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Filter by:Integrated and cross-disciplinary analysis of human physiology and disease provides unbiased and deeply informative insights into human health and disease. In this study the investigators will recruit patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery to study the atrium of the heart or the aortic wall that when diseased can cause strokes. Hypothesis: Systems-level analysis of the left atrium and aorta cells that integrates imaging, histological, cellular and molecular data will identify new mechanism for cardiovascular form and function.
This is a multi-center, investigator initiated study that will prospectively and retrospectively examine treatment strategies and outcomes of patients who underwent percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). The goal of this multi-center, investigator initiated, registry is to collect information on treatment strategies and outcomes of consecutive patients undergoing laser-assisted PCI among various participating centers. The study is a purely observational, chart review study and involves retrieval and compiling of data based on clinically indicated procedures and follow-up clinical and procedural outcomes. The information collected will be used to determine the frequency of laser-assisted PCI performed at the participating sites and examine the procedural strategies utilized, and the procedural (both immediate and subsequent) outcomes.
Prolonging infusions may decrease myocardial damage associated with bivalirudin use during primary PCI. The investigators hypothesized that continuing the bivalirudin infusion commenced during the procedure at the PCI recommended dose for 4 hours would prevent myocardial damage.
Coronary flow reserve (CFR, calculated as the ratio of hyperemic over rest myocardial blood flow) is emerging as a powerful quantitative prognostic imaging marker of clinical cardiovascular risk. CFR provides a robust and reproducible clinical measure of the integrated hemodynamic effects of epicardial coronary artery disease (CAD), diffuse atherosclerosis, and microvascular dysfunction on myocardial tissue perfusion. Inflammation is a key mediator of this constellation of abnormalities, affecting the entire coronary vasculature, but no clinical trial to date has shown that directly reducing inflammation lowers cardiovascular event rates. As such, the recently launched Cardiovascular Inflammation Reduction Trial (CIRT) provides a unique opportunity for mechanistic investigation of the impact of anti-inflammatory therapy on changes in CFR as a reflection of coronary vascular dysfunction, which may precede clinical outcomes, particularly in patients at high-risk of events. The investigators are ideally positioned to examine the impact of inflammation on CFR, having extensive experience in both the quantitation of CFR using clinically-integrated dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) and the ability to assess its association with cardiovascular outcomes. The central hypothesis of this ancillary proposal, CIRT-CFR, is that reducing systemic inflammation using low-dose methotrexate (LDM) will, compared to placebo, quantitatively improve myocardial blood flow and coronary flow reserve as measured by PET over one year, in stable CAD patients with type 2 diabetes or metabolic syndrome enrolled in CIRT. In so doing, improvement in coronary vasoreactivity, endothelial function, and tissue perfusion may have beneficial effects on myocardial mechanics, left ventricular deformation and function and, ultimately, symptoms and prognosis.
The objective of the study is to evaluate the process of early re-endothelialization of the Coroflex® ISAR Drug-eluting stent compared with the Ultimaster® Drug-eluting stent
Self-apposing, drug-eluting Stentys coronary stents represent a valuable tool for the treatment of coronary artery stenosis. Their ability to adapt to widely varying vessel calibers and to auto-expand after their release to self-appose to vessel walls is particularly useful in the presence of ectasic coronary arteries or significant vessel tapering. The investigators planned this study to assess the feasibility, the effectiveness and the safety of the implantation of self-apposing, drug-eluting Stentys stents for percutaneous coronary intervention. Consecutive patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention with implantation of a self-apposing Stentys stent were enrolled in this multi center registry. Inclusion criteria were age ≥ 18 years and ability to provide informed consent. No exclusion criteria were defined. Primary end-point of the study is the occurrence of MACE (death, myocardial infarction, stent thrombosis, unplanned hospitalization for unstable angina, target lesion revascularization). Secondary end-points include individual components of MACE, procedural complications (periprocedural MI, bleedings, access site complication, failure to cross stent struts with guidewire in the treatment of bifurcation, failure to delivery the stent, contrast-induced nephropathy), bleedings at follow up.
This study is primarily designed to collect resting phase signals from eligible subjects using the Phase Signal Recorder (PSR) prior to coronary angiography to machine learn and test an algorithm for detecting the presence of significant coronary artery disease in symptomatic adult patient.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the prevalence and morphological features of coronary plaques by means of OCT in patients with acute myocardial infarction but without any significant coronary stenosis at coronary angiography. In addition, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) will be performed to assess the prevalence, location, and pattern of myocardial injury as well as other concomitant findings. As a secondary analysis, the association between the distribution and characteristics of coronary plaques detected on OCT and myocardial injury shown by CMR will be evaluated. In addition, a post-hoc survey regarding the potential modification of the interventional treatment approach based on OCT analysis will be conducted.
Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the hepatic manifestation of the metabolic syndrome, which is one of the major risk factors of coronary heart disease (CHD). CHD is the most important manifestation of atherosclerosis, because of its immense morbidity and mortality. Transient elastography (TE, Fibroscan®) including the currently developed controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) is a non-invasive method for evaluation of liver fibrosis and steatosis, which is already implemented in routine care of patients with NAFLD. Hypothesis: The use of TE with CAP as screening for NAFLD might be an easy tool for risk assessment for CHD. Methods: Patients scheduled for routine coronary angiography will be screened for manifestation of NAFLD by TE including CAP, conventional ultrasound, clinical and laboratory parameters. Patients will be stratified for the presence of CHD based on the angiography results and correlation analysis with liver fat content will be performed. NFALD screening will be validated in a subgroup by MR-based measurements.
The purpose of this study is to perform a first-in-man assessment of feasibility, exploratory efficacy and clinical performance of the novel Angiolite drug-eluting stent (iVascular, Barcelona, Spain) utilizing intracoronary optical coherence tomography (OCT).