Active clinical trials for "Myocardial Ischemia"

This is a retrospective study, designed to be conducted at a single-center in the US. The study will conduct a one-time data abstraction from approximately 500 patient medical charts who received Age/Sex/Gene Expression score (ASGES) also knows as Corus CAD testing, by order of the Principal Investigator. Limited demographic data and patient data pertaining to cardiology referral or advanced diagnostic testing will be collected. All data will be collected anonymously.

Compelling epidemiological evidence indicates that alterations of mitochondrial DNA, including mutations and abnormal content of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), are associated with the initiation and development of cardiovascular disease. This study was undertaken to investigate whether mtDNA copy number in peripheral blood cells could be used as a risk predictor for coronary heart disease.

Diabetic type 2 patients (DB2) has a higher prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) than non-diabetic persons. Presence of CAD results in murmurs arising from the filling of the arteries and can be detected by the CADScor System and can together with biological patient profile indicate the risk of presence of CAD in the patient. In the pilot study 100 asymptomatic DB2-patients examined with CADScor System and biomarkers will be compared with computed tomography (CT) cardiography and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) for assessing if combination of patient profile (gender, age etc) combined with above measures may give rise to new improved risk scoring method for he DB2-patient.

In this study, the risk of opioid medications on coronary heart disease in adults is investigated. Patients with the necessity of a coronary angiography and control patients with a non-cardiac disease of the same hospital are inquired with a standardized questionnaire about demographic and clinical risk factors for heart attack. An impact of opioid medications on coronary heart disease is hypothesised (MIOP). In addition, all patients with coronary angiography should be consulted twice (after 3 and 6 months) to find out how many of these patients have developed a refractory angina pectoris (TRAPS).

The Copenhagen City Heart Study is an ongoing cardiovascular population study initiated in 1976 which has examined approximately 25,000 individuals from the general population. The initial sample has been re-invited up to four times and supplemented by younger individuals. The study includes questionnaires, clinical assessment and biomarkers. The population have been followed in a number of outcome registries and more than 900 scientific papers have been published.

Regular exercise training has shown to improve exercise capacity in patients with cardiovascular disease. The feasibility and transferability of exercise training in a community based cardiovascular rehabilitation setting is currently less well investigated. The objective of this study is to translate regular exercise training into a community based setting. A 6 months training intervention program with lifestyle counseling is performed, with both supervised training in rehabilitation centres as well as home based training. The aim of the project is to implement this program for a wider patient population and to improve exercise capacity, diastolic function as well as cardiometabolic parameters.

A total of 30 subjects with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis. Thirty subjects without AD matched for sex, age and coronary artery disease risk factor with the AD subjects will also be included. All subjects will undergo the following imaging procedures: a 18FDG-PET to quantify vascular inflammation in the ascending aorta and carotids and a MDCT to calculate the Agatston score. Skin and blood biomarkers will also be assessed.

Italy is the European country with the minor penetration of FFR as compared to the number of percutaneous coronary intervention. Accordingly, the Società Italiana di Cardiologia Invasiva (SICI-GISE) conceived and promoted a prospective nationwide study to describe the patterns of the use of FFR in an unselected real-world population and to to assess the reasons, on clinical decision making, driving operators in the use or not of the FFR.

Main aim of the COMBAT-CAD-Study is to clarify, if the combination of stress testing with biomarkers improves the diagnostic accuracy. Hypothesis of our study is that diagnosis of CAD can be improved by adding biomarkers to solely stress testing for the workup of patients with suspected CAD or progress of already known CAD.

To determine whether, in a population of patients presenting to the rapid access chest pain clinic (RACPC), routine FFRct (Fractional Flow Reserve Computed Tomography) as a default test is superior in terms of resource utilisation when compared to routine clinical pathway algorithms recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)