Active clinical trials for "Fever"

This study aims to analyze the effects of long-acting versus short-acting granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) on the prevention febrile neutropenia (FN) in epithelial ovarian cancer patients. Patients receive platinum-based chemotherapy of 3 to 4 weeks. Patients are randomized into study group and control group. In study group, patients accept long-acting G-CSF 48 hours from the chemotherapy. While the control group accept regular or prophylactic treatment of short-acting G-CSF according to National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines. The primary end is the incidence of FN in every course of chemotherapy. The secondary ends include: the incidences of myelosuppression, doses of G-CSF and its expenses, visits to outpatient and emergency clinics, adverse events related to G-CSF, quality of life, and survival outcomes (progression-free survival and overall survival).

The purpose of this phase I study is to determine the safety, feasibility, maximum tolerated dose (MTD), pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of Cisplatin administered as Intraoperative Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemoperfusion (HIPEC) in Patients with Platinum-Sensitive Recurrent Ovarian Cancer.

Improvement of the clinical outcome in patients with resectable pancreatic carcinoma through an intensified adjuvant treatment with gemcitabine, cisplatin and regional deep hyperthermia as compared to standard chemotherapy.

The study will evaluate the efficacy of Ibuprofen administered as suppositories in the treatment of fever in infants and children. Ibuprofen as suppositories is not yet registered in Israel, although widely used in Europe.

Fever is one of the most common symptoms in pediatrics and one of the most common reasons for visits in pediatricians' office and pediatric emergency departments. Many parents consider fever to be the most terrifying symptom. Acetaminophen and ibuprofen are both effective and safe treatments for febrile children. In order to achieve better temperature control and to avoid toxicity it has been suggested to treat febrile children with alternating doses of acetaminophen and ibuprofen. Surveys in the USA and Spain found that this practice is very common. However, The safety and efficacy of such practice was never described. Hypothesis: Children who are still febrile after being treated with acetaminophen or ibuprofen will have greater temperature decrement if treated with another drug (acetaminophen for those treated with ibuprofen and ibuprofen for those treated with acetaminophen) than if treated with placebo.

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease endemic in the Philippines which caused multiple epidemics. Most points to the activation of the complement system secondary to humoral respond leading to cytokine release causing systemic inflammation. Melatonin, is a hormone which has an a) anti-viral, b) immunomodulator, c) antioxidant, d) modulatory effect on hematopoiesis and e) anti-inflammatory action. This is a randomized control trial to determine the effectiveness of adjunctive melatonin therapy among patients diagnosed with Dengue fever with Warning Signs. This would include children aged 5 to 18 years old with no signs of hemmorhagic shock. They would be randomly assigned into 2 groups. Baseline Complete blood count with platelet (CBCPC) will be collected. Daily CBCPC will be collected and would be statistically analyze after the study.

Lassa fever carries a treated mortality in hospitalized patients of up to 50%. Lassa fever is often described as being characterized by vascular leak and shock in the terminal phase, but, whilst animal data supports this, there are limited data in humans. Therefore, an aim of this study therefore is to characterize cardiovascular function in patients with Lassa fever, with the ultimate goal of informing future trials of supportive or therapeutic strategies. Ribavirin is the current standard of care. However, the efficacy of ribavirin has not been established in a randomised controlled trial (RCT). There is very limited pharmacokinetic (PK) data on ribavirin in patients with Lassa fever and the optimal dose of ribavirin for an RCT is unknown. Furthermore, there are various hypothesized mechanisms of action of ribavirin, none of which have been investigated in humans with Lassa fever. Further aims of this study therefore are to characterize the PK of ribavirin in Lassa fever, and identify any associations between ribavirin PK parameters, viral load and markers of immune/inflammatory status.

This is a multi-institutional phase I/II clinical trial with concomitant local hyperthermia and proton beam radiotherapy in patients with primary or recurrent unresectable soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities, trunk, retroperitoneum (except intrabdominal). The primary purpose would be to assess the safety and efficacy of this approach along with local tumour regressions and subsequent tumour downstaging, thereby enabling a near total removal of these tumours following the hyperthermia and proton beam therapy.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety of Q Fever Vaccine, Phase I, Inactivated, Dried, NDBR 105 and collect data on incidence of occupational Q fever infection in vaccinated personnel.

This study will examine in detail the immediate effects of three common treatments given to children with fevers to lower their temperature. Each child will be given either ibuprofen, acetaminophen, or a combination, and their temperature monitored at five-minute intervals. The temperature-lowering effects of each treatment will be compared to evaluate which is most effective.