Active clinical trials for "Myocardial Infarction"

To determine the therapeutic effects of Tongxinluo Capsules as compared with placebo in the treatment of patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI): (1) Clinical efficacy and safety at 30 days: the incidence of composite endpoints comprising major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events (MACCE, including cardiovascular death, myocardial re-infarction, emergency coronary revascularization and cerebral stroke), severe complications (including cardiogenic shock, heart failure, mechanical complications and malignant arrhythmias), and major bleeding (BARC grade III and V); (2) Clinical efficacy and safety at 1 year: the incidence of composite endpoints comprising MACCE, hospitalization due to heart failure, in-stent thrombosis, and major bleeding (BARC grade III and V), as well as all-cause mortality; (3) the effects in promoting myocardial reperfusion, reducing incidence of myocardial no-reflow, protecting ischemic myocardium, minimizing infarction size, and improving left ventricular systolic function.

The study aims to investigate whether oral betablocker (BB) therapy is superior to no such treatment following an acute myocardial infarction (AMI).

Bivalirudin is recomended by guidelines during primary PCI procedure for patients with STEMI. However, there is a large number of STEMI patients who missed the primary PCI. So the investigators aim to study the efficiency and safety of bivalirudin as the anticoagulation therapy during late PCI.

The leading cause of death in the world is due to cardiovascular events, which originate from coronary artery stenosis therefore it affects myocardial blood flow and finally may cause infarction. Atherosclerosis is the most debatable hypothesis in coronary stenosis. Scientists think body inflammation is one of the main etiologies. There are many factors affect this inflammatory process, which Vitamin D is one of them. Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to various inflammatory diseases. However, the mechanism by which vitamin D reduces inflammation remains poorly understood. Vitamin D deficiency is pandemic around the world with 30-50% prevalence in adult population and several evidences advocated its association with immune-based disease. Additionally, there are some study suggesting patients who suffered from myocardial infarction have lower serum vitamin D level. It has been revealed Vitamin D deficiency has numerous major drawbacks on cardiovascular system. Its deficiency benefits atherosclerosis progression and may cause endothelial inflammation and dysfunction in coronary artery. There is not any evidences study vitamin D deficiency treatment on non ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction nor there is any study demonstrating its effect on cardiovascular health through Holick's protocol. Furthermore endothelial function, cardiac work retrieval and inflammation after 8 weeks has not been studied with this protocol yet. According to current data, the investigators assume by treating this vital and worldwide deficit in our body, doctors can help decrease inflammation, decelerate the atherosclerosis progression and enhance ventricular function after infarction. Besides all of the recognized risk factors, vitamin D deficiency should be considered a very important and mischievous cardiovascular alarm for the body, which should be treated and maintained through the whole life due to lack of sufficient sunlight exposure and nutrition intake. In preventive medicine domain, the investigators anticipate by maintaining a high level of this vitamin in the body, cardiovascular events decrease and its burden on society will decline to much extend leading to a higher quality of life and health worldwide.

The purpose of this study is to determine the safety and effectiveness of intracoronary infusion of autologous cardiac stem cells in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy.

Over the past years, a substantial volume of evidence has accumulated identifying inflammatory processes as key mediators of the deleterious effects of ischemia/reperfusion-related phenomena in patients presenting with ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Nevertheless, equally impressive is the lack of clinically applicable therapeutic strategies that could mitigate these processes, thus providing significant cardioprotection. Despite the well-known fact that inflammation plays an important role in coronary artery disease development and progression, there have been few attempts to systematically examine the potential role of anti-inflammatory treatment in this setting, possibly because of a lack in anti-inflammatory agents without the adverse cardiovascular safety profile of corticosteroids and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Colchicine is a substance with potent anti-inflammatory properties, having a unique mechanism of action, which allows for safe use in patients with cardiovascular disease. The purpose of the present clinical study is to test the hypothesis that a short course of treatment with colchicine could lead to reduced major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in acute MI.

A multi-center study will be done to explore the optimal regimen of antithrombotic therapy for acute myocardial infarction with left ventricular mural thrombus. The investigators will evaluate the different combinations of antiplatelet drugs and anticoagulants for at least one month, such as aspirin 100mg qd+clopidogrel 75mg qd+warfarin (INR1.8-2.2), aspirin 100mg qd+clopidogrel 75mg qd+dabigatran 110mg bid, aspirin 100mg qd+ticagrelor 60mg bid+warfarin (INR1.8-2.2), and aspirin 100mg qd+ticagrelor 60mg bid+dabigatran 110mg bid. Transthoracic two-dimensional echocardiography will be done at the 1-month, 3-month and 6-month follow-ups to evaluate the left ventricular mural thrombus and determinate whether the antithrombotic therapy regimen could be regulated to double antiplatelet or anticoagulant+clopidogrel 75mg qd/ticagrelor 60mg bid. Then the investigators will complete the 12-month follow-up to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the optimal antithrombotic therapy regimen for acute myocardial infarction with left ventricular mural thrombus.

The study intends to evaluate the efficacy of different medicine delivering by targed perfusion catheter incoronary administration on epicardial, myocardial perfusion and clinical outcomes in STEMI patients undergoing primary PCI.

The primary objective of the CORIC-MI trial is to evaluate whether comprehensive (per, post plus delayed) remote ischemic conditioning (CORIC) as an adjunctive therapy in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) can improve left ventricular function and remodeling at 30 days assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) for a minimum follow-up period of 12 months.

To compare the clinical outcomes of dual antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and P2Y12 receptor inhibitor vs. ticagrelor monotherapy at 3 months after PCI in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction.