Active clinical trials for "Vascular Diseases"

Physicians tend to always use the lowest dose of statins to initiate therapy even in subjects who require large reductions in cholesterol. The study evaluates if selecting the starting dose based on baseline and target LDL-C cholesterol would provide better results (ie proportion of subjects resching target)

A 6-week treatment study to compare the reduction in cholesterol of two drugs MK0653A+Simvastatin for high cholesterol, in patients with hypercholesterolemia and atherosclerotic or coronary vascular disease.

This study will evaluate patients with diagnosis of polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) in pachychoroid treated with combined therapy, consisting in photodynamic therapy (PDT) and 3 intravitreal therapy (IVT) of Aflibercept monthly. This is a single center, prospective case-series study. The investigators are going to evaluate Corrected Distance Visual Acuity (CDVA), disease activity, retinal and choroidal thicknesses and number of injection per year, during a twelve month follow up. The aim of this study is to verify if the combined therapy can act on the insult induced by the pachychoroid and on the neovascular lesion itself in this sub-population of patients with PCV in pachychoroid,

Annually 13000 Norwegians experience an ischemic stroke. The number of stroke is anticipated to increase with 50% within 2030 due to a growing number of elderly. Many of them will have severe function deficits and reduced quality of life. The investigators have established a cohort consisting of 800 patients with first time ischemic stroke treated at hospitals in Central Norway. The investigators want to study the incidence and prognostic markers for death, recurrent stroke and severe functional deficits during a period of 10 years after the initial ischemic stroke. The investigators want to focus on the impact of physical functioning, the level of physical activity and use of medication for secondary prevention on the incidence of death, recurrent stroke and severe functional deficits. The investigators are especially interested in the importance of fulfilling the treatment targets for blood pressure and cholesterol and the importance of smoking cessation in stroke survivors. Our objective is to improve todays stroke treatment and achieve a more efficient use of the health resources in order to increase survival after stroke maintaining a good physical and psychological function and quality of life.

To look for the factors of exposure present prior to the onset of Porto-Sinusoidal Vascular Disease (PSVD) and which can lead to the occurrence of PSVD after renal transplantation, and therefore to consider the identification of risk factors, in order to prevent or detect early signs of portal hypertention in predisposed patients and improve their prognosis.

Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) is a disease of the choroidal vasculature, that is often regarded as a sub-type of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). However, PCV response to anti-vascular agents differs from the response of typical AMD. This study aims at describing the evolution of the best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) in PCV patients, 28 weeks after they receive one injection of intravitreal aflibercept (2mg).

Several studies have shown that stenting of the femoropopliteal artery in the lower leg leads to improved overall results compared to balloon angioplasty alone. However, scar tissue development can occur within the stent, a process called restenosis. Treatment of these in-stent restenotic lesions has a high procedural success rate but recurrence of scar tissue is frequently seen. Several methods have been proposed to treat in-stent restenosis in the lower leg arteries but mixed results have been noted. In this study we hypothesize that simultaneous tissue excision and aspiration using the JetStream Navitus device (Medrad) can lead to a high rate of acute procedural success with low intraprocedural complications and an acceptable recurrence rate of restenosis at 6-month follow-up.

The purpose of the study is to determine whether a p38 kinase inhibitor reduces inflammation in atherosclerotic plaque

European physicians tend to always use the lowest dose of statins to initiate therapy even in subjects who require large reductions in cholesterol. The study evaluates if selecting the starting dose based on baseline and target LDL-C cholesterol would provide better results (ie proportion of subjects resching target)

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the results of drug eluting balloon are non-inferior to the Nitinol stent implantation in the femoropopliteal segment.