Active clinical trials for "Heart Failure"

The purpose of this research is to see if the drug rapamycin will improve the heart's ability to pump by improving your oxygen consumption.

This is a single-centre, prospective, open-label, non-comparative clinical trial assessing the on-body performance of an investigational drug delivery device (SQIN-Infusor) in patients hospitalised due to HF.

Summary of the HF-HOPE study: Background and existing knowledge gap: As per the Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System, about 1 in 12 Canadian adults aged ≥20 live with diagnosed heart disease. Every hour, about 12 Canadian adults aged ≥20 die due to heart failure (HF). It is estimated that HF results in direct costs of more than $2.8 billion per year in Canada alone. As per the Canadian Society of Cardiology, heart failure is defined as "a complex clinical syndrome in which abnormal heart function results in, or increases the subsequent risk of, clinical symptoms and signs of reduced cardiac output and/or pulmonary or systemic congestion at rest or with stress". Although HF is defined as "reduced cardiac output state" no objective parameters are set to define the condition. Invasive monitoring is routinely used in hemodynamic evaluation of critically ill patients admitted in the hospital, however, there is no reliable tool available to measure hemodynamic parameters that may predict, immediate or long-term, risk of worst health outcomes in stable HF patients. We hypothesize that non-invasive bioimpedance-based hemodynamic parameters can be used as a predictive tool for health outcomes in patients with HF. To ascertain this, we propose the first of its kind HF-HOPE study. Objectives of HF-HOPE study are to 1) characterize hemodynamic measures of resting versus post-exercise (mounted ergometer) in patients with all-comer stable HF subjects, irrespective of their HF etiology using Non-Invasive Cardiac System (NICaS); 2) correlate NICaS-derived hemodynamic parameters to identify, early- and long-term risk of worse health outcomes (unplanned hospital admission due to HF or arrhythmias; listing for heart transplantation/palliative care; and death); 3) correlate the lean body mass (muscle and skeleton) with their body mass index (kg/m2) and the risk of worse health outcomes; and 4) Nested cohort study: identify the outcome-associated biomarkers of chronic HF by employing a non-targeted metabolomics/lipidomics approach. Methods: The HF-HOPE is a single center, prospective, double-blind, pragmatic clinical study. It will be conducted at St. Boniface general hospital, Manitoba's tertiary cardiac center. Patients aged ≥18 years, irrespective of any sex or gender, with confirmed diagnosis of HF will be enrolled in the study. Hemodynamic measurements (stroke volume, cardiac output, cardiac index, total peripheral vascular resistance, and cardiac power index) will be assessed using NICaS at 3-times (at rest in supine, siting position as well as after exercise on a mounted ergometer) at baseline and 6 months (±1 month) in each enrolled participant. Patients will be followed to record health outcomes as outlined above, each year. The BodPod, air displacement plathysmography device will be used to determine body compositions at baseline and 6-month. Baseline demographic data will be gathered. To optimize the use of clinical resources, we will collect blood and urine samples for non-selective metabolomics and lipidomics profiling by adopting -omics approach as a nested cohort study. Statistical analysis: Assuming the 8 to 12% 1-year mortality rate following admission with HF, a projected sample size of 500 would be suffice. Conservatively 4 covariates will be included in multivariable statistical models, while testing the independent effect of the relevant NICaS parameters of interest. We will perform subgroup analysis using age, sex, ethnicity, concomitant disease conditions, medications, and lean body mass. Anticipated outcomes and future implications: The HF-HOPE study is the first of its kind study employing non-invasive hemodynamic parameters to predict worsening health outcomes over time in HF patients. The successful outcomes will provide a promising cost effective, rapid, and reliable tool to predict worsening health outcomes before it actually lead to hospitalization, tissue damage or death. This early warnings will provide adequate time for appropriate intervention. The HF- HOPE study has been meticulously designed to replicate the pragmatic conditions while assessing the non-invasive hemodynamic measurements to widen the knowledge translation of outcomes to change the clinical practice of HF patient management. Further, this may provide supporting data for future randomized trial to replace the costly, resource-intense, and complex invasive tool to determine hemodynamic measurements in HF patients.

