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Filter by:This study will assess the safety and efficacy of systemic (IV) administration of escalating doses of allogeneic MSCs in modulating immune cell phenotypes and suppressing aortic inflammation in patients with small AAA. Subjects will be randomized in a 1:1:1 fashion to receive mesenchymal stromal cells (1 million or 3 million MSC/kg) intra-venously or placebo (Plasmalyte A).
Stem cell therapy has been a new and effective therapy in recent years for diabetic foot.This study intends to establish an optimal clinical research program, and attempts to break the technical bottleneck in the stem cell therapy for treating diabetes related vascular complications.
This study is designed to evaluate the use of real-time ultrasound-guided femoral venipuncture during pulmonary vein isolation for treating atrial fibrillation .
Summary 1. Purpose and Objective: The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility of rapid acquisition of point of care 3D ultrasound in obtaining abdominal and/or pelvic images. The study will use a newly developed acquisition method and post-processing technique to create three dimensional image models of the abdomen and/or pelvis. 2. Study activities and population group. The study population will be a convenience sample of patients of any age presenting to the Emergency Department with complaints necessitating a clinical abdominal and/or pelvic imaging. The study intervention includes acquisition of research ultrasound images, which will not be used for clinical care, and comparison of these images with clinically obtained images. Other clinical data such as surgical and pathology reports will also be reviewed. 3.Data analysis and risk/safety issues. This is a pilot study intended to determine feasibility and to refine image reconstruction algorithms. Research images will be compared to clinical images. Comparison of research images with final diagnosis will also occur. The research intervention, an ultrasound exam, has no known safety risks. The only risk to subjects is loss of confidentiality. This study is observational, not interventional, because the experimental ultrasound will be performed in all subjects and will not be used in the clinical care of patients (consequently, will not have the opportunity to affect clinical outcomes). Experimental images will be reviewed after completion of clinical care and will not be provided to the clinicians caring for the subjects. The investigators are not measuring the effect of the ultrasound examination on the subjects' outcomes.
Stem cell therapy has been a new and effective therapy in recent years for diabetic foot.This study intends to establish an optimal clinical research program, and attempts to break the technical bottleneck in the stem cell therapy for treating diabetes related vascular complications.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate this AngioScan angiography software on patients with various retinal vascular disorders. The advanced OCT instrument is an FDA approved clinically used camera, but the AngioScan angiography software is not FDA approved. Investigators would like to know if this imaging device and software can improve the quality of images and visualization of imaged tissues and whether they are useful in the diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases. Images collected in this study may be compared to other images collected as part of standard of care on the same patient (OCT, FA, AF, Fundus).
To systematically develop, test, and refine peripheral vascular electrocardiography-gated fast spin echo magnetic resonance imaging for the accurate diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease without gadolinium contrast. To test prospectively the accuracy of fast spin echo in peripheral arterial disease patients, compared with bolus-chase and time-resolved gadolinium enhanced magnetic resonance angiography. Additionally, as a substudy of this project, we will compare our fast spin echo approach with alternative non-contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging methods such as time-of-flight and steady-state gradient echo imaging. The overarching goals of our research are to develop and validate a peripheral magnetic resonance imaging technique that accurately depicts anatomy and disease without exposing patients to exogenous contrast material and its associated risks.
To compare the initial versus delayed verteporfin photodynamic therapy (PDT) in combination with conbercept in patients with symptomatic polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV).
This study examines the role of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor family and the EGF family of ligands in the regulation of non-myocytes isolated from the human heart.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with an extensive vasculopathy and high cardiovascular mortality as well as an accumulation of uremic toxins. Among the latest, advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) interact with RAGE. Investigators aimed to analyze the role of RAGE in the calcification process of hemodialyzed patients, in a correlative and prospective study. Vascular calcifications will be assessed by Xray and tomodentimetry while accumulation of AGEs will be measured in the serum and in the skin (non invasive). Additionally factors influencing RAGE activation such as genetic polymorphism and level of soluble forms of RAGE will be measured and analyzed.