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Describe the purpose of the study: This study aims to evaluate the improvement of Dasatinib-related adverse events and to evaluate the treatment effect and safety by measuring the genetic response of nilotinib with nilotinib 400mg BID for 12 months in Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia patients intolerant to Dasatinib.
There is a potential of bacterial overgrowth under the foreskin in the sub-preputial space, therefore we would like to investigate possible techniques to reduce this potential.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a major problem in children and adolescents. Clinical and biochemical evidence suggests that deficiencies of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) could be related to ADHD. PUFAs are the major components of brain with important physiologically active functions. Aim: Study the relationship between omega3 blood values and ADHD clinical status. Methods: The investigators will recruit 30 children, who have been diagnosed with ADHD by a child psychiatrist. In addition the investigators will recruit a control group of 30 children without ADHD and related neuropsychiatric syndromes. Blood will be taken from all children. The ADHD children will be asked to consume omega3 capsules for 6 month. After 3 and 6 months, all children will undergo clinical examination and blood tests will be taken for omega3 index analysis. Blind frozen samples of isolated red blood cell (RBC) will be analyzed according to the omega3 index methodology.
This project is part of the EU funded project NISTAS. NISTAS aims at the development of a new medical device for non-contact, non-invasive screening of the health status of the vascular system of adult subjects. The instrument, called VascuLight, is intended to be deployed at out-patient points-of-care and hospitals, and it provides output parameters related to the PWV as measured at local and/or at regional level. NISTAS brings together four European SMEs in four different, but complementary, technology areas (JULIGHT, ECLEXYS, EPI-LIGHT, OIP) and links them with five RTD Performers (UNIPV, OSM, CORK UNIVERSITY, Saphyrion, Eudax srl ) to develop new knowledge and a new medical device which will have significant commercial benefits for all of the SME partners. VascuLight responds to an unmet need in the medical diagnosis practice: the request for a fast and sustainable method for the screening of the health of the vascular system in large series, capable of providing a reliable indicator of the cardiovascular risk of the screened subjects. The VascuLight idea is founded on a paradigm shift: bringing and adapting to the biomedical field measurement techniques that are to date confined to the industrial environment. NISTAS will develop new non-contact distance/displacement/vibration sensors based on a variant of the well-known and reliable laser triangulation technique. JUL and UNIPV have carried out proof-of-concept, in-vivo tests of the VascuLight approach to demonstrate that the concept is realistic and attainable. Results have been obtained using Laser Doppler Vibrometry (LDV), a displacement-measuring technique based on the principle of light interference, and an area where both JUL and UNIPV have made important contributions. In the tests it was possible to use TWO small LDV optical heads to simultaneously measure the pulse wave in two points on the carotid spaced by 2.5 cm, allowing for the calculation of the time-delay between the pulse waves, and thus providing a direct local measurement of the PWV. The aim of the study is to test the implemented contactless optical technique for the measurement of the PWV and the arterial stiffness at the carotid artery level. To evaluate the validity of the measure method, the investigators will compare Vasculight v1.0 PWV measures with those obtained from e-tracking (echocardiographic method) . The main idea is to compare the distribution of measures (comparable mean and standard deviation) in the same mixed adult population, using the two different methods.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a frequent disease, with increasing prevalence. Pulmonary rehabilitation through general exercise training (GET) is a corner stone of COPD care. Inspiratory muscle training (IMT) as a stand-alone therapy decreases dyspnea and improves exercise capacity. Whether IMT combined with GET adds a supplementary benefit in the rehabilitation of COPD patients is however uncertain.
Graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD) is a major obstacle to successful allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (alloHCT). Cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychotropic ingredient of Cannabis sativa possesses potent anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive properties. In a recent phase 2 study, CBD has been shown to be safe and reduced significantly the incidence of acute GVHD compared to control patients with a hazard ratio of 0.3. Based on these results the investigators propose a phase 2 study to explore the efficacy of oral CBD in the treatment of severe (grades III/IV) acute GVHD, a pathology with a dismal prognosis.
This study evaluates the Rayner T-flex Toric IOLs for spherical and astigmatic correction, and rotational stability in cataract surgery. 50 patients with cataract and corneal astigmatism >= 2 diopters will undergo cataract surgery, with implantation of Rayner toric intraocular lens. Post-operative examination will include IOL axis measurements and refraction.
Cardiac pathology is a major risk for brain injury and neurodevelopmental deficit. The most common cause of cardiac pathology is congenital heart defects (CHD) about 4-8/1000 live births a year. The most common etiology of the brain insult is hypoxic ischemic injury (HII) as result of hemodynamic instability in the perioperative period. Similar insults in adults with cardiac arrest or infants with neonatal asphyxia, was successfully treated with hypothermia, initiated within 6 hours after the event. Although, hypothermia is most likely an effective treatment for HII in children with cardiac anomaly, it also carries a risk for bleeding or infection of the surgical wound. In this randomized control trial, hypothermia treatment will be compared to normothermia treatment of patients in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit (PCICU) following severe HII in the PCICU or operating room. The effect will be quantified by MRI, serum biomarkers of brain injury, amplitude integrated EEG, neurological evaluation coagulation and infection evaluation in the acute phase and by developmental assessment at 1, 6 months and 2, 5 years. Favorable effect of hypothermia with minimal risks may open the door for the implementation of hypothermia as a standard care in PCICUs.
High percentage of chronic back pain is due to spinal stenosis. The clinical picture is of 'neurogenic claudication' which effects postural balance and stability. If conservative treatment fail to improve symptoms, an invasive treatment which includes spinal decompression can be done. The research is an observational prospective one, pre and post operational intervention. The aim is to examine whether an operational intervention improves quality of life, pain, postural balance an stability among patients. It's important to clarify, that although there is operational intervention, the research is observational. The decision weather to operate or not, is not a part of the research. The investigators assume that since there is a population that independently going through an operation, the investigators can observe this population and evaluate different aspects of the operation outcomes.
Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) prolongs the life and improves the symptoms in patients with heart failure and electrical dyssynchrony. 30-50% of patients do not improve with the treatment which is both expensive and not without complication. Despite much research, we cannot accurately predict who will not respond. Furthermore, most heart failure patients gets symptoms on exercise and most studies have examined patients at rest. We propose to investigate the effect of exercise on different parts of the left ventricle by sampling various biomarkers of metabolism, myocardial injury and gene expression. We will then repeat the protocol following device insertion to look for changes. This novel work will require a small cohort of patients with heart failure and no electrical dyssynchrony and normal patients to act as controls. We will also measure novel biomarkers at different venous sites relating to different parts of the myocardium to determine whether they can be used to prognosticate or even predict response to CRT.