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Filter by:Direct-acting oral anticoagulants (DOACs) have provided benefits to patients requiring anticoagulation for certain diseases by decreasing the burden of subcutaneous injections and the requirement for frequent monitoring through regular blood tests. DOACs do not require monitoring, have a more predictable pharmacokinetic (dosing) profile and have fewer interactions with other drugs. Various studies have reported the efficacy and safety of different dual-acting anticoagulants around the globe. However, there is little data available from Pakistan. Therefore, investigators propose this study to assess the efficiency and safety of rivaroxaban and clopidogrel along with aspirin in patients suffering from acute coronary syndrome. The objective of this study is to investigate the efficacy of dual anticoagulants i.e. aspirin plus rivaroxaban versus aspirin plus clopidogrel in patients suffering from acute coronary syndrome in terms of secondary prophylaxis. All the patient records will be documented in Case Report Form (CRF) at each visit. All data will be recorded in individual source documents. All CRF information is to be filled in by site staff. If an item is not available or is not applicable, this fact should be indicated. Blank spaces should not be present unless otherwise directed. The study monitor will perform source data verification of data entered into the CRF. The data entered into the CRF will be subject to data validation checks for consistency and completeness by the data management group. All CRFs should be maintained on the system with details of any changes logged accordingly.
The objective of this study is to assess the safety and efficacy of the DREAMS 3G in the treatment of subjects with up to two de novo lesions in native coronary arteries compared to a contemporary drug eluting stent (DES).
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of mortality worldwide. Every year, millions of people suffer its most adverse manifestation, an acute myocardial infraction (AMI). The majority of these patients present at least one of the standard modifiable risk factors (SMuRFs). These include smoking, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and diabetes mellitus (DM). However, emerging scientific evidence recognizes a clinically significant proportion of patients presenting with life-threatening AMI without any SMuRF (SMuRF-less patients). This proportion of patients with ACS without SMuRF appears to be increasing during the last two decades and has recently been reported as high as 20% (of total AMIs). To date, there are no scientific data capable of highlighting specific risk factors-biomarkers responsible for the development of AMIs SMuRF-less patients. Concurrently, metabolomics is rapidly evolving as a novel technique of studying small molecule substrates, intermediates and products of cell metabolism. This technique could be utilized to flag patients with higher risk for increased atherosclerotic burden, and subsequent future adverse clinical events. Besides the already established biomarkers, several metabolomic indicators, such as ceramides (C16, C18 και C24), acylcarnitines, apolipoproteins (ApoΒ and ApoA1) and adiponectin, have been separately shown to increase the risk for coronary artery disease development and progression. Therefore, the two groups of patients (with SMuRFs vs SMuRF-less) will be compared regarding their metabolic fingerprints -specifically the aforementioned novel metabolomic biomarkers- and possible predictive factors leading to SMuRF-less AMI will be evaluated. On the basis of the above, the aim is to prospectively analyze a cohort of well-characterized patients with AMI. The rationale of the study is to investigate potential correlations between metabolic profile of patients and SMuRF-less AMI. This could lead to the development of predictive risk stratification algorithms for patients without SMuRFs and coronary artery disease.
Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation is a class I recommendation for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients. However, participate rate of outpatient rehabilitation is quite low and remains a global issue. The study is to propose a strategy in order to encourage post-ACS patients to participate in the outpatient cardiac rehabilitation.
The aim of this study is to use real-time continuous glucose monitoring (real-time CGM) system to get a 14-days blood glucose profile of the hospitalized type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), and to understand whether time in range (TIR) is associated with in-hospital outcomes of these patients. This study plans to recruit 100 patients. They will be randomly divided into 2 groups: real-time CGM group and capillary blood glucose monitoring group. All enrolled participants will receive standardized blood glucose management according to the "Expert consensus on blood glucose management of inpatients in China". The duration of the study will be 3 months. The primary endpoint is the average hospital stay and cardiac care unit (CCU) occupancy rate in T2DM patients with ACS. The secondary endpoint is a composite endpoint of nonfatal myocardial infarction, acute heart failure, heart failure rehospitalization, coronary revascularization, cardiovascular death, all-cause death.
