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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to explore the efficacy of injecting high-concentration platelet plasma combined with hyaluronic acid into the nasal olfactory mucosa in the treatment of traumatic anosmia.
The purpose of this research is to evaluate instrument functionality and develop a reference range of normal data by healthy volunteers.
The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the effectiveness of a drug named dapagliflozin (tested drug) on weight loss in young adults aged between 18 and 40 years with obesity who are not diagnosed with diabetes. The main questions this study aims to answer are: - How much weight in average can people loose with the use of tested drug compared to 2 other comparator drugs: metformin and placebo (non-medicated pill)? - What is the effect of using tested drug on other parameters used to assess blood pressure, cholesterol and sugar levels, and mental health? - How frequent are the side effects from using the tested drug compared to the comparator drugs? Participants will go through a 6-month program of physical activity and diet and measure their weight progress. Those who do not achieve the target weight reduction will be randomly assigned to any of the three drug groups, either testes drug group, comparator 1 (metformin), or comparator 2 (placebo).
Physical therapy and hypertonic dextrose prolotherapy are often used to treat subdeltoid bursitis. This study aims to investigate the effects of hypertonic dextrose injection on physical therapy through a double-blind, randomized study.
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common chronic functional disorder of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract characterized by chronic abdominal pain and altered bowel habits without organic disease. IBS is associated with substantial costs to patients, healthcare system and society in terms of increased health care expenditures, loss of work productivity and decrease in quality of life (QoL). Multiple factors play an important role in the pathogenesis of IBS, including disturbed gut microbiota (dysbiosis). Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) and probiotics administration can manipulate the disturbed intestinal microbiota. According to previous studies, inconsistent efficacy of oral probiotic administration was reported. FMT may have good and lasting efficacy, but the donor selection and route of administration are still issues. Direct delivery of probiotics into the colon by colonoscopy can ensure sufficient microbiota distribution in the colon, so faster and better efficacy may be expected. Therefore, this study is aimed toward validating the efficacy and safety of the colonoscopic probiotics-spray in IBS treatment. Patients diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome by Rome IV criteria will be enrolled in this randomized double-blind double-dummy parallel controlled study. The enrolled patients will be randomly assigned to the probiotics-spray (PS) group and the probiotics-oral (PO) group, respectively. The patients in the PS group will receive colonoscopic spray of probiotics once followed by oral placebo for 5 days, while the patients in the PO group will receive colonoscopic spray of placebo once followed by oral probiotics divided into 5 days. Then all of the patients will take the same dose of oral probiotics until 4 weeks. This study will evaluate the efficacy between the PS group and the PO group. Moreover, this study will compare the difference in fecal microbiota changes and safety between these two groups.
Bronchial asthma (abbr. asthma) is one of common airway chronic inflammatory disease which usually threatens human health. Typical symptoms of asthma are recurrent wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness and cough, usually happened at night or in early morning. However, there are still some patients who persist only clinical manifestations of chest tightness, namely, chest tightness variant asthma (CTVA). This subgroup of asthma usually lacks asthma-specific clinical features, therefore, often misdiagnosed and lack of effective treatment for a long time. The investigators' previous studies have found that CTVA has eosinophilic and non-eosinophilic subtypes. These patients with non-eosinophilic CTVA (NE-CTVA) are not sensitive to ICS/LABA, which guidelines recommend. At present, the specific treatment plan for NE-CTVA is urgently needed to elucidate. Azithromycin has immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory effects in addition to their antibacterial effects. Maintenance treatment with azithromycin has been proved to be effective in chronic neutrophilic airway diseases and severe asthma. However, there are no clinical studies to confirm the effectiveness of azithromycin in non-eosinophilic asthma, especially atypical asthma such as NE-CTVA. Now the investigators performed a national multi-center study to explore whether azithromycin improves asthma symptom control and improves quality of life in people with NE-CTVA. Finally, to find an optimal treatment for NE-CTVA.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of Oxycodone Hydrochloride on catheter-related bladder discomfort in patients undergoing transurethral resection of bladder tumor after general anesthesia.
