Active clinical trials for "Heart Failure"

To assess modifications of ventricular function induced by CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure).

With improve care of patients with heart failure, many patients are living longer. Care for these patients is now not only focused on mortality but also on the quality of life. Patient knowledge about heart failure and their overall compliance with the necessary lifestyle changes will lead to an improved quality of life. Discovering alternative ways to improve patient knowledge is key to long term survival. This studies objective is to assess the overall impact of video discharge instructions as compared to paper discharge instructions on Heart Failure Knowledge among an under-served patient population.

This study will determine whether an acute infusion of intravenous allopurinol improves the inotropic response to dobutamine in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) as measured by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR).

The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy and feasibility of using a smartphone application to monitor symptoms and weight in patients with advanced heart failure.

Background: Heart failure is a serious health condition. Researchers believe inflammation plays a role. They want to see if adding an additional heart drug to a person s treatment can help treat heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Objective: To learn if chronic inflammation is high in heart failure and if taking dapagliflozin along with the standard of care medicines for 6 months will reduce inflammation and improve heart function in people with HFpEF. Eligibility: People aged 18 and older who have heart failure and qualify for dapagliflozin therapy. Healthy adult volunteers are also needed. Design: Participants will be screened with: Medical history Physical exam Heart function tests X-ray scans of the heart and blood vessels. They may receive medicines to slow their heart rate or make their heart blood vessels bigger. An intravenous (IV) catheter will be placed in their arm to inject contrast. Blood and urine tests Participants will have up to 3 study visits. Some screening tests will be repeated. Participants will take one tablet of the study drug daily for 6 months. -Participants will have an imaging scan of their heart and blood vessels. They will receive a contrast and stress medicine through an IV to view blood supply. Participants will have a stress test that measures exercise ability. They will wear sticky pads on their chest, a blood pressure cuff, and a mask. They will also have a 6-Minute Walk Test. Participants will complete questionnaires about their symptoms and their health. Participants may be on the study for up to 6 months. They will have a follow-up phone call 1 month after treatment ends. ...

The purpose of this trial is to obtain a pharmacokinetic profile (i.e. amount of drug in the blood over time) of Omecamtiv mecarbil in patients with stable heart failure.

Background: Nurses, the usual leaders in the follow-up of chronic cardiac patients, need to improve their training so that they are in the best position to empower these patients. From this approach, health coaching is presented as an innovative and valid alternative. Despite this, no studies have been found that implement and evaluate this type of program in the hospital setting. Purpose: to evaluate the preliminary efficacy of this programme for the development of nursing capacity in health coaching with CHF (Chronic Heart Failure) inpatients. Method: An exploratory pre-post quasi-experimental pilot study. Nineteen nurses, the total population of nurses working in the cardiology ward, were recruited in September 2020. All the nurses received a multi-component intervention based on health coaching. The strategies of this program consisted in five 16-hour sessions using case studies to find out whether nurses were able to empower chronic cardiac patients and debriefing and a 4-hour booster session seven months later. The I-CEpSE instrument was used to assess outcomes. The primary outcome was the difference in the median of knowledge, skills and attitudes pre and post intervention (between T0-T1, T2-T3 and T0-T3). Changes within nurses were analyzed using U Mann-Whitney test for independent samples.

The purpose of this study is to Using saliva stimulation to immediately improve heart failure inpatient's thirst sensation.

Feeding optimization and nutritional assessment in patients with severe heart failure are challenging. The prevalence of cardiac cachexia may be underestimated by simple measurements of body weight and body mass index because many patients show relative reductions in muscle mass despite being of normal overall weight. Body composition measurement can be essential in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients to estimate sarcopenia. Chronic heart failure patients with cardiac cachexia have a mortality two to three times higher than noncachectic patients. Bedside body composition measurements can reveal developing cardiac cachexia hence can be useful in prevention.

The primary objective of this study is to assess the clinical efficacy of AAIR (Atrial-paced Atrial-sensed Inhibitory Rate-Modulated) pacing treatment for heart failure (HF) patients with chronotropic incompetence (CI) in terms of exercise tolerance and quality of life. Specifically, the study will assess the changes in cardiac function associated with changes of physical exercise intensity and heart rate in AAIR pacing mode compared with AAI pacing mode.