Active clinical trials for "Infarction"

Diabetes is key risk factor for death following acute myocardial infarction. However, the long-term excess risk of death associated with diabetes following acute myocardial infarction not known. Investigators aimed to determine the long-term excess risk of death associated with diabetes among patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and non-STEMI (NSTEMI) after adjustment for multimorbidity, risk factors and cardiac treatments.

Approx. 65% of resuscitated patients at the intensive care unit for internal medicine are due to myocardial infarction. Almost all patients are initially diagnosed and treated in the cath lab. Therapy usually consists of one or more stent implantations. After implantation of a coronary stent, dual platelet inhibition is necessary for 12 months. Insufficient platelet inhibition causes an pronounced increase in risk of stent thrombosis. Therefore, knowledge of the individual platelet function is valuable. Several factors potentially promote a delayed or reduced mode of action of platelet function inhibitors in resuscitated patients: oral administration is impossible and medication needs to be administered via a gastric line. gastric absorption is delayed after resuscitation according to current guidelines patients are treated with therapeutic hypothermia. Including the time of rewarming cooling period is ~48h

This study aimed to evaluate the incidence of preinfarction angina in AMI patients and test the hypothesis that different clinical presentations before AMI onset can affect coronary plaque morphologies in AMI patients .

ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is an acute manifestation of coronary heart disease, remaining a frequent cause of death. A better understanding of risk factors and pathogenic mechanisms underlying STEMI may help improve the prognosis and life quality of these patients. Melatonin is the chief indoleamine produced by the pineal gland, and a well-known antioxidant and free radical scavenger. Basic studies have showed that melatonin is associated with myocardial infarction and heart failure. However, no study has evaluated whether melatonin is associated with adverse clinical outcomes in STEMI patients.

This study aims to assess the impact of NC balloon post-dilatation on coronary microcirculation in patients with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI).

The pharmacoinvasive approach after thrombolysis is the standard treatment of myocardial infarction when deadlines are too long for primary angioplasty. Coronary angioplasty is then carried out within 3 to 24 hours following thrombolysis. The adjuvant antiplatelet therapy of thrombolysis combines aspirin with clopidogrel (75 or 300 mg depending on age). These clopidogrel doses are associated with a very low anti-platelet aggregation response within 24 hours following administration. However, the antiplatelet agregation that inhibits the progression of intracoronary thrombus must be optimal at the time of angioplasty to reduce the risk of thrombotic events. Intracoronary thrombus residual angiographic post-thrombolysis was associated with impaired myocardial reperfusion but coronary angiography has a very low sensitivity for detecting the thrombus. The optical coherence tomography (OCT) is currently the method of choice to visualize and quantify the intracoronary thrombus. It is used routinely in the presence of a thrombus to correctly estimate the size of the artery and for the evaluation of good stent apposition. The thrombectomy at the time of angioplasty improves myocardial reperfusion, particularly in case of major thrombotic mass. Intracoronary thrombus residual post-thrombolysis could be a marker for the quality of reperfusion itself correlated to the quality of the antiplatelet post-thrombolysis. The investigators therefore hypothesize that the systematic use of the OCT before elective angioplasty (within 3 to 24 hours) after successful thrombolysis could be used to guide the use of thrombectomy and adequate stenting and thus improve myocardial reperfusion. Our study will also correlate the importance of the residual thrombus before angioplasty myocardial reperfusion one hand and to the inhibition of platelet activity observed other.

Patients with myocardial infarction, which does not include all layers of the heart's muscle wall are common and they often receive pharmacological treatment with the platelet inhibiting drug ticagrelor. However, the drug uptake after an oral dose of 180mg ticagrelor has not been thoroughly studied in these patients. The present study will evaluate ticagrelor uptake and platelet aggregation after a 180 mg loading dose ticagrelor in these patients.

The aim of the investigators trial was to evaluate association between new onset postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) and late cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.

This is a multi-centre observational study. It will make use of the positron emission tomography (PET) tracer 18F-sodium fluoride (18F-NaF) as a marker of coronary plaque vulnerability to detect culprit and non-culprit unstable coronary plaques in patients with recent myocardial infarctions. The investigators will then perform long-term follow-up of these patients to determine the prognostic significance of coronary 18F-NaF uptake

Although there has been increasing interest in the association between cancer and cerebrovascular disease, the underlying pathophysiology of stroke in cancer patients is still not fully understood. The aim of this study is to investigate the stroke mechanisms in patients with cancer-associated stroke.