Active clinical trials for "Cardiomyopathies"

This study will test the feasibility of a modified procedure for treating obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (OHC). Patients with OHC have a thickening of the heart muscle that obstructs blood flow out of the heart, causing breathlessness, chest pain, palpitations, tiredness, lightheadedness, and fainting. The current treatment for OHC is a procedure called alcohol septal ablation (also percutaneous transluminal septal ablation, or PTSA), which involves injecting a small amount of alcohol into a tiny artery that supplies the part of muscle causing blood flow obstruction. The success of PTSA is limited, however, by problems of heart anatomy and the ability to find the appropriate artery to inject. Modifying the procedure by injecting the alcohol through the wall of the lower right chamber of the heart may improve its safety and effectiveness. The new technique requires positioning a catheter (a flexible tube) into the appropriate area of the heart. This study will test the ability to accurately guide the catheter to that area. Patients with OHC 18 years of age and older who are scheduled to have a cardiac catheterization may be eligible for this study. At the end of the catheterization procedure, participants will undergo intra-cardiac echocardiographic imaging. For this test, one of the catheters placed in the femoral artery (at the top of the leg) for cardiac catheterization will be substituted for a larger one. Through this catheter, a special catheter will be introduced and advanced to the heart to provide images. This pilot feasibility study does not involve injection of alcohol.

Several studies have shown that specialized pacemaking devices (DDD pacing) can improve the symptoms associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in adults. In addition, studies have also shown that specialized pacemaking devices (DDD pacing) can improve conditions of HCM in children. However, growth of the body and organs, including the heart, is very rapid during childhood. Therefore the long-term effects of DDD pacing in children are unknown. The purpose of this study is to examine the growth rate and nutrition of children with HCM. Due to this heart condition and the restrictions that are often placed on the child's activity level, children with HCM may grow at a slower rat and may have a greater tendency to be overweight. Children participating in the study will have their growth rate and nutritional status measured before the study begins and throughout the course of the study. Findings in this research study will not directly benefit the patients participating in it. However, information gathered as a result of this study may lead to improvements in the management of children with HCM in the future.

This research study is being conducted to find out how heart function and energy use differ among healthy endurance athletes, individuals who do not exercise regularly, and patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The research study involves taking part in a cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET), two positron emission tomography (PET) scans, an echocardiogram, and blood draws. The study will consist of a total of three visits scheduled over a maximum of two weeks. By determining how heart function and energy use differ between our three groups of healthy endurance athletes, individuals who do not exercise regularly, and patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the investigators hope to have this work translate into a novel clinical tool for differentiating pathologic changes of the heart from physiological changes in heart. This is otherwise known as "gray-zone" left ventricular hypertrophy, or enlargement of the left ventricle.

This investigation is a prospective, randomized, single-blinded and multicenter design. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the benefit of atrial-synchronous biventricular (BiV) pacing in severely symptomatic hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) patients with severe Left Ventricular Outflow Tract (LVOT) obstruction implanted with a Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy - Pacing (CRT-P) device. Randomization Implant will be performed (CRT-P). Patients will be randomized 1:1 to either Treatment Group (Optimized Biventricular (DDD) pacing) or Control Group (Back-up Atrial (AAI) pacing) during the first 12 months: Treatment Group. The patient´s device is programmed to optimized DDD BiV pacing Control Group. The patient´s device is programmed to back-up pacing AAI. After 12 months, the patients initially randomized to the Treatment Group (Optimized DDD Pacing) will continue in the same group. The patients initially randomized to Control Group (AAI Back-up Pacing) will be changed to the Treatment Group (Optimized DDD Pacing). And all the patients will be followed 12 months more.

The purpose of this study is to determine if optimal lead placement, guided by the largest improvement in aortic flow measured by Doppler will: Improve the way the heart's left ventricle functions Decrease the number of hospital admissions for heart failure related symptoms Reduces uncoordinated heart contractions Improve quality of life as measured by the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionaire and NYHA Class assessed after six months

Blood flows to areas of the heart providing oxygen and fuel to the pumping muscle. Occasionally the arteries providing the fuel can become blocked. This occurs in coronary artery disease. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used to evaluate the blood flow to different areas of the heart muscle. In this study magnetic resonance imaging will be compared to other diagnostic tests (radionucleotide perfusion studies) capable of measuring blood flow to heart muscle.

Delayed enhanced MRI in patients (of either ischemic or non-ischemic cause) being referred for primary prevention ICD

Taurine as an adjunct for early left ventricular recovery in peripartum cardiomyopathy

The purpose of this study is to examine the changes in amyloid myocardial burden in a subset of the population participating in the ION682884-CS2 (NCT04136171) study, up to 150 participants, after treatment with eplontersen or placebo based on scintigraphy scans performed at Week 140 using the Perugini grade score method.

The purpose of this study is to better understand how adaptive cardiac resynchronization therapy (aCRT) might benefit patients. aCRT works by sometimes giving stimulation to only the left side of the heart, rather than to both sides, depending on how it senses the heart is functioning. CRT without the adaptive algorithm works by giving stimulation to both sides of the heart. aCRT has already been approved by the FDA and is being used in patients now, but it is not clear which patients it should be used in compared to normal CRT. This study will include patients who are already scheduled to get a CRT device. The investigators will then randomize patients to the aCRT study arm or to the CRT study arm. After 6 months, the investigators will assess the electrical activity of the patients' hearts. After this time, the patient and their doctors will be able to decide if they would like to change the type CRT they have been designated.