Active clinical trials for "Coronary Artery Disease"

Older and more frail adults are more often being referred for cardiac surgery. These patients are often in suboptimal health, and may be physically frail, malnourished, and have other conditions, such as diabetes, that complicate their recovery. Research suggests that a rehabilitation program prior to surgery may help improve participants' health and improve their fitness for surgery. Currently, a pre-operative rehabilitation workshop is offered at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, but this interventional, randomized study will investigate whether a more comprehensive pre-operative regime, including structured weekly exercise program, is more effective at improving health prior to surgery. Patients will be randomized to either the control group (pre-operative rehabilitation workshop ONLY) or the treatment group (pre-operative rehabilitation workshop plus exercise regime). This regime will attempt to improve patients' overall health, including their physical fitness and nutritional status. The effectiveness of this regime will be evaluated by comparing patients' physical function, questionnaires (diet, quality of life, stress) and serum biomarkers from baseline to pre-surgery to post-surgery. The Investigators hypothesize that patients that complete the pre-operative rehabilitation program will improve their health prior to surgery, and that this may result in shorter length of hospitalization and fewer complications after surgery. The study will take place over two years, with each patient's participation lasting about 3 months.

The aim of this Real-world study in China is evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Paclitaxel Eluting Balloon Catheter in Coronary de-novo lesions(target vessel diameter:2.5mm-4.0mm)Treatment. And the primary point of this study is the target lesion failure of 12 months after surgery.

Background Coronary heart disease has become a serious challenge to China with its high prevalence and mortality. The impaired glucose regulation is prevalent in patients with cardiovascular disease. However, there are few drugs that interfere early with impaired glucose regulation. Ginkgo biloba extract is not only a commonly used drug for cardiovascular diseases, but also has a significant effect in reducing blood sugar. Therefore, this study used a single case randomized controlled trial to explore the efficacy of Ginkgo biloba pills in the treatment of coronary heart disease patients with impaired glucose regulation. Methods This is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, three-period crossover trial for a single subject.A total of 12 subjects will be recruited in this trial. The trial is divided into three cycles, one cycle has two treatment periods. Ginkgo biloba pills and placebo will be randomized during the treatment period. The test period will be lasted 58 weeks and subjects will take 48 weeks. Subjects will be selected by the researcher strictly in accordance with the inclusion and exclusion criteria.

A prospective, active control, open-label, multinational, randomized clinical trial comparing single long BioMime™ Morph Coronary Stent System vs. two overlapping Xience family Coronary Stent Systems to evaluate safety and performance in approximately 200 patients with long de novo lesions will be randomly enrolled in a 2:1 ratio [BioMime™ Morph (n=133) vs. XIENCE family (n=67)]. The study population should include patients with symptomatic ischemic heart disease due to de novo lesions (lengths ≥26 mm and ≤56 mm irrespective of number of lesions) in native coronary arteries with a reference vessel diameter of (proximal to distal) 2.75 - 2.25 mm, 3.00 - 2.50 mm and 3.5 - 3.00 mm in patients eligible for Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) and stenting procedures. All patients must meet all the study inclusion / exclusion criteria before enrolment in the study. All subjects shall accept clinical follow up at 1 month, 6 months, 12 months, 24 months post procedure. 10% of the patients [(2:1) BioMime™ Morph (13) vs. Xience (7)] will be assessed for OCT analysis from pre-designated site(s) and based on availability of OCT console at the site and Patient's consent. [Time Frame: Post-procedure and 6 months (±14 days)]

This is a multi-centre, open, randomised study in patients treated for ischemic heart disease in Linköping, Norrköping and Jönköping hospitals. One thousand two hundred patients who are treated at the cardiac rehabilitation units will be consecutively recruited during three years. The patients will be randomised 1:1 to be given advice on a 1) Mediterranean diet with an energy content (E%) from carbohydrates between 25-30% or to 2) a traditional low-fat diet with 45-60 E% from carbohydrates. All eligible patients will be asked if they want to participate and provided with written information about the study when they are discharged from the hospital after treatment for ischemic heart disease. The decision to participate or not will be given at the following outpatient treatment at the cardiac rehabilitation unit. When the signed informed consent to participate in the study has been provided, the patient will be randomised to advice of either of the two dietary regimes.

As the end stage of almost all cardiovascular diseases, heart failure has become an increasingly common cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality worldwide. In China, coronary artery disease (CAD) has become the main cause of heart failure in recent years. CAD combining with heart failure usually predicts poor outcome, with coronary revascularization the most universally used therapy. However, the difference of several types of such therapy has less well been compared. Thus, the study mainly aims to compare different types of coronary revascularization therapies such as Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI),Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) as well as Hybrid Coronary Revascularization (HCR), and also make the optimization strategy especially in patients with heart failure. The study also aims to investigate whether disease progression in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) can be assessed by new biomarkers and determine their diagnostic and prognostic value, relating several cardiac functional parameters to clinical outcome.

The main purpose of this trial is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Buqitongluo Granule in treating qi deficiency and blood stasis syndrome, and explore the effect of the improvement of qi deficiency and blood stasis syndrome on the prognosis of diseases.

XueBiJing, a Chinese herbal derived therapeutic, has been approved to treat severe infections (sepsis) in critically ill patients (China Food and Drug Administration; Beijing, China, Number Z20040033). Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) will produce large amounts of inflammatory mediators and oxygen free radicals, which causes the lipid peroxidation damage and mononuclear cell migration, thus aggravating organ inflammation and damage. Therefore, exploring new methods to prevent and alleviate organ injury caused by CPB is an important topi in clinical practice. However, little knowledge is regarding the effect of Xuebijing injection on CPB-related organ injury. To answer these questions, the authors conducted this randomized trial to compare XueBiJing with placebo in critically ill patients with cardiovascular surgery.

The study aim is to compare the effects produced by two different exercise training modalities on atrial function evaluated by speckle-tracking echocardiography on hypertensive patients with coronary artery disease. 50 males patients will be randomized to interval training or combined training the latter including both aerobic and resistance exercises. The training period will last 12 weeks. The protocol will provide two different assessment of atrial function: -acute: after a single session of exercise; - 12 weeks: at the end of exercise training protocols.

As biologic, epidemiologic, and clinical trial data have demonstrated, inflammation is a key driver of atherosclerosis. Recently, a gigantic proof-of-concept trial, CANTOS has demonstrated that inflammation of atherosclerosis can be effectively modulated by Canakinumab. However, fatal infections encountered and high cost in CANTOS. There is, therefore, a clear need for cheaper and safe alternatives. The latest cell biological studies have demonstrated that mesenchymal stem cells have a unique immunomodulatory function. MSCs contribute to a critical role in regulating the inflammatory microenvironment and interacting with immune cells and induce anti- inflammatory macrophages, inhibit foam cell formation, which could reduce atherosclerosis in pre-clinical studies. Therefore, in this randomized, controlled trial, our aim was to assess the safety and the anti-inflammatory efficacy of intravenous infusion human umbilical Wharton's jelly-derived mesenchymal stem Cell (WJMSC) in patients with coronary artery atherosclerosis disease.