Active clinical trials for "Coronary Disease"

The purpose of this study is to compare two ways to treat patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Standard Care or Case-Managed Care. In-Patient Standard Care is guided by the assigned cardiologist and Out-Patient Standard Care by the existing diabetes care givers. Case-Managed care involves a consult with an endocrinologist and counseling from a diabetic educator and a dietician.

Abstract Cardiac surgery in adults is associated with the occurrence of post-operative complications. Even minor complications can increase the cost of their treatment. Given the potentially preventable nature of a number of these postoperative complications, preventive methods should be used to improve outcomes after cardiac surgery. One of them, is the choice of anaesthetic technique. Objectives: To evaluate the effects of sevoflurane, isoflurane and propofol on blood oxygen transport function and body energy expenditure during cardiac surgery in adults. Materials and methods. A total of 90 patients were included in the study. All patients were divided into 3 groups: 1- (n=30) included patients who were anesthetized with propofol. The second group (n=30) consisted of patients who underwent sevoflurane inhalation anaesthesia. Group 3 (n=30) was treated with isoflurane. All patients underwent coronary artery bypass grafting under cardiopulmonary bypass.

The study is planned to be conducted as a two-group randomized controlled trial to determine the effect of lavender inhalation on individuals with coronary heart disease. Research data will be collected at Çukurova University Medical Faculty Balcalı Hospital Cardiology Clinic between January-June 2023. In the study, at least 56 samples were found to be sufficient for the sample size. The data of the study will be collected using the Personal Information Form and the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index.

The investigators are studying whether anti-inflammatory agents can improve abnormal coronary artery function in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and abnormal coronary artery endothelial function.

The purpose of this study is to examine the acute effect of exercise on vascular function in women with nonobstructive coronary artery disease.

Patients with an impaired blood supply of the heart routinely receive oxygen in order to improve or preserve the oxygen supply of the heart muscle in acute cardiac care. In recent studies a new innovative MRI-technique that can detect changes in oxygen supply of the heart was able to show that the administration of oxygen or fast breathing can decrease the blood supply of the arteries supplying the heart muscle with oxygen. Thus, the administration of oxygen may paradoxically impair the oxygen supply of the heart muscle. In this study the investigators want to investigate, whether the administration of exogenous oxygen via a mask alone and in combination with fast breathing leads to a decrease in oxygen supply in regions with already impaired blood supply by a narrowing of a coronary artery of the heart.

Endothelial dysfunction is an important predictor - and a determinant - of adverse clinical outcome. Endothelial function is impaired by coronary artery stenting, a stud from our group has shown that it can be improved by platelet inhibition using clopidogrel. However, clopidogrel unresponsiveness is a known problem, and it has been show that the endothelial effects of clopidogrel tend to wane upon prolonged treatment. Whether a more effective anti-platelet therapy is able to prevent/improve not only thrombotic events but also endothelial dysfunction, with potential positive impact on clinical outcome in patients undergoing coronary artery stenting, is an important hypothesis that needs to be further investigated. To date, evidence regarding "ancillary" (non-platelet-dependent) effects of antiaggregant drugs is very limited. For instance, while their antiplatelet effects, and their beneficial effects in patients with acute coronary syndromes, have been clearly demonstrated in multicentric trials, it remains to be shown whether these drugs also protect endothelial function. Interestingly, some authors suggest that the mortality benefit observed in the PLATO study is at least in part independent of direct antiplatelet effects. No study, to date, has tested the effects of prasugrel and/or ticagrelor on endothelial function. With the present trial, the investigators plan to test the effect of clopidogrel, prasugrel and ticagrelor on endothelial function before and up to 4 weeks after coronary artery stenting. This study will provide important pathophysiologic insight on the relationship between platelet aggregation and endothelial function, two parameters that have been shown to influence patients' prognosis.

To demonstrate that patients treated with cangrelor can be directly switched to oral ticagrelor and that patients treated with ticagrelor can be switched to cangrelor without a significant decrease in the extent of inhibition of platelet aggregation.

Coronary vascular dysfunction is highly prevalent among patients with known or suspected Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)1, increases the severity of inducible myocardial ischemia (beyond the effects of upstream coronary obstruction)2, and identifies patients at high risk for serious adverse events, including cardiac death1, 3-5. Diabetic patients without known CAD with impaired coronary vascular function show a risk of cardiac death comparable to, and possibly higher, than that for non-diabetic patients with known CAD10. In the setting of increased oxygen demand, coronary vasodilator dysfunction can upset the supply-demand relationship and lead to myocardial ischemia, subclinical left ventricular dysfunction (diastolic and systolic), and symptoms. The significance of microvascular coronary dysfunction is increasingly recognized as invasive and non-invasive (PET) methods of quantifying CFR become available. Importantly, current treatment strategies for obstructive CAD, such as percutaneous coronary intervention with angioplasty and stenting, are not helpful in microvascular disease. Similarly, mortality-altering treatments for systolic heart failure, such as angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, have not been beneficial in treating diastolic dysfunction.

To evaluate the safety and efficacy of the Absorb BVS System compared to the XIENCE V Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System (EECSS) in the treatment of subjects with ischemic heart disease caused by up to two de novo native coronary artery lesions in separate epicardial vessels.