Active clinical trials for "Infarction"

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder that may occur after someone experiences a traumatic event. Between 10-20% of patients may develop PTSD in response to the traumatic experience of myocardial infarction (MI). PTSD is associated with impaired quality of life, social functioning, and high economic burden to the society. Posttraumatic stress attributable to MI has also been shown to be predictive of poor cardiovascular prognosis, whereby this link might relate to several atherothrombotic processes. Therefore the prevention of PTSD after MI is of high relevance. Guidelines have been published for early interventions to prevent the development of posttraumatic stress after different types of trauma but not in terms of acute MI as a traumatic event. The overarching aim of the planned trial is to test whether a minimal behavioral intervention performed shortly after acute MI in patients at a high risk to develop PTSD and in the setting of a coronary care unit reduces the development of posttraumatic stress. The primary hypothesis is that posttraumatic stress levels at the 3-month follow-up will be at least 20% lower in the intervention group than in the control group, and that this effect will last up to 12 months after the intervention. The secondary hypothesis is that the intervention group will show better psychosocial functioning, and a more favourable cardiometabolic biomarker profile than the control group 3 and 12 month after the intervention.

Rationale The only proven therapy for acute stroke is tPA within 4.5 hours of symptom onset. This is the standard of care for patients presenting to our hospital within that time frame. Thrombolysis outside the 4.5 hour window is considered only on experimental or compassionate grounds. Tenecteplase (TNK) is a genetically modified variant of tPA that has many theoretical advantages in acute stroke. Studies show that systemic plasminogen activation is higher after tPA administration, relative to TNK and this is associated with an increased risk of bleeding events. Imaging cerebral blood flow (CBF) with MRI (perfusion weighted imaging-PWI) and CT perfusion (CTP) can be performed routinely with standard clinical scanners. Patients with evidence of large volumes of tissue with low CBF, that is also structurally intact, as demonstrated by either normal signal on Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) or normal cerebral blood volume (CBV) are considered to have penumbral patterns. Patients with penumbral patterns appear to be the ideal candidates for thrombolytic therapy, regardless of time from onset. Study Hypotheses The primary aim of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility and safety of TNK based thrombolysis in ischemic stroke patients presenting 4.5-24 hours after symptom onset. It is hypothesized that treatment with TNK in patients with penumbral patterns will be associated with reperfusion, early neurological improvement and penumbral tissue salvage. Study Design The study is planned as an open label feasibility and safety study of acute treatment with TNK in ischemic stroke patients with penumbral patterns evident on advanced MRI or CT perfusion sequences. Study Outcomes The primary outcome of this study is a safety endpoint, specifically the frequency of symptomatic hemorrhagic transformation evident on MRI or CT images on 24 h or day 5 scans. The ECASS II system for rating hemorrhagic transformation will be applied to all GRE/SWI images Significance Current treatment paradigms have not permitted success of tPA to be extended beyond narrow and limiting therapeutic window of 4.5 hours. Clearly, more effective patient selection criteria are required. Penumbral imaging is biologically plausible, practical and has been shown to be predictive of outcome. Application of these imaging techniques to the acute stroke population is the most promising strategy for extending the therapeutic window and for introducing superior thrombolytic agents.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether treatment of patients suffering from ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) with 1-2 liters of cold saline and central venous catheter cooling with Philips InnerCool RTx Endovascular System prior to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) result in a reduction in infarct size.

RIRE-1 is a randomized, open-label with blinded end-point study that will test the hypothesis that remote ischemic preconditioning initiated at the time of the admission in the cathlab reduces infarct size in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Furthermore, it will determine whether a combined approach remote ischemic preconditioning and local ischemic postconditioning can further reduce infarct size. Infarct size will be determined by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging at 3-month follow-up and with 72 hours area under curve of CK-MB.

Acute myocardial infarction is generally caused by a thrombotic occlusion of coronary arteries. Primary aim of early therapy is a fast and complete reperfusion of the infarcted myocardium.

