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Filter by:The objective of this study is to evaluate the relationship between fractional flow reserve (FFR) derived from coronary computed tomography angiography (FFRct) before transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and FFR after TAVR so as to investigate whether FFRct is useful for evaluating myocardial ischemia of severe AS. Furthermore, by measuring the instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) which is a physiological diagnostic method of coronary artery stenosis before and after TAVR and comparing iFR (iFR before and after TAVR) and FFR (FFR after TAVR) with FFRct (FFRct before and after TAVR), It also aims to deepen understanding of resting coronary artery physiology in aortic valve stenosis.
This is a single centre, prospective diagnostic accuracy study to assess the comparative sensitivity of dobutamine versus adenosine for detection of severe non-infarct epicardial coronary artery stenosis in subjects with reduced LV EF ( EFed referred for clinical coronary angiography for investigation of symptoms or to establish the cause heart failure. Study participants will be identified from hospital angiography referral waiting lists, or already known with CAD and from heart failure outpatient clinics at Glenfield General Hospital. Clinical and CMR data will be collated on-site (at Glenfield General Hospital) from medical records stored and stress cardiac MRI scans at Glenfield General Hospital. The analysis will occur over a 12-month period following study commencement.
The main objective of this clinical trial is to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of adding ozone therapy to standard management of patients with advanced ischemic heart disease refractory to medical and surgical treatment.
The FUTURE-III study is a confirmative clinical trial for Sirolimus Target Eluting Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (Firesorb) after the feasibility and safety of the device has been preliminary confirmed in a small-scale First-in-Man clinical trial.
Patients with chest pain on exertion need a reliable non-invasive test to identify if they have inducible myocardial ischaemia. This would reduce the use of diagnostic coronary arteriography, avoid its risks and costs, and guide clinical decisions. Conventional stress echocardiography has poor reproducibility because it relies on qualitative and subjective interpretation. Quantitative approaches based on precise and reliable measurements of myocardial velocity, strain, strain rate and global longitudinal strain have been shown to be able to accurately diagnose myocardial ischaemia. A more accurate test using myocardial velocity imaging was not implemented by ultrasound vendors although it provided an objective measurement of myocardial functional reserve on a continuous scale from normality to severe ischaemia. The investigators propose an original approach to create a diagnostic software tool that can be used in routine clinical practice. The investigators will extract and compare quantitative data obtained through myocardial velocity imaging and speckle tracking in subjects who undergo dobutamine stress echocardiography. The data will be analysed using advanced computational mathematics including multiple kernel learning and joint statistics applied to multivariate data across multiple dimensions (including velocity, strain and strain rate traces). This approach will be validated against quantitative coronary arteriography and fractional flow reserve. The results will be displayed as parametric images and placed into a reporting tool. The output will determine the presence and severity of myocardial ischaemia. These new tools will have the capacity for iterative learning so that the precision of the diagnostic conclusions can be continuously refined.
This study aim is to evaluate the additional effect of eicosapentaenoic acid and dose up effect of rosuvastatin for neoatherosclerosis in coronary artery disease patients.
Aortocoronary bypass surgery is one of the most common operations in the western world. The goal of the surgeon is to perform a complete revascularization of the coronary arteries with the best, available bypass material. Aortocoronary bypass surgery can be performed with (on-pump) or without (off-pump) the heart lung machine. If the operation is performed without the heart lung machine, the heart is continuously beating while the surgeon sews the bypass to the diseased coronary artery. In randomized trials, the benefits of the off-pump technique in the hands of experienced surgeons in terms of shorter operating times, less transfusions and less pulmonary and renal complications were proven. A criticism of the off-pump technique is the reduced number of distal anastomoses, which means that fewer coronary arteries may be connected with bypass grafts because of the technically sophisticated situation. A worse quality of the connection (anastomosis) between coronary artery and bypass is often discussed, leading to a bypass occlusion already in the early stage after surgery resulting in more re-interventions on the coronary vessels. So-called silent bypass failure without clinical correlation has been examined in three relevant studies including both, the on- and the off-pump technique, with inhomogenous results. In addition to the technique, other parameters such as the degree of narrowing (stenosis) of the diseased coronary artery and collateralization of a closed coronary artery may play a role in early occlusion. All bypass patients after off-pump surgery receive routinely a computed tomographic examination of the heart. With this method, silent bypass occlusions without clinical correlation, i.e. cardiac infarction, elevated cardiac laboratory parameters or ECG changes, can be detected easily. In case of an occlusion of a relevant bypass, an intervention before discharge can be planned and performed. We would like to investigate the occlusion rate of this retrospective patient cohort after off-pump surgery and the potential risk factors, that may influence on early graft failure. We hypothesize, that early graft failure depends not only on the choice of the graft material, but also on the local grade of coronary stenosis, the collateralisation of occluded coronary vessels and the intraoperative flow results, as well as on the region of the target vessel.
The overall purpose of the FAVOR III China trial is to investigate if a strategy of quantitative flow ratio (QFR)-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) yields superior clinical outcome and cost-effectiveness compared to a strategy of standard coronary angiography-guided PCI in evaluation of patients with coronary artery disease.
To evaluate the ability to trace iron oxide-labeled mesenchymal stromal cells with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) after NOGA-guided injection therapy into the myocardium in patients with ischemic heart disease.
More recently a polymer-free drug eluting stent (Amphilimus eluting stent) has shown to have a superiority in terms of efficacy and safety if compared with stable polymer drug eluting stent when used in diabetic patients. However, to date there are no direct comparisons of these two type of drug eluting stents.