Active clinical trials for "Heart Failure"

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death and disability globally, accounting for approximately 31% (17.9 million) of all deaths each year. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the total suspension of most cardiac rehabilitation programs at the highest peaks of the spread, forcing people not to leave home, enhancing metabolic conditions and generating further complications due to sedentary lifestyle. Physical exercise is an essential component in the rehabilitation of patients with heart failure disease, evidencing improvements in quality of life, functional capacity, in addition to reducing the mortality rate, number of rehospitalizations, and levels of depression. It is necessary to carry out interventions adapted to the needs of patients who have difficulties traveling to health centers, however, some authors report that remotely oriented exercise could present results similar to those of traditional rehabilitation in a center or Therefore, promoting a cardiac telerehabilitation program together with telephone educational follow-up could cause greater improvements compared to other cardiac rehabilitation and telerehabilitation programs. Objective: To determine the effects of a physical exercise program and telephone educational follow-up mediated by cardiac telerehabilitation in patients with heart failure on functional capacity, depression, and health-related quality of life.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate if Non-Ischemic Heart Preservation (NIHP) of extended criteria donor hearts using the XVIVO Heart Preservation System (XHPS) is a safe and effective way to preserve and transport hearts for transplantation.

This study aims to investigate whether the investigators can improve heart function in patients with heart failure who have undergone cardiac resynchronization therapy, but have not had an improvement in their heart function at least one year after the procedure. The investigators will evaluate whether placing a new pacing lead (electrode) in a different part of the heart may increase heart function and decrease heart failure symptoms.

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a common and serious complication of obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D). HFpEF occurs when the heart muscle unable to relax efficiently to pump the blood around the body. This leads to fluid build-up, breathlessness and inability to tolerate physical exertion. People who develop HFpEF do less well because treatment options are limited. Pilot data in patients with obesity and diabetes and a small number of patients with HFpEF have shown improvements in exercise capacity and reversal of changes in the heart and blood vessels. This study will assess if this is achievable in a multi-ethnic cohort of patients with established HFpEF. A total of 102 adults will be invited and allocate by chance into two groups: either a 12-week diet or health advice on how to lose weight. The study will determine if weight loss over 12 weeks can improve heart function, symptoms and ability to exercise. Additionally, participants' views on changing their diet and how this has impacted their symptoms will be sought during the study in an optional interview. This will help guide treatments planning in the future to get maximum benefits, and to individualize support to patients from different cultural backgrounds.

The study aims to assess the effect of music on the heart resulting in a change in their exercise capacity among systolic heart failure patients undergoing Cardiopulmonary Exercise testing.

The goal of this low-intervention clinical trial is to learn about the effect of the drug Empagliflozin in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. The main questions it aims to answer are: What is the effect of treatment with Empagliflozin after 3 months on peripheral microvascular function Do clinical correlates for worse microvascular function exist, and thus identify patients that could possibly benefit most from empagliflozin treatment Patients will use Empagliflozin, prescribed by their treating physician. Before the start of treatment and after 3 months they will be asked to Fill out a quality of life questionnaire Draw 4 tubes of blood Undergo non-invasive measurement of the blood flow of the microvasculature in the forearm (using laser speckle contrast analysis)

End-stage heart failure (HF) is a progressive illness with a mortality rate similar to most advanced cancers.Roughly 5% of patients with HF have end-stage disease that is refractory to medical therapy (stage D heart failure). When patients reach this point in their disease, the only treatments known to prolong life are cardiac transplantation or left ventricular assist devices. In patients who do not qualify for these options, or elect a palliative approach, inotropes are frequently used to improve hemodynamics through an increase in cardiac output and reduction in filling pressures. While inotropes provide profound symptomatic relief, these benefits are accompanied by significant risks of progressive adverse cardiac remodeling, arrhythmias, and sudden death. There is, therefore, an urgent need to develop strategies to reduce the dose or duration of inotrope use in the management of patients with stage D of HF.

This study is a prospective, double blind, self-controlled, randomized, cross-over study to evaluate the feasibility, efficacy, and safety of treating patients with Heart Failure with preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF) associated with hypertension using the PressurePace™ system of Right Atrial Pacing regulated by blood pressure in subjects with dual chamber pacemakers. The objective of this study is to show that blood pressure-controlled right atrial pacing improves exercise tolerance, improves heart failure symptoms, and improves hypertension control in subjects with HFpEF associated with hypertension compared to conventional bradycardia pacing alone.

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the safety of lab-grown heart cells made from stem cells in subjects with congenital heart disease. The main questions it aims to answer are: Is this product safe to deliver to humans Is the conduct of this trial feasible Participants will be asked to: Agree to testing and monitoring before and after product administration Receive investigational product Agree to lifelong follow-up Researchers will compare subjects from the same pool to see if there is a difference between treated and untreated subjects.

This is a national multicenter, open-label, randomized controlled trial to show superiority of edge-to-edge Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve repair (TTVr) on top of the Standard Of Care (SOC; heart failure medication) over the SOC alone in patients with symptomatic severe Tricuspid Regurgitation (TR) in the Netherlands.