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Filter by:The objective of the study was to compare treatment with two different oral formulations of metoprolol, metoprolol immediate release (IR) and metoprolol extended release (CR/XL) in patients with acute myocardial infarction regarding the following: Pharmacokinetics, peak and trough plasma concentrations and area under the plasma concentration curve. Pharmacodynamics, hourly means of Holter recorded heart rate. Tolerability. An open, randomised design with two parallel groups was employed.
The propose of this study is to determine whether N-acetylcysteine is effective in reversing the changes in thyroid hormones seen in critical illness, known as the low T3 syndrome.
Acute chest pain is commonly known to be the classic symptom of acute myocardial infarction. Of the many patients which visit the Emergency Department because of chest pain, less than half do actually suffer from an acute myocardial infarction or acute myocardial ischemia. In some patients the acute myocardial infarction can be diagnosed at admission, either because of typical changes in their ECG (STEMI, ST-elevation myocardial infarction)or because of increased levels of the laboratory value Troponin in their blood (NSTEMI, Non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction). Troponin is currently the most important marker to diagnose acute myocardial infarction. Unfortunately a lot of patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome do not show any ECG or Troponin changes. These patients pose a major problem in emergency medicine as they need to precautionally be admitted to a chest pain unit and to be started on medical treatment until a second Troponin test after 6-9 hours is available. In this study, we investigate the biomarker Copeptin. Copeptin has shown excellent results in diagnostic clinical trials assessing its use in various acute diseases. There are three important trials showing an excellent negative predictive value of Copeptin in combination with Troponin in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (Reichlin et al., JACC, 2009; Keller et al. JACC, 2010, Giannitsis et al. Clin Chem 2011). This trial compares two processes of managing patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS), the standard process according to current guidelines and the experimental process integrating copeptin as a rule-out marker for acute myocardial infarction into management decisions. Main Hypothesis: Patients with suspected ACS who test negative for Troponin and negative for Copeptin at their initial presentation to the ED can safely be discharged (interventional process). They will not experience more major cardiac adverse events than patients who were managed by standard practise (control process)within 30 days after admission. The Investigators want to test Copeptin in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome in whom the ECG is unspecific and the initial Troponin test is negative. Further patient care will be based on the Copeptin result. Patients with a negative Copeptin will be discharged into the ambulant care of resident cardiologists.Copeptin positive patients will be managed according to standard guidelines for the management of patients with ACS.
Cardiovascular diseases, especially acute myocardial infarction (AMI), represent the major cause of mortality and morbidity in the world. The myocardial ischemia is often the precipitating cause of pulmonary edema and noninvasive ventilation (NIV) with positive pressure has been used as a therapeutic modality. Objective: to evaluate the effects of NIV on heart rate variability (HRV) and on ventilatory and hemodynamic variables in patients with myocardial infarction. Materials and methods: ten patients with acute myocardial infarction, with Killip I classification, will use continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and Bilevel ventilation during 30 minutes, according randomization. Then ventilatory and hemodynamic variables will be registered and electrocardiogram signals will be recorded for posterior analyses of HRV. Data will be collected before, during and after positive pressure ventilation. Statistical Analysis: Data will be compared using One Way Anova Repeated Measures, followed by Tukey test.
Beta-blockers should be administered to all patients with heart failure stages II to IV NYHA. It should also be administered to patients with stage I after myocardial infarction. The low ejection fraction, especially after myocardial infarction is a strong indication for beta-blockers, as many studies indicate that administration of these drugs substantially reduces cardiovascular mortality. Beta-blockers reduce mortality and hospitalizations and improve the operational phase for all categories of patients with heart failure. Since beta-blockers, only carvedilol, metoprolol, and recently visoprololi nevimpololi have shown these benefits and thus, only those have to be administered. The clinical study Carvedia aims to observe and record the action of beta-blocker carvedilol on cardiac function in patients with heart failure or reduced left ventricular ejection fraction after acute myocardial infarction.
The main purposes of this study are: - to describe the prevalence of peripheral artery disease (including lower extremity artery disease, carotid artery disease, renal artery disease, and abdominal aortic disease) in patients with acute myocardial infarction in comparison to control subject from the general population, - to evaluate the association of peripheral artery disease with glucometabolic status in patients with acute myocardial infarction, - to assess the prevalence of type D personality in patients with acute myocardial infarction com pared to control subjects from the general population, - to examine the prognostic value of peripheral artery disease in patients with acute myocardial infartion, and - to evaluate the prognostic value of type D personality in patients with acute myocardial infarction.
The primary aim of this study is to increase our understanding of care-seeking behavior surrounding heart attacks or acute coronary syndromes [ACS]. This study uses an internet based survey to ask individuals how they obtained medical care in the midst of a heart attack. At present, care-seeking delay among individuals stricken with a heart attack prevents them from obtaining the full therapeutic benefit of hospital based medical care in a timely manner to reduce the long term health consequences of a heart attack. By using a self-tailoring survey instrument the study attempts to take into consideration the complex social processes by which the individual and their family make decisions to seek medical care for symptoms of a heart attack. The study is designed to obtain a national sample of ACS care-seeking behavior in the United States.
The routine use of glycoprotein (Gp) IIb-IIIa inhibitor such as abciximab is not recommended by current ACC/AHA guideline (Class IIb, level of evidence of A). This may be partly due to potential increase of bleeding. Compared bolus injection followed by continuous infusion of Gp IIb-IIIa inhibitor, single bolus administration was proposed to decrease bleeding complication while maintaining decrease ischemic events. It was also reported that direct intracoronary injection of abciximab might be superior to intravenous injection regarding myocardial perfusion. Aspiration thrombectomy is regarded as important adjunctive therapy in the treatment of acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (IIa, level of evidence of B). We hypothesized that combination of intracoronary abciximab bolus injection and aspiration thrombectomy might enhance adequate myocardial perfusion in patient with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction. We will determine whether combination of intracoronary abciximab injection and aspiration thrombectomy is superior to each treatment only in terms of myocardial perfusion through index of microcirculatory resistance and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.
This study will assess relationship between ischemic time and the extent of myocardial infarction with cardiac magnetic resonance image in patients with STEMI (ST elevation myocardial infarction) and primary percutaneous coronary intervention.
Drug-eluting stents reduce rates of restenosis and reintervention, as compared with uncoated stents. Data are limited regarding the safety and efficacy of Nobori (Biolimus A9 Eluting Stent) in primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Accordingly, the investigators will compare the outcomes of primary PCI for AMI between patients receiving Nobori versus uncoated stents.