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Filter by:The aim of the study is to assess the safety and efficacy of a Paclitaxel-eluting PTCA-balloon in combination with bare-metal stenting for treatment of chronic total occlusions in native coronary arteries with reference diameters between 2.5 mm and 4.0 mm.
How does PET myocardial perfusion imaging involving CT angiography and measurement of coronary flow reserve affect patient care.
This study evaluated and optimized settings for, and evaluated the performance of, AI-700-enhanced echocardiographic imaging on several ultrasound imaging platforms, as well as collected additional safety data for AI-700 in healthy volunteers and stable cardiac patients.
Autologous stem cells may improve myocardial regeneration after intracoronary administration in patients with acute myocardial infarction. The primary hypothesis of this prospective, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial is that the increase of ejection fraction determined by magnetic resonance imaging between baseline and 6 months follow-up is superior in active treated patients compared to patients receiving placebo. The study includes an integrated pilot phase of 40 patients for evaluation of left ventricular ejection fraction determined by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. Based on the data of this analysis the final sample size will be calculated. The primary endpoint is the improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction with an assumed 2.5% higher improvement in the cell treated population compared to the placebo treated group.
After surgery, patients who have cardiogram changes consistent with a lack of oxygen to the heart muscles, also known as myocardial ischemia, have been found to have 9 times the chance of having an event such as a heart attack during the subsequent 30 days. It is not known if monitoring and treating ischemia will prevent events such as heart attacks. It is not known if such monitoring and treatment can be done on the regular surgical wards. In this pilot study, we hope to demonstrate that such a study is feasible, and the maintenance of blinding is possible. The primary outcomes are to show that such monitoring after surgery is possible in ≥ 95% of patients, to show that response and treatment to such ischemia in ≤ 1 hour is possible in ≥ 90% of patients, and that blinding between the standard and active treatment groups is possible for 50% ± 1 s.d.. With the pilot study data, if successful, we will be applying for peer-reviewed funding for a full study.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and echocardiography are two imaging methods that are used to obtain pictures of the heart and assess heart function. This study will evaluate a new, four-dimensional echocardiography approach of obtaining heart images to determine if it is as effective at evaluating heart function as MRI.
The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis of whether contrast enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging can be used to predict improvement of the wall motion in regions of the heart with abnormal movement following bypass surgery or percutaneous angioplasty in various institutions across three continents.
In an observational multi-centre study (HEROS), the effects of starting treatment with rosuvastatin were assessed, on low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) goal achievement, in patients with a dissimilar high-risk profile who had not been treated with cholesterol lowering drugs at least in the past three months. Also set-up costs of rosuvastatin treatment and proportional changes in LDL-C and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) were studied.
Fifty patients will be enrolled into the study. The purpose of the study is to investigate the relevance of Hct levels in determining need for transfusion during operations employing bypass as well as to test the hypothesis that, while HCt levels may decrease during surgery , red blood cell mass and tissue oxygenation remain fairly constant.
Randomized clinical comparison of the serolimus eluting Cypher stent and the zotarolimus eluting Endeavor stent.