Active clinical trials for "Myocardial Infarction"

It is unknown, if a modern prevention program, including intense nurse-coordinated education sessions, regular telephone contacts and a telephone hotline for 12 months, significantly reduces cardiovascular risk factors, clinical events and quality of life in myocardial infarction patients compared to usual care. Furthermore, actually no data on the additional effects and the feasibility of longterm telemetric care of cardiovascular risk factors exist. The primary hypothesis to be tested is that an intensive longterm prevention program compared to the standard of medical care, will achieve better risk factor control and consecutively less clinical adverse events in patients after myocardial infarctions. The study endpoints will be evaluated after 12 months and during long-term course (after 24 months = one year after termination of the prevention program). In a substudy the effects of short reinterventions ("Prevention Boosts") during long-term course are tested (IPP Prevention Boost Study). Patients with at least one insufficiently controlled risk factor at 24-months visit are randomly assigned to a short (2-month) reintervention vs. no reintervention. The effects of the reinterventions on risk factor control are evaluated after 36 months. A further substudy focusing on young patients <= 45 years of age at time of MI (IPP-Y = IPP in the Young) was added after completion of the pilot IPP study. In this study we focus on the prevention program in young MI-patients. A retrospective analysis of individual genetic risk (assessed by genetic risk scores) in the young patients is included in this substudy.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of vitamin E on preventing from incidence of contrast induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) in the patients who undergone coronary angiography.

Patients who have suffered a heart attack are at risk of developing worsening heart function and heart failure. Exercise training has a beneficial effect on heart function and prevents heart failure. The aim of the current study is to investigate the effect of exercise training on heart function in patients who have suffered a heart attack.

This is a prospective, randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, and controlled study of DLBS1033 in the management of acute non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) without early coronary revascularization. It is hypothesized that the combination of DLBS1033 with aspirin and clopidogrel will result in greater reduction of infarct size in comparison with that of aspirin and clopidogrel alone.

Colchicine has antiinflammatory properties. It has been shown to be effective in improving outcome in stable coronary disease. The exact mechanism is unclear. Study objective: to assess the effect of colchicine on endothelial function using the EndoPAT™ in NSTEMI Patients. Study Hypothesis: There will be a significant difference on the RH-PAT levels of the patients who were in treated with colchicine versus the placebo group Study design and patient Selection One hundred and forty patients with the diagnosis of Non ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction will be enrolled to a prospective randomized double-blind placebo controlled study in Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. Patients will be recruited during their hospitalization before cardiac catheterization. All patients will sign an informed consent. Primary outcome will be the improvement in endothelial function between baseline and after 1 month in both groups

The purpose of this study is to determine whether additional therapy with Aminophylline to hydration with sodium bicarbonate and administration of N-acetylcysteine is more effective to prevent contrast induced acute kidney injury in patients undergoing primary coronary intervention for acute ST elevation myocardial infarction.

The pilot prospective randomized trial is designed to determine the safety and feasibility of enrolling patients to surgically correct residual Mitral Regurgitation (MR) following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) for Myocardial Infarction (MI) verses ongoing medical management of MR. The investigators hypothesize that if moderate MR is corrected in this patient subset, the patients will have improved outcomes as measured by decreased number of major adverse cardiac events, including death, congestive heart failure requiring hospitalization, atrial fibrillation, deterioration of New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional status and improved quality of life.

The primary objective is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the IK-5001 device for the prevention of ventricular remodeling and congestive heart failure when administered to subjects who had successful percutaneous coronary intervention with stent placement after ST segment elevation MI (STEMI).

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the efficacy of tirofiban (a 25mcg/kg i.v. bolus followed by a 0.15mcg/kg/min i.v. infusion during a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) plus two hours after the procedure) is more effective than placebo in the setting of standard therapies (e.g. aspirin, a thienopyridine, and unfractionated heparin or bivalirudin) among patients undergoing PCI, as assessed by the incidence of adverse cardiac ischemic events defined as death, myocardial infarction (MI), and urgent target vessel revascularization (uTVR) within 48 hours following study drug initiation. A secondary objective of this study is to assess whether tirofiban (a 25mcg/kg i.v. bolus followed by a 0.15mcg/kg/min i.v. infusion during a PCI plus two hours after the procedure) is safe compared to placebo in the setting of standard therapies (e.g. aspirin, a thienopyridine, and unfractionated heparin or bivalirudin) among patients undergoing PCI, as assessed by the incidence of non-CABG-related TIMI major bleeding within 48 hours following study drug initiation. Patient enrollment is pending.

The purpose of this study is to compare 3 point-of-care methods for monitoring antiplatelet therapy to golden standard (Light transmittance aggregometry-LTA) in high risk population of acute myocardial infarction patients. If two methods (PFA-100, VerifyNOW,Multiplate or LTA) will indicate insufficient antiplatelet blockade/high residual reactivity for aspirin, clopidogrel or both, the dose of aspirin will be increased to 200mg qd and the dose of clopidogrel will be increased to 2x75mg qd.In addition genotyping of CYP2C19 (6 alleles) will be performed.