Active clinical trials for "Disease Progression"

The purpose of this study is to determine whether bendamustine HCl for injection is safe and effective in the treatment of Rituximab refractory or relapsed B-cell indolent lymphoma.

The aim of the study is to set up a pilot study to investigate the effects of treadmill training in preventing the onset and worsening of walking impairments, balance deficits and fatigue.

Lingzhi(Ganoderma) is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. Previous studies indicated that Lingzhi was safe, well tolorated, and improved symptoms as an add-on therapy to levodopa in early Parkinson's disease(PD) patients. Here the investigators design a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, delayed-start trial to evaluate the effects of Lingzhi on modifying disease progression in untreated PD patients.

The purpose of this study is to look at a blood marker of inflammation in early untreated Parkinson's disease.

Investigators are going to conduct a randomized controlled trial that myopic children are randomly allocated into two groups: combined use of 1% atropine and 0.01% atropine (experimental group) and 0.01% atropine (control group) in order to explore a better way to control myopia progression and eliminate adverse effects at the same time, provide reliably evidence for clinical guideline of atropine use in children, and investigate the mechanism of atropine on eyes.

Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with poor outcome, especially when intubation is required, thus underlining the importance of optimizing non-invasive ventilatory support to avoid intubation. Practically, because of treatment intolerance, non-invasive ventilation (NIV) cannot be administered 24-hour a day for a long period of time and alternative solutions must be found to deliver oxygen as efficiently as possible to allow NIV interruptions. High flow humidified oxygen therapy (HFHO) consists of delivering a high-flow (15-60 L/minute) heated air-oxygen mixture (FIO2 21-100%) through a dedicated nasal cannula and can be interesting in this context. This well tolerated technique improves oxygenation and decreases respiratory rate and dyspnea in patients suffering from acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. In chronic COPD patients, using HFHO can decrease respiratory rate and PaCO2. In COPD exacerbation, using HFHO can conceptually be interesting. First, the high air-oxygen flow delivered well matches the patient's inspiratory demand and should decrease the work of breathing. Second, as during HFHO a high flow is continuously delivered in the airways, a wash-out of the anatomical dead space should occur and CO2 clearance should be enhanced. Despite this strong physiological rational for the use of HFHO in patients suffering from COPD exacerbation, the effects of using HFHO instead of conventional oxygenotherapy in combination with non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in this context has never been explored. The main objective of the study is to explore the effects of using HFHO in combination with NIV in acute COPD exacerbation and to assess the underlying mechanisms of action.

The objectives of this study are to describe the clinical and biochemical characteristics and course of disease progression in participants with Mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIB (MPS IIIB)

Control of blood pressure (BP) is the first thing to do in the management of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Although guidelines suggest the optimal blood pressure level, it is hard to assess BP correctly during the office visit. Often there is a discrepancy between office BP and out-of-office BP, including home BP and ambulatory BP. Recent study reported that as many as 34% of Korean CKD patients had masked hypertension, which means high BP by ambulatory BP monitoring but normal BP by conventional office BP measurement. This study aims to evaluate the effect of ambulatory BP-guided BP management on the clinical outcome of CKD, compared to the conventional management using office BP.

Influenza continues to inflict an important burden on health-care systems. The 2009 H1N1 influenza virus first appeared in Mexico and the United States in March and April 2009 and has swept the globe with unprecedented speed. The aim of this study is to evaluate effect of supplement vitamin on the clinical course of patients with acute respiratory illness suspected novel H1N1 infection.

This is a single-arm, open-label, multicentre, phase II clinical study.Subjects can only enter this study after they meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria.All enrolled patients will receive the treatment with HLX10 combined with albumin-bound paclitaxel, every 3 weeks, until progressive disease, initiation of new anti-tumour therapy, death, intolerable toxicity. Albumin-bound paclitaxel may be used for up to 6 cycles and HLX10 for up to 2 years.