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Filter by:SLGT2 therapy is safety used in heart failure (HF) patients with depressed left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) and diabetes mellitus (DM). These patients experience higher rate of ventricular arrhythmias (VA), that are a leading cause of cardiac arrest and mortality. However, these patients are treated by implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) and cardiac resynchronization with defbrillator devices (CRTd) implant. In this setting, the catheter ablation (CA) treatment has been used to reduce the ventricular arrhythmias and the ICD/CRTds' interventions, and to prevent mortality events in these' patients. On other hand, still a higher percentage of patients result as non responders to an ablative approach with higher acute and long term mortality rate. Therefore, in the present study in a population of HF patients (DM vs. non DM patients) affected by VA, authors will investigate the effects of CA on mortality rate at 12 months of follow up. In addition, authors would demonstrate the ameliorative effects of new hypoglycemic drugs in addition to CA in patients with DM. However, after CA the patients with DM will be randomly assigned to SGLT2 therapy vs. placebo. Indeed, study hypothesis will be that, a) DM vs. non DM patients might have higher mortality rate after CA; b) patients with DM treated by CA plus SLGT2 therapy vs. patients with DM treated by CA plus placebo might experience a lower rate of mortality at 1 year of follow-up.
This study is designed to evaluate the effects of a diet rich in unsaturated fatty acids (UFA)-also known as 'healthy fats'-in patients with obesity and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) on dietary consumption of UFA as well as fatty acids plasma levels.
To confirm the tolerability of intravenous administration of OPC-61815 at 8 or 16 mg once daily for a maximum of 5 days to CHF patients with volume overload despite having received diuretics (injection) other than vasopressin antagonists and who have difficulty with or are incapable of oral intake.
Heart Failure (HF) is a cardiovascular disease secondary to a structural and / or functional alteration of the heart that prevents its correct function. The Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) aims to restore atrioventricular, inter and intraventricular synchrony in patients with systolic HF and wide depolarization of the ventricles (QRS). Although CRT has been shown to be effective, the rate of non-responders is high (30-50%). One of the proposed reasons for the lack of response to the CRT is the lack of intrinsic conduction, since most of the time CRT is administered using biventricular stimulation (BiV). One of the limitations to achieve ventricular fusion are the dynamic physiological variations of the auriculo-ventricular (AV) interval. The SyncAVTM algorithm is a new dynamic algorithm that manages to adjust the AV intervals outside the clinic. The design of the present clinical study is post-marketing, prospective, multicenter, randomized and blind for the patient and the central echocardiography laboratory. The objective of this study is to assess whether CRT with ventricular stimulation with fusion using the SyncAVTM algorithm is superior to CRT with conventional BiV stimulation in the population for which its use is foreseen. The data will be collected in at least the Selection / Baseline Visit and in the Visit of Follow-up at 6 Months. The study population are subjects to whom an Abbott Medical CRT has been implanted with SyncAVTM® Stimulation function that go to the participating sites in the study. The main objective of the study is to assess whether CRT with ventricular stimulation with fusion using the SyncAVTM algorithm is superior to CRT with BiV stimulation conventional in terms of the rate of responders. The main endpoint is the determination of significant differences between conventional BiV stimulation and ventricular stimulation with fusion using the SyncAVTM algorithm in terms of the percentage of patients responding to CRT therapy with echocardiogram. The duration of the clinical study is estimated at 24 months with a recruitment period of 18 months and a patient follow-up of 6 months. The number of subjects that is planned to be recruited is 176. The inclusion will be competitive and there is no inclusion number determined per site.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in RA patients. This increased risk may be apparent even before the clinical recognition of RA. The optimal approach for identification of patients with increased CV risk has yet to be fully established and a substantial proportion of RA patients at high risk remain unidentified. Heart failure (HF) has been recently recognized as an important contributory factor to the excess CV mortality associated with RA (more than myocardial ischemia), and RA patients with concomitant HF have twice the risk of CV death compared with patients with RA alone. HF in RA typically presents with occult or atypical clinical symptomatology, tend to be managed less aggressively and have poorer outcomes. For developing effective preventive strategies, the evaluation of patients in early asymptomatic stages is of great importance. The investigators propose to perform an observational longitudinal study (with cases and controls) including RA patients (with and without HF) from a single centre to determine cardiovascular profiles that may be associated with higher risk for developing symptomatic HF and CV events. For this purpose the investigators will use clinical, echocardiographic, serum biomarker, and genetic data
The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of mitochondrial derived oxidative stress on exercise capacity and arterial hemodynamics in HFpEF patients with and without chronic kidney disease.
The proposed study seeks to explore the possibility of significantly increasing the success rate (from the current rate of 28%) of clinically significant Transdermal Fluid Removal (TFR) in heart failure patients. It seeks to further understand the device and patient characteristics influencing successful clinically relevant fluid removal and to measure any patient-defined benefits. It also wishes to explore the patient experience of the removal.
Improving physical activity is a core component of secondary prevention and cardiac (tele)rehabilitation. Commercially available activity trackers are frequently used to monitor and promote physical activity in cardiac patients. However studies on the validity of these devices in cardiac patients are scarce. The aim of this study is to determine the accuracy and responsiveness of two wrist-worn activity trackers, Fitbit Charge 2 (FC2) and Mio Slice (MS), for the assessment of energy expenditure (EE) in cardiac patients.
This study aims to determine whether skeletal muscle ultrasound is a useful technique for measuring low muscle mass in patients with heart failure (HF). Muscle wasting and abnormal muscle quality has been identified in patients with advanced HF and may contribute to patients' physical limitations. However assessments of body composition for patients with HF currently rely on the research tool of dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) for measurements of skeletal muscle mass, which is limited by cost, use of radiation, and the need for patients to be transported to the DXA scanner for imaging. Therefore this observational study is designed to validate a new approach that allows a safe and portable assessment of body composition.
This study evaluates a sensor-controlled digital game (SCDG) to motivate self-management behaviors of weight monitoring and physical activity in older adults with heart failure (HF). Half of the participants will receive the SCDG app and weight monitoring and physical activity sensors and the other half will receive only the weight monitoring and physical activity sensors.