Clinical trials: sponsored by Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Hemodialysis, Kidney Disease, End-Stage
Cycling During Dialysis: A Feasibility and Safety Study
People who receive hemodialysis sit for about 4 hours, three times a week, and often feel tired and weak. Exercise can help, but many patients find it hard to exercise on their own.
- Conditions
- Hemodialysis, Kidney Disease, End-Stage, Fatigue
- Trial name
- NCT07905885
- Testing
- Supervised Intradialytic Cycling
- Volunteers
- 12 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Post Traumatic Headache
Eary Infusion of Eptinezumab for TreatmEnt of ACute Post-Traumatic Headaches (ELITE-ACT)
Most individuals with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) experience post-traumatic headaches (PTH). Of PTH, 50% present with a migraine phenotype which is the most disabling type of PTH.
- Trial name
- NCT07191145
- Testing
- Eptinezumab
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD)
Ketogenic Diet and Neuromodulation in Treatment Resistant Depression
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if combining a ketogenic diet with a personalized, accelerated brain stimulation treatment (iTBS) works better than iTBS with a standard healthy diet to reduce depression symptoms in…
- Trial name
- ALIGN (NCT07376018)
- Testing
- Accelerated Intermittent Theta Burst Stimulation (iTBS), Ketogenic Diet, Canadian Food Guide-Aligned Diet
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Stroke, Ischemic
Testing a New Treatment Strategy to Improve Secondary Stroke Prevention for Older Adults: The STROKE75+ Trial
The overall aim of this research is to improve secondary stroke prevention for older patients with stroke. In current practice, patients with stroke are often prescribed antiplatelet therapy with either aspirin or clopidogrel to…
- Trial name
- STROKE75+ (NCT07454707)
- Testing
- Edoxaban 15 mg, Aspirin or clopidogrel
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 1,204 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Treatment Resistant Depression
InTRavenous kEtAmine and immerSive virtUal Reality to Treat dEpression
Depression is a common condition, with serious negative effects on the health and quality of life of those affected. While there are currently various medications which attempt to treat depression, they often take a long time to…
- Trial name
- TREASURE (NCT06781697)
- Testing
- Ketamine, Oculus VR headset
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 31 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Traumatic Rib Fracture(s), Traumatic Rib Fracture
Erector Spinae Plane vs Serratus Anterior Plane Catheter Infusions for Acute Pain Management in Patients With Traumatic Rib Fractures
Rib fractures happen in about 10-20% of patients with blunt trauma and can be serious, with higher death rates in older adults. These injuries often lead to lung problems like pneumonia, collapsed lung areas (atelectasis), fluid…
- Trial name
- NCT07756047
- Testing
- Erector spinae plane catheter, Serratus plane catheter
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 66 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Glioblastoma (GBM), Astrocytoma, Grade IV
UNIty-Based MR-Linac Guided Adaptive RadioThErapy for High GraDe Glioma-4
This study builds on the results of prior studies (UNITED and UNITED-3). The goal of UNITED-4 is to test whether an adaptive radiation therapy (RT) therapy approach ('dose painting'), with reduced margins, impacts approach in…
- Trial name
- UNITED-4 (NCT07459101)
- Testing
- Dose painting + Reduced Margins
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 120 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia
Evaluating Simplified Layered Consent for Clinical Trials
The goal of this clinical trial (the SIMPLY-SNAP trial) is to compare a simplified layered consent form to a full-length consent form for use during the informed consent process for a larger clinical trial of treatment of…
- Trial name
- SIMPLY-SNAP (NCT06168474)
- Testing
- Simplified layered consent form, Full-length consent form
- Where
- 6 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 347 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Coronary Artery Disease, Heart Failure Systolic
The Canadian CABG or PCI in Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Trial (STICH3C)
The Canadian CABG or PCI in Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy (STICH3C) trial is a prospective, unblinded, international multi-center randomized trial of 754 subjects enrolled in approximately 45 centers comparing…
- Trial name
- NCT05427370
- Testing
- Revascularization by PCI, Revascularization by CABG
- Where
- 46 sites in United States, Austria and 14 more
- Volunteers
- 754 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty (RTHA), Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty
CLinical Evaluation of ANtiseptic Skin Preparation in Revision Total Joint Arthroplasty of the Hip and Knee
The goal of this clinical trial is to compare two types of skin preparation solutions (chlorhexidine gluconate-alcohol solution and povidone-iodine solution) that help eliminate harmful bacteria on the skin at the time of surgery…
- Trial name
- CLEANJoint (NCT05828810)
- Testing
- Chlorhexidne Gluconate-Alcohol Skin Preparation, Poviodine-iodine Skin Preparation
- Where
- 3 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 400 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Adult Diffuse Large Cell Lymphoma, Recurrent
