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Filter by:Genetic testing (GT) (including targeted panels, exome and genome sequencing) is increasingly being used for patient care as it improves diagnosis and health outcomes. In spite of these benefits, genetic testing is a complex and costly health service. This results in unequal access, increased wait times and inconsistencies in care. The use of e-health tools to support genetic testing delivery can result in a better patient experience and reduced distress associated with waiting for results and empower patients to receive and act on medical results. We have previously developed and tested an interactive, adaptable and patient-centred digital decision support tool (Genetics ADvISER) to be used for genetic testing decision making, and have now developed the Genetics Navigator (GN), a patient-centred e-health navigation platform for end-to-end genetic service delivery. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the GN in an RCT in reducing distress with patients and parents of patients being offered genetic testing. Results of this trial will be used to establish whether the GN is effective to use in practice. If effective, GN could fill a critical clinical care gap and improve health outcomes and service use by reducing counselling burden as well as overuse, underuse and misuse of services. These are concerns policy makers seek to address through the triple aims of health care1. This study represents a significant advance in personalized health by assessing the effectiveness of this novel, comprehensive e-health platform to ultimately improve genetic service delivery, accessibility, patient experiences, and patient outcomes.
Introduction Diabetic foot-ulcers leads to decreased quality of life, risk of major amputation, and resource demanding health-care. To minimize the risk of developing foot-ulcers, persons with diabetes are given the advice to daily inspect their feet and to apply skincare formulations. However, commercially available skincare products have rarely been developed and evaluated for diabetes foot care specifically. The primary aim of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) is to evaluate the effects in reducing foot xerosis in persons with diabetes without foot-ulcers using two skincare creams containing different humectants (interventions) against a cream base non-humectant (comparator). Secondary outcomes are to evaluate differences on skin barrier integrity, low-molecular weight biomarkers and skin microbiota, microcirculation including transcutaneous oxygen pressure, degree of neuropathy, and HbA1c between intervention-comparator cream. Methods Two-armed double-blind RCT. With 80% power, two-tailed significance of 2.5% in each arm, 39 study persons is needed in each arm, total 78 persons, to be able to prove a reduction of at least one category in the Xerosis Severity Scale with the intervention creams compared to the comparator. In one arm, each participant will treat one foot with one of the intervention creams (Oviderm® or Canoderm®), while the opposite foot will be treated with the comparator cream (Decubal® lipid cream®), twice a day. If needed, participants are enrolled after a wash-out period of two weeks. The participants will undergo examinations at baseline, day 14 and day 28. Discussion This RCT evaluate the potential effects of humectants in skin creams against foot xerosis in persons with diabetes. The outcomes of this trial could have implications on treatment recommendations of foot care and for the prevention of foot ulcer.
This study was conducted in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled design to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Genakumab injection in the treatment of CTD-ILD including Rheumatoid Arthritis associated Interstitial Lung Disease (RA-ILD) and Systemic Sclerosis associated Interstitial Lung Disease (SSc-ILD)
The overall study objectives outlined in this study are to derive 129Xe MRI pulmonary vascular biomarker signatures that differentiate common subtypes of PAH and to determine the ability of 129Xe MRI to longitudinally monitor disease progression and response to therapy in PAH, with the aid of additional assessments, such as labs, echocardiography, and six-minute walk distance (6MWD).
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Telitacicept for the treatment of connective tissue disease-associated thrombocytopenia.
Adult patients with suspected or confirmed Connective Tissue Disease Patients (CTD)With Pulmonary Hypertension(PH)will be recruited. Patients will be approached, consented, have baseline demographics, diagnostics and disease activity measures recorded, and blood taken. The collection of data and biological material will mirror usual clinical practice as far as possible. Subjects will ideally attend further visits at 3, 6 and 12 months to have bloods taken, outcome measures recorded and questionnaires completed.
This study aims to characterize the epidemiology of interstitial lung diseases (ILD) associated to connective tissue disease (CTD) in Mexico, and to study its correlation with the different comorbidities and treatments used, as well as the possible impacts of these factors on the outcome of progression, exacerbations, and mortality in patients with ILD associated to CTD.
30 months, multicentre, prospective observational study on adult (>18 years) patients with a diagnosis of rare and complex connective tissue diseases (rCTDs) who will be given the vaccine during the period from January 2021 and January 2022. Patients with the following diagnosis will be included: - antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), - Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), - idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM), - IgG4-related disease (IgG4), - mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), - relapsing polychondritis (RP), - Sjogren's syndrome (SS), - systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), - systemic sclerosis (SSc) - undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD)
Connective tissue diseases represent a rather heterogeneous spectrum of overlapping pathologies, which have as a common feature the involvement of multiple organ systems. Though generally uncommon, they represent lifelong conditions, which are often coupled with various immunologic disorders, thus significantly affecting the overall health and quality of life of the affected individual. The classic connective tissue disorders include rheumatoid arthritis ,Juvenile idiopathic arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus , scleroderma, Sjogren's syndrome, and the mixed connective tissue disease several studies have reported that up to fifty percent of connective tissue diseases' patients are having laryngeal involvement as the sole manifestation of this disease In acute phases, patients may complain of burning, foreign body sensation in the throat, and difficulty in swallowing. In chronic cases the cricoarytenoid joint is usually affected with resultant fixation. The laryngoscopic findings include mucosal edema, myositis of the intrinsic laryngeal muscles, hyperemia, inflammation and swelling of the arytenoids, interarytenoid mucosa, aryepiglottic folds and epiglottis, and impaired mobility or fixation of the cricoarytenoid joint. In the early stage of the disease, the laryngeal examination may be normal
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a scleral buckling surgical procedure performed on fellow eyes of patients with genetically confirmed Stickler syndrome can prevent the occurrence retinal detachment and/or severe vision loss of the study eye.