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Aug 23, 10 11:27PMSubjects who have a clinical history of perennial rhinitis symptoms associated with dust exposure or not associated with other perennial allergens, will have a positive challenge with Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus. Subjects will be ppt negative and intradermal skin test positive to Dust p Challenges will be performed with placebo or Dp extract three times daily each f...Location: Usf Asthma Allergy and Immunology Cru Status: Recruiting» Read more
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Aug 24, 10 12:01AMGraves' disease is characterized by thyrotoxicosis, goiter, ophthalmopathy and dermopathy. Pathogenesis involves autoimmune process. The investigators think temperatures of the area involved in the inflammation may change. Thus the investigators plan to take temperature pictures of Graves' patients using digital infrared thermal imaging system and observe the change.Location: National Taiwan University Status: Recruiting» Read more
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A Pase II Trial of Valproic Acid in Patients With Advanced Thyroid Cancers of Follicular Cell OriginAug 24, 10 12:22AMBackground: - Patients who have advanced thyroid cancer have a low long-term survival rate. These types of thyroid cancer do not respond well to conventional surgery or radiation, or to specific thyroid cancer treatments such as radioactive iodine treatment and thyroid hormone for thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) suppression. - Valproic acid...Location: National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, ... Status: Recruiting» Read more
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Aug 24, 10 10:26AMBackground: - In human DNA, the Fragile X (FMR1) gene helps to regulate the nervous and reproductive systems. If the gene is abnormal, it can cause different kinds of problems, such as abnormal menstrual periods, decreased fertility, muscle tremors, and mental retardation. An abnormal FMR1 gene can also make a person more susceptible to other ...Location: National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, ... Status: Recruiting» Read more
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Nov 24, 10 06:10AMGraves thyrotoxicosis is a common autoimmune disease. Patients suffer at diagnosis from weight loss, increased heart rate and stress intolerance. Some patients have difficulties in regaining quality of life. Diagnosis is found through elevated thyroid hormones thyroxin, suppressed TSH from the pituitary and elevated stimulatory antibodies, TRAb to the thyroid. Selenium i...Location: Jan Calissendorff, Medical clinic, Eskilstuna, ... Status: Recruiting» Read more
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Jan 07, 11 10:10AMCurrently there are few therapeutic options for the treatment of lid retraction secondary to thyroid orbitopathy (TO) during the active stages of the disease. BoTox injection is capable of creating a ptosis, that in the setting of TO can return the upper lid to a more physiologic position, thus improving cosmesis, corneal lubrication and potentially quiescent stage lid ...Location: Mount Sinai Hospital Status: Not yet recruiting» Read more
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Jan 13, 11 07:10AMThe last two decades have witnessed an explosion of new research documenting the deleterious impact that thyroid disease has on pregnancy and the postpartum period, in relation to miscarriage preterm delivery intelligence quotient of the unborn child and health of the mother postpartum. Both subclinical hypothyroidism and thyroid antibody positivity in euthyroid women ha...Location: Johns Hopkins University Status: Not yet recruiting» Read more
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Feb 17, 11 08:10PMThe purpose of this study is to investigate tocilizumab administration in patients with moderately to severely or sight-threatening GO (Graves' ophthalmopathy) without response to treatment with corticoid pulses. Currently these patients only have surgery as therapeutic alternative. The principal aim of this study is evaluate the efficacy and safety of tocilizumab treat...Location: Hospital Clínico de Santiago Status: Not yet recruiting» Read more
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Jun 29, 11 08:10AMPatients with hyperthyroidism and/or goiter are evaluated with blood samples and scintiscan before they are treated with radioiodine for their thyroid disease. Because the investigators do not get a histologically/final diagnosis the investigators want to make sure, that the patients treated do not have a thyroid cancer when treated. The investigators have found that th...Location: herlev Hospital Status: Completed» Read more
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Apr 26, 12 07:00AMThyroid cancer is a relatively rare disease but its incidence is increasing in many countries.. Early and accurate diagnosis leading to earlier treatment and intervention is recognised as a major factor in determining a good outcomes. This study will investigate new ways of diagnosing thyroid cancer from blood samples using proteomic and genetic markers. The study will ...Location: Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Researhc Unit Status: Recruiting» Read more
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