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Filter by:This study aims to compare the effects of dexmedetomidine and meperidine on the incidence of shivering in patients undergoing CABG.
E5TION will evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of tailored two regimens (prasugrel 5mg/d vs. ticagrelor 60mg bid) in high-risk patients undergoing PCI (CHIP: COmplex and Higher-Risk Indicated PCI/PatieNts).
The PTRG-DES consortium is a coalition composed of multi-center, real-world registries including CAD patients treated with DES in South Korea. From 9 academic registries in Korea, a total of 13,160 patients were enrolled for this database between July 2003 and August 2018. The aim of the study was to investigate long-term prognostic implications of platelet function and genotypes after DES implantation for significant CAD in South Korea.
This study consisted of a randomized controlled trial group and a long balloon observation group. In the randomized control group, 280 subjects with in-stent restenosis were planned to be recruited and randomly assigned to the test group and the control group in a 1:1 ratio; 30 consecutive subjects will be enrolled in the long balloon observation group, using graceful molimus release coronary balloon catheter with length of 45mm; All 310 subjects were followed up at baseline, surgery, discharge, 1 month after surgery, 6 months after surgery, 9 months after surgery, 1, 2 and 3 years after surgery, and angiography was performed at 9 months after surgery.
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is the top killer nowadays. Pressure-wire-based Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) is the gold standard for measuring ischemia in coronary arteries. CFD-based RuiXin-FFR, which is noninvasive, is developed recently. But its accuracy is not verified. This is a multi-center and prospective study to evaluate the sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of CFD-based RuiXin-FFR compared with wire-based FFR.
A complete family history (FH) may identify persons at high risk for certain conditions. They can be offered genetic testing and life-saving screening and treatment. In practice, complete FH is rarely collected or entered into the electronic medical record (EMR). The Family History Screening Questionnaire is a survey patients complete to tell whether they are at increased risk of specific cancers, heart disease or diabetes. We will test a new way to record FH that includes an app to improve use of FH by family physicians and patients. The strategy includes education for patients and physicians about the importance of FH; patient completion of the FH questionnaire prior to appointments; and prompts in the EMR. We expect this to help family physicians and patients interpret FH and make the best decisions. We will assess the proportion of patients with new EMR FH information. We will explore if the strategy increases appropriate referrals for screening and genetic consultation for those at increased FH risk. We will also obtain patients' and physicians' feedback on this strategy. This new approach may improve FH information exchange between patients and physicians, encourage shared decision-making and reduce cancer deaths and chronic disease burden.
Mountain sport activities as for example hiking or skiing may involve the risk of adverse health events especially in older people not accustomed to the specific mountain sport at altitude or people with pre-existing health issues. Increased activation of the sympathetic nervous system and abrupt changes in heart rate and blood pressure are thought to trigger these adverse effects. Preventive measures include regular physical activity (i.e. training) and adequate medical treatment. Hypoxia pre-adaptation (e.g., pre-adapt one night at moderate altitude) and pre-conditioning (e.g., intermittent hypoxia (IH) training), which was shown to lead to some favorable sympathetic nervous system, ventilatory and metabolic adaptations and additionally exerts anti-inflammatory action, could be hypothesized of being a further preventive measure. The aim of this research project is to investigate whether intermittent hypoxia pre-conditioning or sleeping one night at altitude (i.e., current recommendation before practicing mountain leisure sports in the elderly) is able to increase oxygen saturation during passive hypoxia exposure and during simulated hiking and skiing at altitude. Additionally, it is aimed to investigate whether such procedure reduces the physiological responses (i.e., heart rate, its variability and blood pressure (including baroreflex sensitivity) responses as well as metabolic, ventilatory, inflammatory and redox responses) during these activities.
Patients with suspected coronary artery disease who are scheduled to undergo a coronary angiography procedure will be enrolled in the study. The angiographic images will be processed by the Medhub Autocath FFR device to generate the Autocath FFR measurement. Based on AMAR approval, MedHub Autocath FFR measurements may be used to determine revascularization in lesions found in the Left Anterior Descending (LAD) coronary artery. Consequently, invasive FFR (using a coronary pressure wire and hyperemic stimulus) is not mandatory for lesions in the LAD, although it is at the discretion of the physician whether or not to perform the invasive FFR procedure. Lesions in the Right Coronary Artery (RCA) and Left Circumflex Coronary (LCX) arteries, when clinically indicated, will be required to undergo an invasive FFR procedure in order to determine revascularization. In these cases, the Autocath FFR measurements will not be used for diagnostic or clinical decisions, but solely as a supportive tool. The MedHub Autocath FFR measurement per vessel will be compared to the invasive FFR measurement in the RCA and LCX lesions and in LAD lesions, for which invasive FFR measurements are available. The dichotomously scored MedHub Autocath FFR per vessel will be compared to the invasive FFR, where an FFR ≤ 0.80 will be considered "positive", while an FFR > 0.8 will be considered "negative". The sensitivity and specificity of the MedHub Autocath FFR will be calculated.
This study is about testing whether exercise will improve fitness and lessen risk factors related to heart disease, diabetes, and obesity in Latina breast cancer survivors.
To date, drug-eluting stents (DES) have become the standard of care in daily practice for the treatment of ischemic heart disease, by overcoming the risk of in-stent restenosis, a major issue raised in the bare-mare stents era. The application of potent anti-proliferative drugs and polymer structures that ensures sustained released of the drugs markedly reduced the neointimal hyperplasia, leading to much improved clinical outcomes compared with bare-metal stents. However, although first-generation sirolimus-eluting stents and paclitaxel-eluting stents significantly reduced the risk of in-stent restenosis and target-vessel revascularization, an augmented risk for very late stent thrombosis and fatal clinical events emerged as a new issue to be solved. Second- and newer- generation DESs adopted innovative stent platforms, novel stent materials, anti-proliferative drugs, and biocompatible polymers (including both durable and bioresorbable). Nowadays, numerous types of DESs (over 20 types) are available in clinical practice as well as bare-metal stents. However, little is known about the clinical outcome according to type of DESs in real-word practice. Given that many of recent randomized clinical trials (RCTs) demonstrate the 'non-inferiority' of brand-new DESs over older DESs in limited period time (usually for 1-year) in a selected patients eligible for RCTs, the real-world clinical outcomes according to type of DES implanted are still unveiled. Although, the question about the differential impact of generation of DES, type of biocompatible polymers (bioresorbable versus durable), thickness of stent struts and type of eluted anti-proliferative drugs are very important in clinical aspect of view, but there is little study conducted on all patients who are actually confronted in daily clinical practice. Korea operates national insurance system that covers most of the Koreans (97.1%) that are strictly monitored by National Health Insurance Service (NHIS). Of note, the claims database of NHIS of Korea contains all information including the demographic characters of patietns, diagnosis codes (ICD-9 and ICD-10), type of procedures or surgeries and the medical devices utilized, death certificates that contains type of death, and the drugs prescribe in outpatient clinic and hospitals in a individual pill level, that enables monitoring for the drug compliance. This unique feature of NHIS database allows the investigators to gain access to the dose and duration of cardio-protective medications including anti-platelet agents, lipid-lowering agents, anti-hypertensive agents, glucose-lowering agents, nitrate donors, vasodilators, and others. Given the benefits of NHIS database of Korea, we would like to establish a whole-population registry, named as COreaN NationwidE Claims daTa on Drug-Eluting Stent Registry (CONNECT DES Registry). A comprehensive analysis of this data is expected to shed new light on the impact of type of DESs and drug use in real-world practice that could be fully revealed through RCTs.