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At Departmental Hospital Centre, a primary and secondary screening program for osteoporosis was set up in 2014 in the medical services (excluding oncology), gynaecology, outpatient surgery and orthopaedics. Patients who consulted outpatients in the emergency room were not taken i…

Upper limb (UL) impairment is a common deficit following stroke with only an estimated 20 per cent of patients recovering function.

Knowledge of the pathogenesis of ocular conditions, a leading cause of blindness, has benefited greatly from recent advances in ophthalmic imaging. However, current clinical imaging systems are limited in resolution, speed, or access to certain structures of the eye. The use of …

Aim of this trial is to define if Post-Operative Cognitive Dysfunction, detected analyzing changes between pre-operative and post-operative Neurocognitive Test, and Postoperative Delirium, relate to concentration of effector's site concentration of propofol and remifentanil TCI a…

Idiopathic juxtafoveal telangiectasia type 1 is a rare unilateral disease that mostly affects men before 50 years of age. Mac Tel 1 are characterized by microvascular telangiectasia and increased tortuosity of the macular capillary network on the temporal part of the fovea that c…

Researchers are trying to determine the safety and feasibility of autologous, adipose derived stromal vascular fraction injections in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis

This study aims to investigate the effects of mindfulness training on prenatal maternal anxiety using a randomized controlled trial (RCT). An RCT of mindfulness training for prenatal anxiety has distinct clinical and scientific advantages. The investigators will use the Mindfuln…

The Sinai Vein Stent Registry aims to establish and maintain a registry of patients who have undergone a vein stent placement procedure at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. The purpose of this study is to monitor and evaluate the long-term outcomes of venous stents placed to treat …

This is a single-centre feasibility study designed to assess the safety, tolerability and engraftment of MET-4 bacterial strains when given in combination with chemoradiotherapy (CRT). The study will involve a prospective cohort of 30 patients diagnosed with Locoregionally-Advanc…

This trial studies the severity of financial distress in advanced cancer patients. The cost of cancer care can often be very expensive. Financial distress from the burdens of high costs and debt may interfere with a patient's physical symptoms and quality of life.

Variations of cardiac output are frequent in pregnant women during obstetrical procedures, and may participate to poor foetal outcomes through decrease of uteroplacental bloodflow. Thus, monitoring maternal cardiac output appears of major interest, as it would open the way to ear…

To study the impact of cladribine on peripheral and intrathecal B-cell, plasma cells, T cells and Tregs

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) adults (n = 24; 18-65 y) will be enrolled to complete a 2-arm, double-blind, randomized controlled, crossover trial. They will be randomized in 4-unit blocks to receive, for 13 d, a controlled diet with dairy milk (3.5% fat; 3 servings/d) enriched with m…

The purpose of this research is to adapt and evaluate the efficacy of an existing family based intervention to be delivered via telehealth to child welfare-involved (CWI) youth and their caregiver of origin.

There is actually no physiologic or clinical data in the literature to clearly define the potential benefits and side effects of sublingual fentanyl in patients with COPD. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that sublingual fentanyl will improve exercis…

Diseases along the nonalcoholic fatty liver disease spectrum, which are tightly coupled to the obesity epidemic, are soon to become the commonest indication for liver transplantation in the United States. Bariatric surgery shows great promise in the treatment of these diseases. T…

This study will include 3 different groups of intervention. First group of knee osteoarthritis patients will be applied both strengthening and 30 minutes bicycle exercises in the same session, 2 days strecthing exercises and 30 minutes walking will be given in seperate days as ho…

Introduction: Touching ensures physical, emotional and spiritual relaxation, confidence, peace, calmness and well-being, and increases self-esteem. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of therapeutic touch on labour pain, anxiety and childbirth attitude. Methods: The…

This is a retrospective study from double center: Xuzhou Central Hospital and The First People's Hospital of Yancheng. Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) were screened and AMI complicating with cardiogenic shock were included. This study is to investigate the relationship between …

The present proposal intends to determine the effect of prewarming on body temperature in the perioperative period of patients submitted to digestive system surgeries and to evaluate a perioperative "Zero-Heat-Flux Cutaneous" body temperature thermometer in comparison to the stan…