Active clinical trials for "Vascular Diseases"

Natural history multicenter, prospective, observational registry with 10-year follow-up

This cross-sectional study aims to ascertain the mechanical properties of human carotid/femoral atherosclerotic plaque and abdominal aortic aneurysm tissue and correlate tissue mechanics with novel blood-based biomarkers of cardiovascular calcification.

The aim of "iSCAD," the International Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD) Registry, is to serve as an internationally collaborative, multicenter registry coordinated by an experienced and centralized coordinating center in an effort to increase the pace of participant recruitment, and thereby increase statistical power of studies related to SCAD. The ultimate goal of iSCAD Registry is to facilitate the development of best practices and clinical guidelines for preventing SCAD or its recurrence. This observational study will be prospective and retrospective in its recruitment and will collect clinical information to better understand the natural history and prognosis for SCAD.

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).

This study is being conducted to provide access to and collect test data for an established nuclear medicine diagnostic imaging test called Positron Emission Tomography (PET), using a specific radioactive drug called Ammonia N-13 (Ammonia), referred to simply as an Ammonia PET scan, which is used to visualize the blood flow through the blood vessels and into the heart muscle in order to identify areas of restricted blood flow within the heart. The scanner used in this study may be a stand-alone PET scanner or a PET/CT scanner, which combines the PET scanner and a Computed Tomography (CT) scanner into a single device. Unless otherwise stated in this consent form, the term PET will be used to refer to both stand-alone PET and PET/CT scanners. While physicians have used the Ammonia PET test for many years to visualize (image) the blood flow into the heart muscle (perfusion), it is now possible to also measure the flow of blood into the heart muscle. Research studies have demonstrated clinical value in reviewing the measured blood flow values in addition to reviewing the perfusion images of blood flow into the heart muscle. Therefore, this study will establish a database of a large number of Ammonia PET measured blood flow values to serve as a future reference.

Non-interventional study aiming to ascertain the mechanical properties of human saphenous and popliteal vein tissue.

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the outcomes of type 1 macular neovascularization (MNV), including polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy in patients treated tolerating subretinal fluid (SRF) using Aflibercept in a clinical setting. Approximately 150 patients are anticipated to be enrolled in this study. SRF is a primary type of fluid compartment prevalent in type 1 aneurysmal MNV. In a recent study, the prevalence of SRF during 24-month follow-up period was 36.7% to 38.8% in type 1 MNV and polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV), 20.0% in type 2 MNV, and 7.7% in type 3 MNV. In addition, patients with SRF showed better visual prognosis in type 1 MNV/PCV. For this reason, type 1 MNV is an appropriate candidate for evaluating the influence of tolerating SRF.

This is a observational、multicenter, prospective cohort study for patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH). The purposes of this study were to evaluate the etiology、clinical characteristics、treatment modalities, and outcomes of patients with PH；also to set up registration system of PH in China, to build a database of Chinese PH, to establish a web-based international standard data acquisition system for PH and a multicenter clinical research platform. The results of the study will provide a basis for the future national health policy for prevention and treatment of PH.

The goal is to compare patients with and without varying severity of pulmonary vascular disease based upon hemodynamic signatures, echocardiographic measures, and lung ultrasound, in tandem with expired gas metabolic testing and blood sampling.

Identify factors that contribute to perioperative morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing cardiac surgery that involves cardiopulmonary bypass. Identify factors that affect perioperative morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.