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Biomarkers, Hemodynamic and Echocardiographic Predictors of Ischemic Strokes and Their Influence...

Embolic Stroke of Undetermined SourceIschemic Stroke5 more

A stroke is the second cause of deaths after heart attack, one of the most important causes of malfunction as far as adults are concerned and the second as for the frequency cause of dementia. In spite of a possibility of the therapy of stroke ( tissue plasminogen activator) and recognized most of risk factors there is expected that incidence rate on stroke connected with ageing of the society will be growing. It will cause medical and social consequences. There are many of potential causes of cardiac strokes, which are not entirely examined. More over many cryptogenic strokes are presumed to have an embolic etiology, and the frequent cause of these kind of strokes at young age is probably the mechanism of paradoxical embolism through patent foramen ovale. As far as the investigators are concerned, at present there is lack of any recommendations for these scientific hypothesis.

Completed10 enrollment criteria

Can Continuous Non-invasive Monitoring Improve Stability of Intraoperative Blood Pressure - A Feasibility...

Hip FracturesHypotension on Induction5 more

Background During anaesthesia for repair of a broken hip, many patients experience low blood pressure. There have been many studies showing that patients who experience low blood pressure during anaesthesia are at increased risk of sustaining kidney or heart damage, strokes, having a post-operative infection, or dying. During anaesthesia, in most cases blood pressure is monitored using a cuff which inflates on the arm (the 'normal' way blood pressure is measured in a GP practice or hospital ward). This gives a reading each time the cuff goes up and down, every 3-5 minutes typically. There is a less well used way to measure blood pressure, using an additional cuff on the finger which gives a constant, continuous measure of blood pressure. We think that using this monitor, rather than the 'standard' monitor, will mean that low blood pressure is recognised more quickly, therefore treated more quickly, and will lead to patients having less exposure to dangerously low blood pressures. If this is the case, we hope that it will reduce how often patients experience kidney or heart damage, have an infection after surgery, suffer a stroke, and reduce the risk of death. Methodology To test this, we would need to run a large clinical trial comparing the continuous monitor to the standard monitor. This would be expensive and involve a great deal of work in a large number of hospitals, and so first we wish to determine whether the trial we would like to run is practical, and possible to deliver in the real world. To do this we plan to run the trial first on a small-scale feasibility (pilot) study, where we will recruit 30 patients, half of whom will have the standard monitor, and half of whom will have the continuous monitor. We will see what proportion of the patients who could enter the trial actually do so and complete it, and use it as an opportunity to iron out problems with the trial. If we find it is possible to run the trial on a small scale, we will apply for funding to run a full study. This will aim to answer the question of whether the continuous monitor improves the patient outcomes which were agreed during development with the patient public involvement group locally; rate of kidney damage, heart damage, stroke, post-operative infections, risk of death, and hospital length-of-stay. Expected outcomes and implications. We anticipate we will find the trial to be feasible with amendments to the way it is run, and if this is the case, we will apply to run the full scale trial. If this shows that using the continuous monitor improves the patient outcomes above, then it would represent new, significant evidence that may lead to the NHS adopting it's use as 'standard care' during anaesthesia for repair of a broken hip, and would like lead to similar trials in other operations where patients may benefit in a similar way.

Completed11 enrollment criteria

Cardiovascular Clinical Project to Evaluate the Regenerative Capacity of CardioCell in Patients...

Critical Limb Ischemia

The main objective of the CIRCULATE project is to compare the clinical outcomes of CardioCell administration in treatment of ischemic damages of cardiovascular system with control group, who will be treated by the administration of placebo during the sham procedure.

Unknown status18 enrollment criteria

Optimal antiPlatelet Therapy for High Bleeding and Ischemic RISK Patients Trial

Prolonged DAPT in ACS Patients With Hisk of Both Ischemic and Hemorrhage

Current guidelines recommend that patients with ACS undergoing stent implantation might be offered extended DAPT treatment for up to 30 months if necessary. Therefore, we designed a prospective, multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled trial among ACS patients with high-risk on ischemic and bleeding who received a new generation of DES and received 9 to 12 months of DAPT, and evaluated whether clopidogrel monotherapy reduce the risk of bleeding compared with clopidogrel plus ASA in the following 9 months and achieved non-inferior outcomes in preventing ischemic risk.

