Active clinical trials for "Heart Failure"

This is a randomized, open-label, blinded-endpoint, crossover, single dose study to compare the pharmacodynamics of Torasemide-PR 10 mg, Torasemide-IR10 mg and furosemide-IR 40 mg. 30 patients of both sexes with CHF with a maximum imbalance of 60:40% in either direction will be included in the study. Patients with compensated heart failure, grade II or III as defined by the European Society of Cardiology, with a duration of ≥ 3 months at the time of inclusion documented in the patient's record or patients who previously required diuretic therapy. Principal variable will be the efficiency of sodium excretion that will be assessed as the ratio between the average drug-induced natriuresis and the average drug recovered in urine over 24 hours. The difference between the efficiency of 24 hour sodium excretion following administration of torasemide PR and furosemide will be formally tested by means of a Students t-test for paired samples. The test will be two-sided at 5% significance level. Efficiency changes over time will also be assessed, however will not be subject to formal statistical testing.

The AdOPT Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) study is an acute, prospective, multi-center, non-randomized investigational study designed to compare indices of cardiac function at device settings optimized using the investigational Adaptive CRT (aCRT) algorithm versus nominal programming. The comparison will be performed during rest, atrial pacing and sub-maximal exercise. AdOPT CRT is a sub study of the Adaptive CRT Study (NTC00980057) being conducted in Europe.

Cardiac function may improve in patients with end-stage heart failure who receive long-term support with ventricular assist devices (VAD). Reverse left ventricular remodeling may be sufficient in some cases to allow explantation of the VAD. However, some questions continue to await definitive answers. This study is designed to assess the myocardial recovery under VAD support with optimal pharmacological therapy (high doses [group I] of statins, beta-blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors versus standard doses [group II]). The study is a randomized, single-blind trial performed at the Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Strasbourg, France. Twenty patients with end-stage heart failure who will be supported by VAD (Thoratec paracorporeal device) as a bridge to heart transplantation will be included. Reverse left ventricular remodeling and myocardial function will be studied by: echocardiography, respiratory mitochondrial function, exercise testing, cardiac hormonal function, and inflammatory response. Myocardial biopsies will be obtained at the time of VAD implantation and heart transplantation. The follow-up will be performed every 4 weeks during the VAD support period. The hypothesis of this trial is that reverse left ventricular remodeling and myocardial function will improve under optimal medical therapy especially by a high dose statin.

The main purpose of this study is to see if the experimental drug ZP120, when given with the approved drug furosemide to patients with acute or sub-acute heart failure, can reduce the amount of fluid in the patients' lungs and make breathing easier.

IMPROVE RESPONSE is a physician initiated research study. It is a prospective, non-randomized, multi-center, post-market, U.S. Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) in heart failure (HF) observational study. The purpose of this clinical study is to test the hypothesis that market-released CRT devices, which contain the AdaptivCRT (aCRT) algorithm have an incremental benefit in improving CRT response in a chronic CRT non responder population with left bundle branch block (LBBB) and normal atrio-ventricular (AV) condition compared to CRT devices with traditional biventricular pacing delivery methods at generator replacement.

The goal of this study is improve the screening of heart failure and identify patients early who are at risk of heart failure. The main question[s] it aims to answer are: • will an electronic health records (EHR) case finding algorithm for heart failure, followed by N-Terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) screening and artificial intelligence (AI) echocardiogram compared to usual care identify patients at risk for heart failure earlier than standard of care? Participants will be enrolled and randomized to either standard of care (SOC) or intervention arm: SOC arm: electronic health records will be reviewed over six months for assessments performed to identify heart failure. Intervention arm: blood sample for N-terminal prohormone of B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) at local laboratory . For elevated NT-proBNP results (>125pg/ml) an artificial intelligence (AI) echocardiogram and 12 lead electrocardiogram (ECG) will be performed at study site (within 28 days of NT-proBNP result). EHR will be reviewed at six months

The purpose of this research is to use a handheld ultrasound to assess patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) to see if the ultrasound can help predict readmission to the hospital. The study will include patients who are admitted to the hospital for CHF. Participants will have two ultrasounds at hospital discharge and at a follow up visit.

The purpose of this study is to determine if unlimited fluid intake can improve quality of life and decrease thirst distress in patients with heart failure, without an impact on symptoms, physical capacity, and hospitals readmissions.

The goal of this clinical trial is to know if telemonitoring and telematic follow-up reduces the healthcare resources utilization, healthcare costs and non-healthcare costs of patients with high-risk heart failure. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does telematic follow-up reduce de use of healthcare resource utilization of patients with heart failure? Is telematic follow-up cost-efficient in terms of reducing direct healthcare costs in heart failure patients? Is telematic follow-up cost-efficient in terms of reducing non-healthcare costs in heart failure patients? Participants will be randomized to usual care (control group) or telematic care (interventional group). Patients randomized to the interventional group will be included in a protocol of daily automatic telemonitoring of arterial pressure, peripheral oximetry, heart rate and weight, and telematic consultations lead by a heart failure clinical specialized team. Researchers will compare the healthcare resource utilization, healthcare and non-healthcare costs of patients randomized to control vs. interventional group.

This trial will compare two strategies for patients with Heart Failure, Left Ventricular systolic dysfunction, and intermediate QRS durations. The control group is conventional CRT. The experimental group is LVendo CRT