Active clinical trials for "Syndrome"

Each year world-wide, 2.5 million fetuses die unexpectedly in the last half of pregnancy, 25,000 in the United States, making fetal demise ten-times more common than Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. This study will apply a novel type of non-invasive monitoring, called fetal magnetocardiography (fMCG) used thus far to successfully evaluate fetal arrhythmias, in order to discover potential hidden electrophysiologic abnormalities that could lead to fetal demise in five high-risk pregnancy conditions associated with fetal demise.

Posner-Schlossman syndrome, or glaucomatocyclitic crisis, is a condition characterized by recurrent, acute attacks of mild, nongranulomatous, anterior uveitis accompanied by markedly elevated intraocular pressure. Most of patients are the 20 to 50-year-old young adults, with unilateral eye involvement. PSS was originally deemed benign, but is now recognized as a relatively rare cause of chronic secondary glaucoma,especially in patients with recurrent episodes. This relatively rare disease is likely the result of the infections of a variety of organisms, and the bulk of literature supports the cytomegalovirus (CMV) as the leading cause. This study is an observational study that does not interfere with the normal clinical diagnosis and treatment process. The investigators in this study focus on observing the clinical symptoms and outcome of PSS, analyzing the factors that affect the prognosis of PSS, studying the association of its pathogenesis with the psychological status and the behavioral types of PSS patients; exploring the relationship between infection (CMV, HSV, Hp) and PSS; and studying the changes of local and systemic cytokine expression and its significance in patients with PSS.

Objectives: To examine the variations in clinical features, survival outcomes, family history, and health behavior among proband patients who are known or suspected to have a hereditary colorectal cancer syndrome To compare the clinical features, survival outcomes, and health behavior of the proband vs. his/her family members who may or may not be affected by the hereditary colorectal cancer syndrome To explore for correlations between germline genetic variations in both the probands and family members with observed variations in the overall disease phenotype across probands and kindreds, within a given syndrome. Disease phenotype is defined to include: (1) clinicopathologic features including patient demographics and oncologic outcomes; (2) clinical manifestations of disease including the timing, spectrum and severity of CRC and extracolonic cancers. Genetic variations may include the specific codon mutated, the type of mutation and sequence alteration (e.g. nonsense, missense etc), chromosomal/gene copy number changes, and gene polymorphisms. To explore for correlations between germline genetic variations in both the probands and family members with observed variations in somatic CRC tumor biology, including tumor pathology and other tumor molecular markers

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the selective cytopheretic device on the immune dysregulated state of congestive heart failure(CHF) with CRS and to assess the benefit of the device to improve cardiovascular and renal function. The study will enroll eligible patients in the ICU with acute on chronic systolic heart failure and worsening renal function due to cardiorenal syndrome while awaiting LVAD implantation. In this study patients who are eligible and agree to participate will receive treatment with the SCD. The treatment will be for 6 hours a day up to 6 days. Additionally, participants will have additional study procedures and be evaluated to determine if their kidney function improves enough to undergo LVAD implantation.

Multi-center study enrolling patients suspected or newly diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), myelodysplastic syndromes/myeloproliferative neoplasms (MDS/MPN) overlap disorder, or idiopathic cytopenia of undetermined significance (ICUS). Participants will be followed long term. Clinical data, blood, and tissue samples will be collected to establish a biorepository to facilitate the study of the natural history of MDS.

Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a rare syndrome with a prevalence of 15 to 20 000 at birth. PWS represents a large fraction of mental retardation syndromes due to a genetic cause and the most frequent cause of genetic obesity. The majority of the patients are seen by paediatricians. This syndrome is responsible for severe physical, psychological and social impairments. The diversity and the severity of the manifestations of this disease explain the requirement of multidisciplinary care which deserve specific evaluation. Today the follow-up and management of a great proportion of these patients are greatly insufficient if not absent. Teams strongly lack information on the natural history of this severe disease and on the factors involved in its evolution and the outcome of these patients throughout life. The present project is to implement a register in the whole country for children and adult patients

Objective: In this pilot study, we will test the hypothesis that patients with POTS (age 18-60 years) will have a higher percentage of functional antibodies to adrenergic receptors compared with control subjects without POTS.

Observational study on cohort of 10 women undergoing uterine transplantation using deceased donors

This study will address medical devices manufactured by Biomet Microfixation (d.b.a. Zimmer Biomet) designed for fixation and stabilization of the facial and mandibular skeleton.

Patients with deletion of chromosome 9 P are rare (~200 in the medical literature) and have a diverse set of phenotypic characteristics. We propose using state of the art genome sequencing methods to define the location and size of the deleted portion of chromosome 9 P as well as the genetic background in affected patients (whole genome sequencing) and correlate the genes in the deleted portion of chromosome 9 P with specific phenotypic characteristics of each patient. Enrolled participants will be asked to complete a detailed questionnaire, complete a medical release form, and provide a biospecimen sample.