Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTCD) is an inherited metabolic liver disease which means that the body cannot maintain normal levels of ammonia. Ammonia levels can rise (called hyperammonaemic decompensations) which can be life-threatening and may result in impaired neurological development in children. OTCD is a rare genetic disorder characterised by complete …
Proposing ways to effectively counter chronic low back pain through non-drug intervention is a major public health issue due to the prevalence and health costs of this condition. The back school (BS) is based on spinal economics and a biomechanical model. A convergence of evidence indicates that this type of …
The incidence of esophagogastric junction has been increasing in recent years, and surgery is an important method for the treatment of adenoma at the esophagogastric junction. Currently, there is a great controversy about the surgical method of Siewert II, mainly choosing the right chest or the left chest for thoracic …
This is a single-center, prospective, randomized, open-label study of two parallel groups of patients undergoing hand surgery: Group 1: locoregional anesthesia + neuroleptanalgesia Group 2: locoregional anesthesia + hypnoanalgesia Therapeutic benefit is based on VAS assessment of intraoperative anxiety.
A post market clinical study to confirm the performance and safety of the LeMaitre® TufTex Single Lumen Embolectomy Catheter on patients undergoing surgical treatment for the removal of arterial emboli and/or thrombi
This is a prospective, multicenter, observational clinical study conducted under routine clinical practice conditions aimed at describing adherence to a creatine-based nutritional supplement (Creaticare FEM) in estrogen-depleted adult women. Participants will receive the supplement for 12 weeks, and adherence will be assessed as the percentage of doses consumed and the …
Previous studies found that some NMDA-enhancing agents were able to improve clinical symptoms of patients with schizophrenia. Whether treatment of an NMDA-enhancing agent can benefit the treatment of prodromal schizophrenia deserves study.
This is a phase II randomized controlled clinical trial comparing standard induction BCG versus bicalutamide and standard induction BCG among patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.
Sciatic nerve block at the popliteal fossa is indicated for foot or ankle surgery, and the introduction of ultrasound guidance (USG) has improved the ease and accuracy of the performance of this block. Recent studies proved that subparaneural injection is associated with faster block onset, higher block success rate, and …
Background Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL), plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL), and Multicentric Castleman Disease (MCD) are aggressive forms of cancer that affects cells in the immune system and lymph nodes. How they develop is not well understood, and these diseases do not respond well to standard treatments for other types of lymphomas. …
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