Active clinical trials for "Infarction"

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a FCEM-focused hybrid CR program for survivors of myocardial infarction (MI). The study sought to compare the long-term impact of FCEM-based intervention with a standard CR program in terms of mortality rates and different aspects of health related quality of life (HRQoL), which includes soft outcomes such as levels of stress, anxiety, psychological distress, quality of life (QoL), and hard outcomes such as the percentage of ejection fraction (EF), independent functioning, and functional exercise capacity status.

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is growing steadily. Patients with diabetes, cardiovascular complications (such as myocardial infarction (MI)) are more frequent and severe than in non-diabetic subjects. The anti-diabetic therapies available have little or no effect on the incidence of cardiovascular events. It is therefore urgent in diabetics develop new therapeutic strategies to reduce the occurrence of MI or limit the consequences. In the two weeks following MI, monocytes / macrophages are the most represented in the ischemic heart tissue cells. The infiltration by monocytes / macrophages after infarction MI is a two-phase process. In the first phase, monocytes / macrophages M1 promote digestion injured areas, and monocytes / macrophages M2 intervene to promote angiogenesis, collagen deposition and contribute to tissue repair. The optimal repair after myocardial infarction depends on effective recruitment of monocytes and macrophages M1 transition needed to digest the damaged tissue and M2 macrophages necessary for tissue repair. The balance between these two phenotypes M1 and M2 is controlled by different modulators, such as transcription factors, cellular miRNA and miRNA extracellular contained in the microvesicles (MVs). Interestingly, plasma MVs circulating essentially derived monocytes and platelets contain miRNA and are impaired by inflammation or during various pathological situations (such as IDM). Furthermore, metabolic disorders such as hypercholesterolemia (often associated with diabetes) affect the transition from M1 to M2 response and response delay cardiac repair. To date, the mechanisms that control the M1 / M2 transition at heart level are not elucidated. Moreover, the impact of diabetes, which leads to chronic low-grade inflammation, is not explored. Targeting the immune response by promoting the transition M1 / M2 after MI could be an innovative therapeutic approach. However, better characterization of the response of M1 and M2 macrophages after MI and the mechanisms by which they contribute to tissue remodeling and the effect of diabetes are needed. The goal is to study how the phenotypes / macrophage functions after MI are changed by diabetes and to determine the potential role of miRNAs contained in secreted MVs in the transition M1 / M2 after MI. Monocytes / macrophages from subjects with normal blood sugar or diabetes who underwent an IDM (10 per group) will be characterized phenotypically. Their ability to produce MVs will be analyzed. These MVs will be tested functionally for their ability to orient the polarization of healthy recipients monocytes. The content of these MVs in terms of miRNAs will be analyzed in detail. By bioinformatics analysis, some miRNAs of interest (based on their abundance and target genes) will be selected. These miRNAs are over-expressed in macrophages and MVs produced by these cells will be analyzed for their ability to modulate differentiation of monocytes recipients. Finally, the circulating levels of these miRNAs of interest will be measured after 1 year of IDM and will be correlated to the clinical phenotype of patients (recurrence, arrhythmias, heart failure). Ultimately, the goal is to identify VMs that can promote the differentiation of monocytes to an alternative phenotype and identify miRNAs responsible for this effect. This could help in the future, in a subject with impaired ability of monocytes to differentiate alternatively, can change by introducing the miRNA of interest to re-inject or inject MVs macrophage containing the miRNA of interest and thus correct the defect of differentiation.

Cardiovascular diseases, especially acute myocardial infarction (AMI), represent the major cause of mortality and morbidity in the world. The myocardial ischemia is often the precipitating cause of pulmonary edema and noninvasive ventilation (NIV) with positive pressure has been used as a therapeutic modality. Objective: to evaluate the effects of NIV on heart rate variability (HRV) and on ventilatory and hemodynamic variables in patients with myocardial infarction. Materials and methods: ten patients with acute myocardial infarction, with Killip I classification, will use continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and Bilevel ventilation during 30 minutes, according randomization. Then ventilatory and hemodynamic variables will be registered and electrocardiogram signals will be recorded for posterior analyses of HRV. Data will be collected before, during and after positive pressure ventilation. Statistical Analysis: Data will be compared using One Way Anova Repeated Measures, followed by Tukey test.

The purpose of this study is: to assess whether pre-hospital glucose-insulin-potassium (GIK) administration in acute STEMI patients would reduce infarct size and ischemia/reperfusion damage using comprehensive tissue characterization by cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) at an early post-infarction phase. to explore the putative cardioprotective mechanisms of pre-hospital GIK administration

To evaluate and improve the safety and efficacy of hypothermia as an adjunctive therapy to percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute myocardial infarction.

The investigators team had found that the presence of dynamic changes of Clopidogrel resistance are not associated with genetic factors. Currently, study on moderate doses of statins and dynamic Clopidogrel resistance has not been reported, therefore this study will observe 160 cases of open prospective secondary prevention in patients with cerebral infarction. Excluded: those patients occurs Clopidogrel resistance because of slow metabolism caused by cytochrome P450 isoenzyme 2C19（CYP2C19, and then observed the impact of the cytochrome P450 isoenzyme 3A4 （CYP3A4）-metabolized and non-cytochrome P450 isoenzyme 3A4 （CYP3A4）-metabolized statins dynamically on Clopidogrel resistance in the next 9 months, adverse events will be recorded, the metabolite of clopidogrel（H4 ）and the polymorphism of cytochrome P450 isoenzyme 2C19 （CYP2C19）/cytochrome P450 isoenzyme 3A4 （CYP3A4）/ cytochrome P450 isoenzyme 2C9（CYP2C9）will be detected. Expected Result: the patients use the cytochrome P450 isoenzyme 3A4（CYP3A4）-metabolized statins will result in dynamic Clopidogrel resistance easily ,H4 levels will decline, and Clopidogrel resistance is not related to the polymorphism of cytochrome P450 isoenzyme 3A4 （CYP3A4）.

A Phase IIb clinical trial to investigate the safety and efficacy of antiplatelet thrombolysin injection for patients with ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) before receiving PCI therapy, in order to provide evidence for Phase III design.

Recent clinical studies have shown that systemic therapeutic hypothermia improving the outcomes in patients with ST segment elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI) received primary percutaneous coronary intervention (P-PCI).Likewise, a few in vivo animal experiments have described the methods, mechanism and rationale of therapeutic hypothermia, including local myocardial hypothermia. However, little is known of the local myocardial hypothermia having impact on prognosis of the patients with acute myocardial infarction. The aim of this study is to ascertain whether local myocardial hypothermia is effective in treatment of ischemia/reperfusion injury in patients with STEMI undergoing P-PCI.

This study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a routinely deferred invasive strategy in comparison with an early invasive strategy in Chinese elderly patients of 75 years or older with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction, aiming to test the hypothesis that routinely deferred invasive strategy is not inferior to early invasive strategy in such an elderly group of patients.

This randomized, controlled trial compares the anti-thrombotic effect of cangrelor and ticagrelor on platelet activity in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Patients will receive either prehospital ticagrelor (180 mg - crushed) or in-hospital cangrelor (bolus 30 μg/kg within 1 minute followed by infusion (4 μg/kg/minute) for two hours) followed by 180 mg ticagrelor. The primary study end-point is platelet reactivity at sheath insertion, at the end of the PCI procedure (before sheath removal) and two hours after PCI is initiated. The secondary end-point is the proportion of patients with inappropriate or harmful P2Y12 administration.