Active clinical trials for "Aneurysm"

Background: A sub-study of the AARDVARK (Aortic Aneurysmal Regression of Dilation: Value of ACE-Inhibition on RisK) trial indicated a statistically significant association between central blood pressure (BP) variability and abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) growth. The role of anti-hypertensive adherence has not been explored in the context of AAA growth. Objective: To confirm whether higher central BP variability is associated with higher AAA growth rates and to examine the effect of medication adherence on AAA growth rates in a prospective longitudinal cohort study. Methods: Up to 175 patients will be recruited over ten months from two sites with standardised quality control of AAA, BP and antihypertensive non-adherence measurement. Patients (>55 years), with AAAs ≥3cm in diameter (including AAA ≥5.5cm, not proceeding to surgery) will be recruited and undergo AAA ultrasound (US), BP (peripheral and central) and antihypertensive non-adherence measurements every four months (+/- one month) for 24 months. Ambulatory BP variability data will be collected. Data on medication adherence and beliefs around medications will be collected with validated questionnaires. Analysis: Primarily, the relationship between central diastolic BP visit-to-visit variability and AAA growth (estimated by multilevel modelling) based on US measurements and secondarily the relationship between central diastolic BP variability and time taken to reach the threshold for AAA repair (5.5 cm) or rupture.

COIN trial is a a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, multicenter clinical study. Approximately 230 patients with small abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) will be randomly allocated to low-dose colchicine group or placebo group. All study patients will be followed up in the outpatient clinic every 3 months and undergo CTA scans after 24 months from randomization. The primary objective is to test the hypothesis that low dose colchicine can inhibit the progression of AAA diameter. The secondary objective is to test the hypothesis that low dose colchicine can inhibit the progression of AAA volume, reduce the incidence of clinical outcomes associated with AAA, reduce the incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality.

Intracranial aneurysm is one of the most common cerebrovascular diseases, with a prevalence of about 3.2%. With the aging of the population and the further popularization of MRA and other examination methods, the prevalence of intracranial aneurysm will further increase. Rupture of intracranial aneurysm is an important cause of death and severe disability in patients. The annual rate of rupture of intracranial aneurysm is about 1%, and the size of aneurysm, the location of aneurysm in the posterior circulation, and the history of subarachnoid hemorrhage on the aneurysm wall are the risk factors for aneurysm rupture. Phases are currently recognized tools for assessing the risk of aneurysm rupture, which can provide important guidance for neurosurgeons and patients to decide whether to actively intervene. In the last century, for patients with intracranial aneurysm with high risk of rupture, craniotomy and clipping for intracranial aneurysm was the gold standard for treatment. However, with the rapid development of embolization technology and materials in the past 20 years, the application of endovascular embolization for intracranial aneurysms has been more and more widely, especially after several large prospective studies such as ISAT and ISUIA, endovascular embolization has more advantages over craniotomy clipping.Whereas, it is still very popular to adopt craniotomy clipping for middle cerebral artery aneurysms, the main reasons for which are relative superficial location, wider aneurysm neck, smaller parent artery and more branching vessels, etc., which make early endovascular embolization treatment not advantageous. With the maturity of stent-assisted embolization technology in recent years, the use of a new generation of stents, and the improvement of perioperative anti-platelet strategies, endovascular embolization has achieved good results in the treatment of middle artery aneurysms. However, these studies were retrospective, single-center studies, subject to a variety of confounding factors, and the reliability of the results is limited. Therefore, it will be of great clinical significance to carry out a prospective, multi-center clinical study on the treatment strategy of middle cerebral artery aneurysms. Patients with unruptured middle cerebral artery aneurysms who had been diagnosed with at least one imaging （CTA/MRA/DSA）were enrolled. The treatment including endovascular embolization and craniotomy clipping was determined according to routine management in the center. After receiving informed consent from the patients, the safety and effectiveness data were obtained to verify whether endovascular embolization was safe and effective. Through further follow-up and data analysis, protective factors and risk factors for the treatment of middle cerebral artery aneurysms were investigated. Through well-designed clinical studies, safer and more effective treatment methods can be found, and potential factors leading to perioperative complications can be found, ultimately improving the prognosis of patients with middle cerebral artery aneurysms.

The PLIANT II registry is undertaken to examine the real-world outcome after treatment of consecutive patients with uni- or bilateral aorto-iliac or iliac aneurysms using the E-liac Stent Graft System.

Design A multi-centre pilot study investigating the acceptability and adherence of a prehabilitation on patients requiring abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Setting 3 NHS Hospital Vascular Surgery Clinics in the UK. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust Mid and South Essex NHS Trust Patient Population Patients referred to secondary/tertiary vascular clinic for the repair of asymptomatic infrarenal Aneurysm Intervention: Baseline (conducted face-to-face): After providing written informed consent, participants will be provided with information about the prehabilitation programme. The following data will also be collected: baseline demographic characteristics (including age, sex and ethnicity), body mass index (BMI), medical history (including time since diagnosis), current medication, aneurysm diameter, health-related quality of life (EQ-5D-5L and EQ-VAS), smoking status and psychological wellbeing (using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; HADS) and Frailty assessments( QMortality Index, Electronic Frailty Index, Rockall score). Participants will also complete a 6-minute walking test(6MWT).

Accurate preoperative identification of patients at high risk for adverse outcomes would be clinically advantageous, as it would allow enhanced resource preparation, better surgical decision-making, enhanced patient education and informed consent, and potentially even modification of certain modifiable risk factors. The aim of the Prediction of adverse events after microsurgery for intracranial unruptured aneurysms (PRAEMIUM) study is therefore to develop and externally validate a clinically applicable, robust ML-based prediction tool based on multicenter data from a range of international centers.

This international multi-center registry is used to collect existing information and outcomes for patients undergoing an operation for treatment of injuries to the brain including the blockage of blood flow to an area of the brain, an abnormal ballooning of an artery, abnormal tangling of blood vessels, abnormal formation of blood vessels, tearing of vein, and bleeding in the brain. This information is used to help predict outcomes that undergo an operation for treatment of the above-listed brain injuries. Additionally, the information is used to compare techniques and devices' effects on technical and clinical outcomes.

This multicenter, single-arm retrospective registry (chart review) is being conducted to confirm the clinical performance and safety of GORE-TEX® Vascular Grafts and GORE® PROPATEN® Vascular Graft throughout the device functional lifetime for each indication area.

The ITACA study is a prospective, observational no profit registry enrolling patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and angiographic evidence of coronary aneurysms and/or ectasia.

Despite the active development of surgical methods of treatment (endovascular embolization and microsurgical clipping) of cerebral aneurysms, determining the indications and method of surgical treatment of cerebral aneurysms still causes debate in many cases. To a greater extent, this concerns the treatment of unruptured aneurysms. While there are a number of randomized trials of surgical treatment of ruptured cerebral aneurysms, there is currently no published randomized trial comparing surgical clipping and endovascular embolization of unruptured aneurysms. The purpose of this study is to compare the safety and efficacy of microsurgical clipping and endovascular embolization of cerebral aneurysms (both ruptured and unruptured) in a prospective, randomized fashion.