Active clinical trials for "Coronary Artery Disease"

The purpose of this study is to identify whether exposure to ambient levels of air pollution during normal daily activities has a functional impact on patients with coronary heart disease

The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of pravastatin and rosuvastatin on coronary plaque characteristics in patients with stable angina pectoris.

The purpose of this study is to measure the effect of ranolazine on ETT (exercise treadmill test) exercise duration in four ethnic subgroups with established coronary artery disease and risk factor(s) for the metabolic syndrome: Caucasian, African American, Southeast Asian and East Indian.

The purpose of this study is in a phase I/II safety and efficacy study to evaluate the clinical effect of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) combined pedicled omentum wrapped autologous atrial tissue patch cardiomyoplasty for patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy.

The purpose of this study is to assess the effects of Ezetimibe on coronary plaque volume in patients with acute coronary syndrome.

In hemodialysed patients, coronary heart disease is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity. Most of the commonly used drug for ischemia are used in this patients, but few prospective data are available. Among anti-ischemic drugs betablocker provided evidence of beneficial effects on outcome and, in dialysis patients, carvedilol was successfully used also in heart failure. Ivabradine is the latest anti-ischemic drug that provided evidence of benefit in general population, but no study is available in dialysis patients. Aim of the present study is to compare in a randomized, double-blind, parallel group trial the effects of ivabradine compared with carvedilol on event-free survival at 18 months in a hemodialysed population of patients with established coronary heart disease.

Clopidogrel low response is associated with a significantly higher risk for ischemic complications after percutaneous coronary intervention. Ticagrelor and prasugrel are more potent platelet inhibitory drugs and both have been shown to significantly reduce ischemic events as compared to clopidogrel. No direct comparison between ticagrelor and prasugrel in terms of their antiplatelet efficacy exists. The aim of this study is to assess the antiplatelet treatment efficacy of ticagrelor versus prasugrel over time in confirmed clopidogrel low responders undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.

Vascular effects evaluation after non-polimeric and polimeric paclitaxel stent implantation.In particular the investigators will use Taxus )as a polimeric stent)and Axxion (as a non-polimeirc)stent system. The investigators will look at late stent malapposition by means of intracoronary ultrasound imaging technique (IVUS) at baseline and 9 months follow-up. The investigators sought to compare the two stent types with the same drug to verify the polimer role. The polimer itself seems to provoke inflammation and hypersensibility if the arterial wall and it seems to be the base of a process of positive remodeling found at drug eluting stent implantation site. This positive remodeling is the mechanism producing late stent malapposition which on its turn can determine stent thrombosis, as demonstrated by pathological studies. At the same time the investigators will study the incidence of clinical events like myocardial infarction, stent thrombosis, TLR and death along with the incidence of angiographic restenosis at 2 years follow up.

Abnormal blood cholesterol levels increase the risk of developing, or dying from heart disease. It is well recognised that if "harmful" LDL cholesterol is high, and "protective" HDL cholesterol is low, this risk is increased. Drugs called statins are routinely used in patients with heart disease, are well tolerated, and decrease the harmful LDL cholesterol levels. However, statins only increase protective HDL cholesterol to a small extent. Some patients may thus benefit from additional medication to increase protective HDL-cholesterol further. One of the most effective drugs which can do this is nicotinic acid. This drug is well established having been available for over 30 years. Previous use has been limited by facial flushing in a large percentage of patients receiving the drug. However a new formulation called Niaspan is now available which is associated with much less flushing. Although many patients will have transient flushing, it is estimated that only 1 patient out of every 20 receiving the drug will have to discontinue treatment. We therefore propose, in patients with coronary artery disease and low HDL cholesterol despite being on a statin, to study the effect of Niaspan on HDL cholesterol and other lipid parameters, and to assess its tolerability.

The SYNTAX trial is designed to determine the best treatment for patients with complex coronary disease (blocked or narrowed arteries in both the right and left sides of the heart) by randomizing patients to receive either percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with polymer-based paclitaxel-eluting TAXUS stents or to coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG).