Active clinical trials for "Fever"

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.

The purpose of this study is to determine the role of surgery followed by hyperthermic intra-peritoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) versus surgery alone in patients with platinum-sensitive first recurrence of ovarian cancer. Moreover it is a prospective randomized multicenter trial, aimed to investigate the prognostic role of surgery plus HIPEC versus surgery alone in terms of progression free interval, overall survival, morbidity and mortality, second recurrence pattern, quality of life with EORTC QLQ-C30 and QLQ OV28 questionnaires.

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.

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.

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.

This pilot study aims to study intestinal bacterial and fungal translocation and the evolution of the intestinal microbiota in patients over the course of their medical surveillance to search for a link between dysbiosis and bacterial/fungal translocation, but also to better understand the elements involved in febrile episodes in these patients (lack of detection of blood microorganisms, translocation of constituent elements of these microorganisms, etc.). We hypothesize that the composition of the intestinal microbiota as well as the phenomenon of intestinal microbial translocation will have an influence on the occurrence of fever and/or bacteremia in neutropenic patients hospitalized in pediatric onco-hematology.

This is a phase III randomised clinical trial. The aim is to investigate the clinical effects of the addition of modulated electro-hyperthermia (mEHT) to standard treatment protocols (chemoradiotherapy, CRT) for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) positive and negative locally advanced cervical cancer patients (LACC). SAMPLE: The investigators aim to enrol 236 HIV negative and HIV positive women with LACC, FIGO (Fédération Internationale de Gynécologie et d'Obstétrique) Stages IIB (distil) to stage III. Participants will be randomly assigned to a control group (N=118) and a study group (N=118). METHODOLOGY: Randomisation is based on age, stage and HIV. Participants from both groups will receive the standard treatment for cervical cancer at the hospital at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital in South Africa: Up to three doses of 80mg/m2 cisplatin, administered three weeks apart; 50Gy external beam radiation (EBR) in fractions of 2Gy; Three doses of 8Gy High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy. The study group will have two 55 minute mEHT treatments per week, at 130W, directly before the EBR using the EHY 2000 Device. OUTCOMES: 1) Determine the local disease control after treatment at 6 months using a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and computerised tomography (CT) scans. 2) Determine the progression-free survival (PFS) at 6, 12, 18 and 24 months after the last treatment date. PFS will be assessed in all registered participants, regardless of completion (Intent to Treat-ITT) as well as only in the subset of participants who complete the prescribed CRT. 3) Overall survival at two years will be assessed. 4) To evaluate the adverse events associated with mEHT. 5) The effect of mEHT on chemotherapy and radiotherapy tolerability and toxicity will be evaluated. 6) The quality of life of enrolled participants will be assessed before, at 6 weeks, and at 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 months after completion of therapy using the EORTC (European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer) and EuroQoL forms. 7) To evaluate the economic viability of the addition of mEHT to standard treatment protocols for LACC. 8) The effect, if any, of mEHT treatments on the HIV disease status of HIV positive patients will be assessed by the presence of Autoimmune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) defining illnesses before and after treatment. 9) The cancer recurrence patterns will be described and compared in all the participants.

A phase III prospective study with the primary objective to compare the efficacy and safety of HIPEC( Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy). The target population for this study is patients with primary or recurrence ovarian, peritoneal or fallopian tube cancers undergoing CRS( Cytoreductive Surgery). Patients will be divided into two groups. Group A will undergo CRS plus HIPEC and then go on to receive standard platinum-based combination doublet intravenous chemotherapy. Group B will undergo CRS and then go on to intravenous chemotherapy.