The aim of the study is to find out the benefit of echocardiography, which is performed by a physican without a cardiological or radiological specialty. In this case the echocardiography is used in the first contact with a patient with chest pain of unclear etiology. Possible benefit is rapid risk stratification of acute non-stemi coronary syndromes and differentiation from other serious conditions, such as pulmonary embolism or aortic dissection.
A total of 100 patients aged 18-85 years old with a definite diagnosis of ACS were admitted to the Department of Cardiovascular, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University. These patients had fasting serum low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C) >1.8mmol/L (70mg/dL) and were divided into three groups according to the lipid-lowering regimen used: a total of 50 people in the statin-only group received a daily oral medium-dose statin (atorvastatin 20mg qn or rosuvastatin 10mg qn); a total of 30 people in the statin + one injection group per month received oral atorvastatin 20mg qn or rosuvastatin 10mg qn + once a month, subcutaneous injection of 1 injection of PCSK9 inhibitor each time; the remaining 20 people were divided into statin + two injections per month group, oral atorvastatin 20mg qn or rosuvastatin 10mg qn + twice a month, subcutaneous injection of 1 injection of PCSK9 inhibitor each time. We followed up the blood lipid levels of these patients at different time points (one month,three month, six month), including TC, TG, HDL-C, LDL-C,taking the LDL-C reduction ≥50% from the baseline, LDL-C<1.8mmol/L (70mg/dL), and LDL-C<1.4mmol/L (55mg/dL) as the the compliance standard, the blood lipid compliance rates of the three groups at the 6th month of treatment were calculated respectively. The adverse drug reactions of the patients during follow-up were recorded.
The overall objective of the Cholesterol Lowering via Bempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe, an ACL-Inhibiting Regimen in Acute Coronary Syndrome ACS (CLEAR ACS) study is to determine the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of bempedoic acid/ezetimibe (BA/E) in a contemporary and real-world population, enriched for older adults, women, and underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, of adults with a recent acute coronary syndrome (ACS) event independent of use of statin therapy before the ACS event.
The site of arterial access for coronary angiography and intervention has been the focus of research for decades as it is the source of major complications. Transradial access (TRA) reduces complications among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary procedures but is reported with the complication of radial artery occlusion (RAO) that limits the radial artery for future needs. Distal radial access (dTRA) has recently gained global popularity as an alternative access route for vascular procedures. Among the benefits of dTRA are the low risk of entry site bleeding complications, the low rate of radial artery occlusion, and improved patient and operator comfort. This study aims to reveal the feasibility and safety of dTRA and routine TRA procedures in acute coronary syndrome patients. The primary endpoints are forearm radical occlusion rate and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) in the two groups, respectively. Investigators will also focus on puncture success in diagnostic and interventional cases, rate of One attempt success, access time, procedure time, crossover rate, contrast dose of patients, fluoroscopy time and dose, and healthcare cost of each group.
All calls that end up on the out-of-hours general practitioners' service (OHGPS), which contain a demand for an urgent home visit, are passed on to the on-call general practitioner (GP). These calls are randomized into two arms: after the patient's informed consent, they are assigned either to one arm where the monitoring device, PICO, is applied together with the GP's general care or to the other arm where only the usual care is provided. All data such as suspected diagnosis, treatment or referral, influence of the parameters, ECG and/or alarms on the management and the user-friendliness are recorded. After 30 days, the diagnosis and evolution is requested from the patient's own GP or, if referred to a hospital, in the hospital in order to be able to compare the effect of the approach by the GP between both arms. The aim is to investigate if 1/ the use of the PICO monitoring device could improve GPs' decisions to refer to hospital or not in urgent cases; 2/ there is a difference between the diagnosis with and without the use of the monitoring device using the final diagnosis by the electronic health record of the own GP of the patient; 3/ the call to send a GP for an emergency contained sufficient information for the OHGPS phone operator to take an appropriate decision; 4/ the build-in alarms help the GP during his intervention; 5/ the PICO is easy to use during an emergency; 6/ the use of the device makes them feel more confident in transmitting the information to the Medical Emergency Team.