surgery Clinical Trials
A listing of surgery medical research trials actively recruiting patient volunteers. Search for closest city to find more detailed information on a research study in your area.
Found 2,630 clinical trials
Affecting Factors for Chronic Pain After Sternotomy
Chronic pain is common complication of surgery procedures. Rates of mortalits is getting lower in cardiac surgery. This situation has brought us to focus morbidity and long term life quality. Previous study show that chronic pain after cardiac surgery is experienced 11-40% patient. Multifactorial causes play a role in chronic …
Post-neurosurgical Respiratory Muscle Dysfunction
Respiratory muscle dysfunction may contribute to the development of postoperative pulmonary complications. However, it prevalence in patients receiving neurosurgery is largely unknown. Therefore, in present study, respiratory muscle function (measured by the ultrasound) and their correlation with the post-operative pulmonary complications will be analyzed.
To Study the Effects of Refractive Surgery on OCT Measurements in the Eye
Corrective eye surgeries, such as Lasik, are widely used to correct focusing problems such as myopia, or nearsightedness. Often these patients develop other conditions like myopic maculopathy or glaucoma which require monitoring with optical coherence tomography (OCT). Since OCT is a light-based test and changes the refractive status of the …
Surgery in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GISTs) for Treatment, Tumor Modeling, and Genomic Analysis
Objective To follow people with GISTs and collect tumor tissue so that it can be studied in the lab. Eligibility People age 6 and older who have a GIST. Design Participants will be screened with a review of their medical records and samples. Participants will enroll in 1 other NIH …
Pre-operative Screening of Functional Fragilities Before Open Aortic Surgery: a New Area
Aneurysmal or occlusive abdominal aortic pathology has seen its prevalence increase over the years despite the various cardiovascular risk factor management campaigns deployed. Currently, a large proportion of these aortic pathologies require effective and definitive treatment by open surgery. In fact, minimally invasive endovascular treatment, which can provide good results …
Prospective Evaluation of Complex Adult Spinal Deformity (CAD) Treated With Minimally Invasive Surgery
Evaluate surgical treatment outcomes and identify best practice guidelines for complex adult spinal deformity (ASD) patients treated with minimally invasive approach, including radiographic and clinical outcomes, surgical and postoperative complications, risk factors for and revision surgery rates, and the role of standard work to improve patient outcomes and reduce surgical …
Interest in Probabilistic Antibiotic Therapy With Broad-spectrum Beta-lactams in Orthopedic Surgery
The management of Joint Infections (JIs) requires a medical-surgical team which includes rheumatologists, infectious disease specialists, orthopedists as well as microbiologists. This collaboration makes it possible to optimize patient care both from a functional point of view and from an infection point of view. The diagnosis of these infections is …
Nerve Transfer Surgery to Restore Upper-limb Function After Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
The goal of this prospective, open label cohort study is to assess functional and motor outcomes in individuals with cervical spinal cord injury who have undergone nerve transfer surgery, with the goal of increasing upper limb function. We will also compare these outcomes to a cohort of similarly matched individuals …
Comparison of Quality of Life and Changes Experienced by Patients After Epilepsy Surgery
Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic neurological diseases. According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), it affects 0.5 to 1% of the population, or around 70 million people world-wide and around 600,000 in France. There are several more or less severe forms of epilepsy depending on …
Preoperative Radiotherapy and Systemic Therapy Following Surgery in 'de Novo' Metastatic Breast Cancer
Locoregional (LRT) of the primary tumor in de-novo metastatic breast cancer (dnMBC) is no longer only a surgical challenge, but more the final decision of a multidisciplinary tumor board including medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and surgical oncologists. It is no longer only a question of locoregional control but rather a …
