Active clinical trials for "Coronary Artery Disease"

Preliminary experiences show that IVL is promising for achieving an effective plaque modification at time of PCI. However, uncertainty about the optimal tool to select in case of calcification of coronary lesions exists, as no randomized comparisons between rotational atherectomy and intravascular lithotripsy have been carried out so far. The aim of this pilot randomized trial is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intensive plaque modification with rotational atherectomy vs. intravascular lithotripsy before placement of a drug-eluting stent.

This study was a multicenter retrospective study that included intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) in patients with delayed stent insertion based on fractional flow reserve (FFR) in moderately narrowed coronary lesions. We would like to see the effect of lesion characteristics on clinical course.

Rotational atherectomy (RA) facilitates percutaneous coronary intervention for complex de novo lesions with severe calcification. Some observational studies and a small randomized trial indicated that a strategy of routine RA did not conferred reduction in restenosis or MACE, but these studies are limited by missing follow-up, insufficient power to compare outcomes, and confounding factors in the RA group (long lesion length, etc.). With recent developments in medical therapy, advances in design and delivery of drug-eluting stents (DES), and advances in noninvasive and intravascular coronary imaging, the use of RA in current real-world practice remains to be well determined. We aimed to compile real-world clinical outcomes data for the RotablatorTM Rotational Atherectomy System in routine clinical practice in China.

In a double-blinded randomized clinical trial, all patients undergoing coronary artery catheterization who will met our criteria, will be enrolled into three groups to receive either, vitamin e, n-acetylcysteine, or placebo. The aim of study will be to compare the superiority of vitamin e over n-acetylcysteine for the prevention of contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CIAKI).

This study will evaluate the effect of a cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programme on blood protein molecules that may improve the function of arteries in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients who have suffered a heart attack. CAD patients who have either agreed or disagreed to take part in a CR programme will be recruited. This will allow a comparison of the study measurements between a group of patients who complete a CR programme and a group of patients who do not. The other objective of this study is to perform interviews with the study participants and their significant others (i.e. spouse, family member, or a close friend) to listen to the reasons why patients agreed or disagreed to take part in a CR programme.

Improving physical activity is a core component of secondary prevention and cardiac (tele)rehabilitation. Commercially available activity trackers are frequently used to monitor and promote physical activity in cardiac patients. However studies on the validity of these devices in cardiac patients are scarce. The aim of this study is to determine the accuracy and responsiveness of two wrist-worn activity trackers, Fitbit Charge 2 (FC2) and Mio Slice (MS), for the assessment of energy expenditure (EE) in cardiac patients.

Introduction: The distal radial technique which consists of canalizing the radial artery through the anatomical snuffbox has recently emerged as an alternative arterial intervention for diagnostic and therapeutic coronary catheterization. Aims: To evaluate the feasibility and safety of the distal transradial approach (dTRA) as a default route for coronary angiography (CAG) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

The aim of this project is to study the safety and efficacy of anthocyanins in improving key dementia-related mechanisms and cognitive functioning in older people at risk for dementia. Secondary analyses will include a variety of biological measures, including biochemistry, imaging and cardiovascular measures.

Atherosclerosis is accompanied by microvascular dysfunction (an impairment of blood vessels to dilate or constrict in response to demand). The ability to reliably measure microvascular dysfunction would help identify patients at risk of myocardial infarction and test new treatments. All existing measures of microvascular dysfunction suffer significant limitations. Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) is an imaging method that uses an infrared light-source and detector (called optodes) to painlessly shines light into tissue and collect reflected light at different wavelengths. This data allows quantification of the amount of haemoglobin (blood) in the tissue and whether it is oxygenated or de-oxygenated. Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is a powerful analysis technique for data collected from multiple NIRH optodes. Unlike most NIRS studies that use a single pair of optodes and collects a single datapoint for each wavelength over time, DOT allows three-dimensional spatial reconstruction of haemodynamic and anatomic changes in a large region of tissue over time. In preliminary work DOT had the potential to measure forearm reactive hyperaemia, a key indicator of microvascular function. Team will test whether DOT can detect differences between patients and healthy volunteers. In this work, 30 patients will be recruited with type 2 diabetes, 30 patients who have had a previous myocardial infarction and 30 healthy volunteers. The Investigator will also recruit 50 patients who are on waiting lists for coronary angiography. The DOT will be used to measure participants' microvascular function after brachial artery occlusion by a blood pressure cuff. The Investigator will then examine whether DOT can detect differences between healthy volunteers, diabetics, and patients with a previous heart attack, and whether DOT is able to predict existence of coronary artery disease on angiography. If successful, DOT can be developed for assessment of microvascular function to the point where it could be applied to clinical studies.

This is a prospective, observational, single-center, single-arm, clinical trial designed to assess the efficacy of FFRangio in measuring FFR obtained from angiography compared to Invasive FFR for diagnosing hemodynamically significant coronary stenosis in Multi-Vessel Disease.