Active clinical trials for "Syndrome"

The purpose of this study is to determine if a new diagnostic technique, called neuromuscular ultrasound, can improve our ability to diagnose focal nerve disease.

The problem point of the Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) patient is the obesity which is intense and the plasma ghrelin level which increases unusual from the recently PWS patients was discovered. The Ghrelin is endogeneous ligand of growth hormone secretagogue receptor with peptide hormone and the location is 3p26-p25. Becomes the secretion even from nervous system but from dignity X/A cell it is secreted mainly and growth is important even in the vagal control against food and intake and a dignity function even on the action outside which promotes the secretion which drives it operates. It increases food intake specially and in order to accomplish the action which diminishes fat utilization the obesity with the week cause which it does the mortar it is thought. Active the ghrelin of the form is essential in hormonal activity of the ghrelin and appetite and growth hormone it participates to the secretion promotion which drives. Action of the Ghrelin measuring the quantitative change in middle acylated of the PWS patient ghrelin in order to happen after the acylation initially by one interest ghrelin which is attempted the appetite of the PWS patient is is controlled the method it will be able to prove the thing directly, it used the RIA kit and the ELISA it will be able to measure kit it will be able to measure the whole ghrelin to pick the PWS patient and the blood of the normal army and active ghrelin it measured a change.

The aim of Alizé is to describe a population of premature babies (gestational age (GA) < 32 weeks) in real life situation and the management of RDS.

Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome is a childhood onset inherited neuropsychiatric disorder characterised by the presence of both multiple motor tics and one or more vocal tics (noises), with psychiatric and/or behaviour disorders (such as obsessive compulsive behaviour…). This disease is associated with an dopamine system imbalance which could be responsible of a specific trouble in the recognition in some facial expression. This has been already shown in Gilles de la Tourette patients with obsessive compulsive behaviour. We hypothesise that patients with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome present a dysfunction of voluntary and automatic treatment of emotional information. The main purpose of this study is to show if patients with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome present a lack of specific facial expression recognition of emotion and determinate more precisely if this alteration involves the cortical way (high frequency way) or the under cortical way (low frequency way).

The aim of this study is to characterize the process of constitution of symbolic representation in infants with Down syndrome, as well as to investigate the relationship between gestures and the emergence of oral language. The investigators hypothesis is that children with Down syndrome could present difficulties during the constitution of symbolic representation that may be related to later deficits on expressive language, generally observed in these children.

In wrists with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) the sonographically measured largest cross-sectional area (CSA) of the median nerve is increased. We compared the changes in largest CSA in wrists undergoing surgical decompression and wrists undergoing conservative treatment of CTS.

In secondary prevention, the beneficial role of cardiac rehabilitation programs after myocardial infarction, percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass is now well established. The large majority of patients don't benefit from cardiac rehabilitation but for those who do, they usually follow an inhospital short health educational program with a sensibilisation to different coronary risk factors like smoking, overweight and inactivity. The impact of these inhospital short health educational programs combined to cardiac rehabilitation has never been totally evaluated, especially the impact on smoking cessation, weight loss and daily physical activity. Therefore, the present study aims to evaluate the impact at one year on 400 consecutive patients' coronary risk profile of: an inhospital short health educational program alone an inhospital short health educational program combined to cardiac rehabilitation a cardiac rehabilitation program alone

The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness and adverse effects of 3,4-diaminopyridine for the treatment of the Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS) and Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes (CMS).

The purpose of this study is to determine if a laboratory test developed by the Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine (SCMM) that uses a new marker found in the mother's blood can better identify pregnancies that have a child with a chromosome abnormality such as Down syndrome (Trisomy 21), Edwards syndrome (Trisomy 18), or other chromosome abnormality.

The aim of this study is to assess the frequency of metabolic syndrome in Down syndrome patients because the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and obesity is higher in individuals with Down syndrome than in the general population.