Active clinical trials for "Heart Failure"

To assess a new drug, BAY94-8862, given orally at different doses, to evaluate whether it was safe and can help the well-being of patients with worsening chronic heart failure and either type II diabetes with or without chronic kidney disease or kidney disease alone. These treatment doses were compared to eplerenone, another marketed drug approved to treat heart failure.

The aim of this study is to investigate whether the use of a simple feature on the 12 lead electrocardiogram (ECG) to optimise pacemaker device programming can have clinically relevant benefit to patient management. More specifically it is to investigate whether using the R-wave in V1 of the surface ECG to guide the timings between left (LV) and right ventricular (RV) pacing improves response to Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy.

The purpose of this trial is to assess whether MYDICAR can reduce the frequency and/or delay heart failure related hospitalizations in persons with advanced heart failure when added to their maximal and optimized therapy.

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that QuickOpt optimization can be as an alternative method for CRTP/D patients' optimization in clinical practice through the comparison of the improvement differences between the CRTP/D patients with different optimization at 12 months after implantation.The hypothesis is that the Heart Remolding parameter (LVESV) improvement of patients using QuickOpt parameters at 12 months after implant is not inferior (10%) to the patients by Echo optimization。

The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) as a chronic therapy for systolic heart failure.

It's the aim of this study to analyze the benefit of personal patient / physician contacts in heart failure patients with remotely monitored implanted cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) or ICD with cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT-D). The personal follow up (in clinic or phone calls) will be compared to completely automatic remote follow ups. All patients will receive remote monitoring for automatic daily alarm checks and will undergo in clinic follow ups in 12 months intervals

New simpler methods to optimize cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) are being evaluated, such as the use of the electrocardiogram. In this prospective, double-blind, study, the investigators will evaluate: Primary endpoint: To compare the clinical response to CRT in patients with the programming optimized by QRS versus the nominal suggested by the device. Secondary endpoints: To compare cardiac remodeling in patients with the programming optimized by QRS versus the nominal suggested by the device. To evaluate the degree of asynchrony in both groups (nominal versus optimization by QRS) with respect to the intrinsic rhythm. To evaluate the echocardiographic improvement in left ventricular (LV) filling in both groups. To evaluate the differences in the optimal atrioventricular (AV) delay with atrial sensing or atrial pacing. For that, 180 patients with an indication for CRT will be randomized to nominal programming of the device or optimization by the electrocardiogram for a narrower QRS. A clinical and echocardiographic evaluation will be done at baseline, 6 and 12 months.

The aim of this study is to determine whether supplementation of glutamine and fish oil can improve peripheral skeletal muscle function and metabolism in patients with heart failure. The investigators propose a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study comparing the combined supplementation of fish oil and glutamine with placebo in patients with stable heart failure. 30 patients with heart failure will be randomized to either receiving 6.5 g fish oil/d and 8 g glutamine/d (n=15) or placebo (n=15) for 90 days. The primary outcome in this study is the change in muscle functional capacity measured as changes in maximum muscle strength and fatigability, peak VO2 and exercise time after supplementation. A secondary outcome is the measurement of systemic and local markers of inflammation.

In this proposal,the investigators will examine whether the selectivity of eplerenone for the MR will translate into a better glucose and metabolic profile compare to spironolactone in patients with HF with glucose intolerance or type 2 diabetes. In addition, the investigators will also compare the impact of these two agents on changes of concentrations of established prognostic biomarkers of neurohormonal activation and extracellular matrix turnover.

Current recommendations require a QRS duration of ≥120ms as a condition for prescribing cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). This study was designed to test the hypothesis that patients with heart failure of ischemic origin, current indications for defibrillator implantation and QRS <120ms may benefit from CRT in the presence of marked mechanical dyssynchrony.