Active clinical trials for "Immune System Diseases"

Digital technology is essential in the field of health, via connected objects, the medical Internet or even telemedicine; and the info-communication practices (ways of getting information and communicating) of the actors go through digital devices. In addition, at present, the mass of activity documents to be managed in healthcare establishments and an abundant supply of documentary resources in health, available on the Internet, lead to infobesity, information pollution, and work overload. These phenomena lead to an increase in the time spent searching for relevant information and even to the burnout of healthcare professionals. A contextualization of the information communication systems through which the practices of health professionals pass therefore seems necessary so that the tools for managing, extracting and organizing knowledge can support these actors in their work. In the field of allergies, there are many players, and the information that is useful to them is abundant and heterogeneous. This study is based on the hypothesis that a knowledge organization model, developed from existing practices, could make it possible to obtain satisfactory results when searching for information, and be integrated into the daily practices of actors by linking up with other already existing systems and tools.

"Physical activity and diet in children and young people with arthritis" A qualitative study of exploring stake holder's experiences. Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) is the most common type of arthritis in children under the age of 16. The disease and its therapeutic management can cause serious long-term complications, which affect general activities and quality of life. The lack of specific guidelines for safe physical activity and appropriate management of any nutritional deficit aiming our study to find out your views and opinions about the needs of children and young people with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. We want to improve our knowledge about the impact of physical activity and eating habit on juvenile idiopathic arthritis and we want to develop a tool to help evaluate care. Few studies targeting quality of life and wellbeing in children adolescent populations have adopted the diet and physical activity perspective or approaches, consequently, this research project will help to address this gap through: Interview: to look at young people's current experiences with JIA as well as their parents/caregivers and health care professionals. Study findings will provide a snapshot of the current experiences of participants, helping to improve our knowledge about JIA, physical activity, and diet. Qualitative studies exploring people perspectives on their experiences, when collected systematically, adds valuable depth, insight and understanding into the issues related to JIA not possible through quantitative methodologies. This study uses a qualitative approach known as framework methodology to understand stakeholder's experience of what helps and what hinders improving the quality of life in children and young adult with JIA. 21-30 stakeholders will be recruited in Oxford UK, to take part in individual semi-structured guided interviews lasting approximately one hour. Participant responses will be transcribed by the chief investigator and analysed to extract themes that will answer the research question. Delphi study: which aims to develop a diet and physical activity intervention for children and young adult with JIA.

The aims of this study are: • To assess 14-3-3 η (eta) protein antibodies in the serum of rheumatoid arthritis patients and its relation to disease activity and severity. • To investigate the role of 14-3-3 η (eta) protein in the diagnosis or assessment of subclinical carotid artery atherosclerosis.

1.Assessment of slit2 level in SLE patients and its correlation with disease activity. 2-Assessment of slit2 level in SSC patients and its correlation with disease activity

This prospective study aims to investigate the role of IR-Seq in the diagnosis and disease monitoring in patients with IgA nephropathy.

This is a multi-center, prospective, controlled study. MS patients (1° group: 30 patients in relapse; 2° group: 30 patients in remission) and age/sex-matched healthy controls (3° group: 30 subjects) will be enrolled in the study. Patients' disability level will be evaluated by EDSS and MSFC. Patients and controls will be tested for either coagulation/complement (C3, C4, C4a, C9, fibrinogen, factor VIII and X, D-dimer, protein C, protein S, antithrombin, factor II, aPTT, von-Willebrand factor), soluble markers of endothelial damage (thrombomodulin, Endothelial Protein C Receptor), antiphospholipid antibodies, lupus anticoagulant, complete blood count, viral serological assays or microRNA microarray. Patients will undergo dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced MRI using a 3.0-T scanner to evaluate CBF, CBV, MTT, lesion number and volume.

CORIA is an observational cohort study of immunosuppressed populations who test positive for COVID-19. This includes people living with HIV, cancer, acquired immunodeficiency associated with other immunosuppressive therapy, primary immunodeficiency and recipients of a solid organ transplant. Participants will have routine clinical data collected with optional baseline collection and storage of a blood sample for storage . The study will be conducted in up to 30 sites within Australia.

The main purpose of this study is to examine differences in quality of life and psychological distress for both Multiple Myeloma patients receiving treatment and their caregivers and to assess patient and caregiver prognostic understanding (understanding of the likely course of a disease over time) of Multiple Myeloma to guide development of more personalized treatment plans. This study looks to further understand quality of life changes throughout multiple myeloma therapy for both patients and caregivers to help determine ways to improve patient and caregiver understanding of illness and in turn, tailor customized treatment that best aligns with patient preferences. The study will use a series of questionnaires to measure quality of life, mood, coping strategies, and prognostic understanding.

The aim of this non randomised retrospective study is to investigate the imaging (MRI) of auto-immune encephalitis at presentation, especially in diffusion-weighted sequences. Indeed, few series describe the MRI aspect of auto-immune at their beginning. Recognize early MRI abnormalities seen in auto-immune encephalitis could help reduce the time to positive diagnosis and improve the therapeutic management.

North-east area of France was hit in February 2020 by the new coronavirus disease, more severely than other French regions. Factors affecting the evolution of the disease and its severity have been quickly identified, among them figuring different kinds of immune deficiency. Even if nowadays HIV infection is usually well controlled by ARV drugs, those patients with uncontrolled viral load and/or low CD4 cell counts, remain at higher risk of severe COVID infection. In this context, the primary objective of our study is aimed at evaluating the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in a cohort of HIV-infected patients followed-up in an HIV-infection care center. Secondary objectives are: evaluating whether the antibodies are protective or not, the kinetic of these antibodies, and HIV associated factors with the presence of antibodies.