Active clinical trials for "Heart Failure"

This study is designed to determine if a relationship exists between problems with memory, attention, learning, insight and executive function and self management in heart failure.

The study was designed to study the utility of meta-iodobenzylguanidine (123I-mIBG) imaging to identify those participants with heart failure who would experience an adverse cardiac event during 24 months of follow-up from the administration date of 123I-mIBG in previous studies MBG311 or MBG312.

Evaluate long-term performance of the 4195 LV Lead. This evaluation is based on the number of lead-related complications occuring during the study compared to the number of leads enrolled in the study. The leads will be followed for 5 years after implant. This study is required by FDA as a condition of approval of the Model 4195 LV Lead and is integrated within Medtronic's post-market surveillance platform.

This study provides a continued access registry for cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillation (CRT-D), which helps to resynchronize (coordinate) the rhythm of the heart by helping the left ventricle contract (pump blood) more uniformly, in patients with severe heart failure (New York Heart Association [NYHA] Class III or IV). Quality of life, adverse events and device success will be analyzed and reported.

This is a multi-center, non-randomized study designed to develop an external monitor for CHF patients.

Congestive heart failure is a condition in which the heart is weakened and is unable to pump enough blood to the organs of the body to meet the demands of the body. At times there may be a buildup of fluid in the lungs, legs or other parts of the body. The accumulation of this fluid has been shown to affect the resistance to flow of the electrical impulses generated in the heart. The purpose of this study is to correlate measurements to the passive flow of electricity generated by the heart within the chest (as measured by the Optivol TFS System) with measurements of the volume of blood in the body.

Dyspnea is a frequent symptom in patients admitted to the Emergency Department (ED); discriminating between cardiogenic and non-cardiogenic dyspnea is a common clinical dilemma. The initial diagnostic work-out is often not very accurate in defining the etiology and the underlying pathophysiology. In the last years, lung ultrasound (US) has emerged as a useful real-time bedside diagnostic tool in the critical patient. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy, reproducibility, and diagnostic impact of pleural and lung US, performed by emergency physicians at the time of patient first presentation to the ED, in identifying cardiac causes of acute dyspnea.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate an approved, portable device for assessing Sleep Disordered Breathing in Congestive Heart Failure.

Our purpose is to evaluate the reliability and validity of the '5th vital sign' in everyday practice settings and to compare the relationship of pain to other symptoms and pain treatment in patients with cancer, CHF, and patients with complex general medical illness and poor self-reported health.

To understand how depression leads to congestive heart failure (CHF) in older adults.