Active clinical trials for "Heart Failure"

To assess the acceptability of a personalised ICT tool that facilitates coordinated care planning, treatment optimisation and patient self-management for patients with multiple long term conditions and their team of health professionals.

ICU care of patients considered "palliative" but without contraindications to admission to intensive care, for whom a do-not intubate order decision was made upon admission represents a particular target for non-invasive oxygenation techniques. The benefits of non invasive ventilation (NIV) in this population are debated especially in cancer patients. The more recently used nasal humidified high flux canula oxygenation (HFNC) therapy may have benefits over NIV in these patients. It is supposed to have better tolerance and could allow better compliance and thus higher efficiency. These potential benefits are major for such a population for which tolerance and symptomatic relief are priority goals

This is a multi-center, observational, non-interventional, prospective, Single-arm, open study for database establishment for R&D purposes. R&D data will be analyzed retrospectively in order to validate algorithm efficacy. The study will be conducted in the following settings: outpatinets clinics

For patients with an advanced disease and their families an excellent and compassionate care is essential. However, in hospitals optimal end-of-life care is not yet fully realized and patient's needs are often not met. Palliative care is able to increase patients' quality of life and to carefully meet their and their families' needs. To improve the awareness of unmet needs patient-reported outcome measurement has been the pivot of latest palliative care research. Besides the improvement of care outcome measurement allows the evaluation of the quality of palliative care and comparisons on a national and international level. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the quality of palliative care in different settings (palliative care unit, inpatient and outpatient consultation teams) using the Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale (IPOS). The IPOS has been lately developed as improved follow-up version of the Palliative Care Outcome Scale (POS) integrating most important questions and simultaneously being brief and comprehensive. The study is planned as a multi-centric observational study. Primary endpoint is the reduction of symptom burden of patients. The clinical study hypothesis bases on the assumption that palliative care can change the symptom burden, measured by a change in the IPOS overall profile score, and that there might be a difference in the size of the effect depending on the caring setting.

The study evaluates the released myocardial substances in blood of HOCM patients after TASH procedure (small "controlled" myocardial infarction). This helps to identify new pathomechanisms and biomarker and thus provides a better understanding of development and progress of cardiac insufficiency.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the beta-adrenergic receptor gene polymorphisms in the long-term effects of beta-blockade in patients with chronic heart failure.

A Prospective, multi-center, single-arm post-approval study of the IMPELLA® 2.5 System in Non Emergent High Risk PCI patients.

The purpose of this study is to understand the behaviour of certain blood markers in patients with heart failure who undergo a cardiac device implantation procedure called cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). CRT is an effective treatment for heart failure, but up to 30% of people do not respond and have poor outcomes (1,2). Despite extensive investigation, identifying these patients continues to be a challenge. The study intends to describe the changes in these blood markers before and after CRT and to examine any potential clinical value. The idea behind the study is that these blood markers alter in heart failure and change with CRT implantation. Furthermore the pattern of marker expression before implant and after may predict response and outcome.

The Contemporary Modalities In Treatment of Heart Failure Registry (COMMIT-HF) is an observational study on an all-comer systolic heart failure population hospitalized in a highly specialized cardiovascular center. The aim of the study is to assess the clinical characteristics, treatment modalities and prognosis in this population.

This is an observational, single center study to evaluate if acoustic and accelerometer-based measures of voice and speech have sufficient precision to detect a change in lung fluid status for patients with confirmed acute heart failure syndrome with pulmonary congestion. The study shall be conducted in concordance with the United States FDA regulations for a non-significant risk study. Patients admitted for acute heart failure syndrome with pulmonary congestion with an expected stay greater than 3 to 4 days, who are willing and able to sign an informed consent, and who meet all inclusion/exclusion criteria, as identified by the clinical investigator, will be enrolled in the study. Results of this study will evaluate the sensitivity of voice and speech measures in detecting changes in lung fluid status in a symptomatic population. Up to 12 subjects will be enrolled to comparatively evaluate the voice outcome measures in this pilot study.