Mar 16th, 2023 - Intensive care patients face health issues that extend beyond their critical illness. A specific area where critical illness may adversely affect the well-being of survivors is increased bone turnover during critical illness, and accelerated bone loss in subsequent years. Critical illness bone loss begins in the first days of critical illness, occurs in both men and women, and is greatest in po...

Mar 16th, 2023 - This is a mixed-methods formative program evaluation of the adaptations necessitated by the pandemic to the 3 Wishes Project. The adaptations will be studied as implemented in 3 acute care units at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton (medical stepdown unit, medical-surgical ICU and the COVID-19 unit) during the 2020 SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. End-of-life care for patients dying in hospital is profoundly...

Mar 16th, 2023 - The morbidity after TORS has not yet been fully investigated, but a recent studies suggest that pain is one of the primary causes for unplanned readmission This issue has been investigated by Clayburgh D et al who found that a prolonged dexamethasone regime lowered the pain scores on day three after surgery. The patients treated with the prolonged dexamethasone regime also showed a significant ...

Mar 16th, 2023 - Cerebral Vascular Accidents (stroke) and Myocardial Infarction (MI), which share the same risk factors, treatments and pathophysiological mechanisms, have become two major public health problems due to the increase in their prevalence rate and the longer survival after such an event in developed countries. International data, including French data and data from our own registries, illustrate th...

Mar 16th, 2023 - This is a non-interventional, prospective, observational, multicentre study to evaluate the long-term safety and effectiveness of Namuscla in adult patients with NDM. Namuscla should be prescribed as per the approved Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC). Adult patients with non-dystrophic myotonic disorders who have been prescribed Namuscla by the treating physician, and who meet the eligi...

Mar 16th, 2023 - The ABIGAIL study aims to provide consistent evidence that the combination of abemaciclib with ET -consisting of letrozole or fulvestrant-as first-line regimen is non-inferior to the optimal first-line chemotherapy -consisting of weekly paclitaxel-in terms of early ORR after the first 12 weeks of treatment in patients with HR-positive/HER2-negative ABC and at least one feature of aggressive dis...

Mar 15th, 2023 - Veterans (participants and peers) with PTSD will be recruited from the Charleston VA Medical Center catchment area. Participants will have been assigned to exposure therapy for PTSD and either started treatment, or dropped out before treatment; peers will have successfully completed exposure therapy for PTSD. Those eligible to participate will also include Veterans who are identified as "at-ris...

Mar 15th, 2023 - The main purpose of this study is to investigate the safety and tolerability of intermittent Theta Burst (iTBS), its effectiveness in alleviating depressive symptoms, concomitant neuropsychiatric symptoms such as anxiety and fatigue in people with MS, as well as its effects on cognition. Although iTBS repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is approved for use in major depressive di...

Mar 15th, 2023 - Study SL03-OHD-105 is an open-label, multicenter, phase 1b trial designed to evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamic effects, and preliminary anti-tumor activity of SL-172154 administered in combination with either PLD or MIRV in subjects with platinum-resistant ovarian, primary peritoneal, or fallopian tube cancers. Patients will be appropriate for combination therapy for their ...

Mar 15th, 2023 - This study is being conducted to evaluate the effects of bimekizumab administered subcutaneously (SC) to patients with psoriasis vulgaris and who also have active PsA who have an inadequate skin response to anti-interleukin (IL)23 therapy. Approximately 20 adult subjects with psoriasis vulgaris and active PsA who have an inadequate skin response to anti-IL23 will receive bimekizumab 320 mg solu...

Mar 15th, 2023 - Stroke is one of the top medical conditions resulting in high mortality among patients in hospitals, where complications related to immobility such as deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and/or ankle joint contracture can affect patients in their road to recovery. Patients may often take months or even years to fully recover their limb functions, where certain activities of daily living cannot be easily...

Mar 15th, 2023 - This is a randomized controlled trial that tests the effecacy of the intravenous regional ketorolac in lower limb orthopedic surgeries with spinal anesthesia. The investigators will compare the effect of 30 mg ketorolac without local anesthetic in the injected intravenously in an isolated lower limb (with torniquet) versus intravenous 30 mg ketorolac administered 10 minutes before toniquet pres...

Mar 15th, 2023 - Diabetic nephropathy(DN) is one of the major micro- vascular complications of diabetes mellitus and the leading cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) that require renal replacement therapies. The average incidence of diabetic nephropathy is 3% per year during the first 10 to 20 years after diabetes onset. Diabetic nephropathy occurs in 20-40% of all diabetic patients. Pathogenesis of diabetic...

Mar 15th, 2023 - UC is a chronic disease of the large intestine, in which the lining of the colon becomes inflamed and develops ulcers. Guselkumab is a fully human immunoglobulin G1 lambda monoclonal antibody (mAb) that binds to human interleukin (IL)-23 with high affinity. The primary hypothesis of this study is that guselkumab SC induction is superior to placebo SC in achieving clinical remission at Week 12 a...

Mar 15th, 2023 - This is a Phase 2, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of subcutaneous lirentelimab (AK002) in adult subjects with H-1 antihistamine refractory chronic spontaneous urticaria. Subjects who complete the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled treatment period may have the option to enroll in an open-label extension period and re...

Mar 15th, 2023 - This feasibility study will be used to assess the feasibility and acceptability of a hospice-embedded home transfusion program to patients with hematologic malignancies. All enrolled subjects will be patients cared for at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. This study is a single-arm study of 10 patients with advanced hematologic malignancies who have a limited life-expectancy of six months or fewer ...

Mar 15th, 2023 - The registry will capture prospective data on patients receiving pain management for chronic pain due to knee osteoarthritis (OA) or pain optimization for knee arthroplasty due to knee OA. The OA pain therapies may include cryo nerve block, radiofrequency ablation (RFA), intra-articular (IA) corticosteroids, viscosupplementation, opioids, and others (e.g., non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ...

Mar 15th, 2023 - Phase Ia: To observe the safety and tolerability of GNC-038 in patients with relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma (R/R NHL)/relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (R/R ALL), To determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) or maximum administration dose (MAD) and dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) of GNC-038 without MTD and recommend the dose for subsequent clinical studies. Phase Ib...

Mar 15th, 2023 - The purpose of this study is to determine the recommended Phase 2 dose(s) (RP2D[s]) of JNJ-69086420 in Part 1 (Dose Escalation) and to determine safety and and preliminary signs of clinical activity at the RP2D(s) in Part 2 (Dose Expansion).

Mar 15th, 2023 - The standard of care for the treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia (VT) comprises of pharmacotherapy, ICD implantation and electrophysiology-guided catheter ablation. The treatment, however, is associated with a relatively high risk of VT recurrence. Given the limited therapeutic options and significant impact on patients quality of life, non-invasive cardiac radiosurgery has been recently gaini...