Active clinical trials for "Heart Diseases"

Use lay language. Current guidelines regarding physical activity in patients with inherited arrhythmia and cardiomyopathy are mostly dedicated to adult patients, with a special focus on sports competition. Their application to the pediatric population has been scarcely evaluated. Physical activity is well known for its health benefits but may be dangerous in this population, which leads to confusion within the medical community and among patients. Actual physical activity of children with such inherited cardiac disorders is unknown. This study aimed to assess the level of physical activity in children with inherited arrhythmia and cardiomyopathy, and the adherence to the current European guidelines on the subject. Secondary objectives aimed to assess through a qualitative analysis the impact of the disease on physical activity and daily life in this population. The level of physical activity and adherence to current guidelines will be determined from interviews between the patient and the principal investigator. Each patient will be questioned in order to explore the experiences, motivations and feelings of participants regarding physical activity. The standardized questionnaire was created by the principal investigator and members of the clinical research team. The investigators believe that many children practice physical activity outside the current guidelines and hope to identify the main determinants of physical activity in this population.

Clinical ultrasound has become essential in emergency medicine. The guidelines are to use of echocardiography in specific contexts: dyspnea, hypotension or chest pain. The evaluation of left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) is one of the basic objectives of echocardiography. The reference assessment in emergency medicine is visual assessment. It suffers from poor inter-observer reproducibility. Pocket ultrasound scanners seem to meet the constraints of point-of-care ultrasound. A new tool is available on a pocket ultrasound device: the automatic evaluation of LVEF. Its interest could be to have a better inter-observer reproducibility than visual evaluation.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of death for women over the age of 25, accounting for 1 of every 3 female deaths. Research has shown that while hypertension in women is less controlled, they are also less likely to be identified with ischemic heart disease and when diagnosed treated less aggressively than men. Moreover, women who are diagnosed with breast cancer have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. The Women's Assessed Cardiovascular Evaluation with MCG (WACE-MCG) study is designed to collect CardioFlux scans on a select group of female volunteers who are Ms. Medicine patients. CardioFlux is used as a noninvasive MCG tool that analyzes and records the magnetic fields of the heart to detect various forms of heart disease. There will be a 12-month duration of the study where we propose to collect screening data from approximately 200 volunteers who present to the Genetesis facility for a 5-minute CardioFlux MCG scan. The volunteers will be contacted at intervals over a 1-year period for follow-up data and may choose whether or not they would like to provide follow-up data or participate in another scan.

This is a post-market, standard of care, real-world observational study to assess the clinical outcomes of the SYNERGY XLV (MEGATRON) Coronary Stent System for the treatment of subjects with atherosclerotic lesion(s) ≤ 28 mm in length (by visual estimate) in native coronary arteries ≥3.50 mm to ≤5.00 mm in diameter (by visual estimate). This Post Approval study is a cohort associated with the Evolve 4.5/5.0 (SYNERGY LV) Post Approval Study, which is registered under ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT03875651.

Clinical ultrasound has become essential in emergency medicine. The guidelines are to use of echocardiography in specific contexts: dyspnea, hypotension or chest pain. The evaluation of left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) is one of the basic objectives of echocardiography. The reference assessment in emergency medicine is visual assessment. It suffers from poor inter-observer reproducibility. Pocket ultrasound scanners seem to meet the constraints of point-of-care ultrasound. A new tool is available on a pocket ultrasound device: the automatic evaluation of LVEF. Its interest could be to have a better inter-observer reproducibility than visual evaluation.

The goal of this prospective cohort study is to evaluate, in pediatric patients after cardiac surgery, the predicting capability of biomarkers for acute kidney injury. The main questions it aims to answer: The predicting capability of acute kidney injury (AKI) biomarkers for the primary endpoint: the occurrence of AKI stage ≥ 1 within 48-h after intensive care unit (ICU) admission. The predicting capability of AKI biomarkers for the secondary endpoint: the occurrence of AKI stage ≥ 2 within 12-h after ICU admission. Investigated biomarkers include urine chitinase 3-like protein 1 (uCHI3L1), urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (uNGAL), tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-2 (TIMP-2), insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 7(IGFBP7), NephroCheck® and Δ serum creatinine [postop-preop]. Differences in concentration between patients with and without AKI development were investigated, as well as AKI diagnostic performance of (combined) biomarkers. During and after cardiac surgery several blood and urine samples will be taken of participants to investigated AKI occurrence and to measure biomarker concentrations.

Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction has been consistently shown to play a considerable role in pathophysiology of Ischaemia with non-obstructed coronary arteries (INOCA). While the both diagnoses are individually related to remarkably worse outcome, there is no available method to simultaneously determine INOCA-CMD endotypes in vessel level, during the invasive diagnosis. The investigators hereby hypothesize that, combined intracoronary electrocardiogram (IC-ECG) (considering the high sensitivity and specificity of IC-ECG for studied vessel-territory) and intracoronary doppler can simultaneously and successfully identify vessel specific coronary microvascular dysfunction and resulting ischemia, which may potentially enable immediate diagnosis and endotyping of CMD-INOCA subgroups during the invasive assessment of first ANOCA episode, obviating the need for further ischemia-studies such es SPECT, which have considerably higher costs and lower sensitivity. Major coronary arteries of patients aged between 18 - 75 without obstructing coronary artery disease who have previously documented ischemia with non-obstructed coronary arteries (INOCA) via coronary angiogram and myocardial perfusion scan will be evaluated simultaneously with IC-ECG and intracoronary Doppler during rest and under adenosine induced hyperaemia. Performance of the combined system to identify Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction with structural and functional subgroups as defined by abnormal Coronary Flow Reserve (CFR) and Hyperemic Microvascular Resistance (HMR) and Ischemia in downstream territories of same vessel area (as defined by perfusion scan) is intended to be determined. The investigators also intend to interrogate the possible relationship between dynamic changes in IC-ECG parameters and invasively obtained intracoronary hemodynamic data.

The trial will include 75 patients with evident or suspected ischemic heart disease refered to Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET Centre, Aarhus University Hospital, for perfusion imaging by 15O-H2O PET/CT scan of the heart during rest and stress. Instead of the clinical scan participants will undergo perfusion imaging by 15O-H2O PET/MR. The clinician will receive diagnostic information based on the 15O-H2O PET scan as if the patient had not participated in the study. As such, the study has no influence on the diagnostics or treatments of the patient. Data from the scans will be used to compare 15O-H2O PET with cardiac MR for evaluation of myocardial perfusion. Follow up will be done for up to 10 years in regards to major cardiovascular events in order to determine the prognostic value of the scan.

Depersonalized multi-centered registry initiated to analyze dynamics of non-infectious diseases after SARS-CoV-2 infection in population of Eurasian adult patients.

Investigation of the cardiac manifestations of COVID-19 in patients admitted to hospital