Active clinical trials for "Angina Pectoris"

This retrospective study will investigate clinician behavior in diagnosing patients with possible obstructive coronary artery disease who received a Corus CAD (Age/Sex/Gene Expression score - ASGES) result compared to patients who did not have the test performed (matched control patients).

Background In the differential diagnosis of unstable angina versus non-anginal chest pain, an exercise test is often the modality of choice for further investigation. However, in a substantial number of patients exercise testing is less informative, because of insufficient exercise capacity or pre-existing ECG-abnormalities. In patients with low pretest probability of coronary artery disease (CAD), Coronary CT angiography (CTA) has an excellent negative predictive value, but in patients with an intermediate or high pretest probability of CAD estimation of the hemodynamic significance of a stenosis has only limited specificity. CT perfusion (CTP) is a new method looking at myocardial perfusion during vasodilative stress with a sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of respectively 81%, 93%, 87% and 88%, whereas radiation is limited to a maximum of 5 millisievert (mSv). Aim It is the aim of this pilot study to investigate whether the addition of CTP to CTA is a feasible and safe investigational workflow in patients with unstable angina or nonanginal chest pain in the emergency department.

Study of heterogeneity in associations between social deprivation and the initial presentation of 12 cardiovascular diseases.

Although some important progresses were made in the field of the meridian research, no breakthroughs have been achieved. Besides,there are some problems in meridian researches. Particularly, previous research of meridian phenomenon involved lots of subjective elements and outcomes.Researches that use modern scientific techniques to investigate the biological characteristics of meridian phenomenon are urgently needed. Therefore, this study is designed to assess the metabolic characteristics of meridian phenomenon for the Heart and Lung meridians by using near infrared spectroscopy. Thus, the biological characteristics of meridian phenomenon could be presented objectively in a scientific methodology.

Serum uric acid level is a commonly measured biomarker. The association between serum uric acid level and the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases has been observed in some studies, while others showed controversial results. Estimation of this association may help to predict cardiovascular outcomes and may guide new treatment strategies. The hypothesis is that increased serum uric acid level is associated with a range of cardiovascular diseases.

Many patients undergoing coronary angiography are found to have no significant coronary artery disease (CAD) despite angina equivalent symptoms and/or electrocardiographic abnormalities suggestive of myocardial ischemia. The aim of this study is to systematically assess patients with angina equivalent symptoms despite normal coronary angiograms and to evaluate their symptoms according to a defined algorithm.

Although some important progresses were made in the field of the meridian research, no breakthroughs have been achieved. Besides,there are some problems in meridian researches. Particularly, previous research of meridian phenomenon involved lots of subjective elements and outcomes.Researches that use modern scientific techniques to investigate the biological characteristics of meridian phenomenon are urgently needed. Therefore, this study is designed to assess the microcirculatory characteristics of meridian phenomenon for the Heart and Lung meridians by using laser doppler. Thus, the biological characteristics of meridian phenomenon could be presented objectively in a scientific methodology.

Although some important progresses were made in the field of the meridian research, no breakthroughs have been achieved. Besides,there are some problems in meridian researches. Particularly, previous research of meridian phenomenon involved lots of subjective elements and outcomes.Researches that use modern scientific techniques to investigate the biological characteristics of meridian phenomenon are urgently needed. Therefore, this study is designed to assess the heat transport characteristics of meridian phenomenon for the Heart and Lung meridians by using infrared thermal imaging. Thus, the biological characteristics of meridian phenomenon could be presented objectively in a scientific methodology.

Angina pectoris is the most common clinical manifestation of coronary heart disease（CHD）, which is the main feature of chest pain caused by transient myocardial ischemia. Chronic stable angina pectoris is the degree, frequency, nature and cause of angina pectoris in patients with no significant change in a few weeks. The disease incidence is complex, difficult to diagnosis and treatment, clinical should be combined with various inspection methods for diagnosis and differential diagnosis. Fractional flow reserve of computerized tomographic scanning (FFRCT ) allows computerized tomographic scanning（CT） to scan the determination of coronary blood flow and blood pressure in the heart at rest and hyperemia, but no need to additional check or drugs. This technique has been used for noninvasive fractional flow reserve (FFR) in the calculation, assuming normal artery, calculated by the ratio of the maximum blood flow and blood flow of coronary artery stenosis of an artery. Along with the development and progress of computational fluid dynamics, in the resting state by computed tomographic angiography of coronary artery(CCTA) image data based, simulation of coronary artery maximal hyperemia and according to the 3-dimensional model of the traditional method of reconstruction of coronary arterial tree and ventricular muscle structure, and in order to calculated coronary blood flow and pressure. FFRCT is a novel non-invasive examination method, using computed tomographic angiography of coronary artery image data can be calculated FFR, and preliminary study proved that it has a high degree of correlation with traumatic FFR. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the correlation between the degree of coronary stenosis and the grading of angina pectoris by noninvasive means --FFRCT, in order to provide a new idea for the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of coronary heart disease.

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).