Active clinical trials for "Cardiomyopathies"

Long-term prognostic value of macrovascular and microvascular coronary artery stenoses in each type of cardiomyopathy.

The ICD Registry™ is a nationwide quality program that helps participating hospitals measure and improve care for patients receiving implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy devices with defibrillator (CRT-Ds). The ICD Registry captures the characteristics, treatments, and outcomes of patients receiving (ICDs). Patient-level data is submitted by participating hospitals on a quarterly basis to the American College of Cardiology Foundation's (ACCF) National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) which then produces an Outcomes Report of the hospital's data, with comparison to both a volume peer group (number of ICD patients submitted annually) and the entire ICD registry data set.

CoRDS, or the Coordination of Rare Diseases at Sanford, is based at Sanford Research in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It provides researchers with a centralized, international patient registry for all rare diseases. This program allows patients and researchers to connect as easily as possible to help advance treatments and cures for rare diseases. The CoRDS team works with patient advocacy groups, individuals and researchers to help in the advancement of research in over 7,000 rare diseases. The registry is free for patients to enroll and researchers to access. Visit sanfordresearch.org/CoRDS to enroll.

Myocarditis or inflammatory cardiomyopathy refers to inflammation of the heart muscle (the myocardium). Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disorder that may involve the heart, causing inflammation, and potentially resulting in complications including arrhythmia and sudden death. The objective of this study is to evaluate the diagnostic and prognostic significance of simultaneous combined 18F-FDG PET and cardiac MRI imaging in the evaluation of inflammatory cardiomyopathies including cardiac sarcoidosis. Combined PET/MRI imaging may allow for detection and quantification of active myocardial inflammation as well as chronic fibrosis and scarring. Results of this study may allow for earlier detection of cardiac inflammation when compared with methods in current clinical use, and may lead to better understanding of the disease processes contributing to adverse outcomes. Elucidation of imaging findings associated with future adverse event risk may impact patient management such as providing an indication for pacemaker or defibrillator implantation, or escalation of medical therapy.

Background: Heart failure is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in diabetes mellitus, but its pathophysiology is poorly understood. Aim: To determine the prevalence and determinants of subclinical cardiovascular dysfunction in adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Plan: 518 asymptomatic adults (aged 18-75 years) with T2D will undergo comprehensive evaluation of cardiac structure and function using cardiac MRI (CMR) and spectroscopy, echocardiography, CT coronary calcium scoring, exercise tolerance testing and blood sampling. 75 controls will undergo the same evaluation. Primary hypothesis: myocardial steatosis is an independent predictor of left ventricular global longitudinal strain. Secondary hypotheses: will assess whether CMR is more sensitive to detect early cardiac dysfunction than echocardiography and BNP, and whether cardiac dysfunction is related to peak oxygen consumption. Expected value of results: This study will reveal the prevalence and determinants of cardiac dysfunction in T2D, and could provide targets for novel therapies.

National, multicenter, epidemiological, longitudinal protocol to investigate the hATTR prevalence in an at-risk population for Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis (hATTR) and subjects diagnosed with hATTR, to monitor the clinical status in TTR positive subjects and to establish hATTR biomarker/s

The purpose of this study is to collect a saliva sample from patients with a pacemaker to study genes involved in cardiomyopathy, a condition where the heart muscle is abnormal.

The objective of the CARDIATEAM clinical study is to assess the uniqueness of diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) relative to other forms of cardiomyopathy using unsupervised clustering approaches based on deep phenotyping (clinical, imaging and biological) information.

The Dilated Cardiomyopathy-Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (DCM-CMR) Study is an ancillary study from the parent study, DCM Precision Medicine Study. The rationale for the DCM-CMR study is to leverage cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging to detect earliest findings of DCM in the at-risk family members enrolled into the parent study.

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is an increasingly recognized cause of morbidity and mortality with heterogenous etiologies (eg, genetic, environment) and clinical manifestations, characterized by left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction and LV or biventricular dilation. Previous publications reported the three-year treated mortality rates remain high at 12%-20% and a reported 5-year mortality rate up to 50%, with death resulting from ventricular arrhythmia leading to sudden cardiac death (SCD) or advanced heart failure (HF). With large fields of view and high spatial resolution, Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is the reference standard for assessing cardiac mass, volume, and function. CMR also provides non noninvasive characterization of the myocardium benefiting to differential diagnosis and risk stratification.