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Filter by:This is a prospective, multi-center, randomized effectiveness trial of the CardioGard Embolic Protection Cannula in high-risk valve surgery patients.
Background: Treatments for structural heart and valve disease are quickly changing. But treatment could be improved. Researchers want to gather data from people with this disease. They want to find problems and seek new ways to make treatments better. Objective: To find people with structural heart and valve disease with common features to study. To find flaws and patterns in procedures related to this disease. To share findings with other researchers. Eligibility: People ages 18 and older who are receiving care from the structural heart and valve program at the participating NHLBI structural heart disease network sites that are part of the study Design: Participants will be screened with their consent. This will occur when they give their standard consent for medical care. Participants will have their data collected in the course of standard medical care. Data include: Demographic data Protected health data Personally identifiable data Medical records Medical images. These could include X-rays, CT scans, and MRI scans. The study could find something that would impact participants care. If this is the case, their doctors will be told. Participants data may be shared with other researchers. ...
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and performance of the Trialign System for the treatment of symptomatic chronic functional tricuspid regurgitation (FTR) in patients with a minimum of moderate tricuspid regurgitation. The procedure will be performed with the PTVAS device using a non-surgical percutaneous approach to tricuspid valve repair in patients who have FTR with a minimum of moderate tricuspid regurgitation.
Patients undergoing Open Cardiac Surgery will be randomized into two groups. Group I will be ventilated with 40% Fio2 during induction, surgery and in Postoperative care unit. Group II will be ventilated with 100% Fio2 during induction and with 60-70% ( determined according to the arterial blood gas sample results) during surgery and in Postoperative care unit. Hemodynamic parameters ( systolic arterial pressure, diastolic arterial pressure, heart rate ), Arterial blood gas samples ( PaO2, PaCO2, pH, Oxygen saturation, Lactate), and pre and post cardiopulmonary bypass Superoxide dismutase and malonyl aldehyde levels.
The purpose of the study is to compare dexmedetomidine and ketofol to find a suitable alternative for moderate sedation in out-patient diagnostic trans-esophageal echocardiography.
Aortic valve disease causes impaired let ventricular function (LVF) due to hypertrophy, dilatation and diffuse myocardial fibrosis yet the prognostic effect of fibrosis, waiting time for operation and postoperative exercise training is presently unknown. The investigators aim to (1) determine the changes in LVF for patients on the waiting list; (2) establish non-invasive diagnostics for diffuse myocardial fibrosis; (3) relate LVF to fibrosis and physical capacity. The unique design (echocardiography, cardiopulmonary exercise test, cardiac magnetic resonance tomography and myocardial biopsy on the same patients) makes it possible to establish relationship between results of histology and imaging; quantifying and qualifying fibrosis in vivo, evaluate LVF vs. general cardiopulmonary function and optimize health care prior to and after operation.
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is the most common procedure performed by cardiac surgeons. Post-operative atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common adverse event following CABG, experienced in 20-50% of patients; the highest incidence of AF occurs by the third post-operative day. Reduction of AF by various drugs is moderately effective, but involves either rate control with beta blockers or rate conversion with amiodarone after the myocardial damage processes initiating AF have already occurred. Decreasing the incidence of post-operative AF, and hence the morbidity and mortality of high-risk CABG patients, could be more fruitfully approached by targeting the upstream combined processes of inflammation and coagulation activation induced by the surgical insult and associated ischemia-reperfusion (I/R). We propose that cell damage induced by oxidative stress and I/R injury could be prevented and/or inhibited by antioxidant supplementation. Specifically the investigators hypothesize that high-dose intravenous (IV) vitamin C supplementation will ameliorate ROS and therefore damp down upstream inflammatory processes, leading to a reduction of downstream adverse events with demonstrable links to inflammation processes, such as AF.
To value the accuracy of the dosing algorithm published by the International Warfarin Pharmacogenetics Consortium in Chinese patients after heart valve replacement. To value the accuracy of warfarin pharmacogenomics algorithm by the algorithm calculated dose and actual dose in the Chinese patients.
A single-center prospective interventional trial. Patients implanted with a sutureless bioprosthetic aortic valve at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden from 2012 will be eligible. 4-dimensional volume-rendered computed tomography (CT) of the heart will be performed. The aim of the CT is to assess valve leaflet motion. Results of the CT examination, preoperative clinical characteristics, and postoperative clinical data will be registered. Data will be collected prospectively and retrospectively. Informed consent will be obtained from patients meeting the inclusion criteria before the initiation of any study-specific procedures.
Aortic stenosis (AS) is the most common valve disease among the adult population, in the majority of the cases it only requires treatment in advanced age. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has become available as an alternative treatment for very high risk or even inoperative patients who are suffering from symptomatic aortic stenosis. Until now it has been learnt that there are group of patients who are in a very bad condition and who are so frail that they do not benefit from TAVI. These patients have worse survival rate and more importantly poor quality of life in spite of a successful procedure. Cardiac surgery risk scores like Society of Thoracic surgery score (STS) and EUROSCORE are less accurate in aging high risk people. In elderly it is principal to make differentiation between utility and futility. On the other hand, beside frailty status the main barrier to TAVI is the risk of neurological impairment. Neurological injury and impairment in TAVI can occur as cerebrovascular event (CVE) and/or neurocognitive dysfunction. The two neurocognitive dysfunctions - post-operative delirium (POD) and post-operative cognitive dysfunction (POCD). Most cases remain undetected although clinically could be apparent or silent. The neurological injury can be observed and/or detected by neuroimaging techniques and cognitive trajectories. A well established and validated frailty score based on relatively simple and feasible tests could help in our everyday practice to evaluate the prognosis of elderly people undergoing TAVI and to determine those patients who really benefit from the procedure.