Unknown status33 enrollment criteria

Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia Breath Testing

Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia

Background and aims: A gold standard diagnostic test to diagnose chronic mesenteric ischemia is currently lacking. Isotope labelled-butyrate and glucose breath testing could theoretically quantify mucosal oxygen consumption and thereby detect ischemia, since oxygen is needed to absorb and metabolize butyrate and glucose, and distinguish aerobic/anaerobic intestinal epithelial metabolism. Here we aim to test this notion and compare results to conventional biomarkers. Methods: Healthy volunteers were randomized into two control groups and two intervention groups, each consisting of five volunteers receiving either oral 13C -butyrate or 13C -glucose. The control groups performed breath tests without any physical exercise. The intervention groups performed a 30 minutes standardized bicycle exercise test, which has been proven to elicit mesenteric ischemia. Breath samples of expired 13CO2 were collected during a period of 4 hours and results were contrasted to measurements of biomarkers in peripheral blood.

Completed2 enrollment criteria

Protective Effects of Edaravone Dexborneol

Acute Ischemic Stroke

The patients of acute ischemic stroke were divided into two groups, edaravone dexborneol treatment group and edaravone treatment group. The purpose of this study was to observe the changes of imaging and the improvement of NIHSS and mRS in different groups.

Unknown status10 enrollment criteria

Cerebral Oximetry in Cardiac Surgery to Reduce Neurological Impairment and Hospital Length-of-stay...

Cardiac SurgeryNeural Injury1 more

Cerebral oximetry using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has been shown to reduce the incidence of neurological dysfunction and hospital length-of-stay in adult cardiac surgery though not all studies agree. A previous audit using cerebral saturations at or above baseline showed improved neurological and length-of-stay outcomes.

Completed5 enrollment criteria

Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Deficiency in Ischemic Stroke

HyperhomocysteinemiaThrombotic3 more

Adult onset epileptic seizures is rare and often associated with metabolic disorders, drugs and intracranial pathologies such as ischemia, hemorrhage or space-occupying lesions. Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) deficiency is one of the reasons that cause epileptic seizures in adults and can be ignored. MTHFR deficiency is an autosomal recessive disorder that results in hyperhomocysteinemia and causes a predisposition to venous and arterial thrombosis. The incidence of the polymorphism is around 40% in some countries. The aim of the retrospective study is to investigate the incidence of MTHFR deficiency in patients with adult-onset epileptic seizures.

Completed2 enrollment criteria

Anesthetics to Prevent Lung Injury in Cardiac Surgery

Inflammatory Lung InjuryIschemia-Reperfusion Lung Injury1 more

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the use of inhaled anesthetics, compared to intravenous anesthetics, can affect the amount of lung inflammation and postoperative respiratory complications seen after cardiac surgery.

Completed8 enrollment criteria

Comparison Between Myocardial Tomoscintigraphies Using a Semiconductor Camera or a Conventional...

Myocardial InfarctionIschemia

Myocardial perfusion tomoscintigraphy is a routine medicine procedure to check for the presence and severity of abnormalities of myocardial perfusion, as well as the extension of infarction residua. However, actual imagery devices (gamma cameras) have low resolution and detection sensitivity. A new semiconductor camera has 8 to 10 time higher detection sensitivity and could allow proportionally diminishing injected activities or recording times. Only one pilot study has been recently published on this type of camera, the D.SPECT camera. This study will compare images recorded during 15 to 20 minutes by conventional cameras and 2 to 4 minutes by D.SPECT camera in patients doing tomoscintigraphy under usual conditions. The purpose is to demonstrate the equivalence of images recorded by two camera types for diagnostic information and the secondary purpose is to demonstrate the superiority of the D.SPECT camera in terms of image quality.

Completed5 enrollment criteria
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