Active clinical trials for "Heart Septal Defects, Atrial"

The purpose of this study is to prospectively evaluate the incidence of hemodynamic compromise and to obtain long-term survival data on patients with the AMPLATZER Septal Occluder

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy of the GORE® HELEX® Septal Occluder in the treatment of ostium secundum atrial septal defects (ASDs).

This is an open-label, randomized, controlled trial of iatrogenic atrial septal defect closure with the an atrial septal occluder versus usual care observation in patients post-mitral valve intervention requiring large bore transspetal access.

This clinical trial will determine the safety and effectiveness of intravenous L-citrulline in children undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass during heart surgery. Participants will be randomly assigned to either L-citrulline or a placebo (a substance that has no medicine in it). Citrulline is a protein building block in the body that can convert into another substance, nitric oxide (NO), which controls blood pressure in the lungs. Increased blood pressure in the lungs can be an important surgical problem; it may also lead to problems following surgery, such as severe high blood pressure in the lungs (pulmonary hypertension), increased time spent on a breathing machine, and a longer stay in the intensive care unit (ICU). The hypothesis of this study is that perioperative supplementation with intravenous citrulline will increase plasma citrulline, arginine and NO metabolites and prevent elevations in the postoperative PVT leading to a decrease in the duration of postoperative invasive mechanical ventilation. The objective of this study is to determine in a randomized placebo controlled phase IB multicenter clinical trial if a revised protocol of intravenous L-citrulline delivery given perioperatively achieves a plasma citrulline level of > 100 umol/L in children undergoing surgical repair of an atrial septal defect,ventricular septal defect or an atrioventricular septal defect.

The ACHDi Registry study will create a foundational database for adult congenital heart disease interventions. This Pan-Canadian Registry will collect clinical and patient-reported information that will enable the evaluation of care processes and outcomes in five most common ACHDi interventions by enabling prospective and retrospective registry-based studies to answer important clinical practice and policy-relevant questions.

The interventional catheterization allows the percutaneous treatment of congenital heart diseases as the atrial septal defect (ASD). The examination is guided by the X-rays with stochastic side effects worrying at the child's. The software "Echonavigator" allows to merge the ultrasound image and fluoroscopic. This innovative software facilitates the procedures and reduce the irradiation time in some adult procedures. The aim of this study was to validate the image fusion in children.

All patients awaiting to have either a left atrial appendage closure (LAA) or patent foramen ovale (PFO) or Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) closure device as part of standard care will be identified and reviewed in cardiology clinics. These patients will be placed on waiting list to undergo the procedure. Patient-participants will be consented on the date of admission for device closure implantation. The study will recruit 20 patients divided into; 10 patients undergoing PFO/ASD closure and 10 patients undergoing LAA closure. EPC will be measured on the day of the device implantation, day 0 and prior to discharge on day 1. Patient participants are admitted overnight after the device closure implantation. Then on subsequent out patient cardiology research clinic follow appointments on days (3-4) and (7-8).

The investigators propose to translate confocal microscopy for use during open heart surgery. This tool will help discriminate between various types of tissues in the heart during surgery. One of the most feared complication after heart surgery is heart block. This flexible fiberoptic confocal microscope will help discriminate between the various types of tissues in the heart and thus help avoid injury to the conduction tissue during surgery.

Prospective randomized multicenter trial of about 100 subjects enrolled in 3-5 centers. Patients will be randomized to two groups in equal proportion (50 in each). To precise the function of this device on reducing technical difficulties and conquering learning curves, it is required that the doctor should be able to independently do echo-guided percutaneous interventions and his cases should be more than 20 but less than 100. Experimental group is allocated to use novel interventional guidewire for echocardiography guided percutaneous interventions for ASD, control group will be treated by cook lunderquist guidewire. If echo-guided procedure does not work well, the procedure will be immediately replaced by conventional procedure guided by radiology. To evaluate the effectiveness and safety comprehensively, variables are defined as success rate, duration of procedure, times of arrhythmia, times of misguided to tricuspid valve, cardiac perforation, cardiac tamponed, complications in peripheral vessels etc.

Aim of this prospective trial is to assess the hemodynamic effects of a MitraClip procedure caused iatrogenic arterial septal defect (iASD) and the functional changes after interventional iASD closure in a randomized setting.