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Filter by:The main aim of the study is to investigate, in humans, the effect of plant sterols on vascular function by measuring flow-mediated dilation (FMD). This study also aims to study the effect of plant sterols on pulse wave velocity (PWV), aortic augmentation index (Aix), central blood pressure (CBP), office blood pressure (BP), blood lipids and plasma plant sterol concentration. At last, the effects of plant sterols on z-scores of circulating biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction and low-grade inflammation will be assessed. For all study outcomes, effect sizes and 95% confidence intervals will be estimated. Hypothesis: Based on available evidence, it is hypothesized that plant sterols modestly increase FMD.
In this investigation, the investigators will attempt to demonstrate that patients who have received nerve blocks (regional anesthesia) prior to open surgical vascular bypass of the lower extremities (infrainguinal bypass grafting) will have improved surgical outcomes namely a reduction in the rates of death, wound infection, graft thrombosis, graft revision, and amputation. As well, the investigators anticipate that patients who have undergone regional anesthesia for infrainguinal bypass grafting will have improved secondary outcomes with respect to a decreased length of stay, narcotic consumption, nausea and vomiting, post-operative cognitive dysfunction, major cardiac events, post-operative pain, and hyperglycemic episodes.
Biofilm has been identified as the major bacterial phenotype contributing to atherosclerosis. It has become very important to evaluate atherosclerosis and the role of biofilm using advanced technologies. It is also important to understand wound biofilm at a genetic and a molecular level.
This is a single-arm, single-center, open-label, pilot study . 30 subjects with foot symptoms attributable to diabetes or peripheral vascular disease will be screened . Subjects meeting inclusion criteria will sign informed consent and enrolled. All 30 subjects will be treated with the Magic Foot™. If there is any significant improvement in ICG or foot symptoms as obtained from self evaluation questionnaire, a further 30 subjects will be enrolled.
A computerized registry of cardiovascular disease patients in a large health maintenance organization in Israel. The registry is aimed to be used by health professionals to identify cardiovascular disease patients and to follow the courses of their illnesses and risk factors.
The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that the intracoronary transplantation of autologous mononuclear and CD 133 + bone marrow cells will improve left ventricular contractile function and will reduce the combined end points after the primary STEMI (mortality, recurrent myocardial infarction, angina, heart failure, stroke).
To evaluate the efficacy of combination therapy with ranibizumab (RBZ) and panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) versus PRP alone in patients with treatment-naive bilateral proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) as measured by mean change in visual acuity (VA), mean change in central retinal thickness (CRT) as measured by time-domain optic coherence tomography (TD-OCT) and incidence of vitreous hemorrhage (VH).
The purpose of this study is to determine whether the combination with ramipril and clopidogrel leads to further improvement of endothelial function, reduction of oxidative stress and reduction of vascular inflammation, compared with ramipril monotherapy, in patients with Diabetes Mellitus type 2 and diabetic nephropathy.
Several studies have shown that stenting of the femoropopliteal artery in the lower leg leads to improved overall results compared to balloon angioplasty alone. However, scar tissue development can occur within the stent, a process called restenosis. Treatment of these in-stent restenotic lesions has a high procedural success rate but recurrence of scar tissue is frequently seen. Several methods have been proposed to treat in-stent restenosis in the lower leg arteries but mixed results have been noted. In this study we hypothesize that simultaneous tissue excision and aspiration using the JetStream Navitus device (Medrad) can lead to a high rate of acute procedural success with low intraprocedural complications and an acceptable recurrence rate of restenosis at 6-month follow-up.
ClarityIQ is a novel X-ray imaging technology, that combines advanced real-time image noise reduction algorithms, with state-of-the-art hardware to reduce patient entrance dose significantly. This is realized by anatomy-specific optimization of the full acquisition chain (grid switch, beam filtering, pulse width, spot size, detector and image processing engine) for every clinical task individually. Furthermore, smaller focal spot sizes and shorter pulses are used, which are known to positively influence image quality . The final effect on the clinical image quality is investigated in this study.