Active clinical trials for "Heart Failure"

The investigators wish to investigate wether a more strict diabetic control improves cardiac function, muscle strength, exercise capacity and decreases symptoms. The investigators hypothesis is that improving the glycemic control in suboptimized diabetics with heart failure will improve cardiac performance, muscle strength, exercise capacity and decrease symptoms.

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

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.

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.

Study Purpose The purpose of the BeneMACS Long-Term LVAD Study is to demonstrate that survival in non transplant patients implanted with the HeartMate II LVAD as destination therapy in Belgium and the Netherlands are equivalent to or better than published results in the scientific literature with approved devices. Implants will be performed following the HeartMate II guidelines. Characterization of Patient Population The HeartMate II will be implanted as destination therapy in patients who are not candidates for cardiac transplantation. Study Design The study is a prospective, non-randomized, non-blinded multi-center study with historical control. The study will consist of the assignment of eligible patients to treatment with the LVAD. The first 10 patients to have the device implanted will be enrolled in the study. Study End point Patients enrolled in the study will be followed until end points defined as death, 2-year support on the HeartMate II, device removal, transplantation, or recovery. Data Collection and Follow-up All data will be entered into INTERMACS® through their web-based data entry system. All data for the BeneMACs study will be held separately from the main INTERMACS database, and used only for the purpose of the BeneMACs study. Investigator sites Cliniques Universitaires St. Luc, Avenue Hippocrates 10, 1200 Brussels, Belgium Leuven Gasthuisberg University Hospital, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

This study examines whether a permanent stimulation of the diaphragm improves left ventricular function in patients with severe heart failure following heart surgery.

In this open, prospective, randomized, parallel group, German-American, two-center, Phase I study the standard-approach CRT-implantation will be compared to a guided CRT-implantation after determining the site of latest contraction and placement of the electrode as close as possible to this site, using a 5-step-scheme of imaging methods determining the site of latest contraction prior to implantation.

This is an open-label, long term compassionate use study of 125 mg per day of azimilide 2HCl in a patient who completed two other protocols (2000098 and 2001060.

The randomized patients with acute heart failure will be stratified based on the presence or absence of a Swan-Ganz catheter and assigned to receive either tezosentan 5 mg/h for the first 30 minutes and 1 mg/h thereafter or matching placebo in a 1:1 manner. The duration of the treatment is 24 hours up to 72 hours. The duration of the follow-up period is 30 days after treatment initiation for death, re-hospitalizations and SAEs followed by a follow-up period of 5 months for vital status.