Active clinical trials for "Acute Coronary Syndrome"

The objective of the GRAVITAS trial is to determine whether tailored anti-platelet therapy using the Accumetrics VerifyNow P2Y12 assay reduces major adverse cardiovascular events after drug-eluting stent implantation.

Thirty patients scheduled to coronary angiography and IVUS in according to their treating physician decision will be enrolled in the study. The coronary angiography and IVUS will be done on according to regular clinical standards. As the study protocol, 40 cc of blood will be drawn from the patients after written informed consent. The laboratory tests will be processed for the above mentioned serum markers of unstable plaque. A multivariate correlation test will be done between the different serum markers and the plaque morphology by angiography and composition (virtual histology) by IVUS.

Investigating Synergistic Effects of Apixaban with Dual Anti-Platelet Therapy (DAPT) in Lowering Platelet Reactivity and Thrombin Generation

In a double-blinded randomized clinical trial, all patients undergoing coronary artery catheterization who will met our criteria, will be enrolled into three groups to receive either, vitamin e, n-acetylcysteine, or placebo. The aim of study will be to compare the superiority of vitamin e over n-acetylcysteine for the prevention of contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CIAKI).

The aim of GEOMETRY study is to investigate the correlation between coronary plaque geometric modifications and lesion vulnerability in patients with suspected coronary artery disease referred for cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA). Furthermore the study will evaluate the impact of plaque eccentricity and morphology on the rate of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) for a 2 years follow-up period.

Cardiac rehabilitation includes aerobic and anaerobic training adapted to cardiovascular pathology for which cardiac rehabilitation is prescribed. It is essential to adapt the content of these cardiac rehabilitation sessions to optimize aerobic and anaerobic performance and quality of life. Improvement of the first ventilatory threshold is one of the main objectives since it illustrates the adaptation of the patient to submaximal exercise, typical of everyday life. The research laboratory "Autonomous Nervous System - Epidemiology, Physiology, Engineering, Health" (SPA-EPIS) has an international expertise in training optimization in top-athletes. He have shown the importance of the relationship between the power-force-velocity profile and athletes performances.

The study was a multicenter, two-arm, parallel, open label, prospective study intended for to compare effect of offline community hospital intervention on adherence to drugs and risk factors control in patients with stable coronary artery disease compared with tertiary A-level hospital WeChat-based intervention.

Most patients presenting to hospital with chest pain are discharged home without further tests once a heart attack has been ruled out. Current strategies to assess patients with a suspected heart attack involve blood tests to measure troponin, a protein released into the bloodstream when the heart muscle is damaged. Despite having had a heart attack ruled-out, some patients have unrecognised coronary heart disease and are at risk of having a heart attack in the future. However, we do not know what is the best approach to identify and treat these patients. This study will use a heart scan known as computed tomography coronary angiogram (CTCA) to look for underlying coronary heart disease in patients who have had a heart attack ruled out. In an earlier study, we performed this scan in patients referred to the outpatient cardiology clinic with stable chest pain and found that this improved the diagnosis of coronary heart disease, leading to improvement in patient care that prevented many future heart attacks. Our research has also demonstrated that troponin levels below the threshold used to diagnose a heart attack identify those who are at greater risk of having a heart attack in the future. The aim of this study is to confirm whether these low levels of troponin can identify patients who have underlying coronary heart disease and may benefit from further testing and preventative treatment.

Beta-blockers represent a cornerstone for the treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD). Their protective effect is based on the negative inotropic and chronotropic features, which have been tested in a large number of randomized controlled trials, both in patients with myocardial infarction (MI) and in those with stable angina, demonstrating a reduction of adverse cardiovascular events, a relief of symptoms and a reduction of myocardial ischemia However, considerable interpatient variability in response to β-blockers has been reported which indicates that a considerable proportion of β-blocker-treated patients do not achieve the warranted cardio protection with β- blockers. This highlights the importance of identifying biomarkers associated with variability in response to β-blockers to improve the current approach for β- blocker selection, which seems to be suboptimal. This study aims to study the effect of polymorphism in adrenergic beta receptors on beta-blocker response in Egyptian patients.

The Sponsor implemented a post-authorisation safety study (PASS), category 3, focused in Acute Coronary Syndrome, in order to collect information about the safety of cangrelor in the real clinical practice, evaluating the safety of the transition to all the oral P2Y12 inhibitors (cangrelor, ticagrelor and prasugrel).