View clinical trials related to Ventricular Dysfunction, Left.
Filter by:The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if heart function remains normal after stopping heart failure medication in patients who have received chemotherapy.
This planned pilot study is a monocentric, prospective, double-blind randomized and placebo controlled clinical study. The SOS-LVAD Trial can be assigned to the clinical Phase III. The aim of the present trial is to provide the scientific rationale for a large multicenter clinical trial, investigating the effects of perioperative high dose selenium supplementation in high-risk cardiac surgical patients undergoing complicated open heart surgery with prolonged time on cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and LVAD Implant. The investigators hypothesize that the therapeutic strategy tested in this randomized trial may contribute to a faster independency from life-sustaining technologies in the ICU and a decrease of postoperative morbidity and mortality. Before proceeding to the large-scale, definitive trial, the investigators propose to conduct a pilot study of the definitive randomized trial, to determine the feasibility of the study protocol.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) and congestive heart failure (CHF) are two epidemics that share several physiopathological links. CHF patients present a significantly increased risk of developing AF and the related detrimental hemodynamic effects are even more relevant than in patients without CHF. Within CHF patients rate control is the most widely used strategy to manage AF, having proved non-inferior to rhythm control strategies. However, by this strategy, the hemodynamic effects of AF persist, not contrasting the natural evolution towards progressive left ventricular (LV) function, cardiac output , and symptoms worsening. Rhythm control strategy, instead, has shown, in the general population, advantages over rate control concerning survival, quality of life and thromboembolic events. The main limitation is that antiarrhythmic therapy used to achieve this goal has several side effects, and that transcatheter AF ablation has been assessed only in modest sample size studies. Available literature focusing on a direct comparison between two specific management strategies in patients with CHF and AF is limited to a small randomized study comparing pulmonary veins isolation to AV node ablation and biventricular PM implantation (PABA-CHF study). Additional indirect evidences may derive from meta-analyses of observational studies. The investigators therefore designed this multicenter, randomized controlled trial aiming to assess if, in recently diagnosed (less than 6 months) and optimally treated CHF patients with impaired LV function, AF catheter ablation is effective in improving LV function and clinical functional class, potentially driving to a reduction of device implantations (ICD/CRTs).
Before initiating the full randomized study, a Pilot Safety Phase will be performed. In this phase the composition of cells administered via the Biosense Webster MyoStar NOGA Injection Catheter System will be tested. The randomized portion of the study will be conducted after a full review of the safety data from the pilot Phase by the Data safety monitoring board. Following the Pilot Phase of five (5) Fifty (50) patients scheduled to undergo cardiac catheterization and meeting all inclusion/exclusion criteria will be evaluated at baseline. Patients will be randomized in a 2:2:1 ratio to one of three Treatment Strategies.
The aim of this investigation was to assess the value of Systolic Time Intervals (STIs) as a method of detecting Left Ventricular Dysfunction (LVD) in patients admitted to the emergency department for cute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) and whether STIs measured under Valsalva manoeuver (VM) could improve the distinction between patients with LVD and those without LVD.
The purpose of the trial is the analysis of safety and tolerability of the chymase inhibitor BAY1142524 in comparison to placebo using a 2 weeks treatment period in clinically stable patients with left-ventricular dysfunction after myocardial infarction. BAY1142524 or placebo will be given on top of evidence-based standard of care for left-ventricular dysfunction after myocardial infarction. Primary objectives are the analysis of safety and tolerability as evidenced by the incidence and severity of adverse events. BAY1142524 will be administered in a parallel group design using four doses (5, 10, 25 mg twice daily, and 50 mg once daily). Each dose group consists of 9 patients treated with verum and 3 patients treated with placebo.
This is the clinical trial designed to assess the cardiac diastolic function of long term treatment with teneligliptin compared to that without teneligliptin in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus by two arms; one includes patients showing E/e' by echocardiography less than 8, the other includes patients showing E/e' by echocardiography more than 8.
The purpose of this study is to characterize changes in the plasma proteome over time following left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation.
The aim of this study is to evaluate, in an intensive care unit, the reproducibility between two non-cardiologists operators and a cardiologist expert in echocardiogram, of the Simpson method and of the calculation of GLS for the evaluation of the systolic function of the left ventricle in critically ill patients intubated and ventilated.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect on distance covered in a 6 minute walking test of Rate Responsive pacing in patients with permanent atrial fibrillation and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction treated with atrioventricular junction ablation and biventricular pacing.