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The purpose of this study is to see if substances measured in a small piece of the donor organ predicts how well the organ will function in the recipient after transplant. We will be testing blood, urine, and biopsy tissue samples in this study. The research team will be looking …

This is a monocentric, prospective, randomized clinical survey to verify if the periprosthetic remodelling brought about either the AMIStem or the Quadra femoral component is equivalent.

* The primary objective of the study was to compare stool composition (stool soap and non-soap fatty acids, total fatty acids, minerals, and other stool constituents) of infants randomized to receive either standard formula, or 1 of 2 innovative formulas containing a new fat blen…

This study aims at evaluating spinal cord structure using diffusion tensor imaging in patients with cervical spondylosis.

The study aims to descibe the pharmacokinetics of 10 substrates of enzymes involved in drug metabolism and their metabolites, after administration singly and simultaenously at predefined doses in 10 health volunteers.

The investigators aim to determine if ultrasound guidance results in improved technique when drawing blood via a radial artery puncture.

Nowadays the clinical significance of an occult stress urinary incontinence and its optimal treatment is not known.Regarding treatment, there are 2 main approaches : either the systematic preventive treatment of the occult stress urinary incontinence by means of a tension free va…

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is defined as a pulmonary arterial mean pressure (meanPAP) ≥ 25 mmHg measured in the right heart catheterization. There are different forms of PH defined in the classification of Dana Point 2008. PH is diagnosed with right heart catheterization but t…

Human milk is associated with substantial benefits to infants' health and development, especially in premature infants. Some mothers are unable or unwilling to provide breast milk to their infant. The use of donor human milk as an alternative to cow milk in these infants has rise…

Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects tissues surrounding the teeth. It is strongly associated with the major pathogenic "red complex", including Porphyromonas gingivalis, Tannerella forsythia and Treponema denticola1 and thus is considered an infection. Re…

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) allows non-invasive measurement of the concentration of up to 18 metabolites in the brain ("neurochemical profile"). The objective of this proposal is to develop new methods for high-field brain MRS (3 to 7 Tesla). Our main hypothesis is th…

A prospective data registry for all patients who undergo IVC (Inferior Vena Cava) filter placement or retrieval at Stanford. Potential enrollees will already be undergoing the procedure. If patients are willing, they will be prospectively enrolled prior to the procedure. As part …

This study is designed to characterize subjects in terms of the nature and severity of their asthma and in terms of conditions that may alter the clinical expression of asthma. Some features will be obtained in all subjects. These include a medical history and baseline lung funct…

Descriptive, prospective, multicenter evaluation of spleen injury treatment in the Languedoc Roussilon region according to trauma severity, morbi-mortality and length of hospitalization.

This study will be a non-randomized trial consisting of patients with single level (C3 to C7) symptomatic cervical disc disease who have not previously received fusion surgery at the same level, and have failed to improve with conservative treatment for at least 6 weeks prior to …

The objective is to compare women's platelet answer in the last month of pregnancy to women old enough to procreate, no pregnancy and without hormonal treatment. The hypothesis of research is that the decrease of platelet answer in pregnant women could not only limit the occuren…

The main objective of this project is to assess the average cost of the treatment of bleeding postpartum with recombinant activated factor VII (NovoSeven®) and compare it to the reference strategy. Costs related to medicine NovoSeven® can generate surplus, but it also avoids in s…

Liver stiffness measurement (LSM) by non invasive methods is increasingly used to estimate liver fibrosis in patients with chronic liver diseases. However, there is growing evidence that fibrosis is not the only determinant of liver stiffness. Indeed inflammation, cholestasis, co…

Despite the fact that a link between cholesterol and the myometrium has been clearly established, no study investigating aspects of cholesterol metabolism and uterine dystocia currently exists. This study is a pilot study whose aim is to test the hypothesis that an association be…

This study aims to estimate prevalence and determine risk factors for chronic pain at 3 months post-operative in pediatric surgery.