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Filter by:Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is the main cause of sudden death in patients with structural heart diseases. The use of ICD (implantable cardio-defibrillator) could prevent sudden death, however, the occurrence of repetitive shock decreases significantly the quality of life and could increase the mortality rate. Chagas disease in our environment is the most common heart disease and often associated with the occurrence appropriate ICD therapies. The chronic treatment of VT aims to prevent recurrences with the use of antiarrhythmic drugs and catheter ablation, but in many cases, these treatments are insufficient to control the VT. Cardiac Sympathetic Denervation by bilateral sympathectomy has been described as an alternative treatment of VT refractory to medical treatment and radiofrequency ablation, especially in patients with channelopathies. This treatment could have a role in patients with structural heart disease. The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of the bilateral sympathectomy in the reduction of ventricular tachycardia in patients with Chagas cardiomyopathy. In this pilot study, the investigators will select 45 patients with Chagas cardiomyopathy with ICD who presented at least four ICD therapies in the prior six months. These patients will be randomly assigned to three groups, 15 patients in medical therapy group, 15 in catheter ablation and 15 in bilateral sympathectomy.
The purpose of this study is to examine the clinical treatment of patients diagnosed with peripartum cardiomyopathy complicated by cardiogenic shock.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inherited heart disease. A relatively common subgroup of HCM patients have apical HCM - a type of heart muscle disease that causes abnormal muscle thickening towards the tip (apex) of the heart. This can impair the heart's own blood flow through the thickened heart muscle. We think this is one of the causes for symptoms such as shortness of breath and chest pain. If medications are ineffective at treating symptoms, there are few further options available, limited to invasive heart surgery. This study aims to determine if it is possible to improve the blood flow within by altering the settings of patients' permanent pacemakers, dynamic microvascular obstruction is an important cause of perfusion abnormalities in HCM and whether introducing localized dyssynchrony with ventricular pacing improves this. This phased study will include patients with apical HCM that already have implanted pacemaker devices to remove risks associated with device implantation. The study may provide insights into novel mechanisms for symptoms in HCM and provide new methods for treating a patient group in whom therapeutic options can be extremely limited.
Patients with HOCM and severe LVOT obstruction can remain asymptomatic while significant cellular and structural changes of the heart (adverse remodeling) may occur preceding heart failure and rhythm disorders. Hence, preventing adverse remodeling through LVOT desobstruction may have significant impact on cardiac function and geometry in this particular population, as it is in symptomatic patients. The investigators will assess functional and structural characteristics of the myocardium in asymptomatic vs. symptomatic patients with severe LVOT obstruction before and after PTSMA, using advanced imaging studies with LGE-CMR and echocardiography.
The aging of the population is a reality in our society, with a strong increase in the number of elderly patients hospitalized for heart failure in our institutions. Heart failure in these patients is more present than to younger patients, with preserved ejection fraction form (HFpEF). Aging is responsible for the onset of senile amyloid cardiomyopathy. This pathology is still imperfectly understood and its link with the increase in the frequency of HFpEF is important. In addition, specific treatments have just shown their effectiveness. It is therefore urgent to better identify the prognostic predictive parameters of this cardiomyopathy. The pathophysiological involvement of the coronary microcirculation responsible for a true microvascular coronary disease (CMVD) has been described as predictive factor in all cardiomyopathies. However the implementation of preventive strategies and / or therapeutic of the coronary microcirculation dysfunction are limited because we lack of diagnostic tests available and applicable to large cohorts of patients. Our team INSERM U1039 Radiopharmaceutiques Biocliniques in collaboration with the laboratory GIPSA-lab (Grenoble Images Speech Signal Automatique), laboratory specialized in the signal analysis, has developed a new method of analysis allowing to measure the coronary microcirculation dysfunction usable in SPECT thanks to the measurement of a myocardial perfusion heterogeneity index (IHPM) (patented technique). The 3C registry (NCT03479580) is a registry studying the prevalence and cardiovascular prognosis of macro and microcirculatory coronary artery disease using the latest coronary evaluation techniques in patient with cardiomyopathy. This registry deployed on interventional cardiology centers on the Alpine Arc is therefore also addressed to patients with senile cardiomyopathy. The data collected will provide a better understanding of the factors influencing the prognosis of senile cardiomyopathy and the prognostic contribution of the measurement of the IHPM will be evaluated.
Previous experience with cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) candidates suggests that selection of these patients can be improved. Current clinical guideline approaches are mainly too unspecific and lead to a high non-responder rate of 30-40%, which causes a burden on health care systems and puts patients at risk of an unnecessary treatment who might benefit more from a conservative approach. Previous work indicated that using the assessment of mechanical dyssynchrony on echocardiography can lower the non-responder rate at least by 50% without compromising sensitivity for detecting amendable