Active clinical trials for "Myocardial Infarction"

The new assay of troponins T (highly sensitive troponins) detects concentrations much lower than before. Few data are currently available on their kinetics during acute coronary syndrome, especially in regard to the correlation with CK MB. The aim of the present study is to describe the kinetic of highly sensitive troponins in acute coronary syndrome, to correlate it with the concentration of CK MB, and possibly to evaluate their prognostic value with respect to infarct size .

The intent of this study is to validate the venous blood oxygenation measurements of the Mespere VA Oximeter compared to the saturations measured by venous blood sampling through an inserted central vein catheter, which is currently the standard of care for measuring SvO2

We would like to investigate novel diagnostic methods or biomarkers to early predict the success of ECMO therapy for cardiogenic shock patients during the early stage after ECMO treatment.

The Cardiovascular disease research using Linked Bespoke studies and Electronic Records (CALIBER) e-health database was the data resource for this study. CALIBER links patient records from four different data sources: Clinical Practice Research Database (CPRD), MINAP (Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project registry) Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES), the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The objective of our work to determine the mechanisms of myocardial infarction in women without obstructive coronary artery disease.

Treatment of chronic heart failure requires multidisciplinary approaches with a recognized role for cardiac rehabilitation. Rehabilitation helps to improve patient's functional, decrease morbidity and mortality, decrease rehospitalization rate, thereby reducing costs of this disease. After recovery from the acute phase of cardiac infarction, patients admitted to the rehabilitation center will follow the usual rehabilitation program during the hospitalization period. This step precludes outpatient follow-up period in our day hospital, in accordance with their physicians and cardiologists who manage the monitoring. The study INCARD (Insuffisance Cardiaque en Readaptation Durable) will be developed to evaluate the benefits of a sustainable rehabilitation heart failure on patients treated optimally and educated during a follow-up period of 24 months. The main objective of the study will be to compare the benefits of rehabilitation between coronary (C) and non-coronary (NC) patients for each evaluation time point, periodically recorded

Psychological processes play a complex role in the pathophysiology of many diseases. However, the body and emotional perception of patients and the relationship between dreams and disease still need to be investigated. The investigators planned an observational and controlled research aimed at assessing some previously unaddressed baseline psychological characteristics and their changes at 1 and 5 years after a short-term psychotherapy in carefully characterised patients with heart or oncologic diseases . The patients that will be enrolled are: 50 patients ≤ 75 year old with acute myocardial infarction; 30 patients ≤ 75 year old with Tako-Tsubo syndrome; 50 women ≤ 75 year old, recently operated on breast cancer: 90 control subjects of the same age and gender of the enrolled patients, without relevant pathologies during the last 10 years. Relevant pathologies are defined as those that required a hospitalisation or a long-lasting medical therapy. At the enrolment all the subjects will undergo a complete medical evaluation, and the following psychometric tests: Self-evaluation test, Social Support Questionnaire, Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI II), MacNew Heart Disease Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI 2). In two distinct following meetings, an open questionnaire exploring the body and emotional perception, and another exploring past and recent dreams, will be administered. The same evaluation will be done for the healthy subjects. After the initial evaluation, all the patients will be given the choice to start a short-term psychotherapy lasting 6 months on top of medical therapy or to continue classic medical therapy only. Healthy subjects will be not offered the possibility to follow psychotherapy. At first year of follow-up, the battery of psychometric test, and the two questionnaires exploring the body and emotional perception, and changes and characteristics of dreams during the psychotherapy, will be re-administered. The following data will be evaluated: Psychological characteristics at follow-up. Incidence of new relevant medical events Quality of life Relationship between psychological characteristics and health status, and quality of life At 5 year follow-up psychometric tests and the clinical data will be evaluated in all the groups.

Overall Aim Coronary artery disease significantly contributes to morbidity and mortality in the United States. Atherosclerotic disease can lead to stenosis of the coronary arteries and subsequent cardiac hypoperfusion. Patients with a critical stenosis of the LAD, potentially leading to acute anterior wall myocardial infarction, may be asymptomatic at presentation with subtle EKG changes as its only manifestation. It is imperative for physicians to recognize patients with new T wave inversions in leads V2-V3 as the standard course of management may lead to poor prognosis. The purpose of this study is to determine if collateral circulation to the left anterior descending (LAD) artery will mask the presence of a Wellens sign and therefore diminish its diagnostic utility. The conclusion of this study would raise awareness for physicians in light of an absent Wellens sign. Hypothesis The presence of coronary collateral circulation to the LAD masks the presence of a Wellens sign (both Type 1 and Type 2) in precordial leads V2-V4.

This is a national registry study to determine genetics risk factors and serial biomarkers of Acute Coronary Syndrome.

To correlate QT dispersion on 12-lead surface ECG with myocardial reperfusion evaluated by myocardial blush grade and Thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) flow grades in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction treated by Primary Per cutaneous coronary intervention