Active clinical trials for "Coronary Artery Disease"

Fenofibrate is a drug that acts on the PPAR alpha receptors, increasing HDL-cholesterol and decreasing triglyceride levels. The interaction with these receptors has antiatherogenic actions by regulating the expression con key proteins that participate in vascular inflammation, plaque stability and thrombosis. Fenofibrate reduces triglycerides and increases HDL-C in plasma. It also decreases small, dense LDL particles. The use of this drug has resulted in improvement of vascular function measured by endothelial function. Our hypotheses state that fenofibrate will improve: endothelial function, improve HDL antioxidant capacity and size distribution towards a predominance of small HDL particles.

In a randomized study the Xience V coroary artery stent may be non inferior to the Cypher Select+ coronary stents in the treatment of unselected patients with coronary artery disease.

To assess the safety and feasibility of the 7F Ensure Medical Vascular Closure Devices to facilitate hemostasis in patients undergoing diagnostic or interventional procedures.

This multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study will assess, after 6 weeks of dosing, whether co-administration of ezetimibe 10 mg with simvastatin 20 mg will be more effective than treatment with doubling the dose of simvastatin to 40 mg alone in reducing low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) concentrations and in achieving the National Cholesterol Expert Panel (NCEP) III LDL-C target goal of <2.6 mmol/L (<100 mg/dL) for subjects with diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease.

The purpose of this study is to establish the safety and long-term effectiveness of coronary stenting with the ABT 578-eluting balloon expandable stent (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN) vs. the sirolimus-eluting balloon expandable stent (Cordis Johnson & Johnson, Warren, New Jersey) and the paclitaxel-eluting stent (Taxus liberte, Boston Scientific) for the treatment of coronary stenosis in routine clinical practice.

This multicenter, prospective, observational registry will evaluate the safety and performance of the CYPHER SELECT™ Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent, and of all future generation of commercially approved Cordis Sirolimus-eluting Stents (SES), in routine clinical practice. Its objective is to measure the incidence and identify the predictors of acute, sub-acute and late stent thrombosis and Major Adverse Cardiac Events (MACE). Additional analyses will be performed in patient sub-populations, such as diabetes, in-stent restenosis (ISR), acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and multivessel coronary disease.

This study involves a drug called celecoxib, which is commonly prescribed for people with arthritis. Arthritis is caused by inflammation of the joints or tissues. Inflammation also occurs in the blood vessels that lead to your heart, and the purpose of this study is to see if celecoxib can reduce the blood vessel inflammation associated with high cholesterol and heart disease.

The aim of the study is to assess the safety and efficacy of the Paclitaxel-eluting SeQuent Please S stent system (DEBlue) in the treatment of stenoses in native coronary arteries with nominal stent diameters between ≥ 2.5 mm and ≤ 3.5 mm and < 24 mm in length for procedural success and preservation of vessel patency in comparison to the Sirolimus-eluting CypherTM stent.

We seek to determine if the use of the SafeSeal(TM) topical hemostasis patch is associated with reductions in time to hemostasis and time to ambulation compared to standard manual compression after arterial sheath removal following percutaneous coronary and peripheral intervention. We further seek to assess the safety of the SafeSeal patch compared to manual compression.

In vitro studies and in vivo animal experiments have shown that halogenated volatile anesthetics have a protective effect on the ischemic myocardium. In clinical settings however, anesthetic preconditioning may be of more interest. The aim of our study was to evaluate the cardioprotective effect of sevoflurane in patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery. We proposed that a cardioprotective effect of sevoflurane would save myocardial function, which we measured acceleration by esophageal Doppler and cardiac index with bolus thermodilution methods, both during brief ischemia and reperfusion.