DPX-Survivac and Checkpoint Inhibitor in DLBCL
This is a Phase 2 non-randomized, open label, uncontrolled, efficacy and safety study. Study participants will receive two priming doses of 0.5mL of DPX-Survivac 21 days apart and up to six 0.1ml maintenance injections every two…
- Conditions
- Adult Diffuse Large Cell Lymphoma, Recurrent, Adult Refractory Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma
- Trial name
- SPiReL (NCT03349450)
- Testing
- DPX-Survivac, Pembrolizumab, Cyclophosphamide 50mg
- Where
- 6 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 25 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Moderate or Severe Aortic Stenosis
Sparrow App Guided Evaluation (SAGE) Vanguard Trial for Aortic Stenosis in Adults Aged Seventy and Older
The purpose of this research is to look at an approved intervention (Stethophone application) to obtain additional information about improving detection of moderate or severe aortic stenosis when compared with usual standard of…
- Trial name
- SAGE-AS (NCT07828730)
- Testing
- Stethophone
- Volunteers
- 1,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Diabete Type 2
Assessing Heart and Brain Metabolism in Type II Diabetes Mellitus Patients Using Carbon-13 MRI
There has been a notable increase in the number of Canadians living with type II diabetes. People with this type of diabetes often have high levels of a substance called lactate in their blood, which might be linked to problems…
- Trial name
- NCT07820722
- Testing
- C13 Hyperpolarized pyruvate injection
- Volunteers
- 32 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Gram-negative Bacteremia
A Platform Trial for Gram Negative Bloodstream Infections
BALANCE+ is a perpetual multiple domain randomized controlled platform trial to evaluate various treatment strategies for Gram-negative bloodstream infections (GN BSIs).
- Trial name
- BALANCE+ (NCT06537609)
- Testing
- De-escalation VS No De-escalation, Oral beta-lactams VS non beta-lactams, Central vascular catheter retention VS Central vascular catheter replacement
- Where
- 39 sites in Australia, Canada and 3 more
- Volunteers
- 2,500 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Diabetic Kidney Disease (DKD), Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM)
Goal-Directed Therapy to Reduce Kidney and Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetic Kidney Disease (GOLD-STANDARD)
GOLD-STANDARD is a pragmatic, open-label pilot randomized controlled trial evaluating the feasibility, safety, and implementation of an early goal-directed Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) care strategy compared with usual care in…
- Conditions
- Diabetic Kidney Disease (DKD), Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM), Chronic Kidney Disease
- Trial name
- GOLD-STANDARD (NCT07434791)
- Testing
- Early goal-directed Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) care, Standard care (Comparison arm)
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer (Diagnosis), Prostate Cancer
Dose-dEscalated MR-Guided Radiotherapy for Localized Prostate Cancer
DESTINATION 2 is a multi-centre randomised trial treating intermediate risk localised prostate cancer with 2 fraction Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT).
- Trial name
- DESTINATION 2 (NCT07674225)
- Testing
- Prostate radical radiotherapy
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 24 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia
Bendamustine, Rituximab and Acalabrutinib in Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia
This is a multi-centre, open label, single-arm, phase II clinical trial in untreated patients with Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia.
- Trial name
- BRAWM (NCT04624906)
- Testing
- Acalabrutinib, Bendamustine, Rituximab
- Where
- 9 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 63 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Post COVID-19 Condition, Post-COVID-19 Syndrome
Improving Post COVID-19 Syndrome With Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatments
Over 500 million people have been infected with COVID-19, and to date, more than 6 million people have died. Many individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 continue to experience symptoms even after they have been "cured" of…
- Conditions
- Post COVID-19 Condition, Post-COVID-19 Syndrome, Post-COVID Syndrome, COVID-19
- Trial name
- PCS-HBOT (NCT06082518)
- Testing
- Monoplace Hyperbaric Chamber (Class III medical device).
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Stress Urinary Incontinence, Urgency Urinary Incontinence
Magnetic Stimulation as a Treatment for Female Urinary Incontinence
The goal of this clinical trial is to determine the efficacy of electromagnetic stimulation treatment of the pelvic floor muscles in adult females with urinary incontinence.
- Conditions
- Stress Urinary Incontinence, Urgency Urinary Incontinence, Mixed Urinary Incontinence
- Trial name
- NCT05952258
- Testing
- Magnetic stimulation
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 220 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Prostate Cancer Detection
CEST for Prostate Biopsy
Samples of prostate tissue acquired by biopsy to determine whether there is cancer will sometimes not find cancer that is present. Conventionally, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used to identify 12 areas to biopsy.
- Trial name
- NCT07785024
- Testing
- Biopsy-Guided Therapy Selection
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre