Active clinical trials for "ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction"

Despite progress in pre-hospital care, ambulance logistics, pharmacotherapy and PPCI techniques, ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) continues to confer a substantial burden of morbidity and mortality. Within the STEMI population, there is a spectrum of higher and lower risk patients. The aim of this cohort study is to collect prospectively and systematically clinical research data from STEMI patients. This cohort study is an open-end observational study to identify master switches in myocardial ischemia.

The aim of the prospective observational DISTEMI-Study in people with and without Diabetes mellitus (DI) after new onset of ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) aged 18-80 years at inclusion into the study is to characterize in detail the clinical, metabolical, immunological and vascular phenotype, investigate the interplay between myocardial remodelling and the metabolic phenotype, monitor the progression of the disease and compare the phenotype of STEMI people with diabetes mellitus to people with prediabetes and glucose tolerant people.

Rural Americans are more likely to be unhealthy, older, living in poverty, uninsured, and medically underserved. The CDC has made achieving health equity and improving cardiovascular health for rural Americans one of their Healthy People 2020 overarching goals. ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) is a life-threatening cardiovascular emergency that frequently affects people without warning within the communities the Participants live and work. Patients with STEMI have a linear relationship between first medical contact to Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) time and mortality. Delays are particularly important in STEMI patients with cardiogenic shock, who experience an excess 3.3 deaths per 100 for every 10 minute delay to PCI (for PCI times between 60-180 minutes). Delayed PCI is also associated with a higher rate of long term morbidity, including congestive heart failure and repeat MI. Unfortunately, many rural EMS agencies fail to consistently achieve the recommended 90 minute PCI time goal. Rural agencies are less likely than urban/suburban agencies to meet time goals and this disparity exposes rural patients to excess morbidity and mortality. The American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) endorse the need for prehospital strategies to reduce total ischemic time, particularly in rural settings.

Heart attacks caused by the complete blockage of a heart artery are treated by opening it with a stent. However, most people will also have 'non-culprit' narrowings found in their other arteries at this time. Although in general people do better if these non-culprit narrowings are also treated with stents if they look severe, this process has problems. This is because narrowings that look severe may be stable and not cause any trouble. For these people a stent is a wasted procedure and unnecessary risk. On the other hand, narrowings that are currently left alone because they appear mild, may progress and cause a heart attack. Participants who have had a heart attack will have a scan from inside the heart arteries during an angiogram (optical coherence tomography, OCT) and a magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA). If the investigators can show that it is possible to accurately predict which non-culprit narrowings are going to progress and which are going to stabilise, medical professionals may be able to better target their treatments after a heart attack.

Background: An ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is a specific type of heart attack. In a previous study, patients requested more mental and emotional support after a STEMI. To provide this support, the research team worked with hospital staff and patients to create a brief intervention called CABIN (CArdiac Brief INtervention), which involves a short discussion between a patient and a nurse, along with a leaflet that summarises the information discussed. Aim: To test if the plan for giving CABIN to patients after a STEMI is suitable, and to explore what impact the intervention may have on mental and emotional well-being, along with knowledge about their condition. Methods: Forty patients who had a STEMI will be recruited from two hospital centres in Northern Ireland (Royal Victoria Hospital and Ulster Hospital). Participants will be randomly put in a group who receive the full CABIN intervention or a group who receive a shortened version of CABIN. Both groups will receive their respective interventions before leaving the hospital, which will take about twenty minutes. Participants will be asked to complete brief questionnaires before the intervention, after the intervention, 3-4 weeks from diagnosis, and 14 weeks from diagnosis. At the end of the study, patients who took part and staff from the hospitals will be asked to complete an exit interview (patients) or a focus group (staff), which will provide information about their experience of the study / intervention and changes required. Outcome of Study: If the study is suitable for patients and appropriate for staff to deliver, the research team will examine the effectiveness of CABIN in a larger study, which may lead to the intervention being used in clinical practice to improve cardiac rehabilitation uptake and outcomes for patients after a STEMI.

The objective of the BIOSTEMI ES study is to assess the long-term clinical outcomes with the Orsiro ultrathin-strut biodegradable polymer sirolimus-eluting stent compared to the Xience thin-strut durable polymer everolimus-eluting stent up to 5 years of follow-up among patients with STEMI undergoing primary PCI, enrolled in the BIOSTEMI trial.

This protocol describes a prospective, multi-center study intended to test the hypothesis that patients with STEMI caused by plaque rupture or plaque erosion without obstructive stenosis (diameter stenosis <70%) can be stabilized by effective antithrombotic treatment without stent implantation, thereby avoiding both early and late complications related to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with stent implantation. All the patients will be followed by intracoronary OCT and physiological assessment at 1-month and 12-month follow-up.

The objective of this study is to assess safety and feasibility of Pressure-controlled intermittent Coronary Sinus Occlusion (PiCSO) therapy in patients with extensive ST elevation inferior wall myocardial infarction presenting with TIMI 0 or 1 and symptom duration ≤ 12 hours undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) compared to standard PCI.

Study objective is the evaluation of safety and efficacy at 12 months of the combination treatment of bare metal Stent plus Paclitaxel Eluting Balloon vs drug eluting stent in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction with less than 12 hours of evolution.

Adequate platelet inhibition with dual antiplatelet therapy is a key therapeutic goal after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI), aimed at protecting against stent thrombosis and increased mortality. Recent aggregometric assays have shown that up to one third of acute coronary syndrome patients treated with clopidogrel have incomplete inhibition of adenosine diphosphate(ADP)-induced platelet aggregation while the number of patients treated with aspirin who have incomplete inhibition of thromboxane A2-induced platelet aggregation (ASPI)is much lower. High on-treatment platelet reactivity (HTPR) has been associated with an increased rate of ischemic events after PCI. However, recent large trials did not show a clinical benefit of TPR-guided therapy modification in acute coronary syndrome patients treated by PCI. On-treatment PLAtelet reactivity-guided Therapy modification FOR ST-segment elevation Myocardial infarction (PLATFORM) is an investigator-initiated, prospective, randomized, parallel-group, controlled clinical trial designed to test the hypothesis that antiplatelet therapy modification is superior to standard antiplatelet regimen among intermediate to high-risk STEMI patients undergoing PPCI. The safety hypothesis is that compared with control arm, interventional study arm will have similar rates of non-coronary artery bypass graft surgery-related bleeding. Approximately 632 ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients with intermediate to high-risk (RISK-PCI score >3) clinical features undergoing PPCI will be randomly allocated to treatment modification or standard treatment. Low responders to aspirin will receive 200 mg aspirin for 30 days. Low responders to clopidogrel will receive 180 mg ticagrelor for 1 year. Patients will be followed up to 1 year after PPCI.