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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to discover genes that may cause Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) or Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM).
This proposal delineates a research plan to collect blood from patients undergoing heart catheterization or who have had a heart catheterization within one year and are coming in for outpatient appointments, or who have scheduled cardiac CT scans at the Cleveland Clinic over a five-year period for the purpose of establishing a gene bank registry. In addition, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will enroll 1,000 non-Caucasian patients and MetroHealth Medical center in Cleveland will enroll 1,000 non-Caucasian patients. The blood collected will be processed to create a repository of DNA, lymphoblastoid cell line immortalization on selected patient populations, plasma and serum. The DNA will be amplified in certain patient populations to preserve the quantity. Along with a sample of blood collected from individual patients, a concise general medical history, demographic data, electrocardiographic data, echocardiographic data (available for about 55% of patients at the present time), and laboratory data will be collected. A short interview will take place after enrollment during the outpatient visit or hospital stay, or may be conducted via phone call after enrollment. All the clinical data gathered will be compiled in GATC heart center database, and would be stored in a format where a culmination of clinical findings, i.e. representing a disease of interest, can be used to search the database to identify the blood samples of all patients with such characteristics for further study.
The purpose of ZEST-LATE (Evaluation of the Long-term Safety After Zotarolimus-Eluting Stent, Sirolimus-Eluting Stent, or PacliTaxel-Eluting Stent Implantation for Coronary Lesions - Late Coronary Arterial Thrombotic Events) trial is to assess the relationship between long-term clopidogrel use beyond 1 year and long-term rates of death or MI after DES implantation and to estimate the duration of dual antiplatelet therapy for preventing the late thrombotic events.
To evaluate whether the cilostazol reduce neointimal hyperplasia after ZES (Zotarolimus-eluting stents) implantation, the investigators performed double-blind,randomized, multicenter, prospective study compared triple antiplatelet therapy (aspirin plus clopidogrel plus cilostazol) and dual antiplatelet therapy (aspirin plus clopidogrel) for 8 months in patients with long coronary lesion treated with ZES.
It is recommended that patients who have drug-eluting stents placed in their coronary arteries take aspirin and Plavix (Clopidogrel) for at least a year. Patients who stop taking these antiplatelet drugs or who have resistance to the antiplatelet effects of these drugs are at a higher risk of clots occurring inside the stents which may result in a heart attack. At the present time, it is unknown if increasing the doses of the antiplatelet agents is effective in overcoming this resistance. The purpose of this project is to identify patients with antiplatelet drug resistance and to test whether an increase in the Plavix (Clopidogrel) dose overcomes antiplatelet drug resistance.
To evaluate that angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin-converting enzyme receptor blockers (ARBs) reduce the risk of restenosis after DES implantation.
The goal of this study is to determine if one dose of simvastatin will decrease the inflammatory response to coronary intervention. Also to determine if one dose of simvastatin affects endothelial function (activity of the artery) as measured by noninvasive peripheral artery tonography.
The aim of this multi-center study is to determine the applicability of BMIPP to diagnosing cardiac disease and to predicting the outcome of patients on hemodialysis.
It is hypothesized that aging is associated with reduced vascular injury-induced endothelial progenitor cell activity, resulting in impaired vascular repair and increased vascular disease. Patients with stable coronary artery disease will be enrolled in this observational study and will undergo either angiography alone or angiography and angioplasty. Participants will be followed for 5 years.
The purpose of this study is to: - evaluate the performance characteristics (sensitivity & specificity) of iodofiltic acid I-123 imaging for detection of myocardial ischemia in patients that present in the Emergency Department with suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS). - evaluate the safety of a single injection of iodofiltic acid I-123 in patients suspected of myocardial ischemia related to ACS.