Hennigsdorf, Germany Clinical Trials

Heart failure is a leading cause of death, hospitalisation, impaired quality of life and health expenditure. Symptoms and survival can be significantly improved by implantation of a device for Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT). CRT devices are available as biventricular pacemakers (CRT-P) or as significantly more complex and cost-intensive biventricular defibrillators ...

Approximately 25% of all patients after stroke suffer from aphasia. The aphasia could be so severe, that the patient cannot produce any words at all, and so the communication ability is rather poor. In that case speech therapy is the most common therapy, but the functional outcome for the patient ...

Rationale Survivors of critical illness frequently develop long-term mental, cognitive, and/or physical impairments summarized as Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS). On the national society level, Germany uses 10 core QIs that are evidence-based to improve treatment quality at ICUs. Objective To investigate whether a tele-medical intervention delivered at ICU improves ...

Mothers of preterm infants born at a gestational age <= 32 wg are asked to participate in this double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled interventional trial, where they will receive a preparation of the herbal galactogogue Silitidil or placebo over an intervention period of 3 weeks. The influence of the galactagogue will be ...

Patients randomized to the BioMonitor arm will receive an implantable cardiac monitor (ICM; BioMonitor) with remote monitoring function (Home Monitoring). If the device detects and reports an arrhythmia, patients will be appropriately examined and treated. Patients randomized to the control arm will receive best proven treatment, but no implantable cardiac ...

The major long term complication of abdominal wall closure after a median laparotomy is the development of an incisional hernia. Several suture technique and suture material have been used but the incidence of this complication still lies between 9 -20%. Synthetic suture material which have become available over the last ...

At this time, it is not clear which of these approaches best balances the desire to prevent cancer of the cervix from returning with the risks of side effects after surgery and in the long-term.

ProbioSatys is a probiotic nutritional solution containing a commensal Enterobacteriaceae food grade strain, Hafnia alvei 4597. The microbiome is known to play a crucial role in body weight management and metabolic disease. ProbioSatys mechanism of action relies on bacterial metabolites that send local and central signals via the gut-brain axis ...

The TIARA-II study is an international, multicenter, single-arm, prospective, safety and performance clinical study.

Background Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) remains a devastating disease with mortality rates up to 52% at 30 days. It is a major public health problem with an annual incidence of 10-30 per 100'000 population, accounting for 2 million (10-15%) of about 15 million strokes worldwide each year. One-third of patients ...