Active clinical trials for "Heart Diseases"

One-center, observational, non-interventional, prospective study of the efficacy of azilsartan medoxomil in patients with arterial hypertension associated with stable ischemic heart disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Adults with a congenital heart disease, having undergone a surgical intervention or a re-do surgery in adulthood, are a growing group of subjects in the general population. This increase is explained by improved medical and surgical techniques, with a better survival rate as outcome. There is nowadays a growing interest in the quality of life of this group of subjects. However, studies give contradictory results. This can be explained on one hand by the vast majority of pathologies within this population, and on the other hand by the absence of a cardio-specific tool for quality of life measurement. The MacNew questionnaire is cardio-specific. It allows an evaluation of the quality of life based on the exploration of three domains: physical, emotional and social. The aim of this study is: to evaluate the quality of life of these patients, by using the MacNew questionnaire to explore the needs in terms of prevention, treatment and multi-disciplinary follow-up to assess the mortality within this group of patients.

The purpose of this study is to retrospectively review our preliminary experience during a surgical trip to Tuxtla, Mexico, using suggamadex to reverse neuromuscular blockade following CPB and cardiac surgery for repair of CHD in infants and children.

The BioNIR Ridaforolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System is a single use device/drug combination product comprising: Stent - mounted Cobalt Chromium (CoCr) alloy based stent Delivery System - Rapid Exchange (RX) Coronary System Polymer matrix coating - Poly n-butyl methacrylate (PBMA) and polymer coating (CarboSil®) Ridaforolimus drug - Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry Number: 572924-54-0 The product is indicated for improving coronary luminal diameter in patients with symptomatic heart disease due to lesions in vessels with reference diameters of 2.5mm to 4.25mm, including complex lesions.

New strategies are needed to early detect myocardial involvement in these diseases. Histological studies showed that diffuse fibrosis and cardiomyocyte hypertrophy precede the LV remodelling (dilatation) observed by cardiac imaging. Quantification of LV diffuse myocardial fibrosis using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could reach this goal. Recently, contrast enhanced cardiac MRI has been used to measure the extracellular volume fraction (ECV) of the myocardium, and it has been able to detect diffuse myocardial fibrosis. In diseases in which increased collagen deposition enlarges the extra-cellular space, the ECV can act as a fibrosis index. ECV is correlated with the amount of fibrosis measured by histology. Left ventricular overloads induced by regurgitant VHD result in cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and diffuse fibrosis. Other methods can be used to estimate the degree of myocardial fibrosis such as the serum level of galectine-3 or ST2. Moreover, although the pathophysiological mechanisms leading to the occurrence of myocardial fibrosis differ in patients with various cardiac diseases, the cellular effectors of fibrotic remodelling are common and involve similar signalling pathways. At the cellular level, key progression of ventricular hypertrophy is associated with increased cardiomyocytes apoptosis and fibrosis, suggesting that these two processes are responsible for the transition. To our knowledge, no study has analysed the impact of the rate of myocardial diffuse fibrosis, non-invasively estimated by ECV, in the risk of LV dysfunction during MR and AR, especially after surgery. The measurement of ECV could become an important tool for risk stratification in left-sided regurgitant VHD. Thus, it would provide an early marker of LV myocardial involvement before the occurrence of global remodeling, might help physicians in surgical decision, and would improve prognosis. This is an innovative original project because it uses modern imaging modalities to answer to a crucial question. The clinical implications would be important because this work would modify the international surgical indications of MR and AR in order to finally improve the prognosis of patients with this frequent heart disease. Moreover, investigators will analyze the genetic factors that can influence the myocardial reaction resulting from these regurgitations, which will improve the quality of this work and offer new future perspectives. Investigators hypothesize that the ECV measurement could be used as an early predictor of LV dysfunction in the left-sided valve regurgitations.

Demonstrate in a large multicenter population the diagnostic performance of a pre-commercial on-site, local, CT angiography derived FFR algorithm in comparison to invasive FFR.

This study evaluates whether noninvasive ventilation with continuous positive airway pressure affects tissue perfusion in patients after cardiac surgery.

The purpose of the study was to analyze negative affectivity (NA) and social inhibition (SI) inquired by DS14 score in type D personality (distressed personality) to the relation of autonomic regulation of heart function (HRV) and immune response (T lymphocyte) among obese patients within coronary heart disease group (CHD). As stress is the key psychological activator of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis) and therefore an important risk factor for diminished immune competency and prevalence of chronic conditions such as obesity, investigators chose exercise as the stress release intervention, especially as chronic stress may have a role in obesity, related to initiation or exacerbation of the condition. Abnormal regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis is additionally associated with chronic inflammatory conditions. Proinflammatory T-lymphocytes are present in visceral adipose tissue and may contribute to local inflammatory cell activation before the appearance of macrophages, suggesting that these cells could play an important role in the initiation and perpetuation of adipose tissue inflammation.

The objective of the study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of XIENCE Xpedition Everolimus-Eluting 2.25mm Stent in real world practice in Japanese hospitals.

An injury of haematosis in post ischemic chronic heart failure limits the clinic tolerance. There is a correlation between injury of pulmonary diffusing, chronic heart failure intensity and aerobic physic ability evaluated by an heart-rate maximal exercise tolerance test (VO2 max). This injury is a new follow-up parameter of cardiac function for the adult. The nature of damage (vascular or membrane) can be determined by the measure of double pulmonary diffusing capacity to carbon monoxide (CO) associated to nitric oxide (NO). Today, in chronic heart failure consecutive to a congenital heart disease, there is no data on evolution of membrane and capillar factors.It is impossible to predict if membrane damage will be the best factor correlated to the VO2max in patients suffering from complex congenital heart disease. Assessing these parameters could be an comparative evaluation of heart-rate exercise tolerance test with VO2max and an early control of his damage without risks related to heart-rate maximal exercise and independently of age, sex, hemoglobin, type of heart disease.These results would have an early prognostic value that would permit to refine the follow-up and the treatment. The main objective of this trial is to assess the statistic correlation between the membrane injury of alveolar-capillary diffusing at rest and aerobic physic ability restriction in children and adults suffering from complex congenital heart disease.