Active clinical trials for "Syndrome"

Almost half of critically ill patients experience delirium. Delirium is associated with impaired cognition, mortality, and increased healthcare costs. Family members of critically ill patients are also at risk for adverse consequences such as depression and anxiety. One strategy that may help improve outcomes is to engage family members in the prevention, detection, and management of delirium. This study will employ an educational module to educate families on delirium symptoms, how to identify delirium, and how to prevent and manage delirium using non-pharmacological strategies. Family delirium detection may result in earlier and more accurate recognition of delirium and meaningful family involvement, and therein the potential for better patient and family outcomes. We aim to determine the efficacy of employing family-administered delirium prevention, detection, and management in the critically ill, compared to usual care. We hypothesize that family-administered delirium prevention, detection, and management in the critically ill will be superior to standard of care in: reducing psychological distress in family members, reducing the prevalence, duration, and severity of delirium in critically ill patients, increasing delirium identification in medical charts, increasing delirium knowledge in family members of critically ill patients, and reducing the burden of delirium experienced by family members and caregivers.

Patients with a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) may develop long-term symptoms, e.g. lifelong leg pain, skin changes and occasionally ulceration, known as post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS). This affects about half of people with a history of DVT. This randomised study aims to show whether the regular use of a compression stocking after DVT in the leg, prevents long-term pain, swelling and ulceration. Currently small trials show varied results and a large trial is required to answer the question.

In this study, the investigators aimed to observe the effects of medium cut-off dialysis filters and high-flux dialysis filters on malnutrition inflammation score, uremic itching, restless leg syndrome, anemia, and ESA treatment, which are prominent complications in hemodialysis, and routine follow-up parameters.

The goal of this retrospective analysis is to compare the magnitude of improvement in respiratory and peripheral muscle strength, following the completion of a hybrid pulmonary rehabilitation programme, in men and women with long COVID-19 syndrome. The main question it aims to answer is the following: • does gender limits the effects of a hybrid pulmonary rehabilitation programme on respiratory and peripheral muscle strength?

Periodontitis may contribute to vascular damage, resulting in the destabilization of atherosclerotic plaque leading to acute coronary syndrome (ACS). In this study, we explored the effect of non-surgical periodontal treatment (NSPT) on cardiovascular blood biomarkers and gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) Neutrophil Elastase (NE) and α1-proteinase inhibitor (alpha-1PI) levels in periodontitis (P) participants with and without ACS. Medical and dental examinations were performed to diagnose ACS and periodontitis, respectively. Seventeen patients with diagnosis ACS and periodontitis were included in this study, as a test group (Group ACS). Twenty-six, age and sex-matched control patients with periodontitis (Group P) were otherwise systemically healthy. Both groups received NSPT. Plasma levels of cholesterol, triglyceride, high-density lipoprotein (HDL), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), C-reactive protein (CRP), GCF NE activity, and GCF α1-PI levels were measured baseline, at1st and 3rd months after NSPT.

Sinusoidal obstruction syndrome (SOS) or hepatic veno-occlusive disease (VOD) is a serious complication that occurs, most often occurring in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), especially in its first thirty days. The morbidity and mortality in this syndrome are considerable, since severe SOS is associated with a mortality of more than 90% in the first hundred days of HSCT. Some risk factors are modifiable, especially those related to transplantation, but when non-alterable factors are present, preventive measures are needed that can reduce the incidence and / or severity of SOS.

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between CCTA-based pericoronary inflammation and plaque features as well as local immune-inflammatory biomarkers in ACS patients. It is hypothesized that perivascular FAI might serve as a reliable sensor of coronary immune-inflammatory disorder, and closely related to the plaque vulnerability.

This retrospective study will enroll patients with pelvic venous disorders who have undergone pelvic vein surgery and endovascular interventions. Three groups of patients will be formed. The first will include patients who underwent open retroperitoneal resection of the gonadal veins and endoscopic trans- and retroperitoneal resection of the gonadal veins. The second group will include patients who underwent embolization of the gonadal veins with coils, the third - patients who underwent stenting of the common iliac veins, or stenting of the iliac veins in combination with embolization of the gonadic veins with coils. Evaluation of the effectiveness and safety of interventions on the pelvic veins will be carried out by assessing the effect of the intervention on pelvic pain, morphological and functional state of the pelvic veins. The assessment of the safety of interventions on the pelvic veins will be carried out by assessing the severity of post-procedural pain, the frequency of complications of operations on the pelvic veins, and complications of anesthesia. In addition, the duration of pelvic vein interventions will be compared with the length of time the patient is in hospital. Based on the data obtained, an algorithm will be proposed for determining the choice of the method of interventions on the pelvic veins in patients with pelvic venous disorders.

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA) is a pathology that affects 2 to 15% of the French adult population and more than 30% of subjects over 65 years old. It consists of repeated collapses of the upper airways during sleep leading to interruptions in ventilation (apneas) or significant reductions in ventilation (hypopneas). Balagny et al. have demonstrated the occurrence of hypertension in patients screened positive for sleep apnea syndrome in a French general population cohort. It is also established that sleep apnea increases the risk of cardiovascular disorders, such as metabolic syndrome (combining abdominal obesity and metabolic disorders), hypertension, heart rhythm disorders, especially at night, atherosclerosis (deposits of atheromatous plaques on the artery walls) or type 2 diabetes. These different complications increase the risk of cardiovascular accidents such as cardiac arrest, myocardial infarction, stroke, and expose to a risk of premature death (Inserm). The treatment of choice is night-time positive pressure ventilation, made possible by the use of a breathing apparatus (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure or CPAP). Alternatives to CPAP are the use of a nocturnal Mandibular Advancement Orthosis (MAO) which advances the jaw and allows a pharyngeal opening, and surgery in selected patients. The phenomenon at the origin of apneas is due to a relaxation of the muscles of the pharyngeal wall located at different heights. This obstruction is favored by anatomical particularities specific to each individual. The clinical examination can detect certain anomalies (enlarged tonsils, obstructive soft palate, prominent tongue base, abnormal epiglottis) and propose surgery to remove the obstruction. Nevertheless, it remains difficult to affirm that the detected anomaly is really at the origin of the obstruction and surgical failures are frequent. Endoscopy under induced sleep has been developed for about 10 years in France. This examination, widely used in the world, remains confidential in France. It consists, in the operating room, in inducing a medicated sleep (specific drugs delivered by an anesthetist) and performing a pharyngolaryngeal fibroscopy. The ENT physician can then visualize "live" the site and origin of the obstruction during an apnea. The main objective is to evaluate the interest of endoscopy under sleep before making a surgical indication in a patient presenting a sleep apnea syndrome. The secondary objective is to evaluate the reliability of sleep endoscopy.

This study aims to determine the relation between high homocysteine levels and increased incidence of acute coronary syndrome in young patients