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Filter by:The purpose of the trial is to compare the effectiveness and safety of 2 treatment regimens of CAM2029 (given weekly or every 2 weeks) to placebo in participants with symptomatic PLD, either isolated as in autosomal dominant PLD (ADPLD) or associated with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). In the Treatment Period of the trial, participants will be allocated at random to 1 of the 3 treatment arms in a 1:1:1 ratio. After completing the Treatment Period (53 weeks) participants may proceed to a 24-week open-label extension part of the trial and then only receive the same CAM2029 treatment. The active ingredient in CAM2029, octreotide, is administered as a subcutaneous depot using Camurus' FluidCrystal® technology.
The prevalence of pancreatic cysts in the general population is high close to 1%. The diagnosis is most of the time fortuitous thanks to the improvement of the imaging resources available. These lesions include a large number of entities, some of with malignant potential. Mucinous lesions present a high risk of tumor transformation, justifying surgery, which is sometimes heavy. It appears essential to select the best patients to benefit from this type of treatment. For this purpose, the accuracy of the diagnostic means must be optimal. The Fine Needle Aspiration under Endoscopic ultrasound, validated in this context, have a low complication rate. It allows a cytological evaluation and analysis of tumor markers measurements in cystic fluid. However, cytopathological evaluation is only contributing in 1/3 to half of cases. The assays of markers (including the main one ACE) have high specificities but high insufficient sensitivities (less than 50%). Molecular techniques (K-RAS mutation in particular), of variable availability, allow to increase the sensitivity in association with the other diagnostic parameters. But the rate of false negatives remains above 20% to date. A diagnostic means to obtain a histology of the cyst wall would reduce considerably the risk of error. The Moray™ micro forceps is forceps that aims to provide a tissue sample of the wall of the pancreatic cyst. It is inserted into a commonly used 19 Gauge needle during the puncture of the cyst under endoscopic ultrasound. It could increase the accuracy diagnosis of the procedure. These forceps has recently become available to the practitioner and has obtained the CE marking. To date, no quality multi-center prospective evaluation has determined the capacity of to obtain a histology of the pancreatic cystic walls by this technique. Its safety must be also be accurately assessed.
Pilonidal disease often presents as a chronic, relapsing condition. A variety of procedures are used in the management of pilonidal disease, with varying degrees of morbidity, disease-free interval, and long-term success. In patients with new-onset or recurrent pilonidal disease, the investigators aim to address how minimally invasive trephine excision compares to other surgical procedures in terms of short- and long-term clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction. In the absence of a gold standard surgical procedure, surgeon preference will help dictate the management of pilonidal disease. For many surgeons, this means a variation on open excision for pilonidal disease failing conservative management. However, outcomes for minimally invasive pilonidal excision (MIPE) as initially described by Gips and forthcoming Lipskar et al., are likely to alter management of the disease (Gips, 2008). The investigators wish to assess patient and surgeon satisfaction with MIPE, and short-term outcomes.
More than 200,000 new cases of renal cancer are diagnosed in the world each year, with more than 63,000 new cases in Europe alone. Of those, renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most common type in adults, making up more than 90% of the cases. Deciding on the benign or malignant nature of some RCC on the basis of medical images (CT, MRI, US) is an issue, which often leads to unnecessary surgery, morbidity and costs. A categorization for renal cysts was introduced in the late 1980s known as the Bosniak classification. The Bosniak classification system classifies them into groups that are benign (I and II) and those that need surgical resection (III and IV), based on specific imaging features. However, defining the malignancy of category III lesions still remains a challenge. Though Bosniak classification for renal cysts is used worldwide and underwent a number of modifications, Bosniak III cysts still have almost a 1:1 chance of being malignant. So the problem is that approximately half of the Bosniak category III cystic lesions prove to be benign after surgery. The proposed project aims to develop a quantitative image analysis (QIA) based multifactorial decision support system (mDSS) capable of classifying renal cysts with high accuracy into benign or malignant status, thus reducing the amount of unnecessary surgeries performed. Using standard-of-care CT images and clinical parameters, the customized DSS will then guide experts in planning a safe and effective diagnostic and treatment strategy for all RCC patients.
The main objective of the study is to compare the diagnostic accuracy of intra-cystic fluid DNA molecular analysis to standard diagnostics. The secondary objective of the study is to evaluate the feasibility of intra-cystic fluid DNA molecular analysis.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of chemotherapeutic pancreatic cyst ablation using ethanol lavage followed by the infusion of a dual-agent chemotherapeutic cocktail (paclitaxel + gemcitabine) compared with alcohol-free saline lavage followed by infusion of the same dual-agent chemotherapeutic cocktail (paclitaxel + gemcitabine) for the ablation of pancreatic cystic neoplasms using endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle infusion (EUS-FNI) for agent delivery.
Positive data originating from two polycystic liver patients treated with somatostatin analogues, showed a volume reduction of 38.3% and 14.9%. These two patients had complicated polycystic livers and no other therapeutic options were available. Patients who participated in LOCKCYST trial are able to benefit from active treatment. Participants will be actively treated for 24 weeks.