Active clinical trials for "Coronary Artery Disease"

The primary goal of this study is to determine the prevalence of undiagnosed asymptomatic coronary artery disease (CAD) in Kalamazoo and its neighboring areas using Coronary Computed Tomography (CCTA) and Coronary Artery Calcium Score (CACS) to assess if asymptomatic CAD is widespread enough to warrant implementation of CCTA as a routine screening tool. Additionally, this study will use the CCTA results to evaluate several methods of assessing CAD risk in the asymptomatic population including Framingham Risk Score (FRS) and Reynold's Risk Score, Biomarkers (High sensitivity C-Reactive Protein, Fibrinogen, Vertical Auto Profile, oxidized Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL), Apolipoprotein A1 (ApoA1), Apolipoprotein B1 (ApoB1), Vitamin D, Homocysteine) as well as a large panel of genetic markers of atherosclerosis and dyslipidemia.

Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of death in the western world. Myocardial infarction pathogenesis usually involves the development of an atherosclerotic plaque and thrombus. Past research has shown a correlation between thrombin generation values and ischemic heart disease, however, to our knowledge no investigation has been done into the correlation of thrombin generation and cardiac catheterization results in ischemic heart disease patients. In the current research the investigator will investigate the correlation of thrombin generation values using calibrated automated thrombogram and cardiac catheterization results in active ischemic heart disease patients.

Analysis of certain biomarkers and transient myocardial perfusion deficit revealed by myocardial perfusion scintigraphy.

Lesions involving coronary bifurcations account for approximately 20% of all percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). Revascularization within bifurcation sites remains technically challenging. While the most optimal interventional treatment strategy for bifurcation lesions is still debatable, side branch (SB) occlusion is one of the most serious procedural complications with prevalence rates over 7%. Numerous mechanisms of the SB occlusion (e.g. plaque or carina shift, coronary artery dissection, thromboembolism, coronary artery spasm, etc) have been postulated. Regardless of the cause, loss of the SB is associated with increased risk of periprocedural mortality and myocardial infarction. Therefore, PCI involving coronary bifurcation mandates consideration of the risk of SB compromise. The CT-PRECISION (Computed Tomography angiography PREdiCtIon score for SIde branch Occlusion in coronary bifurcation interventioN) registry was designed to evaluate the application of coronary computed tomography angiography (coronary CTA) for the prediction of SB occlusion during percutaneous revascularization of bifurcation lesions. The main purpose of this single-center study is to develop a noninvasive CTA-based prediction tool to determine the procedural outcome of PCI in bifurcation lesions.

During coronary artery bypass surgery, myocardial protection, especially of the right ventricle, may be inadequate in the presence of severe coronary lesions that obstruct the antegrade delivery of cold cardioplegia

The study will estimate the current status of participants with non-obstructive coronary artery disease confirmed via coronary angiography.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) occurs less frequently in women than in juvenile men.Frequently the estrogen deficiency associated with the menopausal state affects cardiovascular outcomes. In fact, in the post-menopausal state, even younger women may experience an increase in the rate of ischemic heart disease (IHD). On the other hand, CVD may also occur in premenopausal young women, due to not well known and/or not clearly investigated mechanisms. In addition, pre-menopausal women with IHD show atypical symptoms and more frequently myocardial infarction vs. angina pectoris. In detail, in these patients IHD is frequently due to mono-vessel coronary heart disease, and to the presence of cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia and type 2 diabetes. So, it is clear that all these pro-atherogenic risk factors which lead to IHD in women, are significantly lower in the pre-menopausal vs. post-menopausal patients. However, the causes leading to IHD and acute coronary events in pre-menopausal women remain poorly understood and poorly investigated, and these factors might be different from the traditional coronary risk factors evident in the general population. In this context, recently some authors have shown that subcutaneous abdominal fat affects cardiovascular performance at 1 year of follow-up in patients with normoglycemia vs. pre-diabetic. Therefore, here authors can hypothesize that in a population of female subjects, the fat tissue present in the mammary gland and the different degrees of mammary adipocyte infiltration can somehow invalidate the number of cardiovascular events in women of childbearing age. In detail, the different distribution of adipose tissue in the mammary gland can influence the density of the breast, as studied by mammographic examination, which is used to divide breast density into 4 different categories: Category A: the breast is represented by 80% of adipose tissue and less than 20% by fibro-glandular tissue. Category B: the breast is represented by adipose tissue in the range of 50-75% and for the rest by fibro-glandular tissue. Category C: the breast is represented by fatty tissuein the range 25-50% and the rest is from fibro-glandular tissue Category D: the breast is represented by almost entirely fibro-glandular tissue. Therefore, in the present study authors correlated the 4 different breast categories with CVD and 10-year follow-up IHD in women of child-bearing age. In fact, according to authors' opinion, a breast with higher fat density (category A) might influence the number of adverse cardiovascular events at 10-year follow-up in asymptomatic women. Thus, pre-menopausal women with breast tissue in category A ("fatty breast") as compared to women with prevalence of fibro-glandular tissue ("non-fatty breast") may have a higher frequency of adverse cardiac ischemic events at 10 years of follow-up. On the other hand, the molecular pathways implied in worse CVD in these cohorts of women are not fully investigated. Furthermore, the authors aimed to investigate the expression of inflammatory cytokines and sodium glucose transporter 2 (SGLT2) protein expression, as markers of over-inflammation, at level of breast gland in these cohorts of women. Thus, these markers were analyzed in the breast fat tissue excissed from the fatty vs. non-fatty breast women.

This study is designed as a prospective study to capture data for evaluating the repeatability and reproducibility of the CADence™ System. The study will be conducted at 3 different study sites using 6 CADence™ systems. Each subject will be tested 4 separate times by 2 different operators at each site and will be tested at all 3 site locations in order to accomplish this evaluation. The study will enroll a total of at least 24 CADence positive patients and at least 24 CADence negative patients.

Mental disorders have been shown to be associated with a number of general medical conditions (also referred to as somatic or physical conditions). The investigators aim to undertake a comprehensive study of comorbidity among those with treated mental disorders, by using high-quality Danish registers to provide age- and sex-specific pairwise estimates between the ten groups of mental disorders and nine groups of general medical conditions. The investigators will examine the association between all 90 possible pairs of prior mental disorders and later GMC categories using the Danish national registers. Depending on whether individuals are diagnosed with a specific mental disorder, the investigators will estimate the risk of receiving a later diagnosis within a specific GMC category, between the start of follow-up (January 1, 2000) or at the earliest age at which a person might develop the mental disorder, whichever comes later. Follow-up will be terminated at onset of the GMC, death, emigration from Denmark, or December 31, 2016, whichever came first. Additionally for dyslipidemia, follow-up will be ended if a diagnosis of ischemic heart disease was received. A "wash-out" period will be employed in the five years before follow-up started (1995-1999), to identify and exclude prevalent cases from the analysis. Individuals with the GMC of interest before the observation period will be considered prevalent cases and excluded from the analyses (i.e. prevalent cases were "washed-out"). When estimating the risk of a specific GMC, the investigators will consider all individuals to be exposed or unexposed to the each mental disorder depending on whether a diagnosis is received before the end of follow-up. Persons will be considered unexposed to a mental disorder until the date of the first diagnosis, and exposed thereafter.

This study evaluates Ten-Year Outcomes of PREmier of Randomized Comparison of Sirolimus-Eluting Stent Implantation Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery for Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis(PRECOMBAT trial).