Active clinical trials for "Heart and Blood Diseases"

Sleep-disordered breathing has a prevalence of 30~80% in patients with heart diseases. Various studies have revealed a correlation between the incidence and various diseases such as heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, and cerebral infarction. Postoperative acute kidney injury after heart surgery is one of the major complications with incidence with 40~50%, however, there has been no preventive method or treatment yet. Recently, several studies have been published that have shown a correlation between sleep-disordered breathing and renal impairment. In general, sleep-disordered breathing can be regulated easily with continues positive expiratory pressure, which means that early diagnosis and treatment of sleep-disordered breathing might help to reduce the incidence of postoperative acute kidney injury and improve patients' prognosis. In this study, the investigators investigate the impact of sleep-disordered breathing (diagnosed by oxygen desaturation index ≥5) on the incidence of postoperative acute kidney injury in patients undergoing valvular heart surgery.

High-resolution, non-invasive electromechanical mapping in genotyped long-QT syndrome patients and healthy controls at baseline and during smart provocation.

Atrial fibrillation is a clinically significant cardiac arrhythmia that increases the risk of stroke by 3 to 4 times. Oral anticoagulation has been shown to mitigate stroke risk by two-thirds among patients with AF and is widely recommended in optimizing AF management.Direct oral anticoagulants have also been demonstrated to be superior to warfarin with respect to the risk of fatal bleeding and stroke prevention. However, the previous study finding highlighted a great gap between current guidelines and the clinical management of AF .Nonetheless, the decision for anticoagulant use is not straightforward.It is worth to investigate the updated prevalence of anticoagulant use, the reasons for not receiving anticoagulant, and the factors independently associated with anticoagulant refusal in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation.

We will evaluate an e_Prescription intervention can be integrated into an electronic screening program, which together exploit: (i) reach - the adult population has 100% mobile phone ownership and 92% internet national coverage; and (ii) behavioral change - the intervention can teach verbally and visually, thus bypassing literacy challenges, to allow simple, low-cost, repetition messaging for habit reinforcement. Uptake of the program through the various stages will be evaluated in ~2000 adults of a large representative suburban district of Karachi: As well as before-and-after physiological measures, including blood pressure (BP) and blood glucose, a random sample of 30-40 participants will be invited for interview to assess success and failure of the program. This is a pragmatic feasibility intervention implementation study.

The Carnation Ambulatory Monitor (CAM) is an innovative diagnostic patch device that allows to differentiate the different kinds of arrhythmias more precisely than any other ECG-monitoring device. It attaches on the sternum and can be carried for a week without any breaks. This allows a continuous rhythm monitoring without any gap for 7 days. This device will be used in dialysis patients to monitor arrhythmias during changes in volume and/or electrolyte balance due to dialysis, in the phases after dialysis as well as before dialysis in the short or long intervals between dialysis sessions.

The purpose of this study is to assess validity of extended duplex ultrasound examination for diagnosis of proximal deep vein thrombosis performed by general intensive care unit nurses in the critically ill patients.

wide range of diagnoses may present like stroke, called stroke mimics as well as transient ischemic attacks .

This registry aims at enrolling all consecutive patients presenting with at least one chronic total occlusion at coronary angiogram as diagnosed during angiography in our catheterization laboratory during 1 year. All patients will undergo - whenever possible - a cardiopulmonary excercise test and a non-invasive investigation for myocardial ischemia/viability (by means of echo-dobutamine stress test or perfusion scintigraphy or cardiac magnetic resonance) prior to any eventual revascularization therapy. All patients - including those treated by medical therapy only - will repeat the same investigations after one year of follow-up. In addition to these investigations, clinical outcome and quality of life (including the Seattle Angina Questionnarie and a dedicated depression questionnaire) will be evaluated at baseline and at follow-up. Primary objective of this study is to investigate the improvement in physical conditions (as expressed by the performance at follow-up CP test), the reduction in ischemia (as evaluated by follow-up non-invasive imaging tests) and the severity of angina according to clinical assessment (including Seattle Angina Questionnaires [SAQ], Canadian Class Score[CCS] and 6-mins walking test).

Role of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in the Management of Diabetic Foot Ulcers • The aim of this study will be to assess negative pressure wound therapy in treating diabetic foot ulcers.

The aim of this prospective study is to demonstrate if there is any difference in the treatment response to Sacubitril-Valsartan depending on the ventricular disfunction ethiology in patients with severe systolic disfunction heart failure.