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The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and efficacy of renal denervation with sterile irrigated deflectable ablation catheter used in renal artery in primary hypertension in China.
Early Onset Scoliosis (EOS) is defined as scoliosis with onset under the age of ten years, regardless of etiology. It is a complex three-dimensional deformity of the spine which can cause significant physical and psychological problems. Currently there are two basic treatment options available for EOS: non-surgical and surgical. ApiFix Ltd. has developed a novel growing rod system for surgical treatment of EOS, the MID-C system. It is indicated for patients with a scoliosis of 35 to 75 degrees Cobb angle
In this study, we plan to determine the efficacy of the Hunt Motivational Scale as a tool for weight loss compared to standard of care in the Penn Medicine Princeton Health weight management program.
Reactive or secondary thrombocytosis is defined as abnormally high platelet count (≥4,50,000 platelets per micro-liter) in the absence of chronic myeloproliferative disease. In critically ill patients reactive thrombocytosis is not uncommon during recovery phase and an association has been seen with poor outcome and increased risk of subsequent VTE. However, not all patients with infection respond with thrombocytosis. No study has enumerated the risk factors or predictors of reactive thrombocytosis in critically ill septic patients.
This study aim to investigate the effect of 5-fraction stereotactic partial breast irradiation and whole breast irradiation on patient-reported outcomes, cosmetic outcome, and breast tissue fibrosis in early-stage breast cancer.
The GLA:D Back project evaluates the implementation of standardised patient education and exercise therapy for people with persistent or recurrent low back pain (LBP) in a hybrid implementation-effectiveness design. This involves evaluating the process of implementation as well as clinician level outcomes and patient level outcomes. GLA:D (Good Life with OsteoArthritis in Denmark) is a non-profit initiative and registered trademark from the University of Southern Denmark. It educates clinicians in delivering evidence-based care for musculoskeletal health conditions and registers outcomes in a clinical registry. GLA:D Back uses only the acronym. The main activity of the implementation strategy is a two-days course for physiotherapists and chiropractors in delivering patient education and exercise therapy that is aimed at supporting patient self-management of LBP. This comes with ready-to-use patient education materials and exercise programs. The course is targeted at chiropractors and physiotherapists, but any health care provider authorised to treat patients with back pain in Denmark can participate, i.e. medical doctors, physiotherapists and chiropractors. The clinical intervention is a group-based program consisting of two sessions of patient education and 8 weeks of supervised exercises. The program uses a cognitive-behavioural approach and the aim of the exercise component is to restore the patient's ability and confidence to move freely. Clinicians decide which patients are offered the program. The implementation process is evaluated in a dynamic process monitoring the penetration, adoption and fidelity of the clinical intervention. The education of clinicians is evaluated via clinician-level outcomes concerning attitudes towards back pain and confidence in managing people with LBP. The clinical intervention and potential effect mechanisms are evaluated at the patient-level in an observational design. Patients who are participating in the GLA:D Back program are followed using measures of knowledge, skills, beliefs, performance, self-efficacy and success in self-management. Effects at a national level will be investigated via data from national registries of health care utilisation and sick-leave. Patient- and clinician reported data are collected in a registry.
This study is designed to identify the predictive biomarker for immunotherapy using patient samples (tumor tissue, blood, fecal material) who treated with immune checkpoint inhibitor.
Bipolar disorder is a serious and chronic illness representing a major health problem with high mortality rates. According to the self-regulation model , patients had some representations of their illness which are cognitive and emotional. Cognitive representations include the set of beliefs built around the illness, its consequences and treatment. Emotional representations are negative emotions generated by the presence of the illness. According to Leventhal et al. (1997), representations are linked to information extracts by patients from society, relatives, experiences. This model has been particularly studied in the context of somatic disorders, but Baines & Wittkowski (2013) shown that it may also be relevant in patients with mental disorders. In bipolar disorders, first results show that illness representations are related to relapses and to medication adherence. That's why, we think that this relevant to improve knowledges of the psychological processes that accompany the experience of bipolar disorders. To assess illness representation, we will use both qualitative and quantitative tools. These results could have direct application to clinical practice in psychosocial interventions.
Gastric submucosal tumors (SMTs) are rare findings during routine upper endoscopy; the incidence of these lesions may be as high as 0.4%.SMTs display a wide spectrum,ranging from benign to highly malignant, with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) being the most common type.SMTs is a gastrointestinal tumor,surgical operation is still the main method of gastric tumor treatment.The common surgical methods for resection of SMTs include laparotomy and laparoscopic surgery.In recent years, the Da Vinci robot assisted gastric resection has become a new way to treat gastric cancer. Compared with the traditional laparoscopy and laparotomy, the operation of the robot is more precise and flexible, with obvious advantages of minimally invasive and good application value and prospect.In recent years, some scholars have put forward the concept of the third space.The concept of the "third space" was initiatively proposed at the same time when new endoscopic surgery approach via natural orifice transluminal was put forward(NOTES). To be specific, with respect to the first space(lumen) and second space(peritoneal cavity),the third space refers to the intramural space.The aim of the study is to compare value (outcomes/costs) of surgery in patients with SMTs by 2 approaches:Laparoscopic and Endoscopic cooperative surgery(LECS),Robotic and Endoscopic cooperative surgery(RECS).First of all, the investigators will collect 80 cases of SMTs patients, randomly assigned for the LECS and RECS groups. Secondly, to analyzing the demographic data,basic treatment and follow-up data, including the operation time, blood loss, the number of cut edge positive, the distances of cut edge away from the tumor edge, average such confinement, the meal time, cost of treatment, tumor recurrence rate, the presence of residual stomach, upset stomach and frequency,complications and other indicators.
Evaluation of the safety and efficacy of BCMA nanobody CAR-T cells in relapsed/refractory myeloma