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.
A Phase 2 Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Efficacy and Safety Study of VIB7734 for the Treatment of Moderate to Severely Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in approximately 195 participants. The study duration will be 48 weeks, with a safety follow-up through week 56.There will be 3 parallel arms - 2 active treatment and 1 placebo.
Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS)-guided fine-needle aspiration/biopsy (FNA/B) is used to collect biopsy samples from many organs throughout the digestive tract and is useful in diagnosing solid pancreatic lesions (SPLs). The reported diagnostic accuracy of EUS-FNA for SPLs is 85-89.4%, the sensitivity is 82-94.7%, and the specificity is 100%. One randomized controlled trial reported that the fanning technique of FNA was superior to the standard approach because fewer passes were required to establish the diagnosis. However, in many cases, like SPLs with the presence of fibrosis and necrosis background, four or more needle passes are still needed to obtain sufficient biopsy samples. There is a potential risk of tumor seeding associated with multiple needle punctures. Therefore, it is important to minimize the number of needle passes. Contrast-enhanced harmonic EUS (CEH-EUS) using sonazoid (Daiichi-Sankyo, Tokyo, Japan) is useful to visualize parenchymal perfusion in the pancreas and characterize of SPLs. Because the necrotic or fibrotic area within the SPLs were appeared as non-enhanced area, CEH-EUS could help us to avoid puncture the non-enhancing area hence increased the diagnostic accuracy. Katana et al. reported that conventional EUS-FNA has lower sensitivity (72.9%) for pancreatic adenocarcinoma with non-enhanced areas compared to with enhanced areas (94.3%) on CEH-EUS. Therefore, it would be difficult to obtain sufficient biopsy samples through unenhanced areas of SPLs.
In this study, 45 healthy participants between 20 and 40 of age will be included. After obtaining the consent, the participants will be categorized into two(A&B) groups randomly for cross-over study. Each of group will accept either conventional taping or Chinese medicine technique taping before muscle fatigue exercise. To compare the preventive effect, Myoton PRO, pulse analysis equipment, etc will be applied for evaluation. The application of Chinese medicine technique (ie. Chinese medicine functional reduction) taking the kinetic chain into consideration may improve body's functional movement.
To compare the efficacy to different profiles, direct head-to-head studies had been conducted. In one previous review study revealed that TG LASIK provided patient with better uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) than WFO LASIK and WFG LASIK. In recent previous contralateral eye studies also showed that TG LASIK induced less postoperative higher-order aberration than WFO LASIK. However, these studies included only low-to-moderate myopia patients, for patients with high myopia (spherical equivalent > 6D), the effect of TG LASIK comparing with WFO LASIK had not been reported before. The aim of our study is to analyze and compare the visual performance of TG LASIK and WFO LASIK in high myopia and low-to-moderate myopia patients, , particularly UCVA, corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA), contrast sensitivity (CS), and wavefront aberration.
The Intelligent Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation System (ICRS) was developed to automatically control the resistance of pedaling in combination with the conventional stationary bike by monitoring the user's heart rate for clinical use. To test its feasibility, 8 healthy participants were recruited to complete 12 sessions (3 times per week for 4 weeks) of indoor cycling on the stationary bicycle with ICRS. Subjects were received cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) before and after the biking sessions.The 60-80% of heart rate reserve (HRR) of each participant was determined according to their first CPET results. The algorithm of ICRS was designed to enable the bicycle to adjust its training intensity in accordance with the subject's 60-80% HRR which was detected by wearing a wristband heart rate monitor during cycling. With ICRS, the participants' heart rates during training were expected to fall in the 60-80% HRR, increasing their cardiopulmonary fitness after 12 sessions of indoor cycling.
Recently, intensive care unit acquired weakness (ICUAW) has become a hotspot issue in the patients with critical illness. The symptoms of ICUAW, including sensory impairment and muscle atrophy, may lead to poor quality of life even though the patients discharged from the ICU for a long time. Therefore, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. At the same time, early evaluation is necessary to keep critically ill patients away from ICUAW. Medical Research Council (MRC) scale is the most common approach for diagnosis clinically. Regarding the interrater variation of MRC, handgrip strength (HGS) has been thought to be a simple and accurate alternative. However, HGS does not belong to antigravity or respiratory muscle which are the first to be affected by immobilization. It is still unknown whether HGS can represent the general muscle condition in ICU or not. Additionally, previous studies have proved that patients with critical illness in the ICU would have better prognosis and less complications, if they undergo physical therapy as soon as possible. In addition to early ventilator weaning and reduced mortality rate, physical therapy could enhance quality of life (QoL) after patient discharges from hospital. However, early mobility in the ICU mainly emphasizes cardiopulmonary patients due to the traditional concept in Taiwan. Hence, the duration of mechanical ventilation in the critical patients will affect the timing to receive physical therapy, even impact the improvement of QoL. Because of these reasons, this study will investigate the relationship between HGS and muscle mass among patients with critical illness and find the predictors of the short-term and long-term goals in the ICU, including ventilator weaning and QoL after hospital discharge.
The study will enroll up to 27,200 participants in order to demonstrate the efficacy of the active Ad26.RSV.preF-based study vaccine in the prevention of Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) confirmed Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)-mediated Lower Respiratory Tract Disease (LRTD) when compared to placebo in adults aged 60 years and above.
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of different domains of executive function (EF) during dual task walking condition on brain activation and gait performance in healthy adults. There are two experiments will be conducted in this study. Experiment 1 is a pilot study to determine the same level of difficulty in 3 EF domains, including inhibition, working memory and cognitive flexibility. Experiment 2 is carried out to investigate the effects of 3 different domains of EF which difficulties are controlled on gait performance and brain activation in dual task condition. 10 subjects will perform Stroop test (2s/3s/4s to change question), backward digit spans (3/4/5 digits) and naming test in Experiment 1. In Experiment 1, the primary outcome is the correct response speed (CRS) while secondary outcome will be the brain activity. In Experiment 2, 30 subjects will perform the single cognitive task A (SCTA, Stroop test), single cognitive task B (SCTB, backward digit spans), single cognitive task C (SCTC, naming test), single walking task (SWT), dual task A (DTA, walking while performing cognitive task A), dual task B (DTB, walking while performing cognitive task B) and dual task C (DTC, walking while performing cognitive task C). The CRS, gait performance, brain activity and the dual task costs (DTC) will be recorded in the Experiment 2. Brain activities in prefrontal cortex (PFC), premotor cortex (PMC) and supplementary motor area (SMAs) will be measured by functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) during this study. One-way ANOVA with Tukey post-hoc test will be performed to establish the effect of different type of executive task on CRS or the brain activity. The differences of gait parameters and brain activity in different condition in the Experiment 2 will be examined by one-way ANOVA with repeated measured. Furthermore, the Pearson correlation coefficient will be used to examine the correlation of brain activation and executive function performance or gait parameters.
This is an international, cross-sectional and descriptive study that aims to investigate differences in patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) and that aims to explore the profile and healthcare needs of adults with congenital heart diseases.
This study aimed to compare the safety and efficacy of vitrectomy probe with different shaft lengths in vitreoretinal surgery of highly myopic patients. In this randomized controlled study, highly myopic patients who had axial length more than 26 mm and needed vitreoretinal surgery will be enrolled. The enrolled patients will be randomized into "30 mm shaft length group"(trial group) and "27mm shaft length group"(controlled group). We will compare the rate of wound leakage, hypotony, subconjunctival hemorrhage, probe bending, trocar removal, and endophthalmitis between the two groups. We would like to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the 30 mm shaft length vitrectomy probe.