Active clinical trials for "Hyperthermia"

Tropical fevers have been a diagnostic challenge from the antiquity. Nowadays, despite the availability of good diagnostic capacities, undifferentiated febrile illnesses continue to be a thorny problem for travel physicians. In developing countries, the scarcity of skilled personnel and adequate laboratory facilities makes the differential diagnosis of fevers even more complex. Health care workers must often rely on syndrome-oriented empirical approaches to treatment and might overestimate or underestimate the likelihood of certain diseases. For instance Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) contribute substantially to the burden of persistent (more than 1 week) fevers in the Tropics, causing considerable mortality and major disability. These diseases are however rarely diagnosed at primary health care (PHC) level. The difficulty in establishing the cause of febrile illnesses has resulted in omission or delays in treatment, irrational prescriptions with polytherapy, increasing cost and development of drug resistance. In resource-limited settings, clinical algorithms constitute a valuable aid to health workers, as they facilitate the therapeutic decision in the absence of good laboratory capacities. There is a critical lack of appropriate diagnostic tools to guide treatment of NTDs. While clinical algorithms have been developed for some NTDs, in most cases they remain empirical. Besides, they rarely take into account local prevalence data, do not adequately represent the spectrum of patients and differential diagnosis at the primary care level and often have not been properly validated. The purpose of the study is to develop evidence-based Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT)-supported diagnostic guidelines for patients with persistent fever (≥ 1 week) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Sudan, Cambodia and Nepal.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of ice and shortwave diathermy in different regions of lower limb neuromuscular response and balance.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the immunogenicity and safety of the CYD dengue vaccine in India adult subjects. Primary Objectives: To describe the neutralizing antibody response to each dengue virus serotype before the first vaccination and after each vaccination with CYD dengue vaccine in all subjects. To describe the safety of the CYD dengue vaccine after each dose in all subjects. Secondary Objective: To detect symptomatic dengue cases occurring at any time in the trial.

The study was designed to evaluate whether the first CYD dengue vaccination can be administered concomitantly with Stamaril® yellow fever vaccine during the same day and visit, but at 2 different sites of administration. Primary Objective: To demonstrate the non-inferiority of the immune response against Yellow Fever (YF) in flavivirus (FV) non-immune subjects at baseline receiving one dose of Stamaril vaccine administered concomitantly with the first dose of CYD dengue vaccine compared to participants receiving one dose of Stamaril vaccine concomitantly with placebo. Secondary Objectives: To assess the non-inferiority of YF immune response 28 days post-Stamaril vaccination based on seroconversion rates regardless of the FV status of participants at baseline. To describe the YF immune response 28 days post-Stamaril vaccination in both groups. To describe the antibody (Ab) response to each dengue virus serotype 28 days post CYD dengue vaccine (Visit [V] 05 and V07), following CYD dengue vaccine Dose 1 and Dose 2 from Group 2 versus following CYD dengue vaccine Dose 2 and Dose 3 for Group 1 (effect of YF vaccination). To describe the safety of Stamaril vaccine administered concomitantly with the first dose of CYD dengue vaccine, or Stamaril administered concomitantly with placebo. To describe the safety of CYD dengue vaccine after the first dose of CYD dengue vaccine administered concomitantly with Stamaril vaccine or CYD vaccine administered alone. To describe the safety of the CYD dengue vaccine in all participants after each dose.

This is a Phase 2 study of the safety and efficacy of Intravenous (IV) Ribavirin in treating patients presenting with a probable or suspected case of viral hemorrhagic fever (either Crimean Congo or Lassa Fever) at a military medical treatment hospital. All patients will be treated with a 10 day course of IV Ribavirin if they meet all the inclusion and none of the exclusion criteria.

This is a pilot study aimed to test the feasibility and safety of administering combination chemotherapy with paclitaxel (both intravenously and intraperitoneally) and cisplatin (intraperitoneally) plus whole abdominal hyperthermia every 3 weeks in the treatment of optimally debulked, advanced or recurrent ovarian, primary peritoneal, and fallopian tube cancer patients.

This trial evaluated the use of a tetravalent vaccine against dengue. Primary objectives: To describe the humoral immune response to dengue before and after each vaccination with tetravalent dengue vaccine in adults, adolescents, and children. To evaluate the safety of each vaccination with tetravalent dengue vaccine in the 4 age cohorts. To evaluate the persistence of antibodies against dengue during 5 years after the first vaccination with tetravalent dengue vaccine in the 4 age cohorts.

To evaluate effect of previous flavivirus exposure on the safety and immunogenicity of the ChimeriVax™ dengue tetravalent vaccine Primary Objectives: To describe the safety of one injection of ChimeriVax™ dengue tetravalent vaccine. To describe the immune response against dengue before and after one injection of ChimeriVax™ dengue tetravalent vaccine

Malaria remains one of the most devastating infectious diseases in the world. Despite the potential for serious adverse outcomes with each episode of malaria, most cases in endemic areas are diagnosed on clinical grounds alone. Even the simple technique of light microscopy, the gold standard for malaria diagnosis, is inaccessible to most individuals in resource-poor malarious areas. New diagnostic methods that are practical for limited health-care settings are urgently needed. Immunochromatographic rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria are easy to use, require little infrastructure or expertise, show good accuracy, and are increasingly advocated for routine use in malaria-endemic areas. A major challenge now is to implement RDTs effectively in typical African clinical settings. We plan to evaluate the clinical effectiveness and safety of a training curriculum incorporating RDT use in peripheral government health centers in Uganda. Results from this study will provide evidence for scale-up of RDT implementation in Uganda, as planned by the Uganda Ministry of Health from mid-2008, as well as in other sub-Saharan African countries. The aim of this study is to evaluate the clinical effectiveness and safety of a basic training program incorporating RDTs, as compared with standard-of-care presumptive treatment, for the management of patients who present with suspected malaria at peripheral health centers in Uganda. Our hypothesis is that training in fever case management and RDT use will allow health center staff to reduce unnecessary antimalarial prescriptions without compromising patient outcomes, compared with the current practice of presumptive antimalarial therapy for all febrile patients.

Life expectancy and quality of human life are important indicator of the sustainable development of the society. At the same time, the physical, functional, emotional and psychological components of the of the quality of life evaluation are subjected to be evaluated objectively and corrected using modern medical and socio-psychological methods. According to a fair number of experts, the arsenal of means for functional rehabilitation and health promotion is limited, and its expansion is only possible on the basis of the principles of adaptation medicine and their translation from experimental research into specific preventive and health-promoting technologies. The study is aimed at the development in molecular-endocrine, neuro-visceral and psychophysiological complex mechanisms of human long-term adaptation to systemic modern heating device-based hyperthermia for the development of medical technology focused on optimization in physical functioning, neuro-autonomic regulation, psycho-emotional status and stress- resistance as objective characteristics of humans' quality of life in working age. The novelty of the project is the disclosure of key mechanisms of adaptational direct and cross-effects to the prolonged systemic individually dosed hyperthermia underlying the optimization of stress-resistance, psycho-physiological status and exercise tolerance of practically healthy persons and leading to an increase in the subjectively perceived quality of life. The discovery of the mechanisms of hyperthermically induced neuroplasticity (in terms of the dynamics of oxidative stress, heat shock proteins and the brain derived neurotrophic factor) will also have a scientific significance, which in the long term prospectives may play a role in the development of technics for the prevention and rehabilitation of age-associated neuro-degenerative processes and diseases.