Clinical trials: sponsored by Karolinska University Hospital
Atrial Fibrillation (AF)
Dual-Energy Lattice-Tip Assisted Marshall-Plan Strategy in Redo Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Ablation
This clinical trial will assess the efficacy and safety of a Marshall plan-based ablation strategy without ethanol infusion into the vein of Marshall in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation undergoing repeat ablation with…
- Trial name
- DELTA-MAP AF (NCT07899918)
- Testing
- Marshall Plan-Based Ablation Strategy, PV re-isolation only, Additional Left Atrial Ablation
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 234 people
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Atrial Fibrillation (AF), Atrial Fibrillation Ablation
Catheter Ablation vs Conservative Care in Elderly Patients With Atrial Fibrillation
ACE-AF is a multicenter randomized study in people aged 78 years and older with symptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF). AF is a common heart rhythm disorder in older adults and can cause reduced quality of life and lead to serious…
- Conditions
- Atrial Fibrillation (AF), Atrial Fibrillation Ablation, Elderly
- Trial name
- ACE-AF (NCT07424690)
- Testing
- Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation, Optimized Medical Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation, Implantable Loop Recorder (ILR)
- Where
- 2 sites in Sweden
- Volunteers
- 282 people
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma, Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma
Prognostic Evaluation and Systematic Re-Assessment of Cholangiocarcinoma Therapy
Prospective observational cohort study including patients with a diagnosis of intrahepatic/perihilar cholangiocarcinoma at the central regional multidisciplinary conference, to assess therapy response, patient-reported quality of…
- Trial name
- Re-ACT (NCT07814586)
- Volunteers
- 900 people
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Atrial Fibrillation
Ablation of Fibrotic Areas in Patients With Persistent Atrial Fibrillation.
Brief summary: The objective of this study is to compare two different ablation strategies in participants with persistent atrial fibrillation and fibrotic areas in the left atrium.
- Trial name
- IDEAL-AF (NCT04377594)
- Testing
- Radio frequency ablation
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Myocardial Diseases, Perfusion Imaging
Validation of Myocardial Perfusion and Extracellular Volume Assessment Using Photon-Counting Computed Tomography (PCCT) Compared With Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide, responsible for about 30% of all deaths. This substantial burden highlights the need for accurate diagnostic tools that help doctors detect heart disease early and…
- Conditions
- Myocardial Diseases, Perfusion Imaging, Stress Perfusion, Myocardial Fibrosis
- Trial name
- NCT07799363
- Testing
- Stress myocardial perfusion imaging with PCCT. Extracellular volume quantification with PCCT.
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Critical Illness, Fasting State
Ketosis, Immune Function and Metabolic Adaptation in Response to Short-term Fasting in Critical Illness
KETO-FAST is a pre-planned translational substudy of the FAST-ICU cluster-randomized cross-over trial. The substudy will characterize ketone body production and associated metabolic, autophagy-related, and immune cellular…
- Conditions
- Critical Illness, Fasting State, Ketosis, Nutrition
- Trial name
- KETO-FAST (NCT07738536)
- Testing
- Delayed nutrition, Standard nutrition, Fasting
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Kidney Transplant, DCD Kidney
NRP + ex Situ HMPO2 vs NRP Alone in DCD Kidney Transplantation
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if the combination of Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP) at the time of organ procurement with ex situ Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion (HMPO2) of kidneys recovered from donors after…
- Trial name
- OxyPerf (NCT07779187)
- Testing
- Ex situ hypothermic oxygenated machine preservation
- Where
- 3 sites in Sweden
- Volunteers
- 214 people
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Critical Illness, Metabolism and Nutrition Disorder
Endogenous Energy Production in Critically Ill Patients
The aim of this study is to investigate when critically ill patients transition from a non-suppressible catabolism to a normal response to feeding.
- Trial name
- eEPIC (NCT07059988)
- Testing
- Stable isotope tracers, Parenteral nutrition
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Heart Failure, Pathophysiology
Responders and Non-responders in the Management of Heart Failure - Significance of Genetic Influence and Identification of Novel Informative Biomarkers
A biobank within the Swedish national heart failure quality registry SwedeHF.
- Trial name
- Responders (NCT06435585)
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 5,000 people
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Trauma, Hemorrhage
Transfusion for Major Haemorrhage in Trauma - Characteristics and Outcomes
Background: Trauma is the leading cause of death in young adults worldwide and the most common causes of mortality are haemorrhage and brain injury.
