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Filter by:The purpose of this Randomized Study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the Excel-II DES compared to the EXCEL DES in the treatment of patients with de novo coronary artery lesions.
The purpose of the study is to assess the feasibility and safety of a transplantation of cardiac-committed progenitor cells derived from human embryonic stem cells in patients with severe heart failure.
Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death worldwide. Aerobic fitness is related to long-term survival and a reduction in mortality and recurrent nonfatal myocardial infarction in subjects with cardiovascular disease. However, the majority of cardiac patients do not engage in enough physical activity to obtain benefits or in the long-term struggle to maintain a physically active lifestyle. There is a need for innovative rehabilitation methods aiming at increasing longer-term adherence and hence more sustained effects on health related physical fitness. One strategy might be the use of home-based training in combination of telemonitoring guidance. Therefore, the main objective of this randomized controlled clinical trial is to compare the longer-term (=1 year) effects of a 3-month supervised center-based rehabilitation program with a patient-tailored home-based cardiac rehabilitation program with telemonitoring guidance in CAD patients (phase III). The primary outcome measure is physical fitness. It is hypothesized that patients randomized to a home-based training program with telemonitoring guidance will demonstrate higher levels of physical activity at one year of follow-up, resulting in higher levels of physical fitness, compared to patients who have been enrolled to the supervised center-based cardiac rehabilitation program or control group. Ninety patients will be randomized to Home-based training, a center-based cardiac rehabilitation program or an advice only group (= control group). Assessment will be performed at baseline, immediately at completion of the intervention and at one-year of follow-up and will include measurements of exercise tolerance, cardiovascular risk factors, physical activity, muscle strength, endothelial function, health-related quality.
The goal of this study is to gather input from patients who have undergone PCI, their family and/or caregivers, and clinicians to develop a patient decision aid. The purpose of the decision aid is to deliver information, including individualized estimates of patients' restenosis risk, in an understandable format that would be informative and assist in decision-making for patients undergoing PCI.
Objectives : To compare the efficacy and safety of clopidogrel monotherapy with aspirin monotherapy in patients who received dual or triple antiplatelet therapy for 1 year (± 6 months) after drug-eluting stent implantation for coronary artery disease Patient Enrollment : 5530 patients enrolled at 55 centers in Korea Patient Follow-up : Clinical follow-up will occur at 1, 12 and 24 months. Primary Endpoint : Composite endpoint of MACE and major bleeding Secondary Endpoint : Device-oriented composite outcome including TLR (target lesion revascularization), TVR (target vessel revascularization), stent thrombosis, and minor GI (gastrointestinal) complications
The purpose of this study protocol is to determine if administering Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG) for treatment of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) induced hypogammaglobulinemia in the early post-operative period can impact post-surgical outcomes (i.e., infection, fluid overload, and associated morbidities).
The purpose of this study is to examine the validation of the PiCCO (Pulse Contour Cardiac Output)-derived transpulmonary thermodilution technology in patients with heart diseases.
To describe mortality among children with congenital heart defects in Norway
Prospective, longitudinal, open-label, multicentre, observational, non-comparative national study using an exhaustive registry of implantations over a given period. This study is requested by French Health Authorities for reimbursement renewal, to maintain reimbursement for pulmonary valvular replacement by bioprothesis in approved indication in France.
Clinical trial phase III, prospective, controlled, randomized, open. We hypothesize work that patients with chronic coronary occlusion and poor myocardial viability who failed to recover ventricular function after subjecting coronary revascularization with new techniques of recanalization, could achieve an improvement of ventricular function if given further regenerative treatment with mononuclear cells from autologous bone marrow. To test this hypothesis we designed a prospective, randomized clinical trial in patients with recanalized chronic occlusions and ventricular dysfunction.