Active clinical trials for "Coronary Artery Disease"

ORIGINS-RCE is an observational, cross-sectional, two-arm study aimed at determining if an individual's ethnic origin influences the number of blood vessel-forming stem cells in the bloodstream. Circulating progenitor cells will be enumerated and the distribution patterns of these cell types will be assessed to determine if these parameters differ between individuals of South Asian origin and European origin. Specifically, this study will evaluate if differential regenerative cell exhaustion (RCE) may account, at least in part, for the differences in cardiovascular risk reported between individuals of South Asian vs European origin.

This study aims to investigate the effect of the pneumatic tourniquet technique on the patients' hemodynamics; heart rate (HR), systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP).

This study will be recording pressure wire readings from both blocked and narrowed arteries, to better guide treatment options; medications, stents or potentially bypass surgery, for patients with Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO).

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a Mediterranean Diet, personalized in terms of total calories, total lipids and balanced in terms of saturated, mono- and poly-unsaturated lipids, corrects the adverse fatty acid profile of patients with CHD and reduces markers of oxidative stress and inflammation more effectively than a low-fat dietary advice.

The main objective of the SeQuent® Please Neo post market surveillance is to assess the clinical suitability of the combination of pre-dilatation using the NSE Alpha scoring balloon before the use of the paclitaxel-coated SeQuent® Please Neo in an 'all comer'/ 'real world' setting for the treatment of in-stent restenosis and de-novo lesions.

Postmarket surveillance in terms of the safety and efficacy of Sirolimus-eluting Coroflex ISAR Stent for the treatment of "real world" patients with de-novo and restenotic lesions after stand-alone angioplasty in coronary arteries

Troponin is a major diagnostic criterion of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) which confirms myocardial damage and necrosis. In out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients its dynamics and diagnostic value is often controversial and has not been well described. Most of prior studies were retrospective, using first generation troponin assays and assessing only admission troponin. The aim of this work is to correlate dynamics of sensitive troponin I with urgent coronary angiography. Patients resuscitated after OHCA will be prospectively divided in three groups based on the results of their urgent angiographies. Serial assessment of sensitive troponin I will be obtained over initial 48 hours. We expect admission troponin will not be predictive of AMI. Over next hours troponin levels will be highest in patients with acute coronary lesion, lower in stable obstructive coronary disease and insignificant in non-obstructive coronary disease. We also expect significant difference in highest values and dynamics of troponin in sub-group with spontaneous reperfusion (TIMI flow 2 and 3) comparing to patients with coronary occlusion (TIMI flow 0 and 1). In patients with non-obstructive disease we expect troponin levels to correlate with duration of cardiac arrest, number of external electric shocks and cumulative dose of adrenaline administered.

Coronary revascularization improves survival for patients with coronary artery disease. However,many patients are left with poor physical and mental health. Traditional cardiac rehabilitation involves moderate intensity continuous exercise (MICE). Alternatives to traditional cardiac rehabilitation programming may however provide superior understudied benefits to patients with poor physical and mental health. Nordic walking (NW) and high-intensity interval training (HIIT) are two examples of alternative programs for cardiac rehabilitation, which may provide superior physical and mental health benefits when compared to traditional MICE. The main purpose of this project is, therefore, to determine the short and long term physical and mental health benefits of alternative cardiac rehabilitation modalities, including NW and HIIT on exercise capacity, quality of life and depression after a 12-week program.

Clopidogrel is an important anti-platelet agent.However, about 30% of the coronary artery disease patients presented clopidogrel low response (CLR).Previous studies showed that the cardiovascular event ratio of the CLR patients was 4.4 times of the normal responders. It is known that the plasma and platelet miRNAs are determined by different disease status when platelets are released from the megakaryocyte, and the platelet miRNAs can adjust the expressions of the platelet's receptors and proteins.The purpose of this study is to find multiple platelet miRNAs involved in the development of CLR, and platelet miRNAs cause CLR through adjusting the expressions of the key receptors and proteins in the ADP activating pathway and consequently reducing their responses to clopidogrel. The CLR will be detected by light transmission aggregometry (LTA) and vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein phosphorylation (VASP-P). Differential expressions of plasma and platelet miRNAs profile in CLR patients will be screened by deep sequencing and validated to investigate the association between plasma and platelet miRNAs profile and CLR as well as the patients' prognosis.The study results would serve as markers for individualized anti-platelet treatment, and supply new targets for the treatment of coronary artery disease.

To evaluate whether nicorandil as an adjunctive therapy for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) reduces reperfusion injury.