Oct 14th, 2022 - The purpose of this protocol is to study the natural history of spondyloarthritis (SpA) in children and adults. Spondyloarthritis encompasses a spectrum of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases that exhibit overlapping features, but differ from other types of inflammatory arthritis in genetic predisposition, pathogenesis, and outcome. Ankylosing spondylitis (AS), the most common form of SpA, fr...

Oct 14th, 2022 - Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alloimmunization is common in patients undergoing frequent platelet transfusion, and is the most important cause of immune platelet refractoriness. Management strategies in HLA alloimmune platelet-refractory patients include transfusion with HLA-matched or crossmatched platelets; however, in broadly-sensitized patients, or in patients with uncommon HLA types, antig...

Oct 14th, 2022 - Background: Increased understanding of the genomic variations of cancer through laboratory evaluations can result in breakthroughs in treatment and improved patient outcomes. Exceptional responders on clinical trials may have mutational characteristics that are unique and unknown, necessitating identification. Current drug development strategies employ precision oncology. This approach identifi...

Oct 14th, 2022 - PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: I. To evaluate the progression-free survival of subjects with daratumumab, bortezomib, and dexamethasone (DVd) treatment followed by daratumumab, ixazomib, and dexamethasone (DId) treatment. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To evaluate overall response rate (ORR) as assessed by International Myeloma Working Group Criteria (IMWG). II. To evaluate time to response (TTR). III. To evalua...

Oct 14th, 2022 - Patients with diabetes and metabolic diseases such as obesity, hypertension and dyslipidemia have a myocardial environment that results in endothelial dysfunction, altered metabolism and little potential for regeneration by intrinsic or extrinsically delivered therapies. Based upon work in animal and cell culture models of human disease, caveolae, lipid rafts found on the cell membrane of endot...

Oct 14th, 2022 - In many of urothelial carcinoma patients, one does not find common risk factors such as smoking. The medical center is located in an industrial city with known air and water pollution. The investigators decided to check the presence of nano particles and traces of metals in urinary samples of patients known and suspected for urothelial carcinoma and compare the results to both cystoscopic and c...

Oct 14th, 2022 - Glucocorticoids are among the most frequently prescribed immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory medications worldwide. Long-term use, however, is complicated by serious non-immunologic side effects. Ongoing in vitro experiments with human primary cells in our laboratory suggest that there are indeed fundamental differences in the genomic response of immune and non-immune cells to glucocorticoi...

Oct 14th, 2022 - This is a multicenter, single-arm, phase II study of nivolumab in combination with regorafenib in subjects with locally-advanced rectal cancer who are eligible for a curative treatment including pre-operative SCRT and TME. The study is based on the Simon's two-stage design and a maximum of 60 subjects will be enrolled. In addition to the standard efficacy interim analysis according to the stati...

Oct 14th, 2022 - OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to investigate whether there is a correlation between genetic mutations, beginning with an analysis of ABCA4, and Plaquenil -induced retinal toxicity and to describe the phenotype of Plaquenil -induced retinal toxicity. STUDY POPULATION: The study will enroll 100 patients, 18 years of age or older, found to have Plaquenil -induced retinal toxicity. 200 ...

Oct 14th, 2022 - Cognitive impairment is prevalent, disabling, and poorly-managed among the 1 million Americans living with multiple sclerosis (MS). Indeed, 67% of adults with MS have cognitive impairment, particularly slowed cognitive processing speed (CPS), and this is associated with impaired learning and memory and worse fatigue, depression, anxiety, pain, and quality of life (QOL). This underscores the imp...

Oct 14th, 2022 - In this protocol, a repeated measure design is used to examine microbial and molecular results in subjects with a diagnosis of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infection. Patients often experience difficulties in the spontaneous expectoration of sputum free from contamination with oral flora which contributes to the poor quality of some respiratory specimens sent to the laboratory. At pre...

Oct 14th, 2022 - This study is being conducted for the treatment of eligible participants who have taken part in Study PRM-151-202 and received the open-label study drug or completed the Phase III Study WA42293 with PRM-151. Participants who have discontinued treatment from or have completed Study WA42293 and do not want to receive PRM-151 in this study, will be invited to enroll in survival follow-up.

Oct 14th, 2022 - A study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of fenebrutinib on disability progression and relapse rate in adult participants with RMS. Eligible participants will be randomized 1:1 to either fenebrutinib or teriflunomide. Open-Label Extension (OLE) phase is contingent on a positive benefit-risk result in the Primary Analysis of the study.

Oct 14th, 2022 - A study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of fenebrutinib on disability progression and relapse rate in adult participants with RMS. Eligible participants will be randomized 1:1 to either fenebrutinib or teriflunomide. Open-Label Extension (OLE) phase is contingent on a positive benefit-risk result in the Primary Analysis of the study.

Oct 14th, 2022 - Background: Current treatment options for patients with liver cancers, including hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC) and advanced liver cancers are limited and take no account of the known biological and genetic heterogeneity in these diseases. Median survival for advanced disease remains poor at approximately 1 year. Nivolumab is a fully human monoclonal immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4) antibody that is spe...

Oct 14th, 2022 - Inhibitors of the type 2 sodium-glucose co-transporter (iSGLT2) may improve the metabolic and hemodynamic profile in patients with DM2 and heart failure.

Oct 14th, 2022 - This is a randomized, active-controlled, open-label study of pembrolizumab (Pembro) given prior to surgery and pembrolizumab in combination with standard of care radiotherapy (with or without cisplatin), as post-surgical therapy in treatment naïve participants with newly diagnosed Stage III/IVA, resectable, locoregionally advanced, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (LA-HNSCC). Efficacy outc...

Oct 14th, 2022 - This is a dose-escalation and expansion study of ASP1951. The study consists of 3 periods for monotherapy and combination therapy: screening, treatment and follow up, followed by an optional Re-treatment period for participants that qualify. The monotherapy escalation cohorts will evaluate escalating dose levels of ASP1951 in participants with locally advanced (unresectable) or metastatic solid...

Oct 14th, 2022 - Animal studies have verified intravenous immunoglobin can reduce brain injury. However, no studies in preterm infants were reported.

Oct 14th, 2022 - Background: Follicular lymphoma (FL) is the most common indolent non-Hodgkin s lymphoma (NHL) with a highly variable clinical course across patients Standard frontline therapy for FL includes a monoclonal anti-CD20 antibody with or without chemotherapy that can induce durable remissions but is generally not curable The 20% of patients who relapse within 2 years of frontline chemotherapy have an...