Active clinical trials for "Coronary Artery Disease"

The purpose of this study is to determine whether intra- and postoperative use of the cardioPAT® cell saver decreases the need for allogenic red blood cell transfusion in patients, who undergo open heart surgery (with cardiopulmonary bypass) and preoperatively have an increased risk for bleeding.

Myocardial necrosis is relatively frequent after percutaneous coronary intervention and is associated with higher mortality during the follow-up. Since anti-inflammatory properties of statins have been demonstrated and the benefit of statins in acute coronary syndromes have been proven, this study aims at testing the hypothesis that the pre-procedural intensive statin treatment reduce the extent of peri-procedural necrosis.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of febuxostat on coronary plaque volume in patients with chronic stable angina and hyperuricemia.

Personalized treatment approaches and antiplatelet drug choice have been proposed to optimize safety of coronary stenting by reducing heart attacks and repeat interventions while simultaneously minimizing adverse bleeding events. This study compares the efficacy of two laboratory guided treatment algorithms to personalize antiplatelet medication choice after coronary stenting

This is a multi-center, randomized, study to compare the efficacy of zotarolimus-eluting stent (Resolute Integrity or Resolute Onyx stent) or everolimus-eluting stent (Xience Prime or Xience Xpedition or Xience Alpine stent) for very long coronary lesions.

This is a randomized, prospective European Multicenter Study comparing complete arterial revascularization of the coronary arteries using arterial graft material exclusively and "conventional" coronary artery bypass surgery using the left internal thoracic artery as graft to the left anterior descending artery (LAD) and vein grafts to other vessels to be bypassed.

Aspirin was proved to be the drug preventing vein grafts from closure and improving clinical outcome after coronary artery bypass surgery. It appears to be effective when being prescribed as early as first 48 hr. after the operation without increasing the incidence of bleeding complications. the exact effective dose is not known.

The objective of our research is to determine whether treatment with magnesium will reduce the incidence of atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Several small studies of magnesium have already been conducted, but these studies were small and the results conflicting. A large, well-conducted study of magnesium treatment is required to definitively determine whether magnesium is effective in preventing this common complication after surgery. In addition, our study will include patients undergoing valvular surgery, a group previously excluded from research despite the fact that they are at increased risk of atrial fibrillation.

The purpose of this study is to determine if stem cell therapy with your own cells (autologous cells) delivered with a catheter to regions of the heart with poor blood flow will be safe and if it will relieve your chest pain, increase the blood flow, and/or improve the cardiac contractility (function) by regenerating blood vessels in your heart.

Study to examine the safety and effectiveness of implanted skeletal muscle cells (cells removed from the thigh muscle) into scarred areas of heart muscle after heart attack.