Active clinical trials for "Urologic Diseases"

The objective of our multi-center randomized single-blind study is to examine the safety and effect of intra-detrusor OnabotulinumtoxinA injections at the time of holium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) in men with overactive bladder symptoms with and without urge incontinence.

The study is being conducted to learn why some patients with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) do not respond to a commonly used treatment drug, Finasteride. The hope is to find ways to predict which patients will not respond to Finasteride so that, in the future, these patients can be identified prior to offering this treatment and they can be offered alternative treatment strategies in its place. The aim is to see if noninvasive techniques such as MRI can detect inflammation of the prostate to assist with early detection of those who will and who will not respond to Finasteride.

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a complex condition affecting men worldwide. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most common causes of ED. The prevalence of ED in DM varies around 35-85%. Recently, stem cell therapy has started to become the focus of experimental and clinical studies for the treatment of ED. Stem cells have been shown to be able to regenerate functionally damaged tissue, depending on the stimuli or signals received. Stem cells studies in experimental animals have been carried out using biomarker parameters, including VEGF, Bcl-2, E-selectin, cGMP, eNOS and have been shown to be successful in increasing cell survival and angiogenesis, stimulating antiapoptotic, proneurogenic, proinflammatory, and antifibrotic effects and improvements to these biomarker parameters. This study aims to determine the efficacy, mechanism of action, and safety of umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells as a therapy for ED due to type 2 diabetes in human.

The goal of the Lead-in phase of the study is to evaluate the safety, efficacy, pharmacokinetics (PK) and determine recommended dose for expansion (RDE) of NKT2152 in combination with palbociclib (Doublet) and with palbociclib and sasanlimab (Triplet) in subjects with advanced or metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) who received prior therapy. The goal of the Expansion phase of the study is to evaluate the safety, efficacy, PK at the selected RDE and identify the RP2D for NKT2152 in combination with palbociclib (Doublet) and with palbociclib and sasanlimab (Triplet) in subjects with advanced or metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) who received prior therapy.

The aim of this study is to compare the effectiveness of pelvic floor physical therapy (PFT) and therapeutic yoga training (TYT) for women who have postnatal stress urinary incontinence (SUI).

Prospective, randomized, double-blind, multicenter study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of an implantable tibial nerve stimulator in subjects with urgency urinary incontinence (UUI).

This randomised controlled trial aims to determine the efficacy of a 12-week, smartphone-based Prosocial-orientated Acceptance and Commitment Training (PACT) programme plus age-appropriate positive parenting advice on the psychological flexibility, prosociality, parenting competence and family functioning with parents of children with special health care needs as well as the mental well-being of parent-child dyads over 12 months follow-up.

This research is about modification during routine cystoscopy (scope in the bladder) procedure [ experimental research ]. The goal of the study is to evaluate patient experience with cystoscopy by using procedural modification to reduce pain perception. The investigator aim for quality improvement of the current methods of cystoscopy to achieve a better patient experience.

Elderly people (EP) have increased, as well as life expectancy at birth. In Chile there are more than 2 million 800 thousand EP, which corresponds to 1/6 of the Chilean population. The EP have a higher disease burden and mortality when facing surgery and in the postoperative period. Thus, this population frequently has longer hospital stays due to its degree of fragility, surgical complications or decompensation of its underlying pathologies, directly affecting health care systems. An inadequate preparation of the EP prior to surgery determined that the requirements of in-hospital as well as out-of-hospital care are extended, with the consequent which entails a higher cost in health. Current research underestimates the conditions of frailty and dependence in the EP. In addition, it is not routinely evaluated prior to surgery, as well as nutritional, metabolic, cognitive status and / or delirium screening is performed. There are accelerated recovery programs, which relate their interventions to specific pathologies; however, the age of the person is not taken into account. Surgical pre-habilitation interventions in the EP usually focus their efforts on physical and cardiovascular aspects, not including an integrative pre-surgical evaluation. Based on the foregoing, a prospective, interventional, longitudinal and randomized study has been proposed in a population of the EP who will undergo elective urology and coloproctology surgeries in two university hospitals (private and public). The objective of this study is to evaluate how the implementation of a timely pre-surgical conditioning (APO) protocol for frail elderly people reduces the days of hospital stay. The APO considers the most relevant aspects of physical and cardiovascular pre-habilitation, in addition to contemplating evaluations of frailty, dependence, cognitive status, screening for delirium, nutritional and metabolic.

The investigators want to verify whether the surgical outcome of vessel-sparing anastomotic repair in isolated short bulbar urethral strictures is not inferior to the surgical outcome of transecting anastomotic repair. Furthermore, the investigators compare the functional outcome of both techniques verifying if there is less erectile dysfunction after vessel-sparing anastomotic repair than after transecting anastomotic repair.