Active clinical trials for "Aortic Valve Stenosis"

Use of vasopressor to maintain Mean Arterial Pressure on Cardio Pulmonary Bypass can lead to decreased cerebral flow and oxygenation in individual patients and this can be detected by means of cerebral oxymetry.

Frailty is a state of decreased physiologic reserves and vulnerability to stressors. Several tools exist to measure frailty, some based on physical tests and others on questionnaires, yet there is no agreement on which tool to recommend. This multi-center prospective cohort study is aimed at comparing various frailty assessment tools to determine which best predicts death or major complications after cardiac surgery or transcatheter intervention. The population of interest is elderly patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing surgical or transcatheter aortic valve replacement. The frailty assessment tools under investigation include composite frailty scales, physical performance tests, muscle mass, and biomarker expression. The overall objective is to improve our ability to predict risk by measuring frailty using the optimal tool in elderly cardiovascular patients.

Prospective, two academic center, non-randomized pilot, acute in-patient study correlating pre-operative imaging studies, intra-operative measurements and intra-operative balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) in patients with degenerative aortic stenosis undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) to understand the requirements (device size and radial strength) of emerging percutaneous heart valve technologies in the treatment of aortic stenosis.

As there are no clinical data in cardiology about the relationship between metabolism collagen changes and their clinical significance, the investigators will check the hypothesis that collagen metabolism changes, detected by biochemical markers for collagen metabolism, could predict the left ventricle remodelling and prognosis in patient with clinically significant pressure overloaded left ventricle.

Symptomatic cerebral infarction following cardiac catheterization is rare but silent brain injury could occur at an unexpectedly high rate. One study has found that up to 22% of patients with severe aortic stenosis who have undergone retrograde catheterization of the valve can be identified as having new ischemic lesions as detected by diffusion-weighted (DW) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). During cardiac catheterization, cerebral microembolism as detected by TCD has frequently been observed, but whether it is clinically relevant remains unknown . However, recent studies have suggested that some of these microemboli could be responsible for acute brain injury, as documented by DW MRI. Indeed the high sensitivity of DW MRI suggests that this technique could allow an improved estimate of cerebral ischemic events associated with cardiovascular-catheter procedures. We therefore decided to perform DW MRI before and after cardiac catheterization to prospectively assess both clinically silent and apparent cerebral embolisms for the first time in a multicenter trial. Furthermore, a randomization between radial and femoral access will allow assessment of risk of silent brain injury associated with the different vascular access sites.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the relationship between fractional flow reserve (FFR) derived from coronary computed tomography angiography (FFRct) before transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and FFR after TAVR so as to investigate whether FFRct is useful for evaluating myocardial ischemia of severe AS. Furthermore, by measuring the instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) which is a physiological diagnostic method of coronary artery stenosis before and after TAVR and comparing iFR (iFR before and after TAVR) and FFR (FFR after TAVR) with FFRct (FFRct before and after TAVR), It also aims to deepen understanding of resting coronary artery physiology in aortic valve stenosis.

Most of the conduction abnormalities with TAVR are usually detected during the procedure or during the following days of observation. Little is known about the prevalence and timing of any conduction abnormalities that exist before (other than standard ECG) or after through long term cardiac monitoring.

The association study will compare the allele frequencies of polymorphisms of a single nucleotide (SNP) in the population of individuals with aortic stenosis compared to a control population. Patients will be included only if they are suffering from a typical form of tight and surgical tricuspid aortic stenosis. Patients will therefore only included if they are suffering from aortic stenosis, the surface is less than 1 cm² and if histological analysis or failing intraoperative findings of the surgeon showed a tricuspid aortic stenosis.

Purpose: Measuring and optimize the usability of the BAMCOG (games to measure cognitive functioning) Concurrent validation of BAMCOG with MoCA to see if BAMCOG can serve as a monitoring instrument/screener Determination of carotid flow/cerebral blood flow pre- and post implant of prosthesis of aortic valve by ultrasound doppler measurements

In this study, the investigators aimed to determine whether the preoperative Monocyte/HDL ratio would be a predictor of postoperative mortality and morbidity in patients who underwent aortic valve replacement due to aortic stenosis.