Active clinical trials for "Myocardial Infarction"

It is now recognized that iron deficiency in cardiovascular disease contributes to impaired clinical outcome.

A stroke is the second cause of deaths after heart attack, one of the most important causes of malfunction as far as adults are concerned and the second as for the frequency cause of dementia. In spite of a possibility of the therapy of stroke ( tissue plasminogen activator) and recognized most of risk factors there is expected that incidence rate on stroke connected with ageing of the society will be growing. It will cause medical and social consequences. There are many of potential causes of cardiac strokes, which are not entirely examined. More over many cryptogenic strokes are presumed to have an embolic etiology, and the frequent cause of these kind of strokes at young age is probably the mechanism of paradoxical embolism through patent foramen ovale. As far as the investigators are concerned, at present there is lack of any recommendations for these scientific hypothesis.

Myocardial perfusion tomoscintigraphy is a routine medicine procedure to check for the presence and severity of abnormalities of myocardial perfusion, as well as the extension of infarction residua. However, actual imagery devices (gamma cameras) have low resolution and detection sensitivity. A new semiconductor camera has 8 to 10 time higher detection sensitivity and could allow proportionally diminishing injected activities or recording times. Only one pilot study has been recently published on this type of camera, the D.SPECT camera. This study will compare images recorded during 15 to 20 minutes by conventional cameras and 2 to 4 minutes by D.SPECT camera in patients doing tomoscintigraphy under usual conditions. The purpose is to demonstrate the equivalence of images recorded by two camera types for diagnostic information and the secondary purpose is to demonstrate the superiority of the D.SPECT camera in terms of image quality.

This is a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled study of intracoronary cocktail injection combined with thrombus aspiration versus thrombus aspiration alone in ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients treated with primary angioplasty.

The purpose of this study is to determine outcomes (death, myocardial infarction, target vessel revascularization (TVR), non-target vessel revascularization (non-TVR), stent-thrombosis) of 120 consecutive patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction and multivessel coronary artery disease undergoing multivessel stenting or staged percutaneous coronary intervention with Zotarolimus-eluting stents

The aim of this prospective follow-up study is to investigate 5-year clinical outcome in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing remote ischemic conditioning before primary percutaneous coronary intervention.

The objective of the study is to evaluate the performance and intended use of a new cardiac biomarker test, Troponin I, in an intended use population. Blood specimens will be tested using the new investigational test that detects the level of Troponin I. Results will be compared to the diagnosis of whether or not an acute myocardial infarction (MI) occurred.

First acute anterior myocardial infarction in patients with primary PCI preoperative and postoperative 30 days intensive dose atorvastatin statin therapy compared with conventional -dose therapy , patients can improve left ventricular function , reduce major adverse cardiovascular events .

The achievement of high local concentration of Eptifibatide, a GP 2b3a inhibitor,via direct intracoronary injection, promotes (in vitro) clot disaggregation. It remains unclear if it is of superior benefit than the routine intravenous administration of these agents. In patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction, and undergoing primary coronary intervention, intracoronary administration of Eptifibatide may increase local drug concentration by several orders of magnitude and promote clot disaggregation with a minimal increase in systemic drug concentration, and in that way enhancing myocardial perfusion and survival.

The purpose of this research study is to test an experimental drug ATI-5923 vs Coumadin. The study is intended to demonstrate ATI-5923 is superior to Coumadin for keeping INR values in the desired therapeutic range. Patients who require chronic anticoagulation with one or more of the following conditions are eligible for the study: atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter, prosthetic heart valve, venous thromboembolic disease, or history of myocardial infarction or cardiomyopathy will be enrolled.