The purpose of this research project is to evaluate the impact of virtual reality therapy on mitigating heart failure pain in hospitalized patients with heart failure and compare this impact to that of 2-dimensional guided imagery distraction therapy.

The investigators sought to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment with furosemide + HSS in terms of reduction of serum levels of some chosen markers of heart failure and the response in terms of these markers at a compensated state after an acute saline load.

Single-center, prospective double-blinded randomized control trial to evaluate the the feasibility, efficacy and safety of outpatient IV diuretic therapy in treatment of heart failure.

This study will be the first trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of dapagliflozin treatment in preventing readmissions/ER visits/urgent clinic visits, and death in patients with and without T2D after admission for heart failure. Treatment with SGLT2-i has been shown to reduce both heart failure hospitalizations and mortality in patients with established heart disease. However, the time of initiation of SGLT2-i therapy has not been evaluated in patients with HF. In addition, the impact of treatment on HF symptoms quality of life, resource utilization, and cost-effectiveness of dapagliflozin versus placebo will be evaluated. The results of this study have great potential to impact and facilitate care and to change current clinical guidelines in the management of patients with heart failure.

Chronic heart failure (CHF) is one of the major causes of death in Western societies. Evidence has accumulated that functionally active autoantibodies directed against the beta1 adrenergic receptor (β1 AAb) are of pathophysiological relevance for the development and progression of cardiomyopathy and associated CHF. BC 007 is under development for targeted neutralisation of autoantibodies directed against G protein coupled receptors, including β1 AAb. This is an open label, three-centre, randomised phase 2a study in participants with chronic HFrEF. The study will evaluate whether BC 007 causes a persistent neutralisation of the β1 AAb demonstrated by a negative β1 AAb status up to 12 months. Participants will be randomised in a 2:1 ratio to the treatment arm (BC 007) or the control arm (untreated). Treatment is repeated once up to month 11 if the participant's β1 AAb were not neutralised after 1st dosing on day 1 or reoccur.

This is a Phase 1, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, single-ascending dose study to assess the safety, tolerability, immunogenicity, PK, and exploratory efficacy of JK07 in subjects 18 to 80 years of age with HFrEF ≤40%. Initially 5 cohorts are planned with the option to expand the study to a total of 7 cohorts. The size of the cohorts will range from 5 to 9 subjects. Each cohort will include one single active unblinded sentinel subject receiving a single IV dose of JK07 prior to randomized single dose administration of JK07 or placebo [3:1] in the remainder of the cohort.

Heart failure is a multisystem syndrome characterized by the body's inability to pump or increase the filling pressures required for pumping the blood needed. Typically it shows objective evidence of dyspnea and fatigue during rest or exercise, or swelling of the ankles and cardiac dysfunction. This leads to great loss of functional status and quality of life. These patients seem to be more difficult to participate in cardiac rehabilitation programs due to their more comorbid, fragile and low functional capacity. It has been shown that inspiratory muscle training, which is a part of cardiac rehabilitation, not only improves lung problems but also increases functional capacity and balance, strength of respiratory and peripheral muscles, and decreases perception of depression and dyspnea in patients. Video games are increasingly being used as an alternative to traditional rehabilitation-based exercises to improve daily activity levels and increase physical fitness in the elderly because of their recreational and motivational effects. Although Nintendo wii fit gives similar results with traditional rehabilitation practices, it causes less energy costs. This suggests that it can be a suitable rehabilitation tool for elderly people with low energy levels. A review showed that video games are safe and feasible in the elderly with heart failure. Participants' balance, cognitive functions, quality of life improved and depressive mood decreased. Video games also make older people to communicate better with other family members. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of inspiratory muscle training and nintendo wii fit exercise training in elderly patients with heart failure and to compare these practices with each other.