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Filter by:Chest pain is the second leading reason for emergency department (ED) visits in the United States. Resource utilization for this ED subpopulation is particularly high, in part due to a dearth of accepted standardized clinical approaches and general overestimation of risk on the part of both providers and patients. This prospective observational cohort study seeks to address this issue by providing externally validated risk scores for major adverse cardiac events using a web-based clinical decision support platform (RISTRA) embedded within the electronic health record at 13 Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) EDs over a 12-month period. The decision support will provide risk estimates specific to the KPNC patient population. This studies hypothesis is that the provision of more accurate risk estimation for major adverse cardiac events will improve informed decision making by both providers and patients, resulting in less provocative testing and lower ED lengths of stay amongst low risk patients, as well as improving medical management among non-low risk patients and decreasing future rates of major adverse cardiac events.
The aim of this study was to assess effectiveness and safety of Tiger (5Fr) vs Judkins (5Fr) catheters, in coronariography via the right transradial approach. This was a prospective, randomized, study of paralled design. Consecutive patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), eligible for coronary angiography, was randomized after successuful cannulation of right artery and informed consent to either Tiger or Judkins catheters.
Genetesis is a cardiac diagnostics company which presents a novel magnetocardiogram (MCG) analysis system called CardioFlux. This investigation presents a new, noninvasive diagnostic option to use MCG for rapid diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome. Data from the Cardioflux system will be compared with stress testing methods as well as the results of cardiac catheterization to identify patients with myocardial ischemia. This is a prospective observational single-blinded convenience pilot study of 100 patients placed in the Clinical Decision Unit (CDU) for evaluation of chest pain at St. John Hospital and Medical Center (Detroit, MI). Patients enrolled in the study will also have a 30 and 180 day follow up for analysis of adverse cardiac events.
Despite substantial evidence supporting the use of dual anti-platelet therapy in patients with acute coronary syndrome, there remains major uncertainty regarding the optimal duration of therapy. Recent evidence suggests that shorter durations of dual anti-platelet therapy are superior because the avoidance of atherothrombotic events is counterbalanced by the greater risks of excess major bleeding with apparent increases in all-cause mortality with longer durations. We here propose an international randomised controlled trial of 18,318 patients with type 1 myocardial infarction allocated to differing durations of dual anti-platelet therapy. We will use electronic health record linkage to track duration of therapy and clinical outcomes in a real-world, real-time, efficient and highly cost-effective trial. This has the potential to define treatment duration, settle a major outstanding international controversy, and influence modern cardiology practice across the world.
This is a prospective, single-center study to assess the long- and short-term outcomes of ticagrelor vs clopidogrel in Chinese patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. Patients will undergo face-to-face interviews, phone calls, or/and chart reviews at 7 days, 1 month, 6 months and 12 months. When 4500 patients have completed the follow-up, an interim analysis will be performed.
This is a prospective, randomized, active control, single-blind, non-inferiority, multicenter clinical trial. 148 subjects will be registered at up to 10 Spanish sites. Subjects will be followed for 5 years. All eligible patients (STEMI < 12 hours from onset of chest pain) will be randomized to - Biotronik MAGMARISTM Sirolimus Eluting Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold System (M-BRS) or - Biotronik ORSIRO Sirolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System Endothelium-independent vasomotor response (NTG injection) will be analyzed at 12 months angiographic follow-up (Primary endpoint). In a subgroup of 40 patients Optical Coherence Tomography will be performed after the procedure and at 12 months follow-up. Angiographic (QCA pre- and post-procedure and at 12 months follow-up), OCT data (at 12 months follow-up) will be analyzed off-line by an independent core lab.
DESIGN: Controlled clinical trial with single randomization, unmasked, open and multicentric. CENTERS: University Hospital of A Coruña and University Hospital of Ferrol CONDITION TO STUDY: Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS). INTERVENTION:monitored outhospital not inhospital supervised. MAIN OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of major adverse events (total mortality, new ACS, coronary revascularization, all-cause hospitalization) during the one-year period after hospitalization for ACS.
