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Fitness in patients with Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an important biomarker associated with higher survivability and improved quality of life. CF patients are encouraged to maintain an active lifestyle, however, while physicians are able to prescribe airway clearance measures or spec…

We will use simple summaries, educational handouts, and discussions with doctors and nurses to explain this study. The study looks at patients with early-stage pancreatic cancer who undergo pancreaticoduodenectomy (Whipple surgery). We found that some patients develop fatty liver…

The primary aim of the study is to assess mortality and cardiovascular events potentially linked to cortisol excess in patients with adrenal incidentalomas stratified by cortisol values following the 1-mg overnight dexamethasone test.

Bariatric surgery has become one of the preferred options in treatment of severe obesity and its comorbidities in the Western world. In Switzerland, the approximate 5000 annual bariatric operations are performed exclusively in centres certified by the "Swiss Society of Study of M…

achievement of optimal postnatal growth by adequate enteral nutrition in critically ill preterm infants is a challenge of NICU. signs like abdominal distension, reflux, vomiting, nec is a factors of discontinuing fedding in preterm. this factors plays a role in decisions about wh…

This study will compare the outcome after surgery between a group of patients that receives instructions for prehabilitation training and one group that received standard treatment.

Inclusion criteria: Only constitutional VWD-patients fulfilling the inclusion criteria of the French reference center for VWD will be included. Patients with acquired von Willebrand syndrome will not be included. Material and Methods: A 15-items survey that will be sent to the 3…

This retrospective observational study aims to evaluate the effect of preoperative periodontal treatment on postoperative infection and mortality in patients undergoing aortic and mitral valve surgery. Patient records between 2015 and 2024 analyzed. Demographic, clinical, and an…

The BREATHE (Behavioral Research of Environment and Air Pollution Through Education) study is a pilot randomized control trial comparing the efficacy of a classroom-based intervention to no intervention in helping middle-school students understand and make behavioral decisions ab…

Each year, 17000 cases of severe hematological diseases are diagnosed in France, with more than 6,000 of these requiring hospitalization in a protective, sterile environment. New methods, such as touch massage, have emerged in response to anxiety symptoms observed in patients in …

This study seeks to enroll women with breast cancer undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy to evaluate if Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy Imaging (DOSI) can predict a patient response to chemotherapy treatment. DOSI is a noninvasive imaging method that uses harmless near-infrared light…

An experimental hookworm infection model is being developed to provide early proof-of-concept that a hookworm vaccine targeting the blood-feeding pathway of adult hookworms is feasible and efficacious. The proposed model consists of vaccinating healthy, hookworm-naïve adults with…

This study evaluated the prognostic value of preoperative pentraxin-3 (PTX3) levels in predicting weight loss, inflammatory resolution (CRP, IL-6), and metabolic improvements (HOMA-IR) following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in patients with obesity.

The primary objective of this study is to compare the efficacy of ice pack to topical eutectic mixture of local anesthesia (EMLA) for pain control in diode 810 nm laser axillary hair removal. This study is a pilot study designed to determine feasibility of these procedures.

The main objective of this study is the comparison of the profile of the pro-inflammatory cytokines at the patients suffering from an alcoholic hepatitis to that of two groups witnesses: patients suffering from an alcoholic cirrhosis and unhurt patients of chronic liver disease

Background: \- Gene therapy involves changing the genes inside the body s cells to stop disease. It is very closely regulated. People who have had this therapy may have problems months or even years later. Researchers do not know the long-term side effects, so they want to study…

This is a Phase I, open-label, 2-part study in patients with a confirmed diagnosis of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation positive (EGFRm+) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), who have progressed following prior therapy with an approved EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor…

To determine if consumption of different diet plans that both are nutritionally-adequate and provide energy to maintain body weight, alters fasting insulin concentrations, shifts other common clinical markers of metabolic disease risk, and affects metabolomic profiles that reflec…

The investigators project aims to identify, in pregnant women, discriminating molecules to allow an early detection of women who will spontaneously deliver prematurely, suitable in routine clinical practice. Human parturition is tightly correlated with hormonal changes at the ma…

With an estimated prevalence between 4 and 35%, the hemorrhoidal disease is the most frequent proctologic disease. Its symptoms are mainly rectorrhagia, externalization of the hemorrhoidal cushions (muco-hemorrhoidal prolapse), and/or pain and pruritus. Its acute complications (e…