Amsterdam, Netherlands Clinical Trials

Rationale: Often, incurable cancer patients suffer from severe symptoms as (neuropathic) pain and fatigue with polypharmaceutic interventions as a consequence. Regarding neuropathic pain in incurable cancer patients, pregabalin has been registered for neuropathic non-cancer pain, and amitriptyline is not registered for neuropathic pain, but is recommended as the drug of ...

Background HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) are effective lipid-lowering agents and are known to reduce cardiovascular events. It was initially assumed that cholesterol reduction by statins was the only mechanism responsible for their beneficial effect. However, beneficial effects of statins seem to occur very early in the course of their therapy ...

Although primary aldosteronism (PA) was formerly seen as a rare cause of hypertension, this condition is now thought to be the commonest cause of secondary hypertension, with the prevalence ranging up to 10-15 % of all hypertensives. Identification of patients with PA allows for specific treatment, for instance unilateral adrenalectomy ...

This is a randomized study of autologous HSCT using a low intensity, non-ablative conditioning regimen with cyclophosphamide and ATG versus treatment with the currently presumed best available immunomodulatory medication (alemtuzumab) in RRMS patients with significant inflammatory disease activity in spite of ongoing immunomodulatory MS treatment. Significant disease activity is defined ...

Rationale: Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is a malignancy with a poor prognosis. Resection is the only curative option and still 5-year survival rate is less than 10 percent. However, most patients present with advanced disease and are provided with palliative care. The nature of the tumour and the intense stromal reaction around ...

Based on Ki67 levels after two weeks of initial letrozole treatment in postmenopausal patients with hormone receptor positive, HER2 negative, stage II/III breast cancer, patients are either advised to continue letrozole treatment (if Ki67 <1%) or will be randomized between standard chemotherapy (AC-T) or ribociclib in combination with letrozole (if ...

The primary purpose of this study is electronic data collection of arterial pressure waveform signals in patients with Aortic Stenosis. The collected digital pressure waveform data will be used to assess the feasibility of using the arterial pressure signal as a decision support tool for early detection of aortic stenosis ...

Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) implant improves survival in patients with a higher risk for sudden cardiac death. There are 2 types of ICD available; transvenous ICD (TV-ICD) and subcutaneous ICD (S-ICD). During ICD implant, defibrillation testing (DFT) is performed to test functionality of the device. However, DFT can be associated ...

Induction Chemotherapy TPF(arm A and B) : Docetaxel 75 mg/m2 iv on day 1, Cisplatin 75 mg/ m2 iv on day 1, 5-FU 750 mg/ m2/day iv continuous infusion (in Hickman or port a cath) on days 1-5; prophylactic G-CSF This cycle will be repeated every 21 days for a ...

The following agents will be studied: Etravirine, Intelence, TMC125; Emtricitabine, Emtriva or FTC; Tenofovir, Viread, TDF; Atazanavir, Reyataz; Fosamprenavir, Telzir, FPV; Darunavir, Prezista, TMC114; Tipranavir, Aptivus, TPV; Indinavir, Crixivan; abacavir; raltegravir, Isentress; Enfuvirtide, Fuzeon; Maraviroc, Celsentri; dolutegravir; elvitegravir/cobicistat; rilpivirine, TAF, darunavir/cobicistat