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Filter by:During this project, the investigators want to explore in vitro changes in basal cells and the crosstalk with residing immune cells as potential pathogenic mechanisms in CRSwNP vs healthy controls by using surgically resected patient samples.
Three-dimensional (3D) printing has been an emerging technology with uses in a wide array of fields. This research aims to use 3D printing as a tool to provide personalized education to maximize treatment efficacy based on the patient's individual anatomy. With increased irrigation to the sinuses, we hypothesize there will be improved patient satisfaction and higher quality of life. The outcomes of this research could lead to a new option for patients who live with chronic rhinosinusitis are not candidates for surgery or are interested in less invasive options. The 3D printed nasal replica is not something that would be implanted, rather it is a hand-held device used specifically for participants to better understand their nasal anatomy.
Endoscopic resection of pedicled polyps mainly focuses on how to prevent bleeding, and also needs to pay attention to the convenience of resection and the integrity of resection, which means that different endoscopic resection strategies should be adopted for pedicled polyps with different pedicle sizes. Small pedicled polyps with heads smaller than 20mm and pedicles smaller than 5mm are defined as having a relatively small risk of bleeding. Preliminary studies in recent years suggest that the use of cold snare polypectomy for small pedicled polyps may also be a safe resection strategy. However, for small pedicled polyps, ASGE and ESGE guidelines currently recommend hot snare polypectomy in the middle and lower pedicles (evidence level medium). Therefore, the provision of high-quality clinical evidence related to cold resection techniques in the resection strategy of small pedicled polyps may provide a basis for revision of guidelines.
Endoscopic resection of pedicled polyps mainly focuses on how to prevent bleeding, and also needs to pay attention to the convenience of resection and the integrity of resection, which means that different endoscopic resection strategies should be adopted for pedicled polyps with different pedicle sizes. The head larger than 20mm or pedicle larger than 5mm are defined as large pedicle polyps, which are at greater risk of bleeding. Current guidelines recommend hot removal by snare following preoperative saline injection, ligation of the pedicle with a nylon ring or metal clip, depending on the size of the polyp head and pedicle. However, the use of snares and metal clamps does not appear to reduce delayed postoperative bleeding, and the technical requirements of nylon ligation are relatively high. Recent studies have found that Underwater endoscopic mucosal resection (UEMR) is also safe and effective for the treatment of large and medium colorectal stemless polyps. Therefore, it is still necessary to further explore new safe and effective endoscopic resection strategies and techniques.
Safety and effectiveness of a new hemostatic system to prevent delayed bleeding after endoscopic resection in a selected high-risk population (NEXPOWDER- ENDOHS). Indication: Patients with indication of endoscopy resection by endoscopic mucal resection (EMR) or endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) with high risk of delayed bleeding (≥5%). Hypotheses: The use of NexpowderTM after upper and lower gastrointestinal ESD or EMR of ≥20mm in high-risk population will prevent and decrease delayed bleeding to less than 5%.
Purpose & Research Questions The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether artificial intelligence (AI) improves the detection of polyps and whether the system can classify the type and severity of detected changes. The investigators will also assess if there are any differences between the various AI systems and whether the polyps that may be missed are benign or malignant.
Primary objective of the study is to evaluate if the novel virtual polyp sizing tool accuracy in determining the size class of polyps among diminutive (0-5 mm), small (6-9 mm) and large (10 mm and above).
The goal of this observational study is to learn about clinical and functional outcomes in patients with Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps and comorbid Severe Eosinophilic Asthma and patients with Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps only treated with mepolizumab compared to healthy controls. Participants will be asked to give nasal, blood and sputum samples before mepolizumab administration (T0) and at 3 (T3), 6 (T6) and 12 (T12) months after mepolizumab initiation The main aims are to identify airways microbiota modifications and differential gene expression after mepolizumab initiation. Researchers will compare: - Patients with Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps and comorbid Severe Eosinophilic Asthma - Patients with Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps only - Healthy subjects The research will address the following questions: 1. What are the prospective clinical and functional outcomes of mepolizumab treatment 2. What is the impact of mepolizumab therapy on the airways microbiota and how this may relate to a potentially reduced need for steroids 3. What are the host differential gene expression patterns and the immune/inflammatory (cytokines/chemokines) profile alterations in airways microenvironment and in systemic circulation in response to therapy 4. What are the associations between host and microbiome variables for building up diagnostic and predictive biomarker classifiers of responsive disease endotypes
Colonoscopic removal of adenomatous polyps reduce both the incidence and mortality of colorectal cancer (CRC). The common clinical management of colorectal polyp detected during colonoscopy is to remove them and send for histopathology to determine the subsequent surveillance interval. More than 80% of polyps detected during screening or surveillance colonoscopy are diminutive (≤5mm). As the chance of diminutive polyps to harbor cancer or advanced neoplasia is low, leave-in-situ and resect-and-discard strategies using optical diagnosis are recommended for non-neoplastic polyps by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the European Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) so as to reduce the financial burden of polypectomy and histopathology. The societies proposed leave-in-situ strategy if optical diagnosis can achieve a negative predictive value (NPV) of >90% for rectosigmoid polyp and resect-and-discard if an agreement of more than 90% concordance with histopathology-based post-polypectomy surveillance interval can be achieved. However, optical diagnosis is operator dependent and most endoscopists are reluctant to adopt this strategy in routine practice because of the need of strict training and auditing and fear of incorrect diagnosis. In the past decade, with the exponential increase in computational power, reduced cost of data storage, improved algorithmic sophistication, and increased availability of electronic health data, artificial intelligence (AI) assisted technologies were widely adopted in various healthcare settings to improve clinical outcomes, especially the quality of colonoscopy in the area of gastroenterology. Real time use of computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) for adenoma using AI systems were developed and proven to be useful to help endoscopists to distinguish neoplastic polyps from non-adenomatous polyps. However, these studies only examined diminutive polyp but not polyp of larger size (>5mm). They were conducted with small sample size of less than few hundred subjects and the study settings were open-label and non-randomized. The investigators aim to conduct a large scale randomized controlled trial to evaluate the performance of colorectal polyp characterization of all size polyps by real-time CADx using AI system against conventional colonoscopy with optical diagnosis.
This is a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase II clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy, safety and pharmacokinetics of TQC2731 injection in the treatment of Chronic Sinusitis with Nasal Polyps.