Active clinical trials for "Coronary Artery Disease"

This study evaluates the impact of educative videos on anxiety for patients entering hospital for cardiology intervention

Hypothesis: the clinical outcome of patients with indication of PCI and coronary stent implantation that are at high risk of events can be improved with a widespread use of intra-coronary tools that allow a PCI optimization (i.e. functional assessment by pressure guidewire and intra-coronary imaging techniques). Objective: to evaluate whether the use of pressure guidewire and intra-coronary imaging techniques (mainly optimal coherence tomography) in patients at high risk of events undergoing coronary angiography for myocardial revascularization is associated with an improved clinical outcome in comparison with patient with angiographic alone guided cobalt-chromium everolimus-eluting coronary stenting. Methods: Prospective observational multicentric international study with a follow-up of 12 months, including 1.000 patients in 40 sites located in 3 European countries (Spain, France, and Portugal). The control group will be comprised by a similar number of matched patients included in the "extended-risk" cohort of the XIENCE V USA study. PCI will be performed following local standard protocols and accordingly to the physician criteria. The use of pressure guidewire will be recommended according to the current guidelines, in patients with angiographically intermediate lesions and in those with multivessel disease. The use of OCT will be strongly recommended, as patients included will be considered to be at high risk of events, accordingly to the current recommendations. The primary endpoint will be target lesion failure (TLF) at 1 year.

In-hospital mortality after cardiac surgery ranges from 2-6%. Many patients suffer from major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) which results in impaired disability-free survival. Troponin plays the central role in identifying MACE. However, interpretation after cardiac surgery is difficult due to ischemia-reperfusion-injury and direct surgical trauma. While the 4th universal definition of type 5 myocardial infarction uses the 10 x ULN as cut-off, >90% of patients after on-pump procedures exceed this cut-off. Clinical consequences are unclear. The dynamic of Copeptin and Heart-type fatty acid binding protein (H-FABP) concentrations starts very early, i.e. several hours before Troponin. The investigators plan a prospective multicenter cohort study to evaluate 1) the independent association between Copeptin and H-FABP with disability -free survival and MACE after cardiac surgery; 2) the predictive gain of their addition to the Euroscore II; 3) the independent association between H-FABP and acute kidney injury.

The purpose of this Registry is creating a database management that allows continuous monitoring characteristics, evolution, prognostic indicators and management of patients undergoing coronary angioplasty in Portuguese Hospitals, and identify the appropriateness of clinical and interventional practice recommendations for diagnosis and treatment of coronary disease and monitoring its evolution.

The main purpose of this study is to observe the incidence of major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE), target vessel failure (TVF), target vessel revascularization (TVR) and stent thrombosis out to 5 years after the procedure in patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with everolimus-eluting stents for unprotected left main coronary artery (ULMCA) disease and lesions involving the ULMCA in Japan. The investigators will also establish a method of adjustment to the Japanese version of the SYNTAX score by conducting an assessment using the SYNTAX score recently reported in the US and Europe as well as the EuroSCORE, and by clarifying the differences of PCI procedures and treatment results in Japan with those reported in the US and Europe.

The rationale of the present clinical trial is to study whether an invasive strategy in clinical stable patients over 80 years with NSTEMI/UAP may improve rates of death, reinfarction, stroke, need of urgent revascularisation, myocardial function and quality of life. The invasive approach involves coronary angiography with immediate evaluation for three different treatment options; 1. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), 2. Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) or 3. medical treatment. Clinical practice shows that older patients are commonly treated less vigorously than younger patients and the present guidelines are based on a considerably younger population.

The PROMUS Element™ clinical trial (PLATINUM-PLUS) consists of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in the European Union (EU) which will enroll approximately 2980 subjects (2:1 randomization PROMUS Element™: Xience™ Prime) in a Population of consecutive, all comers in the reimbursed indications per-country All subjects will be screened per the protocol required inclusion/exclusion criteria.

Development of myocardial ischemia, and/or myocarditis would induce different changes in myocardial contraction behavior pattern,which maybe very subtle, and may not be detected by the 2D and m-mode echocardiography examinations. According to tissue Doppler imaging(TDI), they can be depicted by different models of echo with higher frame rates. In addition, many studies using TDI have significantly contributed of efforts to evaluate systolic and diastolic function and prognosis. This study assess the value of the indices of left ventricular function obtained by using TDI in patient with coronary artery disease(CAD). We hypothesized that TDI will add incremental value for regional wall motion abnormality of CAD and its prognosis.

The RITMO (Registro Italiano sul trattamento del Tronco coMune non protettO) observational study will appraise the prevalence, management strategy, and prognosis of unprotected left main coronary artery disease in Italy.

It is the aim of the multi-centric and prospective registry to analyze in patients with CAD the impact of different grades of renal failure on the outcome and course of the patients and to correlate these with clinical variables. In particular, the registry has the following objectives: prospective consecutive assessment of all patients with coronary artery disease and renal failure in the participating hospitals of the registry evaluation of the outcome and course of patients with regard to their different stages of renal failure at baseline analysis of the impact of different therapeutic strategies on acute and long-term outcomes identification of clinical risk factors, novel biomarkers and genetic markers for an unfavorable long-term outcome