Active clinical trials for "Coronary Artery Disease"

It is the aim of the multi-centric and prospective registry to analyze in patients with CAD the impact of different grades of renal failure on the outcome and course of the patients and to correlate these with clinical variables. In particular, the registry has the following objectives: prospective consecutive assessment of all patients with coronary artery disease and renal failure in the participating hospitals of the registry evaluation of the outcome and course of patients with regard to their different stages of renal failure at baseline analysis of the impact of different therapeutic strategies on acute and long-term outcomes identification of clinical risk factors, novel biomarkers and genetic markers for an unfavorable long-term outcome

The main purpose of this study is to observe the incidence of major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE), target vessel failure (TVF), target vessel revascularization (TVR) and stent thrombosis out to 5 years after the procedure in patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with everolimus-eluting stents for unprotected left main coronary artery (ULMCA) disease and lesions involving the ULMCA in Japan. The investigators will also establish a method of adjustment to the Japanese version of the SYNTAX score by conducting an assessment using the SYNTAX score recently reported in the US and Europe as well as the EuroSCORE, and by clarifying the differences of PCI procedures and treatment results in Japan with those reported in the US and Europe.

The rationale of the present clinical trial is to study whether an invasive strategy in clinical stable patients over 80 years with NSTEMI/UAP may improve rates of death, reinfarction, stroke, need of urgent revascularisation, myocardial function and quality of life. The invasive approach involves coronary angiography with immediate evaluation for three different treatment options; 1. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), 2. Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) or 3. medical treatment. Clinical practice shows that older patients are commonly treated less vigorously than younger patients and the present guidelines are based on a considerably younger population.

This will be a registry study that will enroll patients referred for an ECG treadmill test with nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI). The high frequency QRS (HFQRS) information will be recorded and analyzed automatically and simultaneous with the standard ECG signals by the HyperQ System. Results of subsequent tests performed on each patient will be collected and used to enhance the reliability of designating each patient as a CAD-negative (i.e., no significant coronary artery disease) or a CAD-positive (i.e., significant coronary artery disease).

The purpose of the investigation is to verify the efficiency of the HyperQ™ system in detecting exercise induced ischemia, with higher specificity and sensitivity than conventional ECG Stress testing. The study will be carried out by applying the HyperQ™ system during cycle ergometer stress testing in patients who are referred for angiography at the Department of Cardiology, Essen University Hospital, Essen, Germany. The HyperQ™ results will then be compared to the standard ECG stress test results using the angiography results as the gold standard. The study will be considered successful if analysis of the HyperQ provides a statistically significant improvement over the diagnostic accuracy of conventional ECG stress testing analysis.

Genetic studies of coronary artery disease, restenosis after angioplasty or stenting, focusing on renin-angiotensin system genes and adiponectin gene, and their interactions.

Study Objectives/Specific Aims Overall Goal: To study the outcomes of patients undergoing TAVI, their subsequent results and complications. Objective 1: Identify risk factors that are predictive of the need for TAVI and CABG Objective3:Assess early 3 months outcomes and postoperative results Outcome Measure: 1. All-cause mortality within 3 months. Secondary Outcome Measures: Stroke Myocardial infarction Bleeding Hospital stay Acute kidney injury Number of patients with conduction disturbance and pacemaker implantation Gradient on implanted valve Degree of transvalvular leakage 6 weeks follow-up 3 months Echo

Premature coronary heart disease (CHD) refers to the onset of myocardial infarction in men < 55 years old, women < 65 years old. At present, researches on early-onset coronary heart disease mostly focus on its risk factors and clinical characteristics, but there is no relevant research on the relationship between early-onset myocardial infarction and atherosclerosis.

For a long time, it has been hoped that doctors could screen and diagnosis of coronary heart disease through non-invasive imaging techniques, so as to maximize the benefit/risk ratio of patients. This trial is to explore the screening and diagnostic value of three-dimensional speckle tracking technology for coronary heart disease, and the evaluation value of 3D speckle track image(3D-STI) technology for cardiac function improvement after coronary intervention, and to seek reliable, accurate and quantifiable non-invasive imaging examination for the diagnosis, follow-up and prognosis of coronary heart disease. In this study, coronary angiography is taken as the "gold standard", and 3d-STI echocardiography technology is proposed to combine with clinical characteristics of subjects for joint diagnosis, so as to evaluate the value of 3d-sti technology in the diagnosis of coronary heart disease. Patients were followed up with echocardiography after interventional treatment to explore the feasibility of 3D-STI technology in evaluating cardiac function improvement.

This study is a single-center, prospective, observational study designed to subjects presenting with stable angina pectoris or acute coronary syndromes requiring treatment of de novo lesions. Eligible subjects will have BVS scaffold implant using a high pressure post-scaffold implantation ballooning, designed to specifically address the issue of incomplete BVS expansion. OCT ( optical coherence tomography ) will be used to evaluate the change in the intraluminal scaffold volume and the prevalence of scaffold embedding from post-scaffold implantation to post-dilation high pressure (16-20 atm), non-compliant ballooning in relation to the underlying plaque.