Active clinical trials for "Myocardial Infarction"

This study aims to evaluate the effect of statin for primary prevention, towards lowering the incidence of recurrent myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock and mortality in ACS patients.

Patients with STEMI and multivessel disease in whom the culprit lesion has been successfully revascularized during prmimary PCI, will be randomized to in-hospital or after-discharge complete revascularization. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of these two different strategies in terms of hospital stay.

The quality of life, linked to physical, social and mental performance in people with coronary heart disease represents the primary goals in terms of rehabilitation. This is often developed to meet the expected performance standard in order to give the person effective autonomy. However, is the occupational balance always evaluated? and this management adapted? Does occupational therapist, expert in autonomy and independence in multiple illnesses and disabilities, has a major role to play in cardiac rehabilitation? This area of expertise and the application of occupational therapy to coronary patients seems appropriate, if not necessary. However, there are few scientific studies on the need to include occupational therapy within cardiac rehabilitation protocols.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemics has put an overwhelming pressure on the healthcare systems of many European countries. Such a situation has potentially led to delayed and impaired access to appropriate treatment for patients affected by other severe, non-COVID-19-related conditions, including cardiovascular diseases. This resulted in a reported lower admission, but higher mortality rate for AMI patients. Such a situation might be explained by many factors, including unavailability of early reperfusion therapy and late hospital presentation of AMI patients due to a general anxiety related to the COVID-19 contagious risk of the hospital environment. As a matter of fact, during this year of pandemics, several case reports suggested a new, significant surge of post-AMI mechanical complications, sometimes describing patients admitted in too severe conditions to consider surgical repair a viable option, and therefore inevitably undergone an unfavorable outcome. Therefore, we decided to involve the large network of European centers already participating to the "Caution Study 1", in order to study the impact of COVID-19 pandemics on the outcomes, incidence and treatments of post-AMI mechanical complications.

Distal radial access (DRA) has recently introduced and previous studies have demonstrated that it is feasible option, showing several advantages including less bleeding and access-site complications over proximal radial access (PRA). Previous study reported the feasibility of DRA as an alternative option for primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in STEMI patients without major complication. However, comparison study of each vascular access for primary PCI have not been conducted until now. Here, The investigators aim to compare the DRA, PRA and femoral access (FA), in terms of feasibility and safety, in patients with STEMI. This is a retrospective study with patients who underwent primary PCI for STEMI between March 2020 to May 2021. The primary outcome of this study is the access-site complication including major bleeding requiring transfusion or surgery, hematoma and arterial occlusion.

The study of biochemical risk factors for cardiovascular diseases is important not only for analysis, but also for preventive measures, given that changes in the level of biomarkers can be detected before the first clinical manifestations of CVD. Accordingly, patients at high CV risk may have additional motivation to lead a healthy lifestyle. In addition, information on biochemical risk markers can be used to optimize the clinical management of patients.

This study is a retrospective case-control study. In this study, through untargeted metabolomics, investigators identified several specific changed serum metabolites in T2DM patients with or without AMI and their functions/category. Moreover, researchers selected several endogenous candidate biomarkers with larger fold change for validation in expanded population to find biomarkers which effectively predict the development of STEMI in patients with T2DM.

The REDUCE-IT Canada SA Study is a cross-sectional study aiming to determine the proportion of study participants who meet the Health Canada-approved indication for icosapent ethyl (IPE;Vascepa®).

This is a multicenter multidisciplinary study designed to investigate patient, provider, and system-related factors that are associated with the quality and safety of initial management for suspected ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) evolving for less than 12 hours in daily practice. The primary hypotheses are that delayed reperfusion therapy for suspected STEMI independently relates to provider practice patterns and system barriers. It is further postulated that non-compliance with target delays in implementing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or fibrinolytic therapy is associated with worse in-hospital clinical outcomes. The secondary hypotheses are that the delivery of acute reperfusion therapy within target delays is associated with increased rates of false-positive cardiac catheterization laboratory activation, inadvertent fibrinolytic therapy, and bleeding events. The project will be conducted in three emergency medical services and 23 public and private (for-profit and non-for-profit) acute care hospitals in Northern Alps in France. Data over the index hospital stay period will be retrospectively collected for all the patients included in an ongoing prospective regional hospital-based clinical registry of suspected STEMI from October, 1st, 2002 to December, 31, 2014. Inclusion of 7435 patients is anticipated. In this observational retrospective study, no specific intervention is assigned to participants. All diagnostic testing, procedures, and medication ordering are performed at the discretion of attending physicians. No enrollment or follow-up visits are planned. The primary effectiveness outcome is timely acute reperfusion therapy. The secondary effectiveness outcomes include false-positive cardiac catheterization laboratory activation for catheterization candidates and inadvertent fibrinolytic therapy. The secondary medical outcomes include in-hospital all-cause mortality, major adverse cardiovascular events, and major bleeding events. Multivariable logistic regression model will be developed to identify baseline characteristics that are independently associated with timely acute reperfusion therapy. Propensity score analysis will be performed for comparing clinical outcomes between timely acute reperfusion therapy recipients and non-recipients.

The objective of Left atrial appendage closure compared to standard antiplatelet therapy in patients with AF who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (LLA-PCI) study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of implantation of left atrial appendage closure compared to standard antiplatelet therapy for prevention of thromboembolic events and stent thrombosis in subjects with AF who underwent PCI.