Background Medication adherence following acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is often sub-optimal and is associated with poor clinical outcomes. Patients' beliefs about medications have been shown to predict poor adherence and may be targetable for intervention. Findings novel ways to improve adherence is an important area of research with widespread clinical implications. Pharmacists may currently be underutilised in promoting and monitoring medication-taking behaviour. There have been few effective interventions led by pharmacists to support medication adherence in patients with ACS. Objectives This study follows on from a feasibility and acceptability study recently conducted (NCT02967588). The primary objective is to pilot a pharmacist-led hospital-based intervention to support medication adherence following an ACS. Methods This study will adopt a non-randomised intervention cohort design (i.e. controlled before-and-after (CBA) study). Patients admitted to hospital with an ACS will be recruited for this study. Patients must be prescribed medicines for secondary prevention. The study will be delivered by hospital pharmacists over two sessions and will target both intentional (Session 1) and unintentional (Session 2) adherence barriers. Session 1 will involve eliciting and challenging patients' erroneous beliefs about medications. Session 2 will involve formulating specific action plans to encourage medication-taking habit formation. Outcome Outcome data will be collected at two time points - 6 week and 12 week follow up. The primary outcome of this proposed study will be treatment beliefs, measured using the Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire-Specific (BMQ-S) (Horne, Weinman & Hankin, 1999). Our secondary outcome will be self-reported medication adherence measured using the Medication Adherence Report Scale (MARS-5) (Horne & Weinman, 2002). Depression, medicines-related self-efficacy and satisfaction with medicines information provision will also be measured. Study timeline Control cohort ('before' group): eligible patients will receive treatment as usual (TAU) and will complete all outcome measures (i.e. treatment beliefs, medication adherence). Pharmacists will then be trained to deliver the intervention. Intervention cohort ('after' group): eligible patients will receive the pharmacist-led intervention and will complete all outcome measures.
One proposed strategy is the stratification of troponin-negative patients with biomarker testing at presentation to facilitate the clinically-appropriate rapid discharge from the emergency department of patients who present with low-intermediate risk chest pain, and conversely to triage appropriate Non sustained ST elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS) patients to Cardiology beds, stress and non-invasive imaging modalities. Biomarkers such as high-sensitivity troponin (hs-cTn), heart-type fatty acid-binding protein (H-FABP), CRP, brain natriuretic peptide (BNP); and copeptin and ischemia-modified albumin are an important advance for diagnostic testing for ACS (4). Regarding novel biomarker testing at presentation, the addition of these biomarkers demonstrated increased sensitivity at an acceptable QALY threshold, but more evidence is needed (5,6). A reliable method for the diagnosis of minimal cardiac ischemia would meet a strong demand for the sensitive diagnosis of coronary artery disease in patients with chest pain but unremarkable ECGs and biomarkers. Adenosine is an endogenous nucleoside cardioprotective agent. Its cardiovascular effects are mediated throught the activation of A2A Receptor (A2 AR) and play a major role in the regulation of Coronary flow CF. As altered coronary blood flow occurs in patients with CAD, it has been showed that that A2AR expression and functional activity play a role in CAD. In a previous studies the team have developped an agonist-like monoclonal antibody to study expression level of this receptor and their functional activity. Recently , Gariboldi demonstrated that measuring the expression level of A2AR on peripheral blood mononuclear cells ( PBMC) represents a good tool to address in situ expression in coronary tissues of CAD patients.
A randomized controlled trial was conducted in cardiology department and smoking cessation center of University Hospital of Monastir (Tunisia). All smokers Hospitalized for ACS were included. Participants were randomly assigned to either group "A", initiating Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in intra-hospitalization or a control group "B" that received NRT after hospital discharge. The end point assessment was smoking abstinence at 24 weeks following randomization, defined as self-reported abstinence in the past week before the 24 week clinic visit confirmed by a measured exhaled carbon monoxide ≤8 ppm. Data were analyzed by intention to treat.