Active clinical trials for "Coronary Disease"

MeRes-1 Extend study is designed as prospective, multinational, multicentre, single arm, open label, pilot study to assess the safety and performance of the MeRes100 Sirolimus Eluting Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold System (BRS) in subjects with de novo native coronary artery lesions. 64 subjects will be enrolled from the 8 centers located in Asia Pacific, Europe, Brazil and South Africa. Primary outcome of study will be Proportion of population reporting Major Adverse Cardiac Events at 6 months from the day of index Procedure.

The Stenting of Renal Artery Stenosis in Coronary Artery Disease (RASCAD) study is a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the effect of renal artery stenting+medical therapy versus medical therapy alone on left ventricular mass progression and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients affected by coronary artery disease and renal artery stenosis.

In recent years numerous studies have shown that the response of patients to the anti-platelet drug clopidogrel is widely variable. Furthermore, patients who do not respond well to the drug ("resistant") have been shown to be at increased risk to develop cardiac events, including myocardial infarction and mortality. It thus seems reasonable to test the efficacy of the drug (by platelet function tests) and modify treatment accordingly. However, a large study that examined a strategy of routine testing of clopidogrel response in thousands of patients (GRAVITAS study) did not show any clinical benefit. This study was limited, however, by a very low event rate (2.3%), and by the strategy employed to treat patients with low response (increasing the clopidogrel dose), which is currently known to be ineffective in many patients with low response. To overcome these limitations the investigators plan to examine a high risk population - patients with diabetes planned to undergo coronary angiography - and to treat clopidogrel low responders by switching their treatment to the potent anti-platelet drug ticagrelor, which has been shown to overcome clopidogrel low response. The investigators hypothesize that patients with diabetes and low response to clopidogrel will benefit clinically from switching therapy to ticagrelor. The main endpoint of the study will be the risk of myocardial enzyme elevation following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI); a marker which has been strongly associated with poor clinical outcome. The aim of the study is, therefore, to assess whether a strategy of monitoring platelet function during clopidogrel treatment in patients with diabetes undergoing PCI, and modifying treatment to ticagrelor in patients with low response, will be associated with reduced risk of myocardial enzyme release. The investigators plan to enroll patients with treated diabetes, planned to undergo coronary angiography. Patients with acute or recent myocardial infarction will be excluded. They will be tested for response to clopidogrel by the VerifyNow P2Y12 assay (either on chronic clopidogrel treatment or 12-24 hours after receiving 300 mg clopidogrel). Patients with low response to clopidogrel (≥ 208 PRU) will be randomized to either continued treatment with clopidogrel (75 mg/day), or switching of treatment to ticagrelor (90 mg twice a day) for 30 days (followed by continued clopidogrel therapy). The primary endpoint will be the rate of troponin of CK-MB (cardiac enzymes) measured 20-24 hours after the PCI. Secondary endpoints will be the occurrence of adverse clinical endpoints - myocardial infarction, need for urgent revascularization or mortality at 30 days. The investigators aim to enroll 100 patients in each study group (ticagrelor vs. continued clopidogrel). Assuming a clopidogrel low response rate of 40% among patients with diabetes, about 500 patients would have to be screened to identify 200 patients with low response.

Coronary disease is one of the most frequent pathology of the modern world and the leading cause of death in the investigators country. In Spain more than 50.000 coronary percutaneous intervention and more than 5.000 coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures are performed every year. Despite this data about 12% of patients have diffuse coronary disease and are not candidates to conventional therapies. Also between 15-25% of patients undergoing coronary bypass grafting receive an incomplete revascularization due to the poor quality of the coronary vessels. Transmyocardial revascularization (TMR) is a surgical procedure that uses a laser to create channels through the myocardial, so this laser stimulates local angiogenesis and provides blood in the ischemic area. Results of this procedure have shown clear benefits in terms of reduction of angina and increase of survival of patients, compared to medical treatment. Cell therapy in heart disease is offering in recent years encouraging results despite the methodological difficulties that being able to use this technique sometimes involves. The basis lies in the potential ability of stem cells to differentiate into any type of adult cell. In the case of cardiac cell therapy, stem cells can differentiate into myocardial cells or vascular cells capable of developing angiogenesis. Further studies are needed to draw firm conclusions about the clinical impact that the use of stem cells has on cardiovascular disease. Recently a system has been developed to create, at the same time and in a simple and effective way, the laser channels and the introduction of stem cells on the edges of these channels. This system called PHOENIX ™ consists of a laser probe capable of creating transmural channels in the myocardium. Based on the what has just been explained, it is quite possible that the combination of both therapies can increase successful results regarding the reduction in angina these patients need. Initially, and after having some experience with this type of treatment, the results could be analyzed and compared with the results obtained through laser therapy, with the help of a controlled clinical trial, such as the one the investigators are proposing.