Standard treatment for vitiligo often has unsatisfactory outcomes. With a new understanding of pathogenesis, novel drugs have been introduced which have shown to be effective in small-scale studies. Tofacitinib, a Janus kinase(JAK) inhibitor-2 has shown promising results in the treatment of vitiligo. However, randomized controlled studies are required to confirm these observations and identify the patients most likely to benefit from JAK-2 inhibition. This open-labeled randomized clinical trial will be conducted at the department of dermatology and venereology of US Bangla Medical College & Hospital in Dhaka for 6 months duration from June 2021 to November 2021 to Vitiligo patients attending in the aforementioned department will be approached for inclusion in the study. Finally, 80 patients who will fulfill the inclusion and exclusion criteria will be included. All patients will be informed about the nature of the study and the written consent will be taken in the consent form with the assurance that their information will be made confidential. Baseline information such as gender, age, disease history, and drugs used prior will be collected. All patients will undergo baseline laboratory evaluation which will be repeated at 6weeks and 12weeks. Before the beginning of treatment, digital images of the cutaneous lesions will be taken which will be compared with the ones taken at 6weeks and the end of 12weeks follow up. The participants will undergo randomization into 1:1 ratio into two equal groups. Group A will receive oral Tofacitinib and Group B will receive topical 0.1%Mometasone furoate. All the participants will receive allotted intervention for 12weeks. The patient will be followed up at 6 weeks and end of 12 weeks. The primary outcome of the study will be the improvement of the Vitiligo Area Scoring Index (VASI) score at 6 and12 weeks in all groups. Secondary outcomes will include improvement in Vitiligo European Task Force (VETF) scoring. The data will be systematically described and summarized and presented through descriptive statistics and finally will be analyzed by the statistical program Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 23.0(Chicago, Illinois, USA). The relevant statistical test will be used during the analysis. In all cases, the significance level will set p <0.05. Ethical clearance of the study will be obtained from the ethical review committee (ERC) of the study place.
Impaction of mandibular third molars is a commonly encountered problem in oral surgery; patients frequently visit dental OPDs with complains related to the impacted molars, and in almost all situations, surgical removal of these impactions is the definitive treatment provided to such patients. This type of surgery often involves osteotomies and tooth sectioning, that initiates acute inflammatory responses which results in significant amount of postoperative discomfort owing to the associated pain, swelling and trismus; which considerably affects the quality of life that may span from days up to weeks in few instances. In the past decades, different group of medications have been used to counter these adverse postoperative sequelae, such as steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (SAIDs) and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). MATERIAL AND METHODS: Study design: Randomized, double-blind, clinical trial with a split-mouth design. Setting: The study would be conducted at Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery department, Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan Institute of Oral Health Sciences, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi. Duration of study: Six months after the approval of synopsis. Sample size: A total of 170 patients would be included in the study, i.e. 85 in each group with 2 patients as a drop out. Calculated sample size is 83 patients per group; utilizing Pass version 11 software with 95% confidence interval, mean ± S.D of swelling in dexamethasone group1 95.7 ± 11.1 and in etoricoxib group1 100.0 ± 8.3 at measurement 5. Sampling technique: Purposive non-probability sampling technique would be used for the selection of patients. Sample selection: Patients meeting the following criteria would be included in the study: 1. Age 18-35 years. 2. Absence of any systemic disease. 3. Mandibular third molars in similar position with similar root formation. 3. No use of any medication in last 03 days. 4. Absence of allergy to any drug used in the study. 5. Surgical site with no current signs or symptoms of infection. Patients meeting any of the following criteria would be excluded from the study: 1. Pregnancy or lactation. 2. History of gastrointestinal bleeding or peptic ulcer. 3. Current smoking habit.
This a single-centre, one-arm, open-label pilot study. Eligible patients with mild proteinuric flares of lupus nephritis Class III/IV±V are received sirolimus without changing previous immunosuppressive medication during 12-week follow-up. Primary Objective: - To investigate the efficacy of sirolimus for mild proteinuric flares in patients with Class III/IV±V lupus nephritis Secondary Objective: - To assess the safety and tolerability of sirolimus treatment for mild proteinuric flares in patients with Class III/IV±V lupus nephritis