Active clinical trials for "Atherosclerosis"

Compile acute (30-day) clinical outcomes data and 9-month angiographic and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) data for the PROMUS Element™ Everolimus- Eluting Coronary Stent System in the treatment of patients with a single de novo atherosclerotic lesion

This study is a comparison of two different ways to treat blockage in the artery of the thigh. The first is an older way with incisions in the groin and just above the knee. A plastic tube is then inserted to make a bypass from the groin to the knee. The second treatment offered is through a needle hole in the groin. A thin plastic tube covering a metal stent is inserted into the artery and released to bypass the blockage from inside the artery. No incisions are needed. Patients are enrolled and then selected for one treatment method or another by chance. The patients will be followed for two years to see how the two different treatment methods work compared to each other.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a combined behavioral and pharmacological intervention provided by a multidisciplinary team will further reduce LDL-C, smoking, BP and Hb-A1C in diabetic patients with A1c between 7% and 9% when compared to usual care.

The purpose of this study is to determine if rimonabant 20 mg once daily (od) administered during 18-20 months will reduce progression of coronary atherosclerosis as assessed by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) when administered on top of standard behavioral and pharmacological therapy given as needed, in patients with abdominal obesity associated with current smoking and/or metabolic syndrome.

The purpose of the study is to test higher versus lower doses of aspirin on markers of atherosclerosis in patients who have had a heart attack.

The goal of this study is to determine the relationship of apoprotein A-1 (apoA-I) glycation and development of diabetic atherosclerosis. ApoA-I is crucial for reverse cholesterol transport and anti-inflammation/anti-atherosclersis functions of HDL. However, apoA-I is easily subjected to non-enzymatic glycation modification in diabetic milleu. Our preliminary study has shown that apoA-I in HDL from type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) is significantly glycated, and site specific glycation of apoA-I impairs HDL function and is related to the development of atherosclerosis. To the best of our knowledge, less clinical information regarding apoA-I glycation and CAD has been reported. In this cross-sectional study, by consecutively enrolling diabetic patients with (two to three hundred) or without CAD (controls, six to eight hundred) in our hospital, we will isolate their serum HDL and perform a qualitative and quantitative proteomic analysis of apoA-I glycation. The relation of apoA-I glycation and HDL function and angiography-determined severity of CAD will be evaluated. Later, we will follow these diabetic patients to analyze the influence of apoA-I glycation on the outcome including plaque progression.

Аn international, multicenter, non-interventional real-life clinical practice Register studying the Actual therapeutic patient population with Multifocal Atherosclerosis in the Russian Federation and Eurasian countries

A prospective, non-randomized trial of patients submitted to EVAR for aortoiliac aneursym using Endurant II (Medtronic) or Zenith (Cook).

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the results of drug eluting balloon are non-inferior to the Nitinol stent implantation in the femoropopliteal segment.

The purpose of the investigators study is to examine and compare primary patency between balloon expandable cobalt chromium stent and self expandable nitinol stents (SCUBA versus COMPLETE-SE) in atherosclerotic iliac artery lesion.