Active clinical trials for "Coronary Artery Disease"

Currently the research issue in establishing the role of periodontal disease (PD) in coronary heart disease (CHD) risk is to define the pathways that lead to cause-effect relationship between PD and CHD. There is no consensus on definition of a periodontal disease case or the threshold level that may give clear indication for this relationship. Periodontal therapy has been used in different studies with the hope that a change in periodontal disease status may modify the factors associated with CHD risk. Many of these studies, on role of periodontal therapy in the reduction of CHD associated risk-factors, were based on small study samples, and very few studies were randomized controlled trials. So a need for large prospective studies is warranted in literature.----------- A single-blind parallel-arm randomized controlled clinical trial was designed to observe the influence of periodontal treatment on serum inflammatory mediators of hsC-reactive protein, white blood cells and fibrinogen in CHD patients. Hypothesis: Periodontal therapy in CHD patients, by reducing periodontal inflammation, may decrease the host systemic inflammatory burden associated with atherogenic processes.

Treatment of coronary artery disease is a major health care problem across the entire word, and the United States. Unfortunately, despite a number of medical advances, diagnostic procedure, or epidemiological studies, the treatment of these patients remain complex, and and at times frustrating. In fact, the COURAGE trial conducted in 50 centers across United States and Canada documented that drug treatment, coronary interventions or both were not effective solution in coronary artery diseases. A novel approach has recently been developed, based on the critical role of the potassium (K) content in red-blood-cell in myocardial oxygenation, since oxygen and K binding by hemoglobin (red-blood-cell) occurs simultaneously in blood passing through the lungs, whereas in the organs as the heart, the hemoglobin release both Oxygen and K ions. This apparently simple mechanisms occurs in human blood in all individuals but could be altered in subjects with acquired or hereditable defect in red-blood-cell K content. The purpose of this trial, thus, will be to evaluate the pharmacological effects of Amiloride on RBC K-uptake and transport and its impact on reversion of angina, electrocardiographic changes of myocardial ischemia and electrical regeneration of the heart in subjects with coronary artery diseases.

Aim of the study is to compare the everolimus eluting stent and sirolimus eluting stent in all comers PCI eligible patients

OBJECTIVE It is the objective of the REMEDEE OCT study to assess vascular healing after deployment of the Abluminal Sirolimus Coated Bio-Engineered Stent (Combo Bio-Engineered Sirolimus Eluting Stent) in patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) with single de novo native coronary artery lesions ranging in diameter from ≥2.5 mm to ≤3.5 mm and ≤ 20 mm in length. STUDY DESIGN The REMEDEE OCT study is a prospective, multicenter, randomized study designed to enroll 60 patients with ACS who will be randomized 1:1 to be treated with the Combo stent versus the commercially available everolimus eluting stent (Xience V or Promus). Patients will receive Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and Quatitative Coronary Angiography (QCA) follow-up imaging at 60 days post procedure. Clinical follow-up is scheduled at 30, 60, 180, 360 and 540 days. Furthermore, QCA and OCT will also be performed at baseline in all participants of the study.

Drug-eluting stents effectively reduce restenosis but may increase late thrombosis and delayed restenosis. Persistent polymer could be responsible. Local delivery of paclitxel from a polymer-free Yinyi stent (Dalian Yinyi biomaterial research and development co.ltd) may prevent these complications.

There are 24 million people with diabetes mellitus (DM) in the United States. Over one-third of patients presenting for coronary angiography have known DM, and an additional 20% of patients without known DM present with hyperglycemia on the day of coronary angiography. Hyperglycemia in the setting of urgent and elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is associated with a 40% relative increase in long-term mortality regardless of diabetic status. Mechanisms linking periprocedural hyperglycemia to adverse outcomes are poorly understood and the effects of treatment are unknown. This is a pilot study aimed at determining the effectiveness, feasibility and safety of continuing long-acting hypoglycemic medications on the morning of coronary angiography. Since hyperglycemia may cause increased platelet reactivity, a secondary aim is to evaluate a possible mechanism of benefit of periprocedural glycemic control on platelet activity. Patients with DM on hypoglycemic medications undergoing coronary angiography will be randomized to either continue or hold their clinically-prescribed long-acting hypoglycemic medications on the day of procedure. Patients with and without DM will be randomized to either routine care or additional glycemic control with the Yale insulin infusion protocol for 6 hours post-PCI. The primary endpoint of this study will be mean blood glucose level at the time of arterial access in the hold versus continue groups. Secondary endpoints will be mean blood glucose level at 6 hours post-PCI in the Yale versus routine care groups and number of hypoglycemic events in the glycemic control versus no glycemic control groups. The exploratory analysis assessing the effect of glycemic control on platelet activity will guide further studies evaluating the translation of an individual's platelet phenotype to the clinical risk of increased long-term mortality following PCI. The outcomes for this study (glucose levels and platelet function) are all measured during the hospital stay which averages 1 day.

The objective of this clinical investigation is to assess the safety and clinical performance of the Orsiro Limus Eluting Stent System in Indian subjects with single de-novo coronary artery lesions.

Reducing the rest time after diagnostic cardiac catheterization for three hours does not increase the complications concerning to the procedure, compared to the rest of five hours.

Resolute zotarolimus-eluting stent (ZES) system (Medtronic, USA) has been world-wildly used in treating patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). The State Food and Drug Administration of China has approved qualification of RESOLUTE zotarolimus-eluting stent system in 2010. It has been reported that RESOLUTE stent may be more suitable for DM patients and FDA has approved diabetic coronary lesion as a indication for using Resolute stent. Here the investigators set out a multicenter, non-inferiority study: the efficacy and safety of RESOLUTE zotarolimus-eluting stents in treatment of Chinese diabetes (RESOLUTE-DIABETES CHINA) in purpose of identifying the efficacy and safety in Asia CAD correlated with diabetic population.

A prospective, randomized, active-control, multi-center clinical trial comparing the safety and efficacy of the Svelte Drug-Eluting Coronary Stent Integrated Delivery System (IDS) to that of the commercially available Resolute IntegrityTM Drug-Eluting Stent. The study objective is to assess the safety and efficacy of the Svelte Drug-Eluting Coronary Stent Integrated Delivery System (IDS) compared to the Resolute IntegrityTM Drug-Eluting Stent in patients with single, never previously treated coronary artery lesions