There are about 21062 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Italy. 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.
STITCH - Prospective Multi-Center Comparative Parallel Concurrent Study of the NobleStitch™ EL versus FDA approved Amplatzer Occluder device for closure of Patent Foramen Ovale to prevent recurrent ischemic stroke.
Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome, representing the final evolution of many cardiac diseases that may differ for etiology and pathophysiology. In pediatric population, it is particularly challenging to manage because of the heterogeneity in age, primary cardiac disease, and the broad range of clinical signs and symptoms. Frequent hospitalizations are current problem. Hospitalization within the first year since the first episode, lack of adherence to medical therapy and diet difficulties are the main issues in this population of patients, and they rebounds on prognosis and public health costs. Actions aimed to prevent and manage these matters will improve outcome in patients with chronic heart failure. Telemedicine proved its usefulness in adult population, but, nowadays, no studies have been conducted in children. From the beginning of 21th century, remote monitoring attempts have been adopted, initially by phone calls. Currently, the e-care monitoring fits in the context of telemedicine 2.0 based on new communication models. The aim of this study is to affirm the feasibility and efficacy of a new model of tele monitoring in pediatric population. High-risk patients need a strict clinical control normally difficult to adopt. A telematics system capable to detect vital parameters as heart rate, body temperature, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, breathe frequency, weight, arrhythmias and cardiac index may offers to physician valuable information able to strictly monitoring the clinical status of patients. All of these data permits to physician to early detect critical signals of a deteriorated status, modify adherence to care and implement therapeutic strategies in order to prevent frequent hospitalizations. Our project provides a system of continuous tele-monitoring of vital parameters through a patch applied on the chest of the baby. Data are sent to a service center, "virtual clinic" and daily analyzed in multiparametric system by a specialized nurse. On the basis of pre-established alarms, the virtual clinic will notify to physician. Feasibility and tolerability of this new monitoring system will be evaluated after a 3 months period on a cohort of 20 patients affected by chronic, high-risk, heart failure.
The aim of the study is to compare the effectiveness of telerehabilitation vs. in presence rehabilitation of reading disorders, using a rhythm-based intervention for reading (i.e., Rhythmic Reading Training)
The purpose of this study is to evaluate long-term safety and tolerability of dapirolizumab pegol treatment.
This study will randomize patients recently discharged from the hospital with a confirmed diagnosis of type 1 acute myocardial infarction (Thygesen et al. 2018) and having additional cardiovascular risk factors.
Priapism is a urological emergency that is defined as a prolonged penile erection lasting more than 4 h, remaining despite orgasm and in the absence of sexual stimulation. There are three sub-types of priapism: Ischaemic, non- ischaemic and stuttering. The most common (95% cases) of these is ischaemic priapism (IP), which represents a compartment syndrome of the corpus cavernosa with minimal or no arterial flow into the penis. It causes time-dependent smooth muscle damage that can result in significant morbidity (including, permanent erectile dysfunction (ED), penile shortening, penile curvature and loss of girth) with- out prompt intervention. Unlike ischemic priapism, non-ischemic priapism is not a urologic emergency, both the American Urological Association (AUA) and the European Association of Urology (EAU) recommend conservative, non-operative, management for the treatment of NIP. Spontaneous resolution has been documented to occur in 62% of patients [1]. Despite the very high burden of priapism and its time-dependent adverse effect on erectile function, few studies have comprehensively defined the clinical epidemiology of this complication nor have any compared sexual dysfunction in men with SCD with that in those without it. Evidence-based treatment strategies for priapism are currently lacking, especially in terms of sexual function. However, despite the various publications in the literature, even today the published studies show considerable bias, in terms of sample size, evaluation of reproducible outcomes, use of internationally validated questionnaires, well-defined follow-up evaluation, as well as the evaluation of outcome after medical or surgical treatment. For this reason, the purpose of this international register is precisely to shed light on what may be the responses to medical surgical treatment in patients with priapism, but in particular to set up a rational data collection that has solid scientific bases.
Study RIN-PF-302 is designed to evaluate the long-term safety and tolerability of inhaled treprostinil in subjects with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
The aim is to establish adequate and suitable protocols for PD patients and to determine the WB-EMS effects on muscle strength, balance, walking, cognitive functions,neurotrophic factors and alpha-synuclein. Thirty-six PD patients, aged from 50 to 80 years, will be recruited and randomly assigned to two experimental groups (EGs and EGc) and one control group (CG), in order to perform dynamic movements with WB-EMS. EGs will undergo to 12-20 minutes of progressive supervised WB-EMS (4 sec. 85 HZ and 4 sec. rests) combined to light dynamic movements, two-time per week for 12/24 weeks. EGe will undergo to 12-20 minutes of progressive supervised WB-EMS 7 Hz) combined with cardiovascular training with rowing machine. CG will not perform any type of physical activity. Pre and post intervention assessment will be carried out on the following areas: physical assessment, neurocognitive, neurotrophic factors and alpha-synuclein assesments. A 3 months follow-up will be performed.
Although the recent literature is building a remarkable background to answer the many unknowns related to SARS-CoV-2 infection, it is absolutely necessary to finalize every clinical effort to collect data that may be useful, in a short time, to improve our knowledge of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Numerous biomarkers have been evaluated in the recent literature as being altered in patients with severe forms of COVID-19. Particularly, in the critical care area, the research of early predictors of mortality is essential for high-flow management of patients requiring invasive assisted ventilation and requiring invasive and non-invasive assisted ventilation, hemodynamic support, sometimes extracorporeal support (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, ECMO). The coordinated study of different biomarkers, in particular, if combined with each other, possibly even to constitute a possible score, could guide the correct allocation of patients between hospital departments and the appropriate management in intensive care units. appropriate management in intensive care units, as well as providing an early prognostic indication. prognostic indication. The combination of these biomarkers with routine clinical and laboratory data may further provide valuable information about their use in acute care and as progressive acute and as progressive monitoring over time. Regarding the data of interest on the clinical trend, the evaluation of the respiratory support modalities, from the administration of oxygen therapy (by nasal cannulae or Venturi mask, or by high flow system - High Flow Nasal Cannula, HFNC), to CPAP support or by non-invasive or invasive ventilation, appears of particular importance. Therefore, the present study will be conducted in sub-intensive as well as intensive care units, in order to evaluate different types of patients, and their possible evolution over time. The comparison between the populations belonging to different areas of intensity of care will be able to describe the different populations. Data analysis will allow an evaluation of possible risk factors and prognostic determinants of the severity of the disease and its infectious complications.
The purpose of this study is to collect long-term safety and tolerability data for aficamten (CK-3773274)