Active clinical trials for "Myocardial Infarction"

This will be the first clinical trial to include a strategy designed to enhance the function of autologous progenitor cells by overexpressing eNOS, and the first to use combination gene and cell therapy for the treatment of cardiac disease.

This study will assess the effect of lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) with evolocumab on major cardiovascular events in adults without a prior myocardial infarction (MI) or stroke who are at high risk of a cardiovascular event.

Myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries" (MINOCA) occurs in 5-10% of all patients with AMI. There are neither any randomized clinical trials in MINOCA patients evaluating effects of secondary preventive treatments proven beneficial in patients with classic AMI, nor any treatment guidelines. The primary objective of this multi-national, multi-center pragmatic randomized clinical trial is to determine whether oral beta-blockade compared to no oral beta-blockade, and whether Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors (ACEI/ Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARB) compared to no ACEI/ARB, reduce the composite endpoint of death of any cause and readmission because of AMI, ischemic stroke or heart failure in patients discharged with myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary artery disease (MINOCA) and with no clinical signs of heart failure and with left ventricular (LV) systolic ejection fraction ≥40%.

Elderly patients presenting with myocardial infarction (MI) and multivessel disease are the highest risk population with the worst prognosis. No trial has ever been designed to optimize their outcome. The actual real-life standard of care is, in the best of the cases, culprit only revascularization. However, real-life registries show that outcome of MI elderly patients treated with this strategy is far from being optimal with at least a 15% rate of cardiac death or myocardial infarction at 1 year. To date, studies on this population have been focused on devices (bare metal stent vs biodegradable drug eluting stent) or on dual antiplatelet regimen (long vs short) and no study was focused on evaluating if complete revascularization is able to improve the prognosis in these patients. The contemporary complete revascularization is represented by a functionally-driven revascularization that recently showed to significantly reduce myocardial infarction rate and outperformed an angio-complete revascularization. Thus, our hypothesis is that a functionally-driven complete revascularization in elderly patients with MI and multivessel disease may improve prognosis compared to the actual standard of care in these patients, namely culprit only revascularization. Being a "strategy" trial, we identified the patient-oriented composite endpoint (POCE) as primary outcome of interest (all cause death, any MI, any stroke, any revascularization). Several pre-specified substudies have been planned. A detailed list of the substudies is available in the website of the trial (http://www.thefiretrial.com)

MINT: A pilot, multi-centre, open-label randomized controlled trial of two commonly used transfusion strategies in patients with myocardial infarction.

In acute myocardial infarction, early restoration of epicardial and myocardial blood flow is of paramount importance to limit infarction size and create optimum conditions for favourable long-term outcome. Currently, restoration of epicardial blood flow is preferably and effectively obtained by primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI). After opening the occluded artery, however, the reperfusion process itself causes damage to the myocardium, the so called "reperfusion injury". The phenomenon of reperfusion injury is incompletely understood and currently there is no established therapy for preventing it. Contributory factors are intramyocardial edema with compression of the microvasculature, oxidative stress, calcium overload, mitochondrial transition pore opening, micro embolization, neutrophil plugging and hyper contracture. This results in myocardial stunning, reperfusion arrhythmias and ongoing myocardial necrosis. There is general agreement that a large part of the cell death caused by myocardial reperfusion injury occurs during the first few minutes of reperfusion, and that early treatment is required to prevent it. Myocardial hypothermia may attenuate the pathological mechanisms mentioned above. However, limited data are available on the beneficial effects of hypothermia to protect the myocardium from reperfusion damage. In animals, several studies demonstrated a protective effect of hypothermia on the infarction area. This effect was only noted when hypothermia was established before reperfusion. Hypothermia is therefore thought to attenuate several damaging acute reperfusion processes such as oxidative stress, release of cytokines and development of interstitial or cellular edema. Furthermore, it has been shown that induced hypothermia resulted in increased ATP-preservation in the ischemic myocardium compared to normothermia. The intracoronary use of hypothermia by infused cold saline in pigs was demonstrated to be safe by Otake et al. In their study, saline of 4°C was used without complications (such as vasospasm, hemodynamic instability or bradycardia) and it even attenuated ventricular arrhythmia significantly. Studies in humans, however, have not been able to confirm this effect, which is believed to be mainly due to the fact that the therapeutic temperature could not reached before reperfusion in the majority of patients or not achieved at all. Furthermore, in these studies it was intended to induce total body hypothermia, which in turn may lead to systemic reactions such as shivering and enhanced adrenergic state often requiring sedatives, which may necessitate artificial ventilation. In fact, up to now any attempt to achieve therapeutic myocardial hypothermia in humans with myocardial infarction, is fundamentally limited because of four reasons: Inability to cool the myocardium timely, i.e. before reperfusion Inability to cool the diseased myocardium selectively Inability to achieve an adequate decrease of temperature quick enough Inability to achieve an adequate decrease of temperature large enough Consequently, every attempt to achieve effective hypothermia in ST-segment myocardial infarction in humans has been severely hampered and was inadequate. In the last two years, the investigators have developed a methodology overcoming all of the limitations mentioned above. At first, the investigators have tested that methodology in isolated beating pig hearts with coronary artery occlusion and next, the investigators have tested the safety and feasibility of this methodology in humans. Therefore, the time has come to perform a proof-of-principle study in humans, which is the subject of this protocol.

The trial aims to estimate the efficacy and safety of the intracoronary administration of adrenalin, verapamil, as well as their combination compared to standard treatment in patients with STEMI and refractory coronary no-reflow despite conventional treatment during percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI)

A Phase IIB Parallel group Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of MEDI6570 in Participants with a Prior Myocardial Infarction.

This study is to assess LDL-C reductions at Week 52 with monthly (Q4W [≤31 days]) dosing of LIB003 (lerodalcibep) 300 mg administered subcutaneously (SC) compared to placebo in patients with CVD, or at high risk for CVD, on a stable diet and oral LDL-C lowering drug therapy

The DOCTORS-LM study will investigate the impact of using optical coherence tomography (OCT) to guide the procedure in angioplasty of lesions of the left main stem responsible for myocardial ischemia.