Active clinical trials for "Coronary Artery Disease"

Platelets are parts of your blood that stick together to help form a clot. The stickier your platelets are, the greater your chance of having a heart attack. A clot in the wrong place can lead to a heart attack or stroke. Ticagrelor (Brilinta) keeps platelets from sticking together and it helps people from having a heart attack. The American College of Cardiology has recommended a combination of aspirin and Brilinta as one of the best treatments for the prevention of heart attacks, and death in patients who have had a heart attack or coronary stents. However, it is unknown if Brilinta may improve its work to keep platelets from sticking together giving a loading dose in patients already treated with Brilinta. A loading dose is a one-time increased dose of the same drug. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate whether the platelets of patients treated with Brilinta become less sticky when Brilinta is re-loaded.

To determine in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) whether percutaneous coronary intervention - in patients with in-stent restenosis in either bare metal stents or drug eluting stents - with the Pantera Lux balloon is angiographically non-inferior to percutaneous intervention with the Orsiro stent 6 months post-procedure.

Minimally invasive revascularization of the left anterior descending artery followed by stent implantation versus percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass in patients with multi-vessel coronary disease

The aim of the study is to compare three different regimens for volume replacement during cardiac surgery, e.g. Albumin 5%, Hydroxyethylstarch 130/0.4 (HES) and Ringer-Lactate (RL). Main Outcome parameters: chest tube drainage and coagulation parameters. The investigators hypothesis is that HES is as safe as Albumin, however less expensive. Whether RL is an even less expensive and as safe alternative has to be shown.

The purpose of this study is to compare the one-time application of Paclitaxel from SeQuent Please (Paclitaxel-coated Balloon Catheter) after using the Coroflex Blue (Cobalt Chromium Stent) with the slow releasing of small dose of Paclitaxel from the Coroflex Please (Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent) stent system in a non-inferiority trial.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether perioperative glutamine administration possess protective properties on internal organs (heart and gut) in patients with coronary atherosclerosis, operated under cardiopulmonary bypass.

This study is a single centre pilot for a randomized trial comparing all-blood cardioplegia to more dilute 4:1 blood cardioplegia during cardiac surgery. The hypothesis is that all-blood cardioplegia will be associated with less blood transfusion and better cardiac function.

This prospective, consecutive enrolment, single-arm study will enroll up to 15 patients with single de novo, Type A lesions < 10 mm in length and located in a native coronary artery with a reference vessel diameter of 2.75 mm - 3.0 mm as measured by both offline QCA and IVUS. All patients will receive a 3.0 x 14mm DESolve Stent loaded with approximately 40 mcg of Myolimus. Angiographic and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) will be completed for all patients at baseline and at 6 months. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) will will be completed for all patients at baseline and at 6 months. Multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) will be conducted on all patients enrolled at 12 and 24 months.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential benefit of systematic preoperative coronary angiography followed by selective coronary artery revascularization on the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) in patients without a history of coronary artery disease (CAD) and undergoing carotid endarterectomy (CEA).

The aim of this randomized study is to evaluate the impact of Optical frequency domain imaging (OFDI) guidance for Percutaneous Coronay Intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stent (DES) as compared with Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guidance.