Active clinical trials for "COVID-19"

Lifespan Cancer Institute serves over 50% of cancer patients in the state. Rhode Island is known for strong medical care and high rates of cancer screening with mammography and colonoscopy. However, cancer screening has plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic, in part to closing physician offices and stopping non-urgent medical procedures. In addition, anecdotal reports suggest the public remains concerned about returning to physician's offices and risking possible exposure to COVID-19. As in the United States as a whole, COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted ethnic and minority individuals within underserved communities; and in Rhode Island, African Americans, Hispanics and undocumented individuals living in communities such as Central Falls, Pawtucket, Providence, East Providence and North Providence have had the highest rate of COVID-19. These communities are also impacted by healthcare disparities to access and affordability of healthcare, and as such, may be among the least likely to resume cancer screening. The Lifespan Cancer Institute will institute a project to address health disparities in cancer screening during the pandemic through the use of a targeted campaign involving social media. The goals will be to re-establish screening in the era of COVID-19 and ensure timeliness of care for those found to be at risk, or are positive for, cancer.

Approximately 15% of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection / COVID-19 develop a severe clinical course. This leads to hospitalization and potentially life threatening complications such as pneumonia and respiratory failure. Predictors for early detection and risk stratification are urgently needed. Moreover, only scarce information is available for long-term follow-up and late complications associated with infection. We therefore aimed to find predictors for severe courses of the novel disease as well as to establish strategies for therapeutic monitoring and follow-up.

The investigating group aims at performing an observational, prospective study that involves the evaluation of circulating biomarkers predictive of clinical evolution in patients suffering from COVID-19 disease. In particular, the aim will be to verify whether there are transcripts or cytokines / chemokines in peripheral blood, modulated differently in patients with COVID-19, distinguished on the basis of the evolution towards more severe clinical pictures that require patient intubation or that show signs of cardiovascular damage. The study will be based on the transcriptional analysis of the entire genome and serum protein to evaluate the expression of a broad spectrum of cytokines and chemokines. Genome analysis will allow the genotype to be correlated to the identified gene expression profiles.

Women who were able to benefit from psychiatric follow-up during the quarantine by tele-consultation have a lower risk of anxious and depressive symptoms than those who did not receive follow-up.

The investigators aim to characterise Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in every age group. On the one hand, emphasis is put on the initial presentation, clinical course, outcome and the therapy used. On the other hand further investigations regarding viral and bacterial coinfections, and response of the immune system will be conducted. This study should serve to improve the understanding of COVID-19, to identify risk factors for a severe clinical course and to obtain further insights into pathophysiology of this new infectious disease.

Covid-19 is associated with a wide range of symptoms and clinical trajectories, and early identification of patients at risk for developing severe disease is desirable. Several risk markers and comorbidity profiles have been proposed but their relative importance in unselected patients admitted to hospital with Covid-19 remains unclear. This study aims to assess the prognostic value organ specific biomarkers, viral dynamics and immune response markers in patients infected with SARS-CoV2.

The Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), also known as Wuhan coronavirus, causes the 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease.

Background: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a tremendous challenge the modern world has never seen before and is overwhelming the capacities of healthcare systems worldwide. Patients with cardiovascular diseases, heart failure in particular, and cardiovascular risk factors seem to be at a very high risk if affected by COVID-19 - and vice versa there are more and more reports of cardiac manifestations with the viral disease. Aim: The purpose of the study is to characterise the clinical course of adult inpatients with COVID-19 and concomitant cardiovascular affection in a worldwide, multicentre PCHF registry. Methods: Retrospective and prospective data analysis. Data on demographic, clinical, selected laboratory, electrocardiography and echocardiography parameters, treatment and outcome will be collected. The principal investigator provides dedicated electronic case report form. The primary outcome is in-hospital mortality. The secondary endpoints will be ICU length of stay, hospital length of stay, the need and duration of invasive mechanical ventilation, cardiovascular hospitalisation after 3 and 6 months from index hospitalisation, all-cause and cardiovascular mortality after 3 and 6 months from index hospitalisation.

The utilization of AlloSure to help guide immunosuppression management in solid organ transplant recipients diagnosed with COVID-19

Multicenter cohort of patients followed for 6 months during the pandemic in France with biocollection of sera and peripheral blood mononuclear cells