View clinical trials related to Aortic Valve Stenosis.
Filter by:The objective of the study is to observe the safety, efficacy and cost effectiveness of the Edwards SAPIEN XT valve for the treatment of severe calcific degenerative aortic stenosis.
This is a pilot prospective, comparative, monocentric, randomized study with 2 groups. People with a severe aortic stenosis and a high risk of surgery are referred to a Trans catheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).
Aortic stenosis (AS), or narrowing of the aortic valve, is the commonest condition requiring valve surgery in the developed world. It is currently not known what determines who will go on to develop symptoms. Exercise testing may be able to identify these patients better than the severity of the narrowing itself, but with some limitations. The purpose of this study is to compare whether MRI scanning or exercise testing can better identify patients with AS who are likely to benefit from surgery. Design: The investigators will measure blood flow to the heart muscle with MRI scanning and perform exercise testing in 170 patients with AS and follow them for up to up to 2 years. Expected outcomes: MRI scanning will more accurately identify those patients with AS who will need surgery during this period. Anticipated Health Benefits: improved selection of patients with AS who are likely to benefit from early surgery. This is likely to reduce deaths in such patients.
This is an international, multicenter, open-label, randomized controlled trial. All patients undergoing transfemoral TAVR at the participating centers will be eligible. All sites will initiate enrolment with 2 feasibility roll-in bivalirudin treated patients and thereafter patients will be randomly assigned to either standard dosing of bivalirudin or UFH as control. The 2 roll-in cases per site will constitute the feasibility cohort that will be followed and analyzed separately. Patients will undergo TAVR according to current standard of care practices at the treating centers. Use of antiplatelet agents pre, during, and post procedure, and possibly oral anticoagulants post procedure, will be according to the sites' standard practice. ALL available data will be collected in the eCRF prospectively
The purpose of this observational trial is to gather further clinical data to confirm the safety and performance of the Edwards Pericardial Aortic Bioprosthesis, Model 11000 in this trial population.
A randomized controlled multicenter study comparing the acute hemodynamic performance of the Edwards Sapien XT and the Medtronic CoreValve transcatheter heart valves in high risk patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis.
The purpose of this study is to determine the incidence of major vascular events (ischemic or haemorrhagics) at the third month after initiation of the antithrombotic treatment (oral anticoagulation or dual antiplatelet therapy) in both arms followed TAVI.
This study will evaluate the importance of arterial stiffness and wave reflections as determinants of persistent left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy and fibrosis (assessed using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging [MRI]) after correction of severe stenosis of the aortic valve. The hypothesis will test whether stiff arteries and increased wave reflections impede pumping of blood by the LV after aortic valve replacement (AVR)and precent adequate regression (improvement) of hypertrophy and fibrosis of the myocardium despite correction of aortic valve stenosis.
The purpose of this study is to: 1. Assess for hemodynamic differences at rest and with exercise between three clinically available tissue aortic valves. 2. Assess for differences in left ventricular (LV) reverse remodeling (recovery of LV hypertrophy, and changes in LV systolic and diastolic function) after aortic valve replacement for severe aortic stenosis (AS) between three clinically available aortic valve bioprosthesis.
The primary objective of the present trial is to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of the MDT-2111 in the treatment of symptomatic severe aortic stenosis in subjects with small aortic annuli and deemed difficult for surgical operation.