The present study is designed as a prospective, single centre, open label, observational trial. The study will collect information about the medical care patients receive during their planned procedure(s). No new testing or procedures will be done. Patients elected for hybrid revascularization will be asked their written consent to the use of their personal data. Left internal mammary artery to the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery (LIMA-LAD)surgical revascularization will be performed first, followed by percutaneous revascularization of the other vessels in the frame of the same hospitalization. After discharge patients will attend clinic visits at 30 days and 12 months, as per usual clinical practice, and will be contacted by phone at 6 months after procedure. Angiographic follow-up will be performed in symptomatic patients, as clinically indicated.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of steady-state varenicline on the antiplatelet action of clopidogrel in patients with coronary artery disease.

The purpose of this study is to determine the level of inhibition of platelet activation of an approved thienopyridine(clopidogrel or prasugrel) and aspirin regimen in the setting of drug eluting coronary stent implantation. In subjects with high residual levels of platelet reactivity after receiving either a maintenance or loading dose of either clopidogrel or prasugrel, a cross over of thienopyridine treatment to the alternate medication will occur. The study tests the hypothesis that adequate platelet inhibition will occur in subjects who have high levels of platelet reactivity and are subsequently switched from clopidogrel to prasugrel(loading or maintenance dose) without increased episodes of bleeding or MACE events at discharge and 30 days post Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI).

Objectives To compare the safety and long-term effectiveness of coronary stenting with the new platform Everolimus-Eluting coronary stenting system (EECSS, Promus Element) compared with the Zotarolimus-Eluting coronary stenting system (ZECSS, Endeavor Resolute) in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) To determine the short-term efficacy and safety of triple anti-platelet therapy (TAT, Aspirin 100mg qd, Clopidogrel 75mg qd and Cilostazol 100mg bid) compared with double-dose clopidogrel dual anti-platelet therapy (DDAT, Aspirin 100mg qd and Clopidogrel 150mg qd) in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents (DES) Study design Prospective, open-label, 2-by-2 multifactorial, randomized, multicenter trial to test the following in CHD patients Non-inferiority of Promus Element stent compared with Endeavor Resolute stent in reducing target lesion failure (TLF) Non-inferiority of TAT compared with DDAT in reducing net clinical outcome Patients will be randomized in a 2-by-2 factorial manner according to the type of drug eluting stent (EECSS vs. ZECSS) and the type anti-platelet regimen (TAT vs. DDAT). Randomization will also be stratified per presence of DM. Patient enrollment 3750 patients enrolled at 50 centers in Republic of Korea Patient follow-up Clinical follow-up will occur at 1, 3, 12, 24, 36 months after the procedure. Angiographical follow-up will be recommended to all participants at 13 months after the procedure. Investigator or designee may conduct follow-up as telephone contacts or office visits. Primary endpoint Target lesion failure (TLF), defined as a composite of cardiac death, target vessel-related myocardial infarction (MI) and ischemia-driven target lesion revascularization (TLR) up to 12 months for the stent arm Net clinical outcome, defined as a composite of cardiac death, nonfatal MI, CVA and major bleeding by PLATO criteria at 1 month for the anti-platelet arm

The purpose of this study is to discover genes that may cause Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) or Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM).

This study will demonstrate whether patients with prognostically-significant myocardial abnormalities detected with AI-700 contrast ECHO have a rate of cardiac death or MI that is higher than that of patients with normal AI-700 contrast ECHO.