Active clinical trials for "Fever"

Febrile neutropenia (NF) is the leading cause of unscheduled hospitalization in children with cancer. Management classically involves emergency admission to hospital for intravenous antibiotic treatment until resolution of fever and neutropenia. However, children with NF are a heterogeneous group with varying risks of severe infection (10-29%). This approach, which is recognized as excessive for low-risk episodes of severe infection, particularly in terms of quality of life and cost, is no longer recommended. Management should move to a more personalized model that takes into account the individual probability of severe infection. Clinical decision rules (CDRs) have been proposed to facilitate risk stratification, but none are useful in our French population because of insufficient reproducibility or effectiveness.

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of the cold steam application on body temperature in combination with the treatment algorithm in fever management in children with febrile neutropenia.

Northern Argentina is a risk area for yellow fever (YF). Recent studies have suggested that immunity wanes in children vaccinated between 9 and 23 months of age. In 2015, a collaborative study conducted by the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Argentina, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assessed the immunogenicity and safety of co-administration of YF and MMR vaccines in a pediatric population at 12-13 months of age. A total of 741 children presenting for routine immunization at 12-13 months of age enrolled and completed the study. It is now four to seven years since this pediatric group received their YF vaccinations. This cohort is unique because their initial YF vaccination and immune response to the vaccine dose are well characterized. Contact information collected during the earlier study will be used to locate the children. If consent is obtained, a 5ml specimen of blood will be collected and shipped to the CDC's Arboviral Diseases Reference Laboratory (ADRL) in Fort Collins, CO for plaque reduction neutralization testing using a 50% cut-off (PRNT50) to detect YF virus-specific neutralizing antibodies. Children with neutralizing antibody titers that are higher than their baseline titer collected approximately 28 days following YF vaccination will have PRNTs done for cross-reacting flaviviruses.

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of baricitinib in adult and pediatric Japanese participants with Nakajo-Nishimura Syndrome/chronic atypical neutrophilic dermatosis with lipodystrophy and elevated temperature (NNS/CANDLE), STING-associated vasculopathy with onset during infancy (SAVI), and Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome (AGS).

The purpose of this study is to see if the investigators can improve the treatment of this type of cancer. They want to find out what effects, good and/or bad, giving heated chemotherapy into the belly, known as hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), has on the patient and this type of cancer. The goal of HIPEC is to expose any cancer left in the abdomen after surgery to high doses of chemotherapy. The chemotherapy is heated in the hope that this will make it easier for it to get into and kill the cancer cells. The drug used for HIPEC will be carboplatin, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drug for use in ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer.

The goal of this clinical trial is to assess the immune response to the yellow fever vaccine 17D in adults with prior 17D vaccination. The main questions this study aims to answer are: how does prior vaccination affect antibody responses to re-vaccination? how does prior vaccination affect the immune cell response to re-vaccination? Participants will: have been previously vaccinated with 17D. be re-vaccinated with 17D. provide medical and travel histories. provide a blood sample prior to vaccination provide a blood sample approximately every other day for 14 days after vaccination. provide a blood sample approximately 28 days after vaccination. complete a daily diary of symptoms following vaccination for 14 days. report any additional symptoms after 14 days.

This is a randomized controlled human exposure crossover study. Investigators aims to assess the acute effects of high temperature exposure and the underlying mechanisms.

Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (MGIMS), Sevagram, District Wardha, Maharashtra, India is located in a rural setup and caters to a very underprivileged patient population with limited resources to even pay for their treatment. As per the latest Indian Cancer Registry Report 2020, of the 28 population based cancer registries (PBCR), the age adjusted incidence rates (AAR) in males and females are 64.9 and 69.9. This makes the AAR in Wardha District (district where MGIMS is located) as one of the lowest ranked AAR both for male (national range: 39.5 - 269.4) and females (national range: 49.4 - 219.8) in the country. However, the %mortality / incidence, is one of the highest for Wardha, both for males (65.9%, national range: 14.7% - 71.9%) and females (53%, national range: 9% - 63%). This indicates that the prognosis of patients in this district is one of the worst in India and thus requires a new approach to their standard therapeutic option. This has to be cost-effective, without any significant additional morbidity, and should used in conjunction to the standard treatment of radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy. Hyperthermia, which is raising the tumor temperature to 40 - 43°C is perhaps one of the oldest forms of treatment for cancer. Hyperthermia, being a potent radiosensitizer, a chemosensitizer, an immunomodulator with no significantly added side effects, could be an effective therapeutic modality that could be expected to improve the outcome in these patients. However, it also needs to be cost-effective and require low capital cost investment so that other centers, especially in low and low-middle income countries could also introduce hyperthermia to the therapeutic armamentarium for cancer. This is a registry trial for patients being treated with hyperthermia along with radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy as per the standard departmental protocol for various locally advanced cancers.

Liver dysfunction marked by elevated alanine transaminase enzymes is quite common in dengue patients and subsequently affects the disease's severity and healing process. Unfortunately, liver function tests cannot always be done, especially in hospitals with limited facilities. In contrast, routine hematology tests are considered regular and inexpensive tests that can be performed on dengue patients. Therefore, this study aims to determine hematological parameters as markers of elevated liver enzymes in dengue patients.

Familial Mediterranean Fever is a chronic auto-inflammatory disease. In the context of chronic inflammation, it seems that, among others, it also affects bone density in children. Bone loss may be due to subclinical inflammation that persists even during periods of remission. In addition, inflammatory cytokines also play an important role (mainly during episodes) resulting in an increase in bone degradation and ultimately a reduction in bone mass. Cytokines mainly associated with bone degradation and osteoclast activity are: IL-1R, IL-2, IL-6, IL-8, TNFa. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of FMF on bone density and to compare the results with a healthy population. In addition, the difference between the children with FMF will be studied according to the mutation they carry.