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Filter by:Coronary vascular dysfunction is highly prevalent among patients with known or suspected Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)1, increases the severity of inducible myocardial ischemia (beyond the effects of upstream coronary obstruction)2, and identifies patients at high risk for serious adverse events, including cardiac death1, 3-5. Diabetic patients without known CAD with impaired coronary vascular function show a risk of cardiac death comparable to, and possibly higher, than that for non-diabetic patients with known CAD10. In the setting of increased oxygen demand, coronary vasodilator dysfunction can upset the supply-demand relationship and lead to myocardial ischemia, subclinical left ventricular dysfunction (diastolic and systolic), and symptoms. The significance of microvascular coronary dysfunction is increasingly recognized as invasive and non-invasive (PET) methods of quantifying CFR become available. Importantly, current treatment strategies for obstructive CAD, such as percutaneous coronary intervention with angioplasty and stenting, are not helpful in microvascular disease. Similarly, mortality-altering treatments for systolic heart failure, such as angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, have not been beneficial in treating diastolic dysfunction.
The aim of the present study is to investigate safety and efficacy of intramyocardial implantation of a novel mesenchymal precursor cell type (iMP) in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy at the time of coronary artery bypass grafting.
The purpose of the study is 1> to compare neointimal stent coverage after OCT-guided vs. Angio-guided PCI, 2> to compare neointimal stent coverage at 3 months after EES vs BES implantation, 3> to determine the duration of dual antiplatelet therapy by OCT measurement at 3 months
The objective of this study is a comparative evaluation of BuMA stent and of EXCEL stent in terms of the extent of neointima formation at 3 months after implantation using OCT. This is a prospective, single center, randomized, open-label, non-inferiority study, which will enroll a total of 70 patients in Fuwai Hospital.All patients will be randomly assigned undergoing implantation of BuMA stent or EXCEL stent (in a 1:1 ratio). If non-inferiority was met, superiority test will be planned.
The ABSORB III RCT is a prospective randomized, single-blind, multi-center trial. It is the pivotal trial to support the US pre-market approval (PMA) of Absorb™ Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (BVS). The ABSORB III includes additional two trials i.e. ABSORB III PK (pharmacokinetics) sub-study and ABSORB IV RCT trial which are maintained under one protocol because both trial designs are related, ABSORB IV is the continuation of ABSORB III and the data from ABSORB III and ABSORB IV will be pooled to support the ABSORB IV primary endpoint. Both the trials will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of Absorb BVS.
Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a pleiotropic cytokine that promote the inflammatory response.In animal studies, it has been found that MIF is released in the ischaemic heart, promoting glucose uptake and protecting the heart from ischaemia-reperfusion injury.The MIF concentration, influenced by age and myocardial ischemia, have different impact on myocardial functional recovery after ischemia.Therefore, the purpose of this experiment is to study the clinical significance of MIF in patients with coronary heart disease.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in Scotland and the Western World. Approaches to improve the identification of vulnerable or ruptured coronary atherosclerotic plaques are urgently needed to help risk stratification, to identify patients for intensive therapies, and to provide novel biomarkers for the development of anti-atherosclerotic drug interventions. Using positron emission tomography, we have recently shown that sodium 18-fluoride uptake holds major promise as a novel marker of plaque vulnerability and rupture. Here we wish to characterise coronary atherosclerotic plaque using 128-multidetector computed tomography combined with 18-fluorodeoxyglucose and sodium 18-fluoride positron emission tomography and Virtual histology-intravascular ultrasound in 80 patients with stable and unstable coronary artery disease. This has the potential to provide an innovative and highly valuable translational model with which to test novel therapeutic interventions targeted at reducing atheroma and plaque rupture. This could have major implications for the future treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Resolute zotarolimus-eluting stent (ZES) system (Medtronic, USA) has been world-wildly used in treating patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). The State Food and Drug Administration of China has approved qualification of RESOLUTE zotarolimus-eluting stent system in 2010. It has been reported that RESOLUTE stent may be more suitable for DM patients and FDA has approved diabetic coronary lesion as a indication for using Resolute stent. Here the investigators set out a multicenter, non-inferiority study: the efficacy and safety of RESOLUTE zotarolimus-eluting stents in treatment of Chinese diabetes (RESOLUTE-DIABETES CHINA) in purpose of identifying the efficacy and safety in Asia CAD correlated with diabetic population.
This is a multi-center, prospective, non-randomized, double-blinded trial to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the CADence device in detecting the existence of clinically significant coronary artery disease as determined by either standard or CT angiography.
Stent coverage and neo-intimal growth can be evaluated in-detail by intracoronary optical coherence tomography (OCT), which is a catheter-based imaging technique. It is performed as part of the PCI procedure. OCT is the optical analogue of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), except that it can provide much higher resolution of coronary cross sectional images than IVUS. The LightLab C7XR OCT system (Frequency Domain OCT) used in this Hospital has obtained full CE Mark, approved by the US FDA, and approved for clinical use in Hong Kong. It has been shown to be safe in clinical settings and has been used in over 300 patients without complication at Queen Mary Hospital. In this study, stent coverage and neo-intimal growth between zotarolimus-eluting stents (ZES) and biolimus-eluting stents (BES) will be compared by using OCT at 9 month and specific post-intervention re-study intervals. The investigators objective is to investigate the clinical impact and OCT difference on early stent healing and late lumen loss between the two new-generation limus-eluting-stents - Resolute Integrity and Biomatrix, which differ in stent design, eluting drug and coating polymer.