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Filter by:The purpose of the study is to evaluate the safety and feasibility of drug coated balloon in treatment of intracranial in-stent restenosis.
Although the clinical efficacy of LDL-cholesterol lowering therapy has been proven with strong evidences and emphasized, there are also growing concerns that intensive lipid-lowering therapy would be related to increased risk of adverse effects. In addition, statin potency from recent guidelines was set from the studies composed of mainly Caucasian population, although there is an inconsistency of statin effect according to ethnicity. Asian population showed more profound LDL reduction not only from high potent statin but also from moderate to low potent statin. Conventional strategies for lowering LDL-cholesterol focused on statins, therefore doubling of previously described dose of statin would be common way in patients with inadequate LDL-cholesterol levels. Adding ezetimibe will be an alternative strategy not only to lower LDL-cholesterol level and also to reduce the need of dosage of high-intensity statin to achieve sufficient LDL-cholesterol lowering effect. However, studies regarding the effect of intensive-targeting of lipid-lowering therapy and therapy regimens are lacking. Thus, on these basis, we sought to evaluate whether intensive-targeting of lipid-lowering therapy will have more prominent beneficial effect compared to conventional-targeting in patients with documented ASCVD with either an ezetimibe/statin combination therapy or a statin monotherapy.
The investigators propose a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of an anti-inflammatory agent methotrexate in a cholesterol-rich non-protein nanoparticle (MTX-LDE) in patients with stable coronary disease. Patients with multi-vessels stable coronary disease will be randomized to receive MTX-LDE IV or placebo-LDE IV each 7 days for 12 weeks. The primary and main secondary endpoints will be analyzed by coronary and aortic CT angiography, that will be performed before the first treatment cycle, four weeks after the last drug infusion and 12 months after randomization. Patients will undergo clinical and laboratory safety evaluations before each treatment cycle, four weeks after the last cycle and 12 months after randomization. An algorithm for drug suspension based on clinical and laboratory finding will be followed.
This study is aimed to depict the epidemiological trend, aetiologies, clinical characteristics, treatment options of IS-NOAC in face of the rapidly increasing NOAC usage. Knowledge on this ischaemic stroke entity will define clinical characteristics, identify preventable causes and inform resource allocation on the evaluation modalities, reperfusion strategies and forecast future burden of IS-NOAC.
This is a single-center observational study on adolescents to determine predictors of the early steps of the formation of atherosclerosis and to quantify their influence on Intima-Media-Thickness of the carotid artery and the aorta and on the Pulse-Wave Velocity. A long-term follow-up by means of record linkage is furthermore planned to evaluate the effect of early atherosclerosis and the cardiovascular risk profile on future morbidity with a special focus cardio- and cerebrovascular events.
To prospectively collect and assess the perception of health-related Quality of Life, Pain and Walking Ability.
A recent study, where the authors studied the effectiveness of stenting of prolonged lesions (>200 mm) of the femoral-popliteal segment with nitinol stents (TASC II, D), showed unsatisfactory primary patency rates (45%) within 2 years follow up (Lin et al, 2015). One of the possible solutions to the problem of breakage of stents in the femoral-popliteal position is a modified method of their manufacture by braiding from nitinol wire. Another possible solution to the problem of stent breakage in the femoral-popliteal position is fasciotomy in Gunter's canal with dissection of the lamina vasto-adductoria. According to a pilot randomized study (Karpenko et al, 2019), the primary patency at 24 months was 60% in the stenting group supplemented with fasciotomy in Gunter's canal, and 28.5% in the stenting group without fasciotomy. These facts prove the need for a comparative study on a cohort of patients using a biomimetic interwoven nitinol stent. This is a pilot prospective, randomized, open-label study. The main objective of the study is to compare the clinical efficacy and safety of two methods of treating prolonged atherosclerotic lesions (TASC II, type D) of the arteries of the femoropopliteal segment above the knee.
Endovascular revascularization and open bypass grafting above the knee show comparable results in primary 2-year patency (about 65%) in medium-length lesions - TASC II, C (Pereira et al, 2006). At the same time, a recent study, where the authors studied the effectiveness of stenting of long lesions (200 mm or more) of the chronic occlusions of the femoropopliteal segments (TASC II, D), showed unsatisfactory results (primary patency 45%) of the stented segment within 2 years (Lin et al, 2015). One of the possible solutions to the problem of breakage of stents in the femoral-popliteal position is a modified method of their manufacture by braiding from nitinol wire. Some studies with intervowen nitinol stents did show their resistance to breakage in this position. Moreover, the primary patency was > 70%. (Werner et al, 2014). These data suggest a better primary patency rate within 2 years with a longer lesion length (>200 mm). This is a prospective, randomized, open-label study. The main objective of the study is to compare the clinical efficacy and safety of two therapies for the treatment of prolonged atherosclerotic lesions of the arteries of the femoropopliteal segment above the knee, TASC II type D - femoropopliteal proximal shunting and recanalization with angioplasty and stenting using biomimetic interwoven nitinol stent in patients with symptomatic peripheral arterial disease at 24 months. Secondary objectives are to identify predictors of restenosis and occlusions of the operating segment and compare the quality of life of patients after the procedure. It is planned to recruit 110 patients (55 patients in each group). Observation period 2 years. Primary endpoint: -The effectiveness of the method of surgical treatment after 24 months (primary patency, primary-assisted patency, secondary patency). Secondary endpoints: - Clinical efficacy of the method of surgical treatment after 24 months (MALE); - Safety of the method of surgical treatment in the early postoperative period (hematoma of the surgical access area, peripheral neuropathy, purulent-infectious complications of the surgical access area) and after 24 months (MACE); - Assessment of the quality of life in patients after surgical treatment at 6, 12, and 24 months (SF-36 questionnaire); - Evaluation of prognostic factors for adverse outcomes after surgical treatment.
This study aims at evaluating the prevalence of Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential (CHIP) in patients over 75 presenting with a first cardio-vascular event (CVE). The investigators will also determine if CHIPs are more frequent in this population compared to a control cohort without CVE. An association between CHIP, a systemic inflammation and increased atherosclerosis will also be assessed.
The purpose of this study will be to understand the underlying mechanism by which PCSK9 inhibition reduces the rate of ischemic stroke seen in the pivotal studies that led to its FDA approval for ASCVD such as ischemic stroke. Those trials (FOURIER and ODYSSEY) enrolled almost 50,000 patients and showed that PCSK9 inhibition therapy is safe and effective. The investigators hypothesize that PCSK9 inhibition lowers the rate of stroke by reducing atherosclerotic plaque, which would be particularly beneficial for patients with intracranial atherosclerosis, who have the highest rate of recurrent stroke of any stroke mechanism.