Active clinical trials for "Myocardial Ischemia"

The application of sex-gender medicine is strongly recommended by World Health Organization and other international organization. In fact, it is emerging that, although men and women are affected to the same cardiovascular diseases (CVD), however they have different risk factors, disease progression and response to pharmacological and not-pharmacological treatments. Consequentially, the identification of biomarkers and therapeutic approaches taking into account sex gender differences (SGD) is relevant to develop a really evidence-based medicine. With the aim of translate in clinical setting the more recently available basic research evidences on estrogens and androgens balance involvement in modulation of ischemia-reperfusion myocardial damage, the investigators planned to conduct a research study on patients, affected by suspected or known ischemic heart disease (IHD) undergoing angiography and/or percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), aged more than 18 years of both sex in ratio 1:1. Thus, in this setting, the goals of this proposal are: To assess the sex-gender difference in entity of microvascular reperfusion damage in patients with IHD undergoing urgent or elective PCI; To evaluate estrogen/androgen-dependent and -independent effects in gender-related differences on myocardial ischemia reperfusion damage occurring during PCI; To investigate the differences in terms of platelet biology between men and women affected by IHD undergoing urgent or elective PCI, matched for age and clinical cardiovascular and metabolic characteristics; To verify sex-driven interplay between response to PCI procedure, platelet function, sex hormones and entity of reperfusion and myocardial damage, as well as, the impact on clinical outcomes during a 1-year follow up. This research study wants to explore and consequently elucidate biological mechanisms responsible for sex-based differences in vivo human models of ischemia reperfusion myocardial damage. Moreover, the investigators expected to clarify the impact of biological variables evaluated on clinical outcomes after reperfusion therapeutic intervention.

The purpose is to investigate how the adsorptive capacity of the active carbon filter to carbon dioxide in an anaesthetic gas reflector (AnaConDa) is affected by adding inhaled anaesthetic agent. The hypothesis is that addition of inhaled anaesthetic agent will affect the amount of adsorption of carbon dioxide to the active carbon and thereby affect rebreathing of carbon dioxide.

Coronary heart disease (CHD) and heart attacks pose a serious health risk to men and women, however little information is available about how evidence-based therapies are incorporated appropriately into routine clinical practice in China. In addition, basic data and evidence about safety and efficacy of treatment for AMI is limited. By consecutively recruiting AMI patients in 40 hospitals of different levels, this study will examine various real-life factors, that may affect patients recovery after a heart attack. Practical guidelines and risk model for AMI patients will be established based on the findings, to improve patients outcomes in future finally.

The aim of the Atahualpa project is to evaluate the cardiovascular (CVH) status of the inhabitants of a rural village of coastal Ecuador as well as to determine the prevalence and retrospective incidence of stroke and ischemic heart disease. The protocol may be used as a pilot for large-scale studies attempting to evaluate the CVH of rural or even urban centers of Latin America, to implement cost-effective strategies directed to reduce the burden of stroke and cardiovascular diseases in the population at large.

This registry is a clinical post-market evaluation of the Orsiro LESS in subjects requiring coronary revascularization with Drug Eluting Stents (DES).

The overall objective of this integrated analysis is to evaluate the clinical safety and efficacy of long-term treatment with darapladib enteric coated tablets, 160mg, as compared to placebo when added to standard of care in subjects with clinical manifestations of cardiovascular disease (chronic coronary heart disease (CHD) and post Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)). With respect to efficacy, the key purpose of this integrated analysis is to evaluate the effects of darapladib on the following endpoints: urgent coronary revascularization for myoacrdial ischemia, fatal/non-fatal stroke, time to subsequent Major Adverse Cardiovascular Event (MACE), and heart failure requiring hospitalization. The first occurrent of MACE, Major and total coronary events as well as the individual components of MACE will also be evaluated descriptively.

BIOTRONIK - SaFety and Performance Registry for a diabetic patient population with the .bimus Eluting Orsiro Stent System Within daily clinical practice - III

The purpose of the study is to examine if blood flow in the brain before coronary artery bypass graft surgery has an effect on depression after surgery. The main hypothesis of the study states that pre-surgical blood flow in the brain will be an independent risk factor for depression after surgery after adjusting for other risk factors such as gender, pre-CABG depression, social support, medical comorbidity burden, socioeconomic status, and neuroticism.

Functional evaluation of coronary lesions, through the evaluation of fractional flow reserve (FFR) with pressure-wire in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) was evaluated in a randomised trial - the FAME trial - where it was showed to be superior to classic anatomical evaluation. Based on these results, current guidelines recommend the use of FFR (class I-A recommendation) when objective evidence of vessel-related ischemia is not available. Since the FAME trial was published, FFR use increased dramatically in most European countries, Portugal being no exception to this trend. FFR is currently being used in many interventional cardiology centres quite beyond the European Guidelines recommendation, since many physicians now trust more on the information they can collect with pressure-wire during the angiography, and less on non invasive imaging stress tests. Considering this widespread use of FFR in the evaluation of patients with CAD, there is a need to clarify the clinical results of this approach in a "real patient setting". The Portuguese Study on The Evaluation of FFR Guided Treatment of Coronary Disease (POST-IT) was planned to evaluate if the use of FFR in the decision of coronary revascularization is feasible and allows optimized clinical results in "real world" non selected patients, as showed in clinical randomised trials.

The objective of the study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of XIENCE PRIME SV in real world practice in Japanese hospitals.