Active clinical trials for "Heart Failure"

In this study, the investigators will conduct a randomized, controlled trial to evaluate the impact of offering mobile secure text messaging on clinical outcomes.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the clinical utility of comprehensive medication monitoring using the Patient Medication Profile to improve heart failure patient medication therapy and associated outcomes relative to usual care in a hospital setting.

The Purpose of this study is to compare two programming modalities for CRT devices in Heart Failure patients with an indication for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

This is an open randomized clinical trial with two study arms. One group, receiving usual care for heart failure, will be compared to another group, receiving usual care plus active telemonitoring interference. When leaving the hospital, the usual care arm receives a document with a predefined medication scheme and advice for the general practitioner (like it is currently done in usual care). Besides the normal consultations at 2 and 5 weeks, no active interactions take place between the study nurse and the patient. The telemonitoring interference in the other study arm consists of an automatic blood pressure device and medication dispenser that transmit data to a central platform. During the first 12 weeks, the nurse of the call center will give incentive for medication up titration on the basis of the available data. Before up titration can be done, the patient needs to take blood pressure measurements 3 times in the morning and 3 times in the evening and at least 6 measurements a week.

The goal is to evaluate the trends in MouthLab parameters (respiration rate, temperature, pulse rate, electrocardiogram rhythm, blood pressure, oxygen saturation heart rate and basic lung function measures) in patients with decompensated heart failure and how these measurements change in response to decongestion. The research will test the ability of the MouthLab device to predict clinical decompensation in patients with known heart failure and to reduce the number of hospital readmissions based on the treatment guided by MouthLab device data.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the harvest, isolation and culture of cardiac stem cells from endomyocardial biopsies is feasible.

The investigators hypothesize that the relation between mechanical and hemodynamic left ventricular dyssynchrony might better predict response to Cardiac Resynchronization Device(CRT) than currently existing echo indices.

Heart failure is a chronic and frequently terminal illness associated with poor quality of life and high burden of morbidity, re-hospitalization, and cost. Accordingly, recent guideline updates have highlighted the need for improved focus on end-of-life and palliative care of advanced heart failure patients, in whom symptom burden can be high and treatment options are often limited. The aims of this study are to evaluate the feasibility of implementing a semi-structured, outpatient, nurse practitioner-led, educational supportive care intervention concerning multiple domains of end-of-life care not often included in regular, outpatient clinic visits.

Congestive heart disease (CHF) can frequently cause transudative pleural effusions, some of which do not completely resolve with diuretics alone. These effusions can cause significant morbidity, leading to ongoing dyspnea and hypoxia, resulting in additional office and hospital visits. TREAT-CHF is a randomized trial studying tunneled pleural catheter (TPC) versus standard medical management for the treatment recurrent symptomatic pleural effusions secondary to CHF that are refractory to maximal medical therapy. TREAT-CHF will study whether the addition of a TPC can improve quality of life and minimize health care utilization over the one year following insertion.

Cardiac Heart Failure Questionnaire HF-Q) to assess the severity of the symptoms of Heart Failure. In this study, modified and translated, the "four-point" questionnaire by Severo and his associates - Heart Failure Questionnaire HF-Q, is used. The HF-Q Heart Failure Questionnaire consists of four closed questions: the first with four possible answers and the other three questions with the possibility of three simple-choice answers.