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Filter by:The study aims to compare a preventive percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) plus optimal medical treatment (OMT) strategy vs. OMT for treatment of non-functionally significant non-culprit lesions presenting with optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings indicative of vulnerable plaque, in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and multivessel disease.
About 200000 cardiac operations are performed in China every year. Cardiopulmonary bypass is the basic strategy of open-heart surgery, which may lead to myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury and low cardiac output syndrome. It will inevitably affect the patient's postoperative recovery. A number of studies have shown that dexmedetomidine, as an auxiliary sedative, has the effects of inhibiting stress response, antiarrhythmia and cardiac protection.Dexmedetomidine has been widely used in anesthesia in cardiac surgery. However, at present, few clinical studies pay attention to its mechanism. In this study, dexmedetomidine will be used in cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass to explore the mechanism of cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury and the protective effect of dexmedetomidine.
Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) were all recommended for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) optimization in the latest guidelines, however, which imaging modality was more suitable as either a diagnostic or guidance tool was still unknown. Recently, a novel, well-designed hybrid imaging system was approved for clinical use, allowing the accurate co-registration of two imaging modalities and immediate, simultaneous image review. For testing each modality in the hybrid imaging system, the investigators conducted this prospective, multicentre, non-inferiority trial. In this study, all participants achieved hybrid IVUS-OCT imaging after stenting, at meanwhile, patients randomly assigned to the IVUS arm were performed control IVUS (OptiCross, Boston Scientific, Natick, MA), and patients randomly assigned to the OCT arm were performed control OCT (C7 Dragonfly Duo, St. Jude Medical, St. Paul, MN). In this study, the investigators evaluated the non-inferiority of standalone IVUS versus control IVUS or standalone OCT versus control OCT in clinical feasibility using clear stent capture rate (CSCR) and safety using perioperative device-related adverse cardiovascular events.
In anesthesia, monitoring of core body temperature is one of important factors. Measurement of temperature using a pulmonary artery catheter is representative one of core temperature measurements. The core temperature by a pulmonary artery catheter is compared with the tracheal temperature by an endotracheal tube with thermometer. This study was designed to confirm the accuracy of the endotracheal tube thermometer.
Data regarding the safety and efficacy of ivabradine use in severely decompensated HFrEF requiring inotropic support is limited to case series.1 This study aimed to evaluate ivabradine safety and tolerability in admitted cardiogenic shock patients who started on dobutamine infusion for inotropic support.
To determine whether, in a Chinese population of patients presenting to Wuhan Asia Heart Hospital, Fractional Flow Reserve Derived from Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography (CT-FFR) as a default test is noninferior in terms of total costs when compared to routine clinical pathway recommended by the investigator and the institution's heart team.
To determine the effect of exercise training on cardiac outcomes in coronary artery disease patients after Stenting. There is a need to develop strategies, not only to prevent restenosis but also to improve patients' functional status and perception of well-being. In particular, it is not well defined whether exercise training can reduce the restenosis rate and improve the outcome after PCI.
While there are features on a CCTA that are correlated with plaque vulnerability and can be reported on, this is not always done. This is important as it is thought that vulnerable plaques present the greatest risk of myocardial infarction. This study will assess the correlation between software and human classification of these plaques, as well as demonstrating the time efficiency of AI reporting when compared to a clinician.
the study will assess the impact of intraoperative dexmedetomidine infusion on myocardial performance by investigating the left ventricular (LV) systolic and diastolic function and right ventricular (RV) fraction area change (which reflect RV systolic function) using two-dimensional trans-esophageal echocardiography (TEE) in patients undergoing elective first-time isolated off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) grafting. LV Systolic function will be measured by the TEE via the fractional area change, fraction shortening, and ejection fraction.
Introduction. Ischemic cardiomyopathy is one of the death leading causes in industrialized countries. Up-to-date ESC guidelines recommend a surgical approach (coronary by pass graft) in patients with multivessel coronaropathy, with involvement of left main (LM) or proximal left anterior descending (LAD) artery. In any case, is recommended the use of the internal thoracic artery (ITA) as conduct of choice. In consideration of the very strong evidence supporting the use of ITA, the study objective is to analyze and compare some blood markers collected from ITA blood vs. LAD blood, with the purpose of better understanding the technique benefits from a biological point of view, being the hemodynamic one already evident. Methods. Forty patients scheduled for coronary bypass graft (CABG) surgery at the Cardiac Surgery Unit of European Hospital of Rome will be enrolled. Patients which intervention includes off-pump ITA-LAD anastomosis will be included. For each patient blood sample from ITA and LAD will be collected. On those samples, polymorphonuclear leukocytes and platelets activity, endothelial dysfunction, oxidative stress and inflammatory burden will be analysed. In patients in which a pre-operative coronary CT scan is available, findings will be correlated with atherosclerotic plaque morphology. Expected results. Diseased LAD's blood will have a deranged markers profile compared with ITA's, with augmented inflammatory burden, reduce NO availability and increased platelet activation. In the patients subgroup with available coronary CT scan will be possible to esteem the effective blood mixing and speculate on a possible pharmacological effect of CABG, in terms of dilution of inflammatory burden in the target vessel.