Active clinical trials for "Ulcer"

The main objective of this study is to compare the Softform Premier mattress (in static mode) and AIRSOFT DUO mattresses in terms of skin pressures measured at the sacral area.

Adult individuals with ulcerative colitis in remission are given a single fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) in colonoscopy. A half of the patients will receive autologous FMT as a placebo and a half will receive an FMT from a healthy donor.

Participants will be randomly assigned to the experimental group where they will be given enteral nutrition formula rich in zinc and arginine plus a symbiotic (Probinul- Ca.Di.GROUP S.r.l.) once a day for 90 days or the control group where they will receive only the enteral nutrition formula rich in zinc and arginine.

One of the only evidence-based practices for the prevention of diabetic foot ulcer recurrence is once-daily foot temperature monitoring, which is recommended by multiple clinical practice guidelines for high-risk patients, including those with history of foot ulcers. The purpose of this research study is to evaluate the use of once-daily foot temperature monitoring to reduce the occurrence and recurrence of diabetic foot ulcers and reduce total health care utilization for diabetic patients with a foot ulcer that has healed in the past 24 months.

A mixed method desgin study will be conducted to study pressure ulcer incidence Cat. II-IV (including deep- tissue injury,unstageable), not associated with the use of medical devices, on the Ultracore Repose® mattress (Frontier therapeutics Ltd) and to study differences in caretakers' experiences and perceptions when using the Ultracore Repose® mattress versus the Repose overlay mattress®

The purpose of this study is to study development of dysplasia in the ileal mucosa among patients with Ulcerative Colitis and who previous have hade risk factors for developing cellular changes/dysplasia, i.e. previous dysplasia and/or carcinoma in their specimen.

This study will determine how if MK0782 is safe and tolerable and to determine how often and the severity of stomach and small intestine ulcers develop following administration of MK0782 plus enteric coated aspirin, rofecoxib 25mg plus enteric coated aspirin, naproxen 500 mg puls enteric coated asprin vs placebo. This is an early phase trial and some specific protocol information is in progress and not publicly available at this time. (Full information is available to trial participants).

Rapid urease test (RUT) is the most commonly used biopsy-based method to diagnose Helicobacter pylori (Hp) infection because of its simple, rapid and accurate characters. However, its sensitivity was reported to decrease during ulcer bleeding recently. So it is an important issue to avoid a false negative test in these patients. Siddique et al reported that the sensitivity of RUT could be increased when the biopsy number increased from 1 to 4. Other studies demonstrated that additional biopsy from gastric body would increased the sensitivity of RUT in patients with ulcer bleeding. Therefore, we design this study to see if increased number of biopsy or different location of biopsy could increase sensitivity of RUT in patients with gastroduodenal ulcer bleeding. After receiving explanation and giving consent, these patients with gastric or duodenal ulcer bleeding diagnosed after endoscopic examination will be enrolled. Those who are unstable, have received antibiotic or continuous proton pump inhibitor treatment within 4 weeks, or are contraindicated for endoscopic biopsy will be excluded. We will take 1 piece, 4 pieces of biopsy samples from prepyloric antrum and 1 piece from gastric body with standard biopsy forceps from the patients after they agree for RUT test. Then, we put these samples into 3 separate RUT kits respectively. We use 13C-UBT as gold standard for diagnosis of Hp infection. It is scheduled: (1) if the condition of this patient is not suitable for breath test just after endoscopic examination, 13C-UBT will be performed within 2 days,(2) otherwise, it will be performed 1 hour after examination. We plan to enroll 100 patients for this study. We will apply McNamer's test to examine the difference of RUT sensitivity of different biopsy number. For the RUT sensitivity from different locations, we use kappa statistic method to analyze their consistency.

Compound HP802-247 comprises two topical sprays, administered sequentially right after another; these deliver a suspension of fibroblasts and keratinocytes to the wound surface. HP802-247 is the subject of a larger Phase 2 multi-center trial for treating venous leg ulcers. The present study will enroll up to five patients who are suffering venous leg ulcers, have failed a prolonged course of standard wound therapy and one or more advanced technologies, but who would not qualify for the Phase 2 study.

The present quasi-experimental study aims to compare the level of preventive behaviours amongst caregivers who will be instructed to operating one mHealth App or given a relevant instruction manual. To achieve this, a comparison between the behavior of caregivers before and after the intervention and a comparison between the two groups (intervention group with the control group) will be performed. Specifically, data within the two groups will be collected via an online questionnaire consisting of three parts: prior to the intervention (baseline), two (2) and four (4) months after the intervention. The self-administered questionnaire consists of fifty-two (52) questions and uses three valid and reliable scales with a part that was developed via a bibliography research and consultations from experienced specialists. The questionnaire scales have been translated from the English language to Greek.