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Filter by:The left ventricular (LV) thrombus is an important complication of myocardial infarction (MI) and vitamin K antagonist (VKA) is the current recommended management therapy for these patients. However, lack of regular international normalized ratio (INR) monitoring, drug, and food interaction may leads to increased risk of over or under anticoagulation consequently compromising the effectiveness of the therapy. Hence, due to benefits like predictable dosing and lack of need for regular monitoring, use of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) for these patients is increasing among cardiologists. However, clinical data for the justified use of NOACs in LV thrombus (LVT) are lacking and remained a point of debate among the cardiologists. A recently published Randomized Control Trial (RCT) by Abdelnabi M et al. namely the No-LVT trial, had established the safety of Rivaroxaban therapy in patient with post myocardial infarction (MI) LV thrombus along with promising efficacy. However, sample size of the study (n=79; 39 in Rivaroxaban and 40 Warfarin) was not sufficiently high enough to conclude efficacy of Rivaroxaban in these patients. Therefore, this open label RCT is designed with the primary objective to evaluate the efficacy of Rivaroxaban in resolution of post MI LV thrombus as compared to standard warfarin therapy at the interval of 1 month and 3 months to test the hypothesis that Rivaroxaban is safe and non-inferior in preventing thromboembolic and major bleeding events in these patients.
The purpose of this research is to find out if doing cardiac rehab at home, or a mix of cardiac rehab at home and in the clinic, is as effective as coming in to the clinic for cardiac rehab.
The MATE study is a randomized, multicenter, open-label, investigator-initiated clinical trial aimed to evaluate efficacy and safety of sequential monotherapy of ticagrelor and clopidogrel in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) after coronary intervention. Standard DAPT of aspirin plus ticagrelor will be given for the first 1 month after PCI. After 1 month, event-free subjects will be randomized at 1:1 ratio into receiving standard DAPT (DAPT) until 12months , or switch to ticagrelor monotherapy for another 5 months , and further de-escalated to monotherapy of clopidogrel for the last 6 months(SAPT).
This study aims to identify a genetic predisposition factor of precocious acute coronary syndrome occurrence (ACS). ACS is a major public health problem and the first cause of mortality in the world. It can be due to several risk factor such as heredity. the investigators make the hypothesis that occurrence of early ACS (defined as <50yo for men and <55yo for women) could be the initiatory event of a mild form of genetic lipodystrophy . Our previous study shown an occurrence risk of ACS about 8.3 in patients carrying a mutation in the PLIN1 gene versus patients without a mutation. The PLIN1 gene encode for perilipin 1 protein localized on the lipid droplet surface. This protein phosphorylation activates the triglycerides lipolysis. Our goals in this study are multiple: to validate the high frequency of mutations in this gene in patients with early ACS, to determine differences in triglycerides metabolism and also relapse rate between carrier and non-carrier patients of mutation in PLIN1. Our first aim will be to carry out the inclusion of 200 patients with precocious ACS. This will allow us to obtain around 15 patients carrying a mutation in the PLIN1 gene based on our previous study. the investigators will reprogramme patients' cells (carrying or not a PLIN1 mutation) in human Induce Pluripotent Stem cells (hIPSc). These hIPSc will be differentiated in cell types of interest as adipocytes or macrophages. the investigators will then study triglycerides metabolism (lipid droplet formation, localization and phosphorylation of perlipin 1) in these cells and atheroma plaque formation. Finally, the investigators will study clinical data such as relapse rate and searching for correlation with PLIN1 mutation.
This is a multicenter, prospective, investigator-initiated, randomized controlled trial aiming to reduce the percentage of non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP) patients admitted to the cardiac emergency department (ED) by performing the modified HEART score by emergency medical transport (EMT) personnel.
STEMI patients with multivessel disease will be randomized to complete PCI versus PCI driven by high risk criteria of plaques evaluated with OCT
Emotional stress is associated with future cardiovascular events. However, the biological interconnection between brain emotional neural activity and acute plaque instability is not fully understood. Optical coherence tomography-Fluorescence Lifetime (OCT-FLIM) dual modal intravascular imaging is a novel technique that enables comprehensive assessment of structural and biochemical characteristics of coronary atheroma and estimates the level of plaque instability. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG-PET/CT) enables simultaneous estimation of multi-system activities including emotional stress, arterial inflammation, and hematopoiesis. The present study aims to prospectively investigate mechanistic linkage between coronary plaque instability, stress-associated neurobiological activity, and macrophage hematopoiesis using OCT-FLIM and 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging assessment.
We will perform a systemic review of previously published data and an updated patient-level meta-analysis of studies, including the most recent publications. PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, the United States National Institutes of Health registry of clinical trials, and relevant websites were searched for pertinent published studies.
The primary aim of this research is to explore the adherence and drop-out from early cardiac rehabilitation (CR), to inform interventions to support patient's adherence to CR and facilitate maintenance. The secondary aim is to understand which aspects of CR are essential for improving health-related quality of life in the short and long-term. This research will comprise four stages adopting a mixed-methods, quasi-experimental, repeated measures design.
Prasugrel has a faster onset of action and greater platelet inhibition with less inter-individual response variability than clopidogrel. Japan and Taiwan are the only two nations where adjusted/Asian dose of prasugrel (loading dose (LD)/maintenance (MD): 20/3.75 mg) was approved for clinical use. However, there is no data regarding the effectiveness of adjusted dose of prasugrel on platelet reactivity in Taiwanese patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). This study aim to evaluate the pharmacodynamic of the Asian dose prasugrel on the platelet reactivity after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for patients with ACS.