There are about 25560 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Germany. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
The study investigates whether patients with mild SARS-CoV-2 infection, who stayed at home during their infection and weren't hospitalized, have any persisting sequelae in pulmonary function. Therefore, 110 patients, aged 6-60 years, were recruited by telephone 4-12 weeks after laboratory-confirmed positive PCR and invited for a lung function testing. Every patient with abnormalities in pulmonary function was invited to a follow-up 3 months after the first appointment to assess changes in lung function values. Patients with a pre-existing lung disease and smokers within the last five years were excluded beforehand. Additionally to lung function testing we did a throat swab at each appointment to analyse via Multiplex PCR whether the patients had any other respiratory infection at the time of the pulmonary function testing.
Improvement in cancer therapies has led to an increase in the number of women surviving chemotherapy (and other treatments) and overcoming cancer. This patient population presents specific clinical needs as chemotherapy (and other cancer treatments) treatment side effects can lead to early appearance of menopause symptoms and conventional hormonal treatments are contraindicated for these patients. The use of CO2 laser treatment has been shown to provide relief of Genitourinary Syndrome Of Menopause (GSM) symptoms in women and might provide a significant improvement in the quality of life for cancer survivors. The current study is designed to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of CO2 laser for treatment of GSM symptoms in cancer survivors suffering from GSM symptoms, with limited access to hormonal treatment.
The goal of this exploratory method-development study is to to establish and evaluate novel non-invasive methods to monitor airway inflammation induced by allergen challenge (both by instillation during bronchoscopy and by inhalation) in patients with mild allergic asthma. The investigator wants to further profile and develop the allergen challenge model by investigating the utility of various non-invasive monitoring methods. The hypothesis of the project is that local inflammatory changes in the lung induced by allergen can be captured by gas-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and analysis of exhaled breath. The validation of cellular outcome measures and non-invasive inflammometry can be used in future clinical trials for proof of concept of novel anti-inflammatory medications. Participants will undergo - methacholine challenge - 2 inhaled allergen challenges - 2 MRI with hyperpolarized xenon and gadolinium based contrast agent - 2 bronchoscopies with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) - segmental allergen challenge during the first bronchoscopy - spirometry - skin prick test and skin prick dilution tests - measurement of particles in exhaled air - nasal filter - nasal lavage - sputum induction - peak flow meter tests - exhaled NO (nictric oxide) - blood sampling (in total approx. 190 ml)
TripleTRE investigates the effect of initial triple combination therapy (oral endothelin receptor antagonist (ERA) + oral phosphodiesterase tyüe-5 inhibitor (PDE-5i) + parenteral treprostinil) compared to double oral therapy (oral ERA + oral PDE-5i) in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) patients (group I) with intermediate-high risk or patients with intermediate-low risk with severe hemodynamic impairment at baseline in a prospective, randomized, unblinded setting with scope of increasing evidence for optimization of therapy concepts in PAH. The effect of initial triple combination therapy vs initial double oral therapy (standard of care (SoC)) will be measured by primary endpoint: (non)response to the assigned treatment.
Sleep-related breathing disorders are highly prevalent and are usually treated with positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy. To determine the quality of therapy, PAP therapy devices measure the frequency of residual breathing events. For this purpose, breathing events of different classes are detected, counted and identified. This clinical investigation aims to evaluate the performance of prismaLINE devices based on the accuracy of the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) recorded in the devices. During the PAP titration night, the AHI is similarly detected via polysomnography (PSG) device and a subsequent manual scoring of the recorded PSG data. The validation of the device AHI accuracy refers to the alignment with the manually scored AHI. Further goals of this clinical investigation are the confirmation of safety of the prismaLINE devices, the confirmation of performance and safety of LM full face masks (full face masks of the manufacturer Löwenstein Medical Technology), as well as the investigation of the influence of LM full face masks on therapy quality. The most relevant inclusion criteria are diagnosis of a sleep-related breathing disorder and indication for therapy with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). Treatment takes place with prismaLINE PAP therapy devices in combination with LM full face masks.
This is a randomized trial investigating the effect of oscillometric blood pressure monitoring at 2.5-minute intervals - compared to 5-minute intervals - on intraoperative hypotension. Specifically, the investigators will test the primary hypothesis that oscillometric blood pressure monitoring at 2.5-minute intervals - compared to 5-minute intervals - reduces the time-weighted average mean arterial pressure below 65 mmHg in patients having non-cardiac surgery.
The present study seeks to examine the feasibility, acceptance and efficacy of Metacognitive Training-Silver (MCT-Silver) BeWell among older adults (ages 60 years and older) delivered in a community setting (e.g., social-psychiatric community center, nursing homes, etc.).
Ovarian hormones are not only modulators of cognitive function, emotion regulation and mental health, but also seem to affect brain plasticity and functional connectivity, During the menstrual cycle, women experience cyclic fluctuation of the ovarian hormone estradiol, which is closely associated with neuroplasticity/changes in brain structure in regions with high estradiol receptor density, such as the amygdala, hippocampus/parahippocampus, anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), striatum, and prefrontal cortex (PFC). Further functional connectivity between these areas seems to be associated with hormonal changes dependent on the menstrual cycle phase. But next to estradiol, also other hormones like progesterone fluctuate across the menstrual cycle. In the past, effects of ovarian hormone levels were often investigated in combination. However, one way to disentangle the impact of estradiol from that of other hormones on neuroplasticity, emotion regulation and mood states, can be the experimental increase of estradiol via estradiol administration. In this double-blinded within-subject study, women were administered either estradiol valerate or placebo during the early follicular phase (thus when ovarian hormone concentrations are low) before undergoing neuroimaging. Parts of the study are already described in Rehbein et al., 2021 and 2022.
This is a multicenter, non-interventional study to observe the natural progression of the disease and to study the prevalence of pre-existing antibodies to AAV9 used for gene therapy in a population of patients with PKP2 gene-associated ARVC. Participation from all patients is encouraged regardless of interest in or eligibility for gene therapy.
This is a non-interventional observational study conducted in Germany to evaluate the real-world effectiveness, tolerability, safety, and quality of life in patients with locally advanced/metastatic HR+/HER2- breast cancer treated with one of the following 1st line treatments: Ribociclib + AI/FUL, or endocrine monotherapy, or chemotherapy