Active clinical trials for "Disease Progression"

Presentation, Clinical Course and Patterns of Myocardial Damage due to Viral Myocarditis

Alzheimers disease (AD) is the most common course of cognitive decline and thereby the course of more than half of all cases of dementia. A proper AD diagnosis is rested on a number of examinations and tests, which combined can make AD diagnosis likely. But no single test or examination can unambiguous determine whether the patient has AD or not. Comparatively no examination or test can with accuracy predict whether a healthy person or a person with only mild cognitive (MCI)impairment in time will evolve AD. Quantitative Electroencephalography (qEEG), cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers, linear CT analyses and Timed Up and Go - Dual Task (TUG-DT) are relatively inexpensive and and widely available diagnostic methods, which have the potential to diagnose AD at an early stage in a reliable accurate way. But they also have the potential to predict which patients diagnosed with MCI have particular risk of developing dementia. The purpose of the study is to investigate the relations between qEEG, CSF biomarkers, CT analyses and TUG-DT outcome and clinical features in healthy persons as well as patients with MCI and AD Furthermore to investigate whether qEEG or CSF biomarkers can predict which patients with MCI will in time evolve AD.

To determine the possible association of prothrombin fragments 1+2 elevation with incidents of pulmonary embolism in patients with COPD exacerbation.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the correlation between M1/M2 phenotype of tumor associated macrophage (TAM) in lung cancer patients and clinical outcome.

Gastric cancer is the one of the leading cause of cancer death in the worldwide. Gastric cancer originates from the most superficial mucosal epithelial cells of the stomach wall, which can occur in various parts of the stomach, and can invade different depths and breadth of the gastric wall. Without chemotherapy treatment the GC patients' Median Survival Time (MST) lasts only 3-4 months. Although treated with multi-chemotherapy MST has been improved, the drugs show strong toxicities in the patients. Thus the more accurate, lower toxicity, targeted antitumor drugs are put into second-line treatment program for advanced gastric cancer. Apatinib, a novel targeted inhibitor of VEGF receptor 2 (VEGFR2), shows significant antitumor activity in the patients with GC. The purpose of this study is to determine whether apatinib plus capecitatine can improve progression free survival in patients with advanced gastric cancer.

The study aims to identify environmental factors and genetic (gene mutation and gene expression) changes, which influencing the course of the disease the new type of coronavirus infection COVID-19 in patients nationwide in a multicenter study. At first in the study will be performed 200 patients, selected for a homogeneous groups on the basis of the patient's anamnestic data, genetic testing. Following the interim analysis, based on the results, another 800 people are planned to involve.

It is an observational study of non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) patients with a calculated sample size of 90. Liver biopsy proved NAFLD patients will be recruited in this study for 2 years follow-up. Patients will be assessed at baseline, at every six months for blood count, liver function test, fasting blood-glucose, fasting insulin, ferritin, liver ultrasonography, and liver stiffness.

The study is an epidemiological observational study. It serves to collect data from patients with positive COVID-19 test results who are hospitalized. All data describing the course of the inpatient stay are recorded (Length of stay, course of therapy, medication, X-ray and CT results,ventilation mode and duration, laboratory). Furthermore, anthropometric data and information on COVID-19 symptoms is recorded.

Participants will complete a self-selected intensity of exercising over a 6 month period, with detailed clinical assessments at commencement and completion to determine the rate of progression of parkinsonism and gait abnormalities

Consecutive inclusion and collection of information for all women attending the Cervical Disease Unit with an histological diagnosis of grade 2 or grade 3 CIN during the last 5 years, from January 2012 to December 2016, which meet the inclusion criteria, have voluntarily manifested pregnancy intendedness and had a minimum follow-up time of 2 years and a maximum of 7. The aim is to evaluate whether the HSIL resolution rates (CIN 2 or CIN 3) are sufficient to support conservative management.