Active clinical trials for "Cardiomyopathies"

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of VentrAssistTM LVAD in individuals who are awaiting heart transplants.

This is a research study to evaluate the electrical properties of heart tissue. The purpose of this study is to determine the impedance (electrical resistance) of different tissues on the outer surface of the heart. This may be important for distinguishing scarred heart muscle from fat that can be seen on the surface of the heart. This information may eventually be utilized in patients that undergo a procedure (called catheter ablation) for the treatment of life-threatening heart rhythms. Investigators expect a detectable difference between the impedance of normal and infarcted myocardium (approximately 50 ohms).

The purpose of this study is in a phase I/II safety and efficacy study to evaluate the clinical effect of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) combined pedicled omentum wrapped autologous atrial tissue patch cardiomyoplasty for patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) is a type of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy in which there is a sudden temporary weakening of the myocardium. . In a recent study, women report more sexual dysfunction than men after 1 year after TC. Despite that a number of studies have assessed female sexual dysfunction (FSD) for TC , there is no information regarding prevalence and associated factors on FSD in women with TC. However, in a recent study on Iranian female patients with TC, more than 77% of these patients suffered from FSD. This study is aimed to assess the effectiveness of a Mindfulness-based Sex Therapy on Patients With TC.

This study evaluates the addition of transcatheter mitral valve repair with the MitraClip device to medical treatment in patients with heart failure and moderate functional mitral regurgitation to determine the impact of left ventricular remodelling and patients' functional capacity.

Purpose: The ATTACH trial, as currently designed, will primarily test whether a treatment with Amiodarone for at least 6 months has a trypanocidal effect among individuals with mild-to-moderate Chronic Chagas Cardiomyopathy. A secondary goal will be to confirm, in this population, a clinical benefit from this treatment (in terms of reducing mortality or cardiac arrhythmic events), and to explore whether a potential trypanocidal effect is associated with a clinical benefit.

LV pacing at various sites with recording of ECG and subsequent signal analysis at different sites.

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inherited heart muscle condition affecting up to 1 in 200 of the general population. It results from mutations in genes encoding components of the contractile apparatus in the heart muscle cell (myocyte). These mutations result in increased energy cost of force production for the myocyte which then cumulatively causes a myocardial energy deficit. This myocardial energy deficit is then thought to lead to cardiac hypertrophy ('left ventricular hypertrophy' or LVH) in HCM. LVH leads to impairments in heart muscle function, heart muscle oxygenation and microvascular blood flow and is the chief driver of patient symptoms in HCM. These symptoms consist of chest pain, shortness of breath, dizziness, fainting episodes or palpitations. Occasionally, the disease may cause sudden cardiac death (SCD). HCM is the most common cause of SCD in young people including competitive athletes. In addition, HCM has been found to result in significant global deterioration in health-related quality of life. Treatment of HCM has focused on relief of symptoms by drugs such as ß-blockers which slow the heart rate and improve heart function. However, symptom relief is often incomplete and there is no evidence on the benefit of ß-blockers or related medications to reverse LVH. Perhexiline, a potent carnitine palmitoyl transferase-1 (CPT-1) inhibitor shifts myocardial metabolism to more efficient glucose utilisation and rectifies impaired myocardial energetics. It is currently used to treat angina in patients with coronary artery disease. There is some preliminary evidence that Perhexiline may aid in the improvement of symptoms in patients with HCM. However, the effect of any form of therapy on potential regression of LVH in HCM remains unexplored. In this randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial, the investigators will use state of the art cardiac imaging, principally advanced echocardiography and Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) to study the effects of perhexiline on LVH, cardiac function, and oxygenation in symptomatic patients with HCM. The investigators hypothesize that perhexiline will favourably reduce LVH and improve myocardial oxygenation by improving myocardial energetics, and that these putative morphological and functional changes can be accurately measured utilizing echocardiography and CMR. If this pilot study supports the hypothesis, then it will pave the way for a major randomised controlled trial to definitely determine the role of Perhexiline in HCM.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a common disease of the heart which causes thickening of the heart muscle. HCM primarily affects the muscle of the main pumping chamber of the heart (the left ventricle) and particularly the septum (this is the muscular wall which separates the right and left side of the heart). In a subgroup of patients, the thickened heart muscle at the septum prevents blood from leaving the heart during contraction (this is called obstruction). This form of the disease is called hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). HOCM is a common cause of shortness of breath, chest pain and dizzy spells. These symptoms are treated with tablets and if symptoms are uncontrolled, patients are often offered invasive treatment to get rid of some of the thick heart muscle and reduce obstruction. This is achieved either by: open heart surgery (myectomy) where a surgeon cuts out the thick muscle injection of alcohol to the thick heart muscle via a tube in the wrist or groin (alcohol septal ablation). The alcohol thins the heart muscle at the point of obstruction, mimicking the effects of myectomy. Unfortunately, some patients are not suitable for both these procedures. This study will test whether radiotherapy, usually used for the treatment of tumours, can be used to destroy the thick heart muscle at the point of obstruction safely and effectively. Study patients will be monitored following the procedure and the investigators plan to measure the levels of heart muscle thinning, reduction of obstruction and improvement in symptoms and importantly document any side effects. Radiotherapy works by precisely targeting high energy X-rays (ionising radiation) at a specific area of the body with the aim of destroying abnormal tissue. CyberKnife is one of the latest radiotherapy delivery systems, which will deliver highly focussed and accurate radiotherapy.

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects milrinon and levosimandan on n heart function in septic cardiomyopathy and how norepinephrine affects the left and right ventricular function in patients with septick shock using pulmonary artery catheter, conventional and strain echocardiography.