Active clinical trials for "COVID-19"

As the world opens up to rapidly increasing vaccination coverage and newer variants, there is an even greater need for timely access to at-home COVID-19 testing, or self-testing based out of kiosks, offices, or private spaces. Data on digital strategies that complement self-testing are sparse. Using a superiority randomized controlled trial design (open-label, single-blinded), the investigators will aim to evaluate the impact of a digital self-testing strategy offered out of kiosks/private spaces on the turnaround time to test results, the proportion of participants initiated on action plans, and new infection detected with the strategy. The investigators will compare these outcomes to a conventional lab-based strategy. Significance: A digital, portable, self-testing strategy will facilitate rapid self-knowledge of COVID-19 status and rapid classification into clinical/quarantine/prevention plans. The study will document the impact of a digitally connected self-testing strategy for COVID-19 infection. Upon completion of the strategy, the digital program will be available for global dissemination.

Patients recovered from mild coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) disease without pulmonary involvement may experience long-term physical impairment and dyspnea. The investigators aim to characterize physiologic limitations in patients who recovered from mild COVID-19. Methods: Pulmonary function tests (PFTs), 6-minute walk test (6MWT), echocardiography and cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) will be completed in patients recovered from mild COVID-19 disease with prolonged dyspnea (Subgroup "A") and compared to patients recovered from moderate/severe COVID-19 (subgroup "B") and to non-COVID-19 patients with unexplained dyspnea (subgroup "C").

Automated quantification of the pulmonary volume impaired during acute respiratory failure could be helpful to assess patient severity during COVID-19 infection or perioperative medicine, for example. This study aims at assessing the correlation between the amount of radiologic pulmonary alteration and the clinical severity in two clinical situation : SARS-CoV-2 infections Postoperative hypoxemic acute respiratory failure.

The unCOVer-AF prospective, multicenter registry aims at determining the natural history of atrial fibrillation (AF) via continuous cardiac rhythm monitoring in patients with a first arrhythmic episode during COVID-19 hospitalization.

REmotely Monitored, Mobile Health-Supported High Intensity Interval Training after COVID-19 critical illness (REMM-HIIT-COVID-19)

Timing of of corticosteroids administration is very important in COVID19 cases for the recovery and decrease the mortality.

The primary purpose of this study is to determine whether the drug sirolimus reduces the likelihood of developing of pulmonary fibrosis in patients who are hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia.

The investigators propose a mixed-methods intervention design to evaluate the acceptability of epidemic intelligence (EpI-Net) intervention using Community Engagement (CE) principles to promote COVID-19 testing and prevention practices in socially vulnerable communities in PR. The team hypothesizes that the integration of lay community leaders, trained in the use of COVID-19 prevention technology tools (EpI-Net), will result in increased COVID-19 testing uptake and prevention practices among the targeted socially and epidemiologically vulnerable communities in Puerto Rico.

Patients infected with covid-19 have a series of clinical manifestations, including fever, cough, myalgia or fatigue, dyspnea, even acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), acute cardiac injury and secondary infection, and a lot of sever patients had to been admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) One of the hallmark of COVID 19 is the cytokine storm that provokes primarily pneumonia followed by systemic inflammation. besides the positive viral nucleic acid analysis and the representative pulmonary CT findings (bilateral distribution of patchy shadows and ground glass opacity), most individual patients showed the changes in several immunological and biological markers . CD177 which is one of the most clinically important neutrophil alloantigen because: i) it is a neutrophil-specific marker representative of neutrophil activation, ii) it was the most highly differentiated expressed gene in patients, and iii) the protein can be measured in the serum, making its use as a marker clinically applicable. It is expressed on neutrophils, neutrophilic metamyelocytes, and myelocytes . Given the contribution of the neutrophil activation pathway in the clustering of COVID-19 patients, neutrophil-activation features that could act as possible reliable markers of disease evolution.

Randomized open label clinical trial carried out at study centers in Sweden, including Karolinska University Hospital, S:t Göran Hospital, Danderyd Hospital and Västmanlands Hospital. Patients with COVID-19 who are hospitalized with oxygen therapy are eligible for inclusion. Subjects are randomized to 14 days of inhalation with ciclesonide 360 µg twice daily or to standard of care. Primary outcome is duration of received supplemental oxygen therapy. Key secondary outcome is a composite outcome of death and received invasive mechanical ventilation within 30 days.