Active clinical trials for "Fever"

In this study the investigators aim to test if a procalcitonin (PCT) - guided strategy allows to reduce the antibiotic use in patients with febrile neutropenia hospitalized in a Brazilian tertiary university hospital, causing no harm.

This study evaluates the efficacy and safety of the addition of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy to secondary debulking surgery in stage III ovarian cancer.

Gastrointestinal tumours (GITs) are the most common and fatal cancers worldwide; 96% of GITs show the microsatellite-stable (MSS)/proficient mismatch repair (pMMR) phenotype, and these tumours have a poor response to immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy. Hyperthermia combined with ICI treatment (HIT) has been reported to show a synergistic sensitisation effect in numerous basic studies. This study aimed to validate the effectiveness, safety, and feasibility of water-filtered infrared A radiation (WIRA) whole-body hyperthermia combined with PD-1 inhibitor therapy and evaluate the real-world clinical application prospects of HIT. This open-label single-arm phase 2 clinical trial aimed to enrol advanced GIT patients with the MSS/pMMR phenotype in the East Asian population who had received third-line or higher treatment. The patients were treated with whole-body hyperthermia on days 1 and 8 of each HIT cycle along with administration of tislelizumab 200 mg on day 2 (24 h after the hyperthermia at day 1). The primary outcome was the disease control rate (DCR), while the secondary outcomes were progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), safety, and improvement in quality of life.

Febrile neutropenia (FN) continues to be the infectious complication that most commonly requires hospitalization in pediatric cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. In recent years, data have been published on the effectiveness of treatment of FN events with oral antibiotics, mainly in developed countries, but data from developing countries continue to be scarce. Our hypothesis was that early change from initial in-patient intravenous antibiotic treatment to oral outpatient antibiotic treatment in children with cancer and FN is as safe and effective as in-patient intravenous antibiotic management. The purpose of this clinical study was to determine whether early outpatient oral antibiotic treatment is not inferior in safety and efficacy to in-hospital intravenous antibiotic treatment in pediatric patients with cancer and low-risk FN events. A multicenter, non-inferiority randomized clinical trial was conducted in three public hospitals in Mexico City. Low-risk FN events were identified in children aged 1 to 18 years. After 48 to 72 hours of receiving intravenous in-hospital antibiotics, children were randomly allocated to receive outpatient oral treatment (cefixime) or to continue in-hospital intravenous treatment (cefepime). Daily monitoring was performed until the resolution of neutropenia. Our outcome of interest was the presence of any unfavorable clinical outcome.

Currently, paracetamol, ibuprofen and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs are widely used by emergency physicians in Turkey for the treatment of fever . The objective of the study is compare the efficacy of intravenous ibuprofen and paracetamol in the treatment of patients with upper respiratory tract infections presenting with fever in the emergency department

Human papillomavirus(HPV) infect epithelial cells and have the capacity to stimulate cell abnormal hyperplasia, especially by those high-risk HPV types. HPV vaccine primarily targeting HPV6/11/16/18 has been available and makes it possible to prevent cervical cancer. However, a large population was left unvaccinated, specifically for those aged ones. In clinic, patients harboring high-risk HPV is quite prevalent in China or other developing nations. Removing the virus and prevention of malignant transformation is required. Mild local Hyperthermia with a certain temperature range has been successfully used in the treatment of some diseases. It has been utilised in the treatment of some neoplasm, fungal and HPV infections. Investigators' study found that local hyperthermia at 44°C could cleared HPV in more than half of the patients with plantar warts. Investigators also note the fact that in patients with multiple lesions, the clearance of the target lesion is commonly followed by clearance of other distant lesions, a phenomenon suggesting that local hyperthermia could aid in establishing a specific immune response to eliminate HPV.So the purpose of the study is to evaluation local hyperthermia in the treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasias grade I and II after 3 months, with positive high-risk type HPVs, and patients with positive testing for high risk HPVs. Appropriate control arms were designed for different conditions.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the antipyretic effect of bromocriptine in critically-ill patients with acute neurologic injury and fever from infectious and non-infectious etiologies.

This study will examine the effectiveness of water-filtered whole-body hyperthermia during an outpatient setting in patients with fibromyalgia. The duration of the study is about 3 weeks with two treatment units per week and a passive period (follow-up measurement) of 24 weeks after the outpatient setting.

Treatment of patients with febrile neutropenia (FN) attending Emergency Departments (EDs) relies on rapid antibiotic initiation in order to control a presumed infection. The choice of initial antibiotics is empirical and depends on patient's prior colonization or infection by multi-drug resistant pathogens (MDRPs) and risk stratification. Stratification of high-risk patients needing broad-spectrum antibiotics is debated. Thus, for non-specialist physicians, this choice may be challenging, leading to inappropriate initial antimicrobial regimens, potential risks for the patient and higher costs. Furthermore, international guidelines recommended to develop antibiotic stewardship programs and promoted an initial strategy based on escalation or de-escalation approaches, with early reassessment depending on patients' clinical course and microbiological results. Nevertheless, this interesting strategy may increase the level of complexity for the choice of the initial antibiotic regimen by non-specialist emergency physicians who are often the first prescribers in this context. We developed an interactive computerized decision support app (CDSA) for initial antibiotic prescription and early revaluation in patients with FN. The first goal of this app is to assist non-specialized physicians in choosing initial antimicrobial regimen for patients with FN when they attend EDs. It uses an interactive algorithm based on international guidelines that takes into account patients' medical history and characteristics. Secondly, the app is also designed to propose an algorithm of antibiotic revaluation at day 3-4 for hospitalized patients, depending on patient clinical course, and biological and microbiological results. The revaluation suggests antimicrobial modification (escalation or de-escalation) or discontinuation and stopping rules with recommended duration of therapy also based on international guidelines. We hypothesize that such a CDSA may improve the adherence to guidelines for the choice of initial antibiotic regimen for FN in the ED, favour early antibiotic reassessment for hospitalized patients, both decreasing the risk of treatment failure.

To assess the safety and establish the dose to assess the pharmacokinetic activity following administration of EC-18 in patients with advanced breast cancer receiving low febrile neutropenia risk chemotherapy who are the candidates for second-line or higher combination therapy with doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide.