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Filter by:Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is the most common presentation of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). It causes significant morbidity and mortality. The Gulf Registry of Acute Coronary Events (Gulf RACE) was conducted in 2007 and filled a wide gap in our understanding of ACS and its management in Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf region. However, the management of ACS has undergone tremendous advances over the last two decades involving pharmacotherapy and device therapy. Practice guidelines have also changed over the last decade. For example, in 2007, there was no catheterization laboratory in any of the general hospitals in Kuwait, primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was not being practiced, and the rate of in-hospital cardiac catheterization for all ACS patients was very low at around 10%. Currently, of the eight general hospitals in Kuwait, six have catheterization laboratories and five of the six serve as primary PCI centers. There is no contemporary ACS registry in Kuwait, studying its incidence, management, and influence of current changes in clinical practice on patients' outcomes. This multicentre disease-based, country-wide registry is guided by the American Heart Association policy statement for expanding the applications of existing and future clinical registries and the User's Guide published by the Agency for Health care Research and Quality guidance.
With the Emergency Medical Services (EMS), no prehospital risk stratification and triage is performed for patients suspected of having an Non-ST-segment elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome (NSTE-ACS). While the latest ESC Guidelines recommend an early invasive strategy within 24 hours for all high risk NSTE-ACS patients and same-day transfer to a PCI (Percutaneous Coronary Intervention) center. With the potential emerging logistical problem surrounding this, prehospital risk stratification and triage can have great benefits in this population as well, especially in patients with a high risk of having an NSTE-ACS. The recently validated PreHEART score makes it possible to stratify patients in a low-risk and high-risk group for having a NSTE-ACS and gives the EMS the opportunity to make triage decisions in the prehospital setting. Patients with a high risk for having an NSTE-ACS are transferred directly to an PCI-center for further diagnostic work-up. Patients with a low risk for having NSTE-ACS and transferred to the ED of the nearest hospital without PCI facilities (non-PCI center) for further diagnostic work-up, resulting in an optimization of the regional care utilization. This is the first study to focus on patients who are at a high risk of having an NSTE-ACS and to assess if whether prehospital triage using the PreHEART score is able to significantly reduce time to final invasive diagnostics and revascularization in patients in need of coronary revascularization.
In order to identify the association between clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) and cardiovascular risks after smoking cessation, this study intends to recruit ACS patients undergoing complete revascularization and perform whole-exome sequencing for enrolled patients to identify the prevalence of CHIP mutations. After 1-year follow-up, the relationship of presence of CHIP mutations and the occurrence of MACCEs will be explored, irrespective of smoking cessation or not. CHIP may be a potential risk factor of poor prognosis of ACS.
The DCB-ACS trial is a prospective, multi-center, non-inferiority, randomized controlled trail. The purpose of this trial is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of drug-coated balloon(DCB) in de novo lesions for acute coronary syndromes (ACS) .
This is a prospective observational clinical trail which will recruit 1000-1500 participants over 65 years with frailty and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in Beijing Friendship hospital. The investigators will conduct frailty assessment (FRAIL scale, CFS, SPPB), comorbidities, functional status (Barthel index, ADL, IADL), nutritional risk (MNA-SF), and then observe the clinical outcomes of elderly ACS participants with frailty. Then, the investigators will follow-up these participants separately in 1,3,6 and 12months, the anticipate follow-up time is 1 year. According to the follow-up results, investigators will evaluate the impact of frailty and other senile syndromes on the short-term and long-term prognosis of ACS, and develop a scoring system for the prognosis evaluation of elderly ACS participants.
The aim of this international study is to describe the short- and long-term (i.e. up to 2 years following the index event) antithrombotic management patterns (AMPs) in patients hospitalized for acute coronary syndromes (ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), Non-ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome (NSTE-ACS)), and to document the impact of AMPs in clinical outcomes, economic variables and quality of life in a 'real-life' setting and to compare these between sites, countries and regions.