Active clinical trials for "Heart Failure"

The study will include patients with acute heart failure with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (<40%) triggered by atrial fibrillation (AF) with a heart rate of >130/min. Patients in cardiogenic shock, critical state, or patients requiring emergent electric cardioversion during the first 2 hours will be excluded. The patients will be randomized (1:1) to a strategy of initial intensive heart rate control using continuous infusion of landiolol and boluses of digoxin vs. standard approach to the rate control without the use of landiolol. All patients will receive recommended pharmacotherapy of acute heart failure (diuretics, nitrates, inotropes in patients with signs of low cardiac output - preferentially milrinone or levosimendan). The patients will undergo hemodynamic monitoring, laboratory testing, evaluation of symptoms, and quantification of lung water content by ultrasound for 48 hours. The study will test a hypothesis whether patients treated with initial intensive heart rate control with the preferential use of landiolol will achieve faster heart rate control, compensation of heart failure, and relief of heart failure symptoms without causing hypotension or deterioration of heart failure.

The goal of this real-world, multi-center, randomized, outpatient study is to assess the effectiveness of the Biofourmis cloud based BiovitalsHFTM platform to recommend optimal titration of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy (GDMT) for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) subjects.

The purpose of this study is to test whether a ketone ester drink will improve exercise in people with heart failure (HF) compared to a placebo. In HF, patients are limited in their ability to do all the things they want to do, and exercise as much as they would like, due to becoming tired and short of breath early. There may be several reasons why these symptoms occur. There is some evidence that in addition to problems with the heart, patients with HF also have problems with their arteries and muscles that affect their ability to exercise. Ketones have been shown to improve exercise capacity in healthy volunteers, which may be related to effects on the heart function or on muscles. An infusion of ketones through an intravenous (IV) line has also been shown to significantly improve heart function, but whether a drink can produce similar improvements in HF patients is not known. This drink has been given status by Food and Drug Administration as "generally regarded as safe". The use of DeltaG in this study is experimental. DeltaG has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the use being evaluated in this study.

The present study will examine the comparative effectiveness of two treatment strategies currently used in the treatment of patients with systolic heart failure presenting with pleural effusion. Patients will be randomized to standard medical treatment only or medical treatment and referral to thoracentesis. Study hypothesis: A strategy of referring patients with heart failure-related pleural effusion to thoracentesis increases number of days alive outside of hospital over the following 90 days.

This study will look at how participants' daily life is affected by their heart failure. The study will also look at the change in participants' body weight. This study will compare the effect of semaglutide (a new medicine) compared to "dummy" medicine on body weight and heart failure symptoms. Participants will either get semaglutide or "dummy" medicine, which treatment participants get is decided by chance. Participants will need to take 1 injection once a week. The study medicine is injected with a thin needle in a skin fold in the stomach area, thigh or upper arm. During the study participants will have talks with the study staff about healthy lifestyle and physical activity. The study will last for about 59 weeks, that is a little more than 1 year. Participants will have 12 clinic visits with the study doctor. At 6 of the visits participants will have blood samples taken. At 5 of the visits participants will be asked to fill in a questionnaire At 4 of the visits participants will have to do a 6-minute walking test At 3 of the visits participants will have a test to check the heart. participants will have their eyes checked before or at the start of the study and at the end of the study Women cannot take part if pregnant, breast-feeding or plan to become pregnant during the study period.

The Korea HM3 PMS is a prospective, single arm, open-label, multi-center, post market surveillance is designed to evaluate clinical and functional outcomes with the HM3 LVAS as a treatment for advanced heart failure. The PMS will enroll up to 300 patients, that meet the Health Insurance Review and Assessment (HIRA) guidelines for LVAD implantation, from up to 25 sites in South Korea. Subjects who will be implanted but not included in the PMS can be enrolled retrospectively after obtaining their informed consent. The surveillance period for this PMS is expected to be 4 years from the time of HM3 approval in Korea, concluding on June 2, 2024.

Background: Intravenous (IV) loop-diuretics have been a key component in treating pulmonary edema since the nineteen sixties and has a Class 1 recommendation in the 2021 European Society of Cardiology guidelines for heart failure. Conversely, vasodilation was downgraded in the treatment of acute heart failure due to a lack of trials that compare vasodilation with loop-diuretics in a hyperacute clinical setting. This clinical equipoise will be tested in a trial including patients with pulmonary congestion immediately at hospital admission. Primary objective: To determine the superior strategy of loop-diuretics (furosemide), vasodilation (nitrates) or the combination during emergency treatment. Design: Investigator-initiated, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial with 1:1:1 allocation. Intervention: Intervention-phase will last 6 hours from study-inclusion, and patients will be allocated to one of three groups: Boluses of 40 mg IV furosemide + nitrate-placebo as soon as possible and repeated up to 10 times. Boluses of 3 mg IV isosorbide dinitrate + furosemide-placebo as soon as possible. Boluses of both 3 mg IV isosorbide dinitrate + of 40 mg as soon as possible.

This is a Phase 2A, randomized, parallel-group, placebo-controlled, double-blind, within subject dose escalation trial with 3 dose levels of HU6 and placebo. Subjects will be randomized (1:1) either to HU6 or placebo. Two dose levels will be administered in sequential order (150 mg daily followed by 300 mg daily), each for 20 days, to reach the third and highest dose of 450 mg daily if safety and tolerability are demonstrated at the lower 2 preceding doses. Administration of the 450 mg high dose will continue for a total of 94 days, with a safety follow-up visit within ~14 days of the last dose.

Acute decompensated heart failure (HF) is one of the most common cardiologic issues in emergency departments. Loop diuretics have long been recognized as the key for the treatment of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF).However, chronic treatment with diuretics may limit their response and deteriorates the renal function. The hypertonic saline solution (HSS) has been proposed in recent years as an adjunctive therapy for intravenous loop diuretics to improve or restore their initial pharmacological efficacy. In this study the investigators will evaluate the effectiveness of HSS as an adjunct to i.v. furosemide in patients admitted for AHF with renal dysfunction

This is a Phase 2, multicenter, randomized, parallel, 3-arm, placebo-controlled study to assess efficacy and safety of CDR132L in patients with reduced Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction (LVEF) (≤ 45%) after myocardial infarction (MI). This study consists of a screening period (to occur at least 3 days after MI diagnosis), a 6-month double-blind period, and a 6-month extension period with the End of Study (EOS) Visit at Day 360/Month 12. Two dosages of CDR132L will be tested against placebo on their effects on patients, who just had a heart attack in addition to standard care. The aim of the study is to show that CDR132L is safe and effective to improve heart failure in such patients.