View clinical trials related to Myocardial Ischemia.
Filter by:The goal of this study is to examine the influence of mechanical ventilation on the occurrence of myocardial ischemia in patients undergoing endo-CABG.
The root cause of heart attacks and strokes is atherosclerosis, the hardening and thickening of blood vessels due to the presence of "plaque" which is a build-up of fat and cholesterol in the walls of vessels. To diagnose heart disease, patients receive a stress test to find out if they require surgery. Up to 52% of patients receiving an angiogram (surgery) to look at plaque blockages in the heart are found to be normal (no blockage). Patients who are suspected of having heart disease often undergo a stress test, which helps cardiologists decide if the patient has heart disease, but stress tests can give false results. In Ontario alone, 90% are stress tests are found to be normal and patients are sent home with little follow-up. Of these 3-5% (~4,000 patients/year) will have a major cardiovascular event (heart attack, surgery, or death) within 3 years. We need to improve the stress test accuracy to reduce cardiac outcome. We now know that it is not just the total amount of plaque that leads to heart attacks and strokes, but the composition of the plaque that can lead to breakage causing a heart attack. Plaques are soft and fragile, and typically contain fat and small leaky blood vessels within their cores. If we are able to identify patients that have leaky plaques using ultrasound, we may be able to improve the accuracy of stress testing. We propose a study looking at the combination of stress testing (assessing heart function) and neck ultrasound (assessing plaque composition), to identify patients at risk for cardiovascular events (heart attacks and death). We will enrol patients from 6 sites across Canada and follow-them for cardiac outcome for 3 years.
The aim of this study is to assess the impact of culprit-first versus culprit-last percutaneous coronary intervention on the door to balloon time and clinical outcomes in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
This is a randomized trial with a crossover design to investigate the short-term effects of two different dietary patterns on markers of vascular health. A low-carbohydrate diet and a whole-food, plant-based diet will be used. In addition to more traditional markers (cholesterol, blood pressure, inflammation), endothelial progenitor cells and trimethylamine N-oxide will be assessed.
Radial approach is widely established in cardiac diagnostic and therapeutic treatments. It has been shown to decrease bleeding, vascular problems, and mortality rates when compared to the femoral approach. It also offers better comfort to patients through early mobility and lowers hospital expenses. Previously, there were no specific devices for radial artery hemostasis. Many different types of dressings were used in various hospitals with no standardization. This raises the question of whether specific devices surpass dressings in terms of patient comfort, time required to maintain hemostasis, and vascular complications. The primary goal of this study was to examine the effectiveness of compression dressings and hemostatic wristbands on patients undergoing cardiac procedures via radial approach in terms of patient comfort, time required to maintain hemostasis, and vascular problems. The hemostatic wristband TR BandR (Terumo Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) was utilized in one group, while compressive elastic dressing, standardized as 13 threads gauze overlapped, opened, longitudinally pleated once and wrapped, making a 5-cm long cylinder, 1-cm in height, was used in the other.
This multicenter study involved 5 hospitals (Changhai Hospital; Yueyang Hospital of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Gongli Hospital; Putuo Hospital of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine; No. 904 Hospital of the PLA Joint Logistics Support Force Wuxi). The study enrolled 5000 patients for suspected CAD who referred to coronary angiography from January 2017 through December 2018.
To estimate the characteristics, pathogenesis, risk factors and intervention measures for different stages of heart and kidney diseases, and to optimize the curative effects of different treatment schemes
Although coronary artery disease may have a stable chronic clinical course, it is known that this reality does not apply to atherosclerotic plaques, they can grow, complicate, stabilize and again start new cycles of growth/destabilization/stabilization or quiescence in the presence or absence of symptoms. While in obstructive coronary lesions there are well-founded guidelines based on multiple clinical studies, in relation to investigation and treatment; on the other hand, in non-obstructive lesions, there are no such guidelines. There are gaps in the knowledge about the prognostic implications of minor injuries and the occurrence of events. This study seeks precisely to fill these knowledge gaps. Of particular relevance are the large number of patients (approximately 10,000 patients) and the long clinical follow-up, that is, in five years.
The study proposes to measure the effect of resitance training (RT) (3/7 method) on biological markers of muscle hypertrophy in a cardiac population. 3/7 method consisting of five sets of an increasing number of repetitions (3 to 7) during successive sets and brief inter-set intervals (15 s). This method is compare to 3X9 method, 3 series of 9 repetitions with inter-set (1min).The training exercise consisted of contraction on machine (leg press, triceps press, leg curl, traction, leg extension) with load of ~ 70% of one repetition maximal (1RM). Before these trainings all subject perform HIIT on bicycles (2 min high intensity (80% Wmax) and 2 min low intensity (50% Wmax) during 30 minutes. The investigators collect blood sample before exercice, after HIIT and after RT. It is randomized cross-over study.
In a cohort of patients referred to coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA), the investigators aim: 1. To describe the natural history of the coronary atherosclerotic plaque development and progression or regression, as well as the plaque characterization and phenotypes over time by CCTA among deferred coronary lesions 2. To explore the precursors of plaques leading to acute coronary syndrome (ACS) or chronic coronary syndrome (CCS) in deferred coronary lesions 3. To investigate prognostic implication of qualitative and quantitative plaque analysis of stenosis and plaque features, disease patterns, hemodynamic parameters, and fat metrics on CCTA along with physiologic assessment 4. To investigate the effects of different treatment strategies according to stenosis and plaque features, fat metrics on CCTA along with physiologic assessments.