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The new technical of ultrasonic exploration of this project purpose to validate the measurement of cerebral pulsatility by a new way called "Fast Cerebral Pulsatility Imaging" (FCPI).This will somehow determine the natural history of cerebral pulsatility during development adult …

Phase 2 of this study involves determining how consumption of cheese compared with a non-dairy cheese substitute influences inflammation over a six hour period.

The purpose of this study is to obtain biologic materials from the blood, airways and/or urine of normal individuals and individuals with lung disease. The normal are used to establish a set of normal ranges for various parameters. These provide control information when compared …

This study aims to: 1. describe the monitoring of patients treated for spinal disorders. 2. create a comprehensive database of reliable and readily exploitable quickly to produce a library of cross publications between orthopedic surgery and neurosurgical services. This database…

This specimen collection lab protocol will allow the investigators to prospectively study immune reconstitution in patients being treated for hematologic disorders and immune factors affecting graft versus host disease in stem-cell transplant (SCT) patients.

The purpose of this study is to measure the way in which TD-1211 is absorbed and eliminated by the body and to evaluate whether it is safe and well tolerated.

The purpose of this study is to compare inspiratory effort, comfort, gas exchange and patient ventilator synchrony during non-invasive neurally adjusted ventilatory assist or pneumatically triggered and cycled-off noninvasive pressure support ventilation (NPSV), in patient at ris…

In 2012, a cross-sectional survey sampling 1,966 community-dwelling old people was conducted. Structurized questionnaires were interviewed face-to-face by well-trained staffs. An overnight fasting blood were obtained for biochemistry parameters.

Background: \- Previous studies have shown that people with certain types of brain damage may have particular problems paying attention and processing things that they see. Researchers are interested in comparing how people with brain damage and without brain damage process visu…

The purpose of this study is to decide which position of the neck affects cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) flow between the spinal cord and the brain. CSF is a fluid that flows up and down your spinal cord, around the brain and into the ventricles of the brain. This study will be don…

The aim of this study is to evaluate the positioning time and the malpositioning rate of DLTs and BBs, the degree of difficulty perceived in device positioning, the use of bronchoscopy (BRO), and the quality of lung collapse achieved during ONE LUNG VENTILATION.

Categorical perception of familiarity in schizophrenic patients

Background: \- To understand diseases of the retina and the eye, information is needed about people with and without such diseases. Researchers want to study these people and follow them over time. They also want to study body tissues and blood to understand the nature of eye di…

Since January 2010, a new magnetic resonance imaging scanner (Philips 3T, Achieva) is installed on the Baudot Building in Toulouse hospital. This tool, is completely dedicated to the research. It was installed with sequences RMN supplied by the manufacturer. Imagers also contain…

This retrospective study received ethical approval from the Ethics Committee of Dicle University Faculty of Medicine, Diyarbakır, Turkey (Decision No:03.05.2012-567). A priori power analysis (Cohen's d = 0.5, α = 0.05, 80% power) indicated that a minimum of 33 participants was re…

The aim of the investigators study is to demonstrate the association between fetal cardiac rhythm abnormalies after epidural analgesia and the maternal systemic transfer of ropivacaine and/or sufentanil.

The primary objective of this study is to measure the overall level of satisfaction in patients after cutaneous surgery in 4 different categories, including the surgeon, facility, procedure and recovery and outcome.

Abdominoplasty is a major cosmetic surgery with a painful post operative period. Recently more and more anaesthetists are turning to regional analgesia for anterior abdominal wall surgery namely the Transversus Abdominis Plane (TAP) Block with or without ultrasound guidance. The…

The main objective of this study is to compare the rate of successful establishment of a central venous catheter in the first two attempts of ultrasound-guided puncture between two techniques: (1) a subclavian technique versus (2) an axillary technique.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the quality of supportive and palliative care for SMA type 1 patients.