There are about 10560 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Taiwan. 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.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a worldwide public health dilemma because of close association with multiple comorbidities, demanding high cardiovascular events, mortality and expensive medical cost. Novel and effective therapeutic measures remain urgently needed to reduce burden and impact of disease. Advanced renal failure can profoundly alter the biochemical milieu of the gastrointestinal tract leading to a leak gut. Application of 16s rRNA gene analysis identified an increase of Clostridia, Actinobacteria, and Gammaproteobacteria in hemodialysis patients and decrease of Bifidobacterium and lactobacillus in peritoneal patients. This altered microbiome consequently affect production of indole or phenol derived uremic toxins leading to renal damage. Our preliminary results indicated reduced number and diversity of intestinal microbes CKD patients compared to normal. Different dietary nutrients can affect the gut microbiome and derive several deleterious metabolites leading to metabolic disarrangement. Clinically, low-protein diet should be prescribe to renal patients to preserve renal function and high fat content are usually recommended to avoid caloric malnutrition to dietary restriction. The changes of diet-microbiome-metabolite interaction are large unknown with this dietary manipulation. The aims of this study is to determine the renal progression-associated gene and taxonomic alterations bymetagenome-wide association studies and the functional characterization of gut microbiome in CKD patients receiving different low-protein or high-fat diets. The results of the study will provide insight on the exact role of dietary manipulation in CKD patients from gut-renal cross talk.
The primary objective of the trial is to assess long-term safety and tolerability of apraglutide in subjects with SBS-IF.
This study is being done to see if a combination of 2 medicines (called NNC0194-0499 and semaglutide) can reduce liver damage in patients with non alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). NNC0194-0499 is a new medicine which works in the liver. Semaglutide is a well-known medicine, which is already used by doctors to treat type 2 diabetes in many countries. It also helps with weight loss and may reduce liver damage, and so prevent future liver complications. It works in a different way to NNC0194 0499. The 2 medicines may work better together than on their own. The study will also look at a combination of semaglutide and another weight-loss medicine called NNC0174-0833, which may be another treatment option for NASH. Each week, participants will get 2 injections. These could be 2 of the 3 medicines OR 1 of the medicines and a placebo OR 2 placebo injections. Which treatment participants get is decided by chance. A placebo is a dummy medicine which looks like the real medicine but doesn't contain any active medicine. The study will last for about 19 months. Participants will have 14 clinic visits and 9 phone calls with the study doctor. Participants will have 1 or 2 liver biopsies (tiny pieces of liver tissue) - one at the start (if participants have not had a biopsy recently) and one at the end of the study treatment. Women: Women cannot take part if pregnant, breast-feeding or planning to become pregnant during the study period.
This study adapts a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, to exam the possible benefit of Astaxanthin on Alzheimer disease. The enrolled Alzheimer patients will take Astaxanthin or placebo for 1 year. We will follow up Mini-Mental State Examination, Cognitive Ability Screening Instrument, Clinical Dementia Rating, and Neuropsychiatric Inventory at the end of the study.
The purpose of the study (Part 1 and Part 2) is to evaluate the safety of a step-up dosing approach (starting with low doses followed by higher doses) of the study medicine (elranatamab) in participants with multiple myeloma that has come back after responding to treatment or has not responded to treatment (relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma). This study will also look at the safety and efficacy of different doses of elranatamab, as well as different intervals between doses. Participants in the study will receive elranatamab as an injection under the skin at the study clinic. After the initial step-up doses, participants will start receiving one dose every week. The frequency of clinic visits for injections may then decrease over time. Participation will be at least two years.
The purpose of the study is to determine the safety and tolerability of pembrolizumab/vibostolimab (MK-7684A) in hematological malignancies. This study will also evaluate the overall response rate (ORR), the duration of response (DOR), and disease control rate (DCR) following administration of pembrolizumab/vibostolimab. In addition, this study will characterize pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of vibostolimab (MK-7684).
This is a Phase I/II study designed to evaluate if experimental anti-TIGIT/anti-PD-1 bispecific antibody rilvegostomig (AZD2936) is safe, tolerable and efficacious in participants with Advanced or Metastatic Non-small Cell Lung Cancer.
The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of adding lazertinib to amivantamab, carboplatin, and pemetrexed (LACP/ACP-L dosing strategies) and amivantamab, carboplatin and pemetrexed (ACP) compared with carboplatin and pemetrexed (CP) in participants with locally advanced or metastatic epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) Exon 19del or Exon 21 L858R substitution non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after osimertinib failure. The purpose of the extension cohort is to further describe the safety and efficacy for the ACP-L dosing schedule versus ACP with additional data. After completion of the primary analysis, the study may eventually transition to an open-label extension (OLE) or long-term extension (LTE) phase during which participants will have the option to continue their assigned treatment.
Neoadjuvant or primary systemic treatment is increasingly applied in the treatment of operable breast cancer. Down staging of the primary tumor is one of the important goals of neoadjuvant chemotherapy treatment (NCT), thereby permitting breast-conserving treatment without affecting the risk for a local relapse. Complete pathological response (pCR) rates after NCT vary across histological subtypes and can be more than 60% in HER2-positive disease with dual blockade therapy. Down staging of the axilla is also observed in patients initially presenting with metastatic lymph nodes. pCR rates in the axilla vary between 22% and 42% in reported series, again depending on tumor subtype. Omission of axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) can avoid the post-operative morbidity such as lymphedema in the short or long term follow-up. Metastatic lymph node status is hard to be stated as a pCR in the axilla by using physical examination or imaging such as ultrasonography or tomography after complete NCT. Good response to the axilla lymph node causing the difficulty of tissue proof by using core needle biopsy, though the investigator knew that biopsy stands for the definite tool for the confirmation of the residual disease. One proposed method to decrease the false-negative rate (FNR) is clip placement in the positive node at initial diagnosis with confirmation of clipped node resection at surgery. The correlation between the axillary lymph node identified on initial axillary ultrasound and the sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) identified at surgery has not been fully evaluated. The concordance between percutaneous biopsy and the lymph node resected at the time of SLNB is not 100%. Sometimes, the initial node identified by ultrasound is not one of the SLNs. The impairment of the performance of SLNB might correlated to the alteration of lymphatic flow induced by tissue fibrosis or tumor deposits after NCT. The investigator hypothesized that the clip placement at diagnosis of node-positive disease with removal of the clipped node during SLNB reduces the FNR of SLNB after NCT. Here, we evaluate how often the lymph node containing the clip placed at percutaneous biopsy before chemotherapy was found at surgery to be one of the SLNs, and how often it was found in the nodes retrieved at ALND. In addition, the investigator report the impact of identification of the clipped node within the SLNs on the FNR of SLNB.
Expected Results: Finding from this evidence-based study ought to clarify the effectiveness of walking intervention for patients with SLE, and provide reference for future nursing strategies to improve disease adaptability.