Active clinical trials for "Arterial Occlusive Diseases"

The purpose of this study is to describe the effect of transcorneal electrical stimulation (TES) with a non conventional biphasic bipolar waveform in central retinal artery occlusion

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relative effectiveness and safety of Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold in acute myocardial infarction compared to other (drug eluting stents) DES.

The purpose of the study is to determine the response to aspirin (ASA) and Clopidogrel in patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD) requiring interventional procedures and to investigate if patients with "resistance" to ASA or Clopidogrel have an unfavourable outcome during long-term follow-up

The purpose of this study is to compare ISOVUE-250 and VISIPAQUE 270 for motion artifact and pain following intraarterial injection for peripheral DSA.

The object of the study is to determine whether different doses of SCH 530348, when added to standard medical care in persons undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, will increase the risk of bleeding. A secondary objective is to determine whether patients treated with SCH 530348 have fewer cardiac events such as heart attack, bypass surgery, or death compared with those persons treated with the standard of care.

This study aims to develop and refine the use of an intravascular wire to image plaque in the aorta, iliac and femoral artery using MRI. This project aims to use this increased resolution to identify the features within the plaque that is known to be associated with increased risk of plaque and vessel occlusion. The hypothesis is Intravascular MRI can detect and measure changes in response to therapy over time in the critical features in plaques in peripheral arteries of patients with atherosclerosis.

Randomized-controlled trial to comparison of the long-term radial artery occlusion in coronary diagnosis and intervention via distal vs conventional radial approach

Retinal artery occlusions (RAO) cause deterioration in visual acuity and visual fields. In computational fluid dynamics (CFD) studies [1] 10% of ascending emboli caused RAO, the residual 90% embolized into the cerebral arteries. As only 20% of patients with RAO had a history of stroke, there is a discrepancy between CFD-studies and clinical observations. Mead et al. [2] postulated small emboli being washed into the cerebral arteries without causing clinical symptoms of stroke, whereas similar emboli being washed into the ophthalmic artery would cause RAO. There is a discrepancy between CFD-study results and clinical observations in RAO patients, indicating that there could be a high number of RAO-patients having had cerebral ischemies without symptoms of stroke (as postulated by Mead et al.[2]). Purpose of the present study is to evaluate hemodynamic pathological changes at the ophthalmic artery origin in patients with RAO detected with an already existing CFD-model

Trans-radial approach (TRA) has becoming popular and widely adopted over the last decade. However, radial artery occlusion (RAO) continues to be one of the limitation of trans-radial access and potentially limits the radial artery as an access site in the future. Several strategies have been used to decrease the incidence of RAO including the use of anticoagulation, maintenance of patency during hemostasis, or shortening the duration of compression. Currently, there is no data whether vasoactive pharmacological therapy such as nitroglycerin administered intra-arterially at the end of the procedure may reduce the incidence of RAO. It is hypothesized that the addition of nitroglycerin (nitric oxide donor) at the end of a TRA procedure may reduce the incidence of RAO.

Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) is an examination similar to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) which uses a magnetic field and a contrast medium when needed to visualize blood flow in the arterial vessels throughout the body. Gadodiamide, a contrast medium, is already approved and is used to image blood vessels by directly injecting it into the vein, but this procedure has not been formally tested to image the aorto-iliac vessels using MR. The study is designed to determine the presence or absence of a relevant stenosis (ie greater than/equal to 50%) or occlusion in aorto-iliac arteries. Intra-arterial Digital Subtraction Angiography (IADSA) will be used as the standard of truth.