Active clinical trials for "Syndrome"

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affects 5-10% of women of reproductive age, and is associated with infertility, risk for obesity and type 2 diabetes, and impaired quality of life. The elevated insulin characteristic of PCOS is likely to play a major role in its symptoms. Manipulation of dietary carbohydrate quantity and quality (glycemic load; GL) may lower insulin and improve both reproductive and metabolic outcomes. The purpose of this study is to determine if a lower GL diet intervention is more effective than a standard (STD) diet in improving reproductive and metabolic outcomes of women with PCOS in the absence of weight loss.

RATIONALE: Giving low doses of chemotherapy, monoclonal antibodies, and radiation therapy before a donor peripheral blood stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cancer cells. It may also stop the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. The donated stem cells may replace the patient's immune cells and help destroy any remaining cancer cells (graft-versus-tumor effect). Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can also make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving tacrolimus, sirolimus, and antithymocyte globulin before and after transplant may stop this from happening. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying the side effects of giving sirolimus together with tacrolimus and antithymocyte globulin and to see how well it works in preventing graft-versus-host disease in patients with hematologic cancer who are undergoing donor stem cell transplant.

RATIONALE: A Web site for stem cell transplant health information and support may be effective in helping parents improve their health-related knowledge, skills, and quality of life, which may also improve their children's quality of life. PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying a Web-based stem cell transplant support system to see how well it works compared with standard care in families of young patients undergoing a stem cell transplant.

Does melatonin affect basal metabolic rate, increase choroidal blood flow and reduce the vasospastic syndrome (VS)? The main questions are: Do women with VS exhibit... a different basal metabolic rate a reduced choroidal blood flow a reduced increase of oxygen consumption after intake of ice-water a different oxygen consumption after melatonin intake a different choroidal blood flow after melatonin intake a different oxygen consumption after melatonin intake and after intake of ice-water….?

The purpose of this study is to assess how the macronutrient composition of the diet effects lipid and glucose metabolism intrahepatic lipids insulin sensitivity in healthy lean subjects and in subjects with a high metabolic risk (ie overweight and offsprings of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus).

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of Romiplostim (AMG 531) on the incidence of clinically significant thrombocytopenic events (grade 3 or 4 and/or receipt of platelet transfusions) in subjects with low or intermediate risk Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) receiving hypomethylating agents. It is hypothesized that Romiplostim administration, at the appropriate dose and schedule, will result in reduction in the incidence of clinically significant thrombocytopenic events in low or intermediate risk MDS subjects receiving hypomethylating agents.

RATIONALE: Sirolimus, tacrolimus, and methotrexate may be effective in preventing acute graft-versus-host disease in patients who are undergoing donor stem cell transplantation. PURPOSE: This phase I/II trial is studying the side effects of sirolimus when given together with tacrolimus and methotrexate and to see how well they work in preventing acute graft-versus-host disease in patients who are undergoing donor stem cell transplantation for hematologic cancer.

RATIONALE: Beclomethasone dipropionate may be effective in preventing acute graft-versus-host disease in patients undergoing a stem cell transplant for hematologic cancer. PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying how well beclomethasone dipropionate works in preventing acute graft-versus-host disease in patients undergoing a donor stem cell transplant for hematologic cancer.

RATIONALE: Music therapy may be effective in relieving pain and emotional distress in patients who are undergoing cancer therapy. PURPOSE: Randomized trial to determine the effectiveness of music therapy to ease pain and emotional distress in patients with hematologic cancer who are undergoing high-dose therapy and stem cell transplantation.

RATIONALE: The use of dalteparin may be able to prevent complications caused by the use of a catheter to supply chemotherapy to cancer patients. It is not yet known if dalteparin is effective in reducing these complications. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to determine the effectiveness of dalteparin in preventing catheter-related complications in cancer patients who are receiving chemotherapy through a catheter.