Active clinical trials for "Myocardial Ischemia"

Previous studies indicate that patients with cardiovascular disease have a variable response to aspirin. Despite treatment with aspirin a large number of patients suffer a myocardial infarction. This has given rise to the phenomenon "aspirin low-responsiveness". Laboratory aspirin low-responsiveness can be defined as the failure of aspirin to inhibit platelet production of thromboxane A2 or inhibit thromboxane-dependent platelet aggregation. Whether a low platelet response to aspirin results in an increased risk of future thrombotic events is of great clinical significance, but is still unknown. The investigators hypothesize that patients with a reduced response to aspirin, determined by platelet aggregation using the apparatus Verify Now Aspirin and Multiplate, have a higher risk of thrombosis. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether a higher incidence of cardiovascular events is found in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) having a reduced biochemical response to aspirin compared with CAD patients having a normal biochemical response to aspirin. In addition to CAD, all patients have at least one of the following risc factors: previous myocardial infarction, type 2 diabetes mellitus and/or renal insufficiency.

The trial is a single centre, retrospective cohort, non-interventional study to be conducted in the department of cardiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China. To evaluate the link between mean perioperative clinical heart rate and short-term composite outcomes during PCI among local CHD patients.

Identifying patients who are at risk for a future myocardial infarction, is still one of the biggest challenges in cardiology. In this study the investigators will investigate culprit lesion in patients with NSTEMI and the ability of cardiac CT with dual energy computed tomography (DECT) scanning to describe and identify plaques that may be vulnerable. The investigators will also describe changes in characteristic in both stable and unstable plaques during 1 year follow up of NSTEMI and a matching group of stable angina pectoris (SAP) patients.

After PCI searching for target lesion ischemia with intracoronary ECG will be performed and if found it will be treated pharmacologically

Quantitative Flow Ratio (QFR) is a novel method for evaluating the functional significance of coronary stenosis. Virtual stent implantation technique combined with QFR was recently developed to predict the functional significance of coronary stenosis as if the stenosis was revascularized. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of QFR in in tandem lesions with fractional flow reserve (FFR) as the reference standard. The secondary purpose is to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of QFR-based virtual stent technique in predicting the FFR values after revascularizing the culprit lesion.

Coronary heart disease (CHD) has a serious health threaten to population. PCI is a well-proved measure in CHD management. However, the knowledge about the real-life PCI use and how evidence-based therapies in routine clinical practice is limited. In a large-scale hospital in Northeast China, the investigators will examine various factors of 3007 consecutive PCI inpatient cases from January 1, 2010 to October 31, 2014. The medical records will be reviewed and abstracted to evaluate the clinical treatment pattern and outcomes. Basic data and innovative evidence will accelerate evidence-based clinical practice, and improve patients' outcomes in future finally.

Investigator-initiated, international, multicentre, observational study with two cohorts. The two study cohorts will be: Cohort A: to understand if the local blood flow patterns (associated with low WSS), as evaluated by computational fluid dynamic tools from combined angiographic and OCT invasive images, may better predict the clinical outcome of patients with bifurcated coronary lesions treated by PCI. Cohort B: to understand if the local blood flow patterns (associated with low WSS), as evaluated by computational fluid dynamic tools from combined angiographic and OCT invasive images, may better predict the clinical outcome of patients with sub-critical bifurcated lesions managed conservatively. Coronary angiography and OCT images will be combined to obtain a three-dimensional model of the diseased coronary vessels that will be used to calculate the local blood flow patterns and the time-averaged WSS at the bifurcated lesion level by using computational fluid dynamics software. Baseline (in patients both managed conservatively and treated by PCI) and post-PCI (in patients treated by PCI) images will be processed.

Numerous single-center studies have indicated gadolinium-enhanced stress CMR perfusion imaging has excellent diagnostic accuracy for coronary artery disease and negative clinical event rates, with its diagnostic accuracy exceeding nuclear scintigraphy. However, current prognostic evidence supporting clinical use of stress CMR is limited by study size, single-center settings with a predominance of academic centers, and a lack of "real-world" study design. Large-scale multicenter real-world evidence from a registry will provide the much needed information to guide evidence-based clinical adaptation that benefits patient care.

This is a registry study of the natural course of unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIA). In addition, the investigators will analyze the benefit-risk of antithrombotic or anticoagulant therapy in patients with unruptured intracranial aneurysms associated with ischemic heart disease or ischemic cerebrovascular disease. The investigators aim to use research data to create a China national database of UIA

Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) and, if indicated, invasively measured fractional flow reserve (FFR) is currently used for ruling out significant coronary artery disease. FFRCT is a novel non-invasive technique in which FFR is derived from CT images, however this method is currently, just like CCTA, lacking specificity. Spectral Detector CT (SDCT) is a novel technique whereby a spectrum of monoenergetic images at different kiloelectron Volt (keV) values (40 to 200 keV) can be reconstructed. By using these monoenergetic images, a decrease in blooming and beam-hardening artifacts could be achieved. In addition, SDCT offers the opportunity to assess myocardial iodine distribution and quantification. When combining these factors, we hypothesize more accurate information will be available about the coronary anatomy, degree of stenosis and FFRCT and thereby contribute to a more accurate way for the detection of hemodynamic significant stenosis. Therefore, the aim of this study is to assess the accuracy of SDCT as a non-invasive way for the detection of hemodynamically significant coronary artery stenosis. Objective: The overall objective of this project is to assess the accuracy of SDCT for the detection of flow limiting stenosis in the coronary arteries using invasive FFR as the standard of reference. Whereby different sub-aims (e.g. improvement of FFRCT) are made to answer the overall objective. The secondary objective is to determine the decrease of calcium blooming of calcifications and beam-hardening artifacts and the improvement of myocardial blood volume quantification on SDCT in comparison with conventional CT.