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Filter by:Our study aims to explore the value of new imaging technique package in predicting early neurological deterioration (END) as well as 90-day unfavorable outcome in patients with acute ischaemic stroke.
The FARGO trial is a prospective, randomized (1:1), multicenter study. The aim of the study is to assess the importance of fractional flow reserve (FFR) assessment prior to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with respect to planning and guiding the revascularization strategy. The study compares an FFR-guided strategy to an angiography-guided strategy in patients planned for surgical revascularization.
The purpose of this study is to conduct a prospective, multi-center, single arm, non-randomized evaluation of acute outcomes in Chinese subjects, including those eligible for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) with a reference vessel diameter of 2.25 mm to 4.0 mm, with the Medtronic Resolute Integrity™ Zotarolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System.
The blood concentration of the protein RANKL could be predictive of the calcification of the leg arteries, which is a major complication occurring during diabetes. The objective of the DIACART study is to show that blood RANKL concentration predict the progression of calcification of the leg arteries in diabetic patients, independently of other cardiovascular risk factors.
To compare the outcome of revascularisation the gastrointestinal arteries using covered stents compared to bare-metal stents in patients with CGI.
Anti-anginal drugs relieve ischemia and symptoms by reducing myocardial oxygen demand by reducing heart rate and or contractility (beta-blockers, phenylalkylamine and benzothiazepineate classes of calcium antagonists) or vasodilatation of the venous system (fall in pre-load) and coronary vessels. Late sodium channels remain open for longer in the presence of myocardial ischaemia. Ranolazine, a novel anti-anginal agent, acts by inhibiting the inward late inward sodium current (INaL), reducing intracellular sodium accumulation and consequently intracellular calcium overload via the sodium/calcium exchanger. It is currently thought that this reduction in intracellular calcium reduces diastolic myocardial stiffness and therefore compression of the small coronary vessels. There is considerable animal data to support this theory. There are good theoretical reasons to postulate that patients with chronically occluded vessels may derive less benefit from conventional anti-anginal agents, particularly vasodilators. The ischemic myocardium, subtended by the occluded vessel, will already be subject to significant concentrations of paracrine vasodilators such as adenosine. Ranolazine, therefore, may on the basis of its mechanism of action, provide greater relief of ischemia in such patients than conventional anti-anginal agents.
This study is designed to validate the hypothesis that the treatment of rosuvastatin could increase the score of Calcification of Coronary artery(CAC) density in coronary artery disease(CAD) patients with diabetes mellitus.CAD patients with diabetes who confirmed CAC will receive rosuvastatin (20mg/d) therapy for 24 months.
The aim of this study is to assess whether high intensive statin therapy could regress carotid atherosclerotic plaques as determined by High-Resolution Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance imaging (CE-MRI). Enrolled patients have a baseline CE-MRI examination for screening carotid atherosclerotic plaques and are randomized to either low dose of Rosuvastatin (5mg) group or high dose of Rosuvastatin (20mg) group. After 26 weeks, all patients received CE-MRI examination again and each pair of baseline and follow-up CE-MRI assessments was analyzed in a blinded fashion. Moreover, lipid level and major adverse cardiovascular events are also evaluated during follow-up.
1. The primary purpose of this study is to determine the diagnostic accuracy of the CADscore System, a new danish technology that records sounds from turbulence of bloodflow in the coronary vessels. And secondary: 1. To determine the accuracy of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), as secondary tests after detection of obstructive anatomic coronary artery stenosis by coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA). 2. To examine the patient population for bio-genetic markers related to development of arteriosclerosis. 3. To evaluate virtual fractional flow reserve (vFFR) computed from coronary angiograms.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the results of drug eluting balloon are non-inferior to the Nitinol stent implantation in the femoropopliteal segment.