Active clinical trials for "Ischemia"

Open surgery for aneurysmal aortic disease can lead to cardiac, renal, pulmonary or muscular complications, essentially due to the aortic clamping. Ischemic preconditioning can be useful in order to decrease these complications. The investigators would like to use an ischemic preconditioning protocol during open surgery of aortic aneurysm in order to decrease these complications.

This is a Phase II, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study for subjects with evidence of PSCI.

Ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR) is a common complication of myocardial infarction, with a reported prevalence of 13-59%. Approximately one-third of these patients have at least moderate MR .

DYNAMIT is a prospective, randomized, multicenter, open strategy trial run in 45 French hospitals. Diabetic patients with no evidence of coronary artery disease and at least 2 additional cardiovascular risk factors are randomized to screening for silent ischemia using a bicycle exercise test or Dipyridamole Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (N=316), or follow-up without screening (N=315). All have access to cardiovascular prevention according current guidelines. The main end point is time to death from all causes, non-fatal myocardial infarction, non-fatal stroke, or heart failure requiring hospitalization or emergency service intervention.

The objectives of this observational cohort study are : To assess the ability of optic nerve (ON), optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) and optic nerve sheath thickness (ONST) measured by ultrasound to predict Giant Cell Arteritis. To evaluate changes in ON, ONSD, ONST measurements in patients with confirmed GCA after three months of therapy To assess dynamic changes in ON, ONSD, ONST measurements in patients with relapsing GCA

The aim of this study is to investigate whether measurement of the long forms of cTnT with the novel SuperTROPO assay would improve the diagnosis of myocardial infarction in patients in the emergency department. The main goals are: To assess whether measuring long forms of cTnT with the novel SuperTROPO assay and determining the ratio of long cTnT and standard high-sensitivity cTnT could separate patients with type 1 NSTEMI patients from patients with other causes of minor (> 14ng/L) cTnT elevation in a single admission blood sample in unselected emergency department patients with clinical indication for troponin measurement. To compare the level of long cTnT and the ratio of long cTnT and standard cTnT in patients with type 1 MI and various clinical patient groups admitted to emergency department with elevated standard cTnT, e.g. patients with atrial fibrillation, heart failure or renal impairment. To evaluate optimal cut-off values for long cTnT and its ratio to standard cTnT in the exclusion and diagnosis of MI in a clinical setting with elevated (>14ng/L) cTnT. To evaluate how time from symptom onset and peak symptom to blood sampling, as well as comorbidities and patients' age impact the discriminative capacity of long cTnT and cTnT ratio between patients with and without type 1 MI. To investigate whether information on long cTnT and its ratio to standard cTnT can be used to cut down unnecessary coronary angiographies and hospital admissions The long forms of cTnT are measured from the residual blood samples routinely collected from patients with suspected myocardial infarction.

The aim of the current study is to assess outcomes of endovascular revascularization of patients with CLTI associated with heel ulcers and identify possible predictors of healing of these ulcers.

Chronic limb threatening ischemia (CLTI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and is characterized by multilevel disease, often involving the tibiopedal vessels . CLTI is an undesirable clinical consequence of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) . It affected ∼8 million people in the USA and affects 12-20% of American people aged more than 65 years. Within 1 year of diagnosis, 25% of those patients progress to a major amputation and the other 25% die due to co-morbid conditions

study the ischemic burden in patients with CAE, and its relation to inflammatory markers. To assess the ischemic response during exercise ECG among patients with different variants of CAE. To assess inflammatory biomarkers among patient with different variants of CAE To assess the relation between the ischemic response and inflammatory markers.

Guidelines on the acute and long-term pharmacological treatment of acute mesenteric ischaemia (AMI) recommend the use of thrombolytic, antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy depending on the aetiology of AMI and the use of stenting but only few details are given on the choice of the drug, dose and duration of treatment. Besides, recommendations are mainly based on data on coronary, cerebral and other peripheral artery diseases and do also not take into account the altered drug absorption in patients with short bowel syndrome, in which AMI can result.This case-based survey will inform us on the current international clinical practice of long-term antithrombotic management of AMI.