Active clinical trials for "Coronary Artery Disease"

Cardiovascular disease and ischemic heart disease is the #1 killer in Canada. Currently, Cardiac invasive catheterization angiography (CICA) is the gold standard for the assessment of the arteries in the heart. However, cardiac catheterization has risks which prohibit its use in all patients. These risks include: death, heart attack, stroke and bleeding. Cardiac computed tomography angiography (CTA) is a new non-invasive technology which may enable the evaluation of patients' coronary anatomy without exposing patients to the risks of invasive cardiac catheterization. The purpose of this project is to compare CT angiography (CTA) to Tc-99m single photon emission computed tomography (Tc-99m SPECT) We will enroll patients who are waiting for a CICA or who have been referred for a TC-99m SPECT or CTA scans at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. Consenting patients who are waiting for a CICA will have both a CTA and a Tc-99m SPECT scan. Consenting patients referred for a CTA or Tc-99m SPECT will have both the CTA and Tc-99m SPECT in a random order but not CICA (unless ordered by your physician).

Atherosclerosis is a chronic and multifocal immunoinflammatory, fibroproliferative disease of medium-sized and large arteries driven by lipid. Atherosclerosis is rarely fatal unless thrombosis supervene, causing an acute coronary syndrome. Therefore, for event-free survival, the vital question is not why atherosclerosis develops but rather why atherosclerosis, after years after indolent growth, suddenly becomes complicated with luminal thrombosis. The great majority of coronary plaques will remain quiescent, at least from a clinical point of view. Acute coronary syndrome is primarily precipitated by a ruptured plaque. The precipitating factor or condition may be found outside rather than inside the plaque. The challenge is to find the plaque(s) destined for the next thrombus-mediated heart attack(s), treat, and thus avoid the heart attack(s). Identification of vulnerable plaques has become a key issue. The natural history of individual plaques (risk of thrombosis) is unknown and needs to be established. Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) can provide angiography and imaging of the vessel wall (detection, quantification and characterization of plaques). The intention of this project is to evaluate the accuracy of coronary MDCT in identifying and differentiating the morphology of coronary atherosclerotic plaques.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether bromodomain extraterminal domain (BET) inhibition treatment with RVX000222 in high-risk type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with coronary artery disease increases the time to major adverse cardiovascular events.

Subjects being evaluated for suspected or known Coronary artery Disease (CAD) based on signs and/or symptoms, will be invited to participate in the study. The duration for a subject in the study may range from 2 days to 4-6 weeks. One to four visits to the study doctor will be required. The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate that sensitivity and specificity of gadobutrol-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI) exceed pre-specified minimum performance thresholds of 60% and 55%, respectively, and to show superior sensitivity over unenhanced wall motion CMRI at vasodilator rest/stress for the detection of significant CAD. The CMR images acquired with a uniform imaging acquisition software will be evaluated either against the results from routine clinical Coronary Angiography (CA) or Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA), which are the standard of reference. CMRI and CA/CTA images will be collected for an independent image review (blinded read).

The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) among male patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) verified in coronary angiography. Ethiology of AAA is known to be common with atherosclerotic arterial diseases (coronary artery disease, peripheral artery disease and carotid artery disease), so the hypothesis is that AAA should be more common among these CAD patients, thus making screening of these patients (for AAA) more cost-efficient. Study will be carried out as a multi-center prospective screening study. Data will be collected in North Karelia Central Hospital, Kuopio University Hospital and Tampere University Hospital. Data consists of 200 consecutive coronary angiography patients in each hospital, resulting in 600 patients in total. All male patients with diagnosed CAD will be recruited for the study and screened for AAA with ultrasound. Nevertheless, patients with previously known AAA will be excluded from the study.

The purpose of this study is to examine the improvement of myocardial blood flow induced by regained vasomotor functions of the stented coronary segment after resorption of BVS over time.

A first therapeutic education is given before patient's discharge at the hospital, then a dedicated nurse follows patients through the phone,regularly according to patients' needs, continues to give advise on risk factors, information on medication and alert symptoms and therapeutic education.

The investigators hypothesized that dual-axis rotational coronary angiography was non-inferior to standard coronary angiography with respect to diagnosis of coronary artery disease.

The purpose of this study is to determine outcomes (death, myocardial infarction, target vessel revascularization (TVR), non-target vessel revascularization (non-TVR), stent-thrombosis) of 120 consecutive patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction and multivessel coronary artery disease undergoing multivessel stenting or staged percutaneous coronary intervention with Zotarolimus-eluting stents

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the differences of wall shear stress distribution among different types of drug-eluting stents and its impact on vessel healing evaluated by intravascular optical coherence tomography evaluation.