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Filter by:The CLARITY study is a clinical trial approved by US FDA to study the removal of the Evolution® Esophageal Stent-Fully Covered in malignant and benign indications.
Ureteral stents has become an indispensable instrument for urology practice as a result of widespread use of endourological interventions. Removal of stents could be sometimes neglected by patients or physicians. This omission may lead to legal and medical problems for urologists, health institutions and also for patients. In this study, the investigators offer a computer program providing two sided recall to prevent this nasty complication with sending automatic message by short message service (SMS) to both the patient and the urologist.
Few reports described outcomes of complete compared with infarct related artery (IRA) only revascularization in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and multivessel coronary disease (CAD). The purpose of this study is to determine outcome (death, myocardial infarction, target vessel failure) of 180 consecutive patients with STEMI and multivessel CAD undergoing primary angioplasty. Before the first angioplasty patients are randomized to 2 different strategies: 1) culprit vessel angioplasty only, 2) staged revascularization.
The Investigators will test the hypothesis that MGuard net protective stent, the investigational device, would be superior to conventional revascularization strategy (i.e. bare-metal stenting plus manual thrombectomy), for STEMI patients undergoing urgent percutaneous coronary interventions.
Background: Safety concerns regarding use of drug eluting stent systems (DES) are related mostly to late stent thrombosis, which is facilitated by incomplete stent endothelial coverage. Specific information about time course and amount of endothelial strut coverage of different DES is required, in order to further refine the concept of antiplatelet therapy after DES implantation. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is emerging as a new gold standard for endovascular imaging of stents, atherosclerosis progression, vulnerable plaque and neointimal proliferation. Very limited OCT data about endothelial coverage of DES are currently available. Aim of this study is a comparative evaluation of XIENCE V® everolimus eluting stent (Abbot Vascular) and of the bare metal stent (BMS) Coroflex® Blue postdilated with the drug-eluting balloon (DEB) SeQuent® Please (paclitaxel-eluting balloon, B. Braun Melsungen AG) in terms of endothelial coverage and neointimal proliferation using OCT. Study Design: A number of 80 patients scheduled for elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with a native coronary stenosis suitable for DES implantation and OCT imaging are openly randomized 1:1 to either XIENCE V® or Coroflex® Blue/Sequent® Please. The study is prospectively conducted at a university high-volume PCI center with OCT expertise (Jena, Germany). Angiographic follow-up and OCT imaging with motorized pull-back at 1 mm/s are planned in all patients 6 months after implantation of the study stents. OCT endpoints are: (1) endothelial coverage, expressed as % of struts without coverage and % of stent length containing non-covered struts, and respectively (2) neointimal proliferation, given as % neointimal volumetric proliferation within the whole stent and also as focal peak % neointimal area proliferation. The study is not powered for clinical endpoints, which are: subacute or late stent thrombosis and need for revascularization of the stent segment. Given the high number of measurements (15 cross-section images / 1 mm stent length), OCT endpoints are likely to reach significance at the level P < 0.05 even at a follow-up drop-out rate up to 20%.
The effectiveness, safety, and deliverability of second generation drug eluting stents (DES), including Xience V, will need to be examined in real world patients to provide the same level of evidence base and comfort that has accompanied the use of the first generation devices. Randomized clinical trials provide the fairest evaluation of outcomes by controlling for confounding patient and procedural characteristics; however, randomized clinical trials also exclude the very high risk patients that account for upwards of 80% of real world patient populations such as those at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC). Clinical follow-up data including non-fatal MI, all cause mortality and stent thrombosis, as well as medications compliance, of patients undergoing stent therapy including Xience V in a real world patient population will be collected at WFUBMC. Existing data for several control groups will be used to compare outcomes with Xience V including a consecutively treated bare metal stent (BMS) cohort of 1,200 patients, and a DES cohort of 1,200 patients (900 sirolimus-eluting and 300 paclitaxel-eluting) treated between April 2004 and April 2005. Patients undergoing stent therapy in the year prior to use of Xience V, and contemporaneous patients receiving non-Xience V stent therapy during Xience V use will serve as additional controls. All patient data will be de-identified using unique blinded identification codes after data collection is completed. The null hypothesis of this study states that safety outcomes (stent thrombosis, non-fatal MI, death) with Xience V will be equivalent to historical and contemporaneous controls; effectiveness outcomes (target lesion and target vessel revascularization) with Xience V will be superior to historical and contemporaneous BMS controls, and equivalent to historical and contemporaneous DES controls; and the need for crossover to another stent type will be equal to that observed with historical DES controls. Outcomes will be reported using contemporary measures of clinical outcomes and analyzed using Cox proportional hazards survival analysis methodology. These data should provide important information on the clinical effectiveness and safety of Xience V in routine practice.
The study will assess the hypothesis that the combination warfarin & clopidogrel 75 mg/day is superior to triple therapy (warfarin + clopidogrel 75mg/day + aspirin 80mg/day) with respect to bleeding complications while equally safe with respect to the prevention of thrombotic complications in patients with both indications for warfarin use and dual antiplatelet (clopidogrel 75mg/day + aspirin 80mg/day) treatment.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of stent implantation in patients with symptomatic extra- and intracranial artery stenosis and to determine its role in secondary prevention of ischemic stroke.
The main objective of this study is to assess the safety and effectiveness of the TiN-coated MAR-Tyn stent in maintaining minimum lumen diameter in de novo native coronary artery lesions as compared to an uncoated control cobalt-chromium balloon-expandable stent (Vision, Abbott Vascular). Both stents are mounted on a Rapid Exchange Stent Delivery System.
This study is divided into 5 arms: 1. Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT): Prospective, randomized, active-controlled, single blind, parallel two-arm multi-center clinical trial in the United States (US) comparing XIENCE V® Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stent System (CSS) (2.5, 3.0, 3.5 mm diameter stents) to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved commercially available active control TAXUS® EXPRESS2™ Paclitaxel Eluting Coronary Stent (TAXUS® EXPRESS2™ PECS) System 2. US 2.25 mm non-randomized arm using 2.25 mm diameter XIENCE V® Everolimus Eluting CSS 3. US 4.0 mm non-randomized arm using 4.0 mm diameter XIENCE V® Everolimus Eluting CSS 4. US 38 mm non-randomized arm using 38 mm in length XIENCE V® Everolimus Eluting CSS 5. Japanese non-randomized arm using XIENCE V® Everolimus Eluting CSS (2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 mm diameter stents) in Japan The TAXUS® EXPRESS2™ Paclitaxel Eluting Coronary Stent System is Manufactured by Boston Scientific.