Analysis of Heart Muscle Function in Patients With Heart Disease and Normal Volunteers
CardiomyopathyHypertrophic4 moreMyocardial ischemia is a heart condition in which not enough blood supply and oxygen reaches the heart muscle. Damage to the major blood vessels of the heart (coronary artery disease), minor blood vessels of the heart (microvascular heart disease), or damage to the heart muscle (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) can cause myocardial ischemia. Any of theses three conditions can cause patients to experience chest pain and other symptoms as well as cause the heart to function improperly. In order to detect myocardial ischemia researchers can use tests to measure the movement of the walls of the heart. Walls receiving inadequate supplies of blood often move less and occasionally move in the opposite direction. Some of the tests may require patients to receive injections of radioactive tracers. The radioactive material acts to enhance 3 dimensional pictures of the heart and helps to identify areas of ischemia. The purpose of this study is to determine whether 3-dimensional imaging (tomography) with radioactive tracers can provide more important information about heart wall function than routine diagnostic tests.
Racial Differences in the Coronary Microcirculation
Cardiovascular DiseasesHeart Diseases5 moreTo study mechanisms of excess coronary ischemia secondary to alterations in autoregulation and arteriolar vasoreactivity in Black Americans with hypertension, varying degree of left ventricular hypertrophy, and angiographically normal or mildly diseased coronary arteries.
Prospective Study of Health in Runners and Walkers
Coronary DiseaseCardiovascular Diseases4 moreTo compare rates of coronary heart disease (CHD), cancer, total mortality and exercise injuries in 68,000 runners and 68,000 walkers during four years of surveillance
Influence of Risk Factors on ISR and Nonintervened Lesions
Coronary Artery DiseaseMulti Vessel Coronary Artery DiseaseThis study enrolled patients who used to received PCI therapy with nonintervened coronary lesions. Baseline characteristics and laboratory testing were collected to find out the risk factor difference between ISR and nonintervened coronary lesions.
Painless Myocardial Ischemia in Diabetic Patients.
Painless Myocardial IschemiaThis study aims to investigate the relationship between the concentrations of blood orphanin, norepinephrine and the morbidity of painless myocardial ischemia in patients with diabetes mellitus. Hopefully, the biomarker(s) in the blood of diabetic patients can be found for screening high risk patients in the diabetes sufferers to prevent the painless myocardial ischemia.
Cruz HBR Registry - Post-market Registry to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of the Supraflex Cruz...
Coronary Artery DiseaseThis is a prospective, multicenter, open-label, single-arm registry. The primary objective of this registry is to confirm the results of the Supraflex Cruz stent in real life all-comer patients (800 patients as in the Supraflex arm of the TALENT trial) and demonstrate that the Supraflex Cruz stent is not inferior to the BioFreedom stent in High Bleeding Risk (HBR) patients (400 patients) with respect to device oriented composite endpoint (DOCE) at 12 months. All patients will be followed up to 12 months after the index procedure.
VasoStat vs. TR Band for Radial Hemostasis
Coronary Artery DiseasePeripheral Arterial DiseaseVasoStat vs. TR Band compression for Radial Artery Hemostasis Following Transradial Catheterization Without Prior Radial Artery Access
Diagnostic Performance of Fractional Flow Reserve Derived From Coronary CT Angiography
Coronary Artery DiseaseThis is a blind evaluation, self-control, multicenter clinical trial designed to determine the diagnostic performance of CT-FFR from coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA), as compared to CCTA alone, for non-invasive diagnosis of the presence of a hemodynamically significant coronary stenosis, using invasive fractional flow reserve (FFR) as the reference standard.
Decision Variability Between Different Heart Teams for Complex Coronary Artery Diseases
Coronary Artery DiseaseThe purposes of this study are 1) to explore the variability of decisions between different heart teams in complex coronary artery disease; 2) to evaluate the reasons of the discrepancy in decision making.
Symptomatic Trial of Angina Assessment Prior to Revascularization
Coronary Artery DiseaseAngina1 moreThe principal objective of this research is to determine whether symptoms, induced by confirmed experimental ischaemia, can help us predict which patients will respond to PCI.