Active clinical trials for "Aneurysm"

The research hypothesis for this study is to possibly reduce the incidence of incisional hernia 2 years postoperatively after midline laparotomy for treatment of aortic aneurysm from 25% to 5% by mesh augmentation during closure of the laparotomy. The study is designed as a prospective randomised multi-centre trial, randomising patients in 2 groups concerning the surgical technique of the closure of the abdominal wall.

The primary purpose is to show that administration of Haemocomplettan® P significantly reduces the amount of blood products needed during aortic surgery.

Patients undergoing surgery on their Aorta can get ischemia, a lack of blood flow, to their intestines and colon. This is very serious, as 2 out of 3 patients who have this problem die before leaving the hospital. A device developed by Spectros, called T-Stat, is approved by the US FDA to detect ischemia, and has been reported to detect ischemia in AAA aneurysm surgery and stenting, allowing the surgeon or interventional radiologist to take action quickly, while the colon ischemia is still treatable. This purpose of this study is to establish how T-Stat can best be used to prevent deaths.

The study of demographics and risk factors for abdominal aortic aneurysms, allows to individualize treatment approaches. Determining of the results of treatment of patients who requires a late open conversion after EVAR will allow to develop the surgical approach and the selection of the optimal type of surgical treatment. Determination of genetic polymorphisms will reduce the number of postoperative complications by predicting of possible complications in the long term period.

Perform a randomized comparison study of dual-antiplatelet (aspirin, prasugrel) and triple-antiplatelet (aspirin, clopidogrel, and cilostazol) preparation using P2Y12 assay in patients with high on-treatment platelet reactivity undergoing stent-assisted coil embolization for an unruptured intracranial aneurysm

Evaluation of surgical outcome of vitrectomy with subretinal injection of recombinant tissue-plasminogen activator for submacular hemorrhage associated with retinal arterial macroanuerysms.

After obtaining approval from the Institutional Review Board of our institution, written informed consent is obtained from patients undergoing interventional cerebral aneurysm coiling procedure are enrolled in this prospective study and randomly allocated into one of two groups: Group-C (n=10) and Group-HES (n=10). All recruited patients will be given patient identification number (PIN) for the present study of 01-20 according to their order of interview and recruitment. Investigators will prepare 10 yellow and 10 green cards, which will be inserted in 20 thick-paper envelopes. Then, all envelopes will be sealed, mixed and randomly allocated to get numbers of 01 to 20 (Envelop number). After printing the envelope number outside envelope, all sealed envelopes with cards will be conveyed to and kept in pharmacy department. According to the color of the card, attending anesthesiologists will give crystalloid for yellow card or HES for green cards, respectively, to maintain stroke volume variation < 15 during volume controlled ventilation (8 ml/kg tidal volume) of O2/air mixture. Patient data and statistical analyses: Patient's data whole blood viscosity, PaO2, FiO2, Hemoglobin, urine amount, s-glucose will be determined from the patients' medical record after patient's discharge. All statistical analyses will be performed after the 20th patient's discharge and data acquisition

Thoracoabdominal aneurysm (TAAA) repair is a major elective vascular operation associated with a large blood loss and potentially life-threatening clotting abnormalities. Theses clotting abnormalities are principally treated using fresh frozen plasma (FFP) (derived from human blood donations), the administration of which carries a number of risks including virus transmission (human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B, hepatitis C) and infection with variant Creutzfeld-Jacob disease (vCJD). FFP is no longer administered to children or high-usage adults in the UK because of the infection risk, and recently it was decided by a UK advisory body that the use of UK-derived FFP should cease. Fibrinogen concentrate is an alternative treatment option to FFP which is thought have less infection risk (purified, heat treated) and has been in licensed use for many years in other European countries. The investigators have been using fibrinogen concentrate recently in their department as an alternative to FFP with encouraging results. 20 patients undergoing elective TAAA repair at The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh will be randomly allocated to receive standard treatment (FFP) or fibrinogen concentrate as treatment for clotting abnormalities during their surgery. The investigators will take a number of additional blood samples which will provide valuable information about the pattern of clotting abnormalities during this type of operation. The investigators will also record blood loss and the number of allogeneic (derived from human donors) blood components transfused to the patient (red cells, FFP and platelets). Our primary objective is to assess the pattern of coagulation abnormalities in both groups. We will also examine whether the use of fibrinogen concentrate during TAAA repair avoids the need to administer FFP.

The purpose of this research study is to evaluate two standard approaches of supplying blood and oxygen to your brain during open heart surgery.

This is a large multi-center, prospective, randomized trial designed to determine whether mild intraoperative hypothermia results in improved neurological outcome in patients with an acute subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) who are undergoing an open craniotomy to clip their aneurysms.