Active clinical trials for "Heart Septal Defects"

The objective of this study is to determine the safety, performance, and effectiveness of the SeptRx IPO PFO Closure System in the treatment of Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) in patients who are amenable to percutaneous closure of their PFO defects.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of minimally invasive transthoracic device closure of ventricular septal defect. This is a multi-center randomized controlled trial. Because of the characteristics of this surgical clinical trials, surgeons, ultrasonic department doctors, anesthesiologists, operating room nurses and intensive care unit nurses are all need to be informed. Therefore the results of this trial need to be system evaluated through objective methods to reduce bias.

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in patients with congenital heart disease usually develops secondary to chronic volume overload of the pulmonary circulation following left to right shunt. This overload leads to elevated pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) and later to increased pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR), leading to right ventricular dysfunction, considerable morbidity and even mortality. Since PAH nowadays is mostly detected when symptoms occur and PAP are elevated, the disease already evolved to an advanced stage and treatment is often initiated too late. Our research group standardized the technique for the detection of early pulmonary vascular disease by bicycle stress echocardiography. The investigators now aim to assess this exercise technique in a group of patients with ventricular septal defect.

The purpose of the STITCH study is to evaluate closure rates of clinically relevant septal defects, including patent foramen ovale (PFO), Atrial Septal Defects (ASD - less than 1 cm with redundant septal tissue), trans septal puncture sites, repair of Atrial Septal Aneurysm (ASA) and rate of recurrent neurologic embolic events in patients with cryptogenic stroke and PFO.

The addition of clopidogrel on top of aspirin may reduce the occurrence of new-onset migraine headache episodes following transcatheter ASD closure.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate blood clots after Percutaneous ASD Closure in different age, sexuality and defective diameter; evaluating the relationship of blood clotting with Occluder, injury of intima and inflammation;comparation of the effect and safety between different anticoagulation after Percutaneous ASD Repair; explore propose an optimal anticoagulation plan.

The overall objective for this study is to evaluate the cardiopulmonary function of VSD-patients compared with healthy age- and gender-matched controls. VSD patients with a surgically corrected defect and VSD patients with a small persistent defect will be included.

The purpose of this study is to compare two treatments strategies to prevent further attacks in patients who have suffered an stroke or occlusion of a major artery with no obvious reason other than a persistent small opening between the upper heart chambers

To create a registry of all Oregon children undergoing surgical repair of congenital heart disease since 1958 in order to determine mortality, morbidity, and disability after surgery and to assess the safety of pregnancy in women with corrected congenital heart disease and the risk of prematurity and occurrence of congenital heart defects in offspring.

The purpose of the study is to compare exercise capacity, cardiac contractility, pulmonary vascular pressures and heart rate variability between patients with an atrial septal defect and healthy controls.