There are about 1039 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Slovenia. 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.
Athlete status is a heritable trait that could be explained with a number of potentially important DNA polymorphisms contributing to predisposition to success in certain types of sport. The first aim of the study is to determine the genetic profile of Slovenian athletes. The associations of 30 common gene polymorphisms with aerobic and anaerobic athlete status will be investigated as a single and polygenic profile. The second aim is to investigate the impact of the genetic variants contributing to different acute response to low vs. high intensity exercise. Physiological and biochemical measurements will be carried out. Variability in physiological adaptation in response to exercise will provides an opportunity to study the relationship between the molecular response to exercise and the extent of physiological changes in athletes. Currently, it is not yet clear whether different genetic variant associated with exercise responses remains uniform, with different exercise intensities, structure and duration of exercise.
For patients with eye surgery and shorter surgery, sedation is a well-established method in preserved consciousness and has been successfully used for several years. We have also developed and published a valid protocol (1). Remifentanil is used in intravenous infusion for sedation and anxiolysis. Remifentanil is a descriptive analgesic, which also works partially anxiolytically. In eye surgery, it is important that the patient cooperates during the operation and should not be ashamed, as injury to the eye could occur, because the vitrectomes are performed with a fine intraocular endoscopic technique, in which the operator inserts his instruments through the whiteness into the eye. For this reason, we have not yet added additional sedatives (for example, midazolam), which is very unpredictable as regards sedation. Remifentanil is also very unpredictable and it is very difficult to control it during the operation so that the patient is saturated with satisfaction. Lately, dexmedetomidine has been successfully used in sedation for other areas of surgery (eg neurosurgery, maxillofacial surgery, ORL). It is a safe, proven, active substance with alpha 2 agonistic effect, which has not yet been used in the field of ocular surgery and has not yet published articles in this field. The substance is very suitable because it works mildly sedative and at the same time analgesic.
To assess the efficiency of 18F-fluorocholine PET/CT in localization of hyperfunctioning parathyroid tissue in hyperparathyroidism, thereby enabling minimally invasive surgical approaches with fewer complications and comparable success rates
The primary objective of this study is to determine the efficacy of a novel enteral nutrition (EN) protocol (delivering 75% of patient's caloric needs through EN) for induction of remission in patients with active childhood-onset Crohn's disease (CD) and compare it to the standard protocol with exclusive enteral nutrition (EEN). This novel approach allows patients to consume remaining calories (25%) from an antiinflammatory diet for CD (AID-CD). The hypothesis is that no significant difference in the remission rate between the novel EN protocol with partial enteral nutrition (PEN) and standard protocol with EEN will be observed.
The objective is to compare the efficacy and safety of masitinib in combination with riluzole versus matched placebo in combination with riluzole for the treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
In our clinical controlled trial, patients with coronary heart disease will be randomly assigned into the exercise intervention (low intensity resistance training with vascular occlusion) or usual physical activity group (control group).
The purpose of this study is to evaluate if omalizumab co-treatment may allow reintroduction of honey bee venom immunotherapy in patients with immunotherapy treatment failure due to systemic reactions.
One lung ventilation (OLV) has become a standard procedure for the vast majority of interventions in pulmonary surgery. It is used in both techniques: thoracotomy and videothoracoscopy (VATS). OLV can be provided by double lumen tube (DLT) with or without the hook. In our study the investigators want to find out if there is any advantage with one or another.
SPECTA is a quality assured platform for collecting clinicopathologically annotated biological material, imaging data, operative images, environmental assessment, questionnaires as well as patient-reported outcomes from cancer patients to support biospecimen-based translational research and clinical cancer research, including biomarker discovery to improve the understanding of tumor biology and cancer patients care.
Anxiety will be assessed from two aspects, the somatic and emotional. ANGST aims to determine how anxiety correlates with psychological parameters (personality traits, coping strategies and depressive symptoms) and with the outcome of elective coronary angiography (CA).