- Conditions
- Trauma, Hemorrhage, Shock, Traumatic, Acute Coagulopathy
- Trial name
- NCT05573841
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 161 people
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Lung Cancer, Pulmonary Metastasis
National Register Studies in Thoracic Surgery
The overall project aim is to study risk and outcomes following thoracic surgery by cross-linking high-quality national Swedish health-data registers for population-based investigations of individual level clinically relevant…
- Conditions
- Lung Cancer, Pulmonary Metastasis, Surgery
- Trial name
- NCT03567538
- Testing
- Thoracic surgery
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 20,000 people
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Red Blood Cell Alloimmunization in Pregnancy, HDFN
Prenatal Blood Typing With Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) - an Implementation Study in HDFN (PREFAB)
Determination of Fetal Blood Group by Next-Generation Sequencing - A Clinical Study in Pregnancies with Maternal Alloantibodies Directed Against Fetal Blood Cells (Alloimmunization During Pregnancy) Maternal antibodies can cross…
- Conditions
- Red Blood Cell Alloimmunization in Pregnancy, HDFN, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
- Trial name
- PREFAB (NCT07715214)
- Testing
- NGS analysis for fetal red cell blood type in maternal plasma
- Volunteers
- 750 people
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Cystitis, Radio Induced, Soft Tissue Radionecrosis (STRN)
Soft Tissue Radiation Injury; Patient Reported Evaluation in a Single Centre Cohort Study (STRIPE)
Radiotherapy cures many cancers but can cause late radiation-induced tissue injury (LRTI), leading to long-term symptoms from the bladder and bowel and reduced health-related quality of life (HRQoL).
- Conditions
- Cystitis, Radio Induced, Soft Tissue Radionecrosis (STRN), Radiation Proctitis
- Trial name
- karolinskaUH (NCT07611864)
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Brain Neoplasms, Childhood
Fast Brain MRI in Children With Suspected Brain Tumor
This study aims to assess the diagnostic performance of a new fast MRI sequence named Neuromix compared to routine clinical MRI for brain tumor in pediatric patients
- Conditions
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Brain Neoplasms, Childhood, Brain Neoplasms, Brain Tumor
- Trial name
- Fast MRI (NCT05776602)
- Testing
- Fast MRI (Neuromix)
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 32 people
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Critical Illness, Respiratory Failure
Intubation Checklist in the Intensive Care Unit
This retrospective study aims to explore whether the introduction of a preprocedural checklist for intubation in the intensive care unit (ICU) is associated with a lower incidence of intubation-related complications.
- Conditions
- Critical Illness, Respiratory Failure, Unconsciousness
- Trial name
- CHECC (NCT06791317)
- Testing
- Checklist
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Abdominal Aneurysm, Aortic Aneurysm
Familial Risk of AAA in Sweden
The aim is to study the prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm in first degree relatives and the risk to develop AAA in individuals with heredity for AAA compared with the population ( without heredity for AAA).The study i based…
- Conditions
- Abdominal Aneurysm, Aortic Aneurysm, Aortic Aneurysm Abdominal
- Trial name
- NCT07577128
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 900,000 people
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Without Rupture, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, Ruptured
Prospective Aortic Biobank of POP-STAR
The overall objective of the POP-STAR project is individualized surveillance for patients diagnosed with abdominal aortic aneurysms by means of more precise, patient-specific AAA growth prediction.
- Conditions
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Without Rupture, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, Ruptured, Aortic Aneurysm, Aneurysm Abdominal
- Trial name
- NCT04269447
- Testing
- Structured imaging follow-up
- Where
- 2 sites in Sweden
- Volunteers
- 400 people
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Carcinoma
Molecular PD-L1 PET/CT Imaging With 89Zr-atezolizumab in Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer
The overarching purpose of this study is to improve precision medicine through more refined therapy selection for breast cancer patients who are candidates for ICI therapy (monoclonal antibodies targeting the programmed death…
- Trial name
- MIMIR-mTNBC (NCT05742269)
- Testing
- 89Zr-atezolizumab PET/CT
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 3 people
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Paediatric Asthma, Paediatric Dysfunctional Breathing
Quality of Life - Effects of a Physical Therapy Intervention to for Children and Adolescents With Asthma
Many children and adolescents with asthma have dysfunctional breathing, e.g. they use mainly upper chest muscles to breath and do not engage the diaphragma muscle when breathing.
- Trial name
- NCT07397676
- Testing
- Breathing training, Standrad advice about physical activity
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
Thyroid Gland Anaplastic Carcinoma, Poorly Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma
[177Lu]Lu-AKIR001 First-in-human Study
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of increasing doses of [177Lu]Lu-AKIR001, both in relation to tolerable activity of lutetium-177 and the absorbed protein mass dose of AKIR-001 in…
- Conditions
- Thyroid Gland Anaplastic Carcinoma, Poorly Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma, Cancer Head and Neck, Cervix Carcinoma
- Trial name
- AKIR001 (NCT06639191)
- Testing
- [177Lu]Lu-AKIR001
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 15 people
- Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital