There are about 36633 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in France. 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.
Calcaneonavicular coalition represents approximately 1% of the population between 8 and 12 years. They are manifested by repeated ankle sprains or by pain. - The diagnosis is radiological on an X-ray of the foot in oblique-3/4 incidence as well as magnetic resonance imaging. Treatment is second-line surgery after failure of orthopedic treatment. This surgery is either by direct approach or by arthroscopy, by performing a bone resection to recreate sufficient space in the joint in question. The patients in this study will only be operated on openly.
Diabetes affects half of cystic fibrosis patients aged 30 years and older. It develops asymptomatically for a long time. Also, two options are possible: start insulin treatment now with the additional constraints associated with cystic fibrosis or wait while monitoring the patient's clinical status and initiate insulin treatment when he has developed symptoms and therefore later. In practice, the choice between these two options takes place over two medical consultations without a formalized shared decision-making process between the doctor and the patient. Shared decision-making is a decision-making process in which the healthcare provider and the patient learn about patients care options and then deliberate to reach a common agreement on the decision taken. Shared decision-making seemed particularly relevant to us in cystic fibrosis where there are complex treatment options with variable short-, medium- and long-term side effects and where the disease and its treatments have a high impact on the patient's quality of life.
Acute appendicitis is the first visceral surgical emergency in pediatrics with about 30,000 cases in children having been described in France. It concerns 0.3% of children under 15 with a maximum frequency between 8 and 13 years of age. Acute appendicitis has a significant morbidity rate of 8% and a mortality rate under 0.1%. 10 to 25% of the children admitted to emergency rooms for abdominal pain have appendicitis. In 20 to 30% of the cases, the initial symptoms are atypical, which explains the difficulty in diagnosing. The purpose of our study is to evaluate the quality of general practitioners in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis, its severity and the diagnostic criteria used. Furthermore, it is not as easy to evaluate pain or examine a complaint in children as it is in adults. Appendicectomy is the treatment of choice for all acute appendicitis. The importance of early diagnosis and treatment is, therefore, essential. Many predictive diagnostic scores have been studied over the years. The Pediatric Appendicitis Score (PAS) using typical symptoms of acute appendicitis and biological items was published in 2002. Nowadays, it is still considered as a reference and has been validated by other studies. Most of the patients suffering from abdominal pain first consult their general practitioner.
Obesity, which has a prevalence at 15% in France, is a major public health concern. Altered glycemic control and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are frequently observed in obese patients and lead to reduce the quality of life. In the last decades, the role of gut microbiota and intestinal permeability has been underlined in obesity, glycemic control and IBS. Interestingly, experimental and clinical data show that glutamine, an amino acid, is able to maintain or restore intestinal permeability in different conditions. We thus hypothesize that oral glutamine supplementation may restore gut barrier function contributing to improve glycemic control and IBS-symptoms. Our project will thus aim to evaluate the effects of 8 weeks - oral glutamine supplementation on glycemic control and IBS symptoms in obese patients in a blinded randomized controlled trial. Placebo group will received protein powder. 55 obese patients will enrolled in each arm and will received oral glutamine supplementation or protein powder (10g t.i.d.) during 8 weeks. Blood and feces samples and intestinal permeability assays will be performed at baseline (w0), after 8 weeks of supplementation (w8) and then after 8 weeks of a wash-out period (w16).
Premature ovarian failure (POF) is a rare condition, affecting 1 in 10,000 women before age 20 and 1 in 1,000 women before age 30. The two main causes of POF are congenital and acquired. Patients with POF who carry out the desire to have a child turn to medically assisted reproduction through oocyte donation or to adoption. The main endpoint of this study is to compare the desire to have children among women with premature ovarian failure (POF) aged 18 to 26 years vs. controls of the same age (stratified by age) without major menstruation disorder.
It is important for patients treated with anti-EGFR therapies to get access to cosmetic options to preserve their skin condition during treatment. Anti-EGFR therapies are known to fragilize epidermis and to provoke rashes; which often lead to treatment discontinuation. The aim of this study is to demonstrate that the Onco-Rash cream is able to preserve skin condition without side effects. Decreasing skin toxicity is expected to improve patients' life and facilitate treatment follow-up.
The purpose of this study is to investigate insula structural connectivity in temporal epilepsy patients. Insula being at the interface of frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal lobes, its structural organization reflects the brain function. We hypothetize that insular structural organization will be different according to the different subtypes of temporal epilepsy.
The purpose of this study is to identify the most promising therapeutic strategy for patients with granulomatosis with polyangiitis and inadequate response to standard of care therapy. It will evaluate the efficacy to induce remission of three different salvage strategies including: a combination of rituximab with addition of a conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (either methotrexate, azathioprine or mycophenolate mofetil, but preferentially methotrexate); tocilizumab; or abatacept.
In ischemic stroke, the recanalization rate after intravenous thrombolysis has been estimated to be less than 50% in patients with proximal intracranial artery occlusion; this rate is greater than 80% after endovascular thrombectomy. Thromboelastometry is a method of analysis of coagulation and fibrinolysis in whole blood. The main objective of this study is to evaluate whether the parameters obtained by thromboelastometry are predictive of revascularization at arteriography during mechanical thrombectomy, after treatment with rt-PA thrombolysis.
The neurological disorders that accompany aging represent a major public health problem. The management of these diseases is a major medical and social priority. This project is based on the assumption that the oral cavity represents a privileged observation space to address these issues. The mouth is a site of easy access for painless sampling; there is therefore a major interest in identifying early oral infectious markers of the development or evolution of senile dementia. In addition to the interest of an early oral diagnosis, the mapping of the oral microbial flora in the demented elderly would allow a better understanding, prevention or even control of the evolution of neurodegenerative diseases. The final objective of our approach is to characterize the oral pathogens, or more probably the group of oral pathogens, which are significantly associated with Alzheimer's disease.