View clinical trials related to Aortic Valve Disease.
Filter by:The main objective of this trial is to investigate the effects of starting exercise rehabilitation earlier than current practice after coronary artery bypass graft(CABG) or Aortic/Mitral valve replacement (VR) surgery.
The onset and course of heart failure (HF) is triggered by a complex regulatory network that includes stressors (pressure overload by individual anatomic hemodynamic settings), intrinsic (genes), environmental (regulating epigenetics), and modifying factors (such as hor-mones and the immune system). SMART aims to establish individualized strategies for the prevention and management of HF by early detection of the physiological, genomic, proteo-mic and hemodynamic mechanisms that lead from onecommon cause of ventricular dysfunction (pressure overload) to maladaptive remodelling and irreversible HF. To cope with the complexity of HF, SMART will interrelate models describing the interplay between ge-nome, proteome and cell function, regulating hormones, tissue composition and hemody-namic whole organ function up to a whole body description of a patient and patient cohorts. The ultimate goal is to demonstrate proof-of-concept tools for predicting disease evolution and efficacy of treatment in a given patient. To achieve this task SMART will apply - A modelling framework that couples multi-scale mechanistic models with in-depth genome/proteome, cell physiology and whole organ (biomechanical and fluid dynamic) models - Subsequently, investigate methods validity and relevance for "quantitative prediction" of treatment outcome in a clinical proof-of-concept trial (demonstrator) of patients with aortic valve desieases.
Previous trials have shown that TAVR was a noninferior alternative to surgery in patients with severe aortic stenosis at intermediate surgical risk. However, patients with congenital bicuspid valve have been excluded in those trials. The purpose of this trial is to determine the safety and effectiveness of TAVR in intermediate-risk patients with bicuspid aortic valve stenosis.
Patients with aortic stenosis present many risk factors for endothelial dysfunction (arterial hypertension, arteriosclerosis, dyslipidemia, chronic renal insufficiency, etc.). It is likely that a significant number of patients suffer from pre-existing endothelial dysfunction that can be evaluated by a molecular approach. To date, the replacement of the aortic valve can be performed by surgery with extracorporeal circulation (CEC) or percutaneous (Transcatheter Aortic Valve ImplantationTAVI) without CEC. Two recent studies have demonstrated a sustained improvement in endothelial function with TAVI. On the contrary, studies have demonstrated that post-operative complications (coagulopathy, capillary leak syndrome, acute vasoplastic disorder and acute renal failure) after surgery with extracorporeal circulation (CEC) could be the result of the interaction between pre-existing endothelial dysfunction And the "operative" aggression associated with the CEC. Thus, patients with preexisting involvement of endothelial function would develop vascular dysfunction after valvular replacement due to "endothelial activation" related to CEC. This phenomenon would not exist in TAVI, and would explain the absence of so-called vascular dysfunction complications (Systemic inflammatory response syndrome, vasoplastic syndrome, disseminated intravascular coagulation).
The primary objective is to evaluate the performance and the treatment effect of the use of the Emblok embolic protection system use during transcatheter aortic valve replacement with respect to procedure-related cerebral embolic burden as determined by DW-MRI.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and (subsequent) acute kidney injury are frequent in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Moreover, these patients are easily hypervolemic and susceptible for cardiac decompensation. Prevention of contrast induced nephropathy (CIN) has not yet been studied in these patients, and evidence on different strategies is urgently needed. The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of 250ml 1.4% sodium bicarbonate versus hypotone saline (0.65% sodiumchloride) hydration prior to TAVI in patients with CKD to prevent CIN.
Background: Stress echocardiography (SE) has an established role in evidence-based guidelines, but recently the breadth and variety of applications has extended well beyond coronary artery disease (CAD). Purpose: To establish a prospective research study of SE applications, in and beyond CAD, also considering a variety of signs in addition to regional wall motion abnormalities. Methods: In a prospective, multicenter, international, observational study design, > 100 certified high-volume SE labs will be networked with an organized system of clinical, laboratory and imaging data collection at the time of physical or pharmacological SE, with structured follow-up information. The study is endorsed by the Italian Society of Echocardiography and organized in 10 subprojects focusing on: contractile reserve for prediction of cardiac resynchronization or medical therapy response; stress B-lines in heart failure; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; mitral regurgitation after either transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement; outdoor SE in extreme physiology; right ventricular contractile reserve in repaired tetralogy of Fallot; suspected or initial pulmonary arterial hypertension; coronary flow velocity, left ventricular elastance reserve and B-lines in known or suspected CAD; identification of subclinical familial disease in phenotype-negative healthy relatives of inherited disease (such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy). Expected Results:To collect about 10,000 patients over a 5-year period (2016-2020), with sample sizes ranging from 5,000 for known or suspected CAD to around 250 for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or repaired Fallot. This data base will allow to investigate technical questions such as feasibility and reproducibility of various SE parameters and to assess their prognostic value in different clinical scenarios. Conclusions: The study will create the cultural, informatic and scientific infrastructure connecting high-volume, accredited SE labs, to obtain original safety, feasibility, and outcome data in evidence-poor diagnostic fields, also outside the established core application of SE in CAD based on regional wall motion abnormalities. The study will standardize procedures, validate emerging signs, and integrate the new information with established knowledge, helping to build a next-generation SE lab without inner walls.
A prospective, multicenter, nonrandomized, single-arm, clinical study.
The objective of this study is to evaluate the safety and performance of the Trifecta™ GT (Glide Technology) valve through 5 year follow-up in a prospective, multi-center, real-world setting. This study is intended to satisfy post-market clinical follow-up requirements of CE Mark in Europe.
The Prosthesis-to-Annulus Relation I (PAR I) trial is a German multicenter study assessing the relation between the prosthetic GOA and the area of LVOT as potentially new parameter for the prediction of hemodynamic outcome. The results may possibly guide future valve size selection an may allow prediction of functionally relevant PPM (Patient-Prosthesis-Mismatch)