This is a single-center, randomized, single-blind, investigator-initiated, pharmacological study with a parallel design. Patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention and presenting high platelet reactivity as assessed with the Verify Now P2Y12 assay-Accumetrics(Platelet Reactivity Units -PRU≥235) at 2 hours post-clopidogrel 600mg LD (Day 0), as assessed with the Verify Now P2Y12 assay, will be randomized after informed consent, in a 1:1 ratio to the following treatment groups: Group Α: Clopidogrel 150mg per day,starting from Day 1 until Day 5 (5 days after randomization) Group Β: Prasugrel 60 mg immediate loading (on Day 0) followed by 10mg/day starting from Day 1 until Day 5 (5 days after randomization). Platelet reactivity assessment will be performed 2 hours after randomization (Day 0), 24 h after randomization (Day 1) and on Day 5. Documentation of major adverse cardiac events (death, myocardial infarction, stroke, revascularization procedure with PCI or CABG)and serious adverse events (bleeding, other adverse events)will be performed until Day 5.

Most of the previous data regarding the efficacy of the everolimus-eluting stent (EES) was derived from studies comparing EES with bare metal stent (BMS) or EES with paclitaxel-eluting (PES). Although sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) have been shown to be the most efficacious drug regarding inhibition of neointima and late loss, there have been no previous head to head comparisons between EES and zotarolimus-eluting stent (ZES). Both everolimus and sirolimus are macrocyclic lactones that target the mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) to reduce vascular smooth muscle proliferation after vessel injury and therefore in principle may show similar results after stenting in humans. Data pooled from the EES arm that received follow up angiography in the SPIRIT III trial and the SES arm in the SIRIUS trial show similar rates of binary restenosis and late loss. However, the stent and polymer platform is not the same between the EES and ZES and it is reported that the EES system has the thinnest stent + polymer thickness (88.6um) of all of the previously KFDA-approved drug-eluting stent (DES). In addition, there are no data available on the efficacy of the EES and ZES in "real world" lesions other than the selected lesions studied in the previous trials, such as acute myocardial infarction.

This is a randomized Clinical Trial to assess the effects of Tai Chi Chuan on blood pressure, respiratory muscle strength and functional capacity in patients after recent acute myocardial infarction.

During primary PCI, stent deployment and post-dilatation are associated with no-reflow. The mechanisms for no reflow include distal embolization of thrombus, enhanced thrombus formation and vascular spasm. No reflow is associated with risk factors such as prolonged duration of ischaemia, heavy thrombus burden, persistent ST elevation and long stent length. ACTIVE HYPOTHESIS: once normal antegrade flow has been re-established with initial aspiration thrombectomy and/or balloon angioplasty at the beginning of primary PCI, compared with usual care with direct stenting, a strategy of deferred stenting for 4 -16 hours to permit the beneficial effects of normalized coronary blood flow and anti-thrombotic therapies will reduce the incidence of no reflow in at-risk STEMI patients. DESIGN: In consecutive STEMI patients with risk factors for no reflow and who have given informed consent, when normal flow has been established (TIMI 3) by initial aspiration thrombectomy and/or balloon angioplasty, participants will be randomized to deferred stenting or usual care with direct stenting. All patients will receive dual anti-platelet therapy. Patients who are randomized to deferred stenting will receive intravenous glycoprotein IIbIIIa inhibitor and anti-coagulation with low molecular weight heparin. Patients who are screened and not eligible to be randomized will be prospectively entered into a registry. Study assessments for feasibility, safety and efficacy will be prospectively performed. An independent clinical event committee will review all serious adverse events. Study endpoints will be subject to core laboratory analyses. The study is intended to inform the design of a larger multicentre clinical trial.

When a patient has a heart attack, a blockage occurs in a coronary artery that delivers oxygen to the heart muscle. The heart muscle may weaken, causing heart failure. The body naturally makes a protein called insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) that may protect the heart muscle cells from dying and may prevent heart failure or lessen the damage that occurs. IGF-1 is also available as a drug called mecasermin. In this study, heart attack patients will be given either a dose of mecasermin or a placebo (inactive treatment) after their coronary artery has been opened by a stent. The purpose of the study will be to evaluate the safety of the therapy and to test if the therapy will prevent or lessen heart failure by evaluating a cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) taken one day and eight weeks after the heart attack.