Active clinical trials for "Respiratory Tract (Lung and Bronchial) Diseases"

The purpose of the study is to measure markers of inflammatory and oxidative stress known to be associated with cardiovascular morbidity in snoring children. In addition, to measure markers of local inflammation and to evaluate the response to treatment.

Summary: The purpose of the study is to prove if the biomarker high sensitive troponin T (hsTnT) and the biomarker of endogenous stress copeptin can serve as surrogate parameter of prognosis in patients with elective knee and hip total endoprosthesis.

The purpose of the study is to assess the number of severe, laboratory-confirmed influenza in children hospitalized to paediatric intensive care units. Furthermore, the proportion of these children from all children hospitalized to paediatric intensive care units with acute respiratory infections will be established.

30 patients acute hospitalized to medical ward and their medication records are examined. It is to be recorded how the investigators find information about medicine use by the reception when they do not follow the patient. The record of the changes made during hospital stay is examined, whether they are justified in the discharge summaries and whether they are described in the medical list. After a month is to find out if the GP has recorded or possibly rejected changes to medication made in hospital.

Given that the uncinate process is the gatekeeper of the sinuses, we hypothesize that inflammation of the uncinate process is associated with decreased ventilation and drainage of the paranasal sinuses and consequently with the inflammatory process occuring in the sinuses.

The aim of this prospective case-control study is to investigate the prevalence, severity and incidence of systemic consequences in newly detected patients with mild and moderate Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Special attention will be paid to skeletal muscle dysfunction and physical inactivity as these factors are, together with smoking, potentially modifiable.

The purpose of this study is to create an institutional registry of Thromboembolic disease through a prospective survey based on epidemiological data, risk factors, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, monitoring and survival. The main goal is to describe the occurrence of thromboembolic disease and the characteristics of clinical presentation, evolution and predisposing factors of these episodes in the population of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires.

To investigate the difference of PE inflammation/apoptosis-associated markers between TB pleurisy and non-TB pleurisy To investigate the difference of neutrophil apoptosis in exudative PE between TB pleurisy and non-TB pleurisy To investigate the change of apoptosis pattern of PE neutrophil, before and after TB antigen stimulation, and compare the difference between TB pleurisy and non-TB pleurisy To investigate diagnostic aid of the inflammation/apoptosis-associated markers and apoptosis pattern of PE neutrophil for tuberculous pleurisy

The overall goal of this proposal is to better understand the basis of airway remodeling in severe asthma and how remodeling changes over time. The investigators propose to study a well-characterized cohort of adult and pediatric subjects with severe asthma using a multidisciplinary state-of-the-art approach.

The intent of this study is to validate the venous blood oxygenation measurements of the Mespere VA Oximeter compared to the saturations measured by venous blood sampling through an inserted central vein catheter, which is currently the standard of care for measuring SvO2