Active clinical trials for "Myocardial Ischemia"

To evaluate the safety and efficacy of the Absorb BVS System compared to the XIENCE V Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System (EECSS) in the treatment of subjects with ischemic heart disease caused by up to two de novo native coronary artery lesions in separate epicardial vessels.

Low medication adherence in patients with coronary heart disease increases mortality. This study investigates if an intervention of medication review and counselling can improve patients' medication adherence and treatment results.

A single-centre double-blind placebo-controlled crossover randomised controlled trial to determine the physiological basis of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor activation on exercise haemodynamics, as manifest through specific electrophysiological parameters measured by serial exercise stress testing, in those patients with reversible myocardial ischaemia and obstructive coronary artery disease confirmed by a baseline exercise test and coronary angiography respectively.

In a previous study, the investigators delivered graphs to family physicians that outlined the proportion of patients with a history of diabetes or heart disease achieving evidence-based quality targets derived from guideline recommendations. A qualitative evaluation found that participating family physicians did not act upon the feedback for two main reasons. First, they felt that targets recommended in guidelines often did not apply for particular patients. Second, they complained that had difficulty using the feedback reports that only provided aggregate level data for clinical action. In this cluster-randomized trial, the investigators test two approaches to conducting audit and feedback that aims to address these issues. The investigators hypothesize that feedback identifying a small number of patients at high-risk for cardiovascular events requiring action will more effectively lead to changes in clinical behavior than feedback identifying all patients not reaching optimal care targets.

The objective is to investigate the effect of a comprehensive sexual rehabilitation program, consisting of a psycho-educative component and a physical exercise component. The primary hypothesis is that, a comprehensive sexual rehabilitation program improves sexual function.

It has been well known that moderate and regular levels of physical activity has a favorable effect on many of the established risk factors related to coronary artery disease (CAD). Given that exercise in the morning has a greater potential for inducing sudden cardiac death and myocardial ischemia, it may be sensible for patients with CAD not to take exercise at this time. Our previous study indicated that the protective effect of exercise in the evening was greater than morning. However, which times of day to exercise could achieve the greatest improvements in lipids and inflammatory markers remains unclear. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the responses of lipid profiles and inflammatory markers to walking at different times of day in sedentary patients with CAD.

Low motivation to exercise is one of the barriers to participation in cardiac rehabilitation. Fear of activity after a cardiac event is associated with low levels of physical activity. This study aimed to develop and validate a scale to measure fear of activity in patients with coronary artery disease.

The aim of the study is to evaluate the influence of physical training and respiratory rehabilitation performed by patients at home on quality of life, symptoms, physical endurance, force of respiratory and skeletal muscles and body mass composition in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) or left ventricular heart failure with reduced ejection fraction - HFREF), or ischemic heart disease and evaluation the number of stem cells, natural lymphoid cells and distribution of subpopulations of monocytes (including proangiogenic monocytes) in examined persons and evaluation of theirs eventual influence of the course of disease.

Identifying the critical lesion of coronary artery disease and determining the interventional plan are significant for reducing adverse cardiovascular adverse events. The assessment of critical lesion requires the consideration of plaque morphology, tissue composition, and endometrial stress which leading to rupture. In summary, accurate assessment of critical lesions has high application value. In this study, patients with critical coronary artery disease were divided into two groups: an accurate assessment group and a simple assessment group, with the aim to compare the diagnosis and treatment efficiency as well as prognosis, potential cardiovascular risk, possible "excessive" intervention.

Elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is often associated with myocardial necrosis evidenced by peri-procedural troponin release. This is a surrogate for subsequent cardiovascular events. There is no study on the effect of peri-PCI oxygenation in in myocardial protection and cardiopulmonary fitness outcome. Patients with higher baseline cardiopulmonary fitness will have lower mortality. This study is to assess the utility of oxygen to reduce ischaemia in patients with significant stable coronary artery disease scheduled for elective PCI. The secondary objective is to evaluate further effect of peri- PCI oxygenation on cardiovascular fitness and autonomic response.