMA project, which ended in 03/2022, came from the need to increase/anticipate the number of diagnosed cases of celiac disease (CD). The project involved the preliminary development of 'software tools' (Graphical User Interface (GUI), DATABASE, Decision Support System (DSS)) used to support the physicians to optimize CD diagnosis. Subsequently, through a screening of about 20,000 subjects of school age in Malta and about 1,000 subjects in Sicily, it was shown that, in compliance with international guidelines, it is possible to anticipate CD diagnosis and make it easy with the aid of a tool based on the search for specific antibodies in the blood, collecting a single drop of blood - with a test performed directly "in the points where care is provided" (eg schools, outpatient clinics) that is with a Point-of-Care-Test (PoCT). This system proved to be effective, and the method was minimally invasive (at least in some pediatric cases it was possible to avoid the endoscopic examination). The ITAMA project has made it possible to bring out a submerged part of the "CD iceberg", a condition that in a large percentage of cases remains undiagnosed and transfer the know-how to commercial companies in the medical sector. ITAMA project results allowed to verify and validate, on a large sample of subjects subjected to screening, that: 1. Diagnosis can be anticipated and facilitated by combined use of a rapid test (PoCT), medical history (supported by software) and traditional serological tests. 2. The diagnosis can be optimized by the support of Information Technology (IT) tools based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). 3. Non-invasive methods, if correctly applied, allow CD diagnosis avoiding invasive diagnostic techniques. 4. The reported procedures grant considerable savings for the National Health System (NHS). Starting from the results of ITAMA, this capitalization project aims to extend the previous experience in a larger population with heterogeneous characteristics (both adults and children). The goal of the new project is to use the combination of PoCT + tools software, to increase/anticipate CD diagnosis and, therefore, bring the number of diagnosed subjects closer to the number of expected cases, in Sicily and Malta. The inevitable implication of this would be the improvement in the quality of life of patients (reduction of symptoms, fewer medical visits and instrumental examinations performed, reduction of lost working days, improvement of social relations) and a significant reduction in costs for the NHS.