Active clinical trials for "Peripheral Arterial Disease"

Study design: multicenter retrospective and prospective observational study Study Cohort : Retrospective cohort: This cohort retrospectively enrolls patients with lower extremity artery disease who underwent endovascular treatment from January 2006 to the date of approval by IRB in the participating hospitals. Informed consent was waived by IRB. Prospective cohort: This cohort prospectively enrolls patients with lower extremity artery disease who undergo endovascular treatment from the date of approval by IRB to July, 2018 in the participating hospitals. Informed consent will be obtained prior to enrollment. Baseline clinical and lesion characteristics, procedural and post-procedural data, clinical outcomes, hemodynamic, and imaging follow-up data are investigated. Primary patency and target lesion revascularization rates of the total cohort and patient subgroups are evaluated. Risk factors of restenosis and target lesion revascularization are determined.

Researchers are studying whether people with risk factors for blood circulation disease have a condition called peripheral arterial disease (PAD). People with PAD have poor blood circulation because of narrowing or blocks in blood vessels caused by fat or calcium deposits (atherosclerosis). The study researchers think that PAD may lead to worse outcomes in cancer treatment, but people with cancer are not routinely tested for the disease. The purpose of this study is to find out how common PAD is among people with cancer who have risk factors for blood circulation disease, and to compare how often PAD is diagnosed in different racial groups

The aim of the proposed study is to define independent parameters for the diagnostic assessment of the perfusion situation of the calf muscle based on 3D-reconstruction of multispectral optoacoustic tomography (MSOT) in a cross-sectional collective of patients with PAD in Fontaine stage II and a healthy control group.

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) caused by atherosclerosis causes damage to the arteries originating in the aorta (descending) from the iliacs to the extremities of the lower limbs. It causes significant morbidity and mortality. Percutaneous revascularization plays a key role in the management of these patients. Many percutaneous treatment options have been developed: arteriectomy, naked stents, active balloons and active stents. Of these, only paclitaxel-active stents were successful in reducing the rates of restenosis and reoperation in patients with superficial femoral artery injury.The main objective is to study symptomatic improvement at 1 year of patients treated with revascularization of the lower limbs.

More than 100 hospital based outpatient wound centers in the USA and Puerto Rico agree to transmit structured data on all patients followed with chronic wounds and ulcers (e.g. diabetic foot ulcers, venous ulcers, pressure ulcers, arterial ulcers, surgical wounds, and traumatic wounds). Data are collected at point of care including adherence to wound care quality measures developed by the USWR as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR).

Upper limb arterial disease is a rare condition compared to lower limb arterial disease. In the lower limb, chronic limb ischemia (CLI) is characterized by an intractable pain or an ulceration present for at least 2 weeks. Guidelines recommend to use Transcutaneous Oxygen pressure (TcPO2) measurement when a CLI is suspected to establish diagnostic with a threshold of 30 mmHg when ankle and toe systolic pressure are not available. In the upper limb, there is no guideline to define CLI. When there is a wound preventing finger pressure measurement, TcPO2 is theoretically indicated. However, there is neither standardized site to measure nor threshold value of TcPO2. The investigators hypothesized that normal TcPO2 may be different in the upper limb and that threshold value for CLI may also be different compared to lower limb. The investigators planned a study with two parts: Prospective study of normal TcPO2 value in healthy volunteers Retrospective analysis of patients with upper limb arterial disease to approach the TcPO2 threshold of CLI allowing healing in upper limb

NOR-SYS is a clinical research program about young ischemic stroke patients from 15 to 60 years. Patients, partners and the couple´s adult children who are at least 18 years old, are all invited to ultrasound examinations due to a standardized protocol. Parents of patients and partners are invited to return their answers of standardized questionnaires about clinical ischemic events such as stroke, angina or myocardial infarction or peripheral artery disease. Study inclusion time of patients and their families is 5 years. A biobank is build from samples from patients, partners and adult children. Clinical follow-ups for patients and partners are planned after 5, 10 and 15 years. Clinical follow-ups for adult children are planned after 10 and 20 years. Hypotheses: What do patients know about their parents clinical ischemic events? How much established pathology in arteries do we find by a standardized ultrasound protocol at the time of ischemic stroke at a young age? Differences concerning risk factors and ultrasound findings between patients and partners? Differences between children from families with several ischemic events among parents and grandparents vs. children from families without ischemic events? Biochemical markers related to ultrasound findings and artery disease.

The aim of this study was to evaluate exercise testing in case of patients suspected of Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD).

This study aims to investigate the utilization of intravascular imaging in treatment of tibial vessels in peripheral artery disease and critical limb ischemia (CLI). The primary goal is to compare optical coherence tomography (OCT) with traditional digital subtraction angiography (DSA) in determining best treatment strategy and vessel optimization, in an effort to improve long term patency and successful wound healing in CLI. Secondary comparison with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is undertaken when clinically feasible. The hypothesis is that the adjunctive use of intravascular imaging will affect vessel sizing and anticipated treatment modalities, and therein affect the long term primary patency rates.

The study will be designed as a prospective clinical trial. Patients scheduled for lower limb arterial bypass surgery will be randomly allocated for treatment with spinal anesthesia associated with spontaneous ventilation (nasal cannula with supplemental oxygen - Group 1) or treatment with general anesthesia under controlled mechanical ventilation (tidal volume 6 to 8 ml / kg of the predicted body weight and PEEP of 5 cmH2O - Group 2).