Active clinical trials for "Myocardial Ischemia"

The goal of this study is to correlate both plaque and % lipid core content assessed by NIRS-IVUS (Imaging technique) to plaque burden and % lipid core content in coronary computerized tomographic angiography (CCTA) completed at 1 week in non-culprit coronary arteries.

Diabetes causing serious complications is well known. In this study the aim is to follow 950 patients with diabetes for 15 years to study when, in who and how the diabetes complications occurs.

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the utility of Ischemia Modified Albumin (IMA) for risk stratification in patients presenting with chest discomfort and possible ischemic heart disease, and to evaluate the diagnostic and prognostic implication for IMA for major adverse cardiac events.

Because of its availability, non-invasiveness, and high diagnostic performance, myocardial perfusion tomoscintigraphy has become a standard tool for the detection, characterization and monitoring of coronary artery disease. Standard analysis, based on the reversibility of regional myocardial hypoperfusion between stress (physiological or pharmacological) and rest, has good sensitivity and negative predictive value in the search for myocardial ischemia. However, two major obstacles persist. First, because of the relative nature of the normalization of cardiac activity, this approach may underestimate the extent of the damage, especially when the territory with the most activity is itself pathological. Thus myocardial perfusion scintigraphy can only detect 40 to 50% of tri-truncal patients. To overcome these disadvantages, several indexes have been proposed to improve the diagnostic performance of perfusion scintigraphy in multi-truncal patients based in particular on kinetic analysis. Secondly, the review does not provide any guarantee as to the quality and reproducibility of use of the coronal reserve during stress, in particular during submaximal stress tests and pharmacological stress, the latter being easily antagonized by xanthine derivatives contained in tea and coffee in particular (abstinence of at least 12 to 24 hours being recommended). In recent years and thanks to the advent of CZT semiconductor cameras dedicated to cardiology - to perform a dynamic tomographic acquisition - a study of the coronal reserve is feasible by perfusion tomoscintigraphy in current practice. This study of the coronary reserve mainly consists of a computer post-processing of the myocardial perfusion scintigraphy data and does not therefore require any additional irradiation (the only difference with respect to the old protocols is the start of the images at the time of publication. injection of the radiotracer). However, the diagnostic benefit gained from the coronary reserve study compared to conventional stress / rest perfusion scintigraphy has not been clearly studied, particularly in the multi-truncal patients.

Our primary goal is to validate a new diagnostic tool for functional coronary artery stenosis that uses multimodal imaging (combining stress echocardiography and stress scintigraphy) in patients with known coronary chest pain.

- General Objective To evaluate the effects of curcumin supplementation on cardiovascular risk markers, inflammation, oxidative stress and functional capacity in participants with coronary artery disease. Specific Objectives Assess, before and after supplementation with turmeric: The nutritional status of the participants; Blood pressure; Atherogenic risk; The expression of transcription factors (Nrf2 and NF-kB), antioxidant enzymes (NQO1, HO-1, sirtuin 1 (SIRT-1)), NLPR3 receptor, as well as the levels of inflammatory cytokines (IL-6, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), protein C reactive (PCR), IL-1, IL 18) and vascular cell adhesion protein 1 (VCAM-1) and E-selectin adhesion molecules; Routine biochemical parameters; Lipid peroxidation and oxidized LDL; The 6-minute walk test, the recovery heart rate and the chair lift test; Modifiable risk factors before and after supplementation; The comparison of all parameters between groups.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the telemedicine use in primary health care is effective in the accompaniment of stable coronary artery disease patients who were discharged from the tertiary health care clinics.

This is a multi-center pilot study to examine the effectiveness of a health literacy-based intervention to improve medication adherence and self-efficacy of medication use among individuals with coronary heart disease (CHD). The specific aims are to: i) develop a health literacy-based intervention to improve medication adherence for CHD individuals with low health literacy and ii) evaluate the effects of a health literacy-based intervention on improving medication adherence and self-efficacy in CHD individuals.

Existing trials for the patient with coronary heart disease evaluate the interdisciplinary team dynamic where pharmacists (pharmacotherapists) provide therapeutic recommendations in the inpatient environment. To our knowledge, only other trial has evaluated the addition of a pharmacist (or nurse practitioner) in an outpatient collaborative cardiology practice and has found no benefit. However, the investigators believe that since a cardiology based pharmacist (pharmacotherapist) in the Veterans Health Administration has physical assessment skills, a shorter cycle length between appointments, and the ability to provide medication therapy management, the pharmacotherapist should be similarly successful as seen with other pharmacist based medication therapy management practices. The investigators will assess effectiveness by using the combined endpoint of blood pressure and lipid treatment. Additionally the investigators will conduct three substudies to evaluate if the pharmacist can improve all cause mortality and cardiovascular morbidity, adherence to antihypertensives, and patient satisfaction.

Background: Although patients' education programs improve health-related knowledge that promote individual capacity to understand basic health information, there is a scarcity in the studies that address cardiac educational programs for patients with coronary artery diseases in Jordan and their impact on patients' health outcomes. Aim: the aims of this study are to assess the level of knowledge and satisfaction of patients with coronary artery disease and to evaluate the effect of implementing a cardiac educational program on patient's level of knowledge and satisfaction. Methods: This study will be carried out using a true experimental two groups pre and post- test. The necessary information will be collected from 138 patients with CAD in the north of Jordan using the Coronary Artery Disease Education Questionnaire (CADE-Q) and the Patient Satisfaction Scale (PSS). The expected outcomes include establishing foundational knowledge about the effectiveness of cardiac educational program on patient health related out comes. Evidence on the effect of cardiac educational program will help patients to recover from a heart attacks, prevent future heart problems, hospital stays and death related to heart problems as well as making a necessary life style changes. Keywords: coronary artery disease, educational program, patient satisfaction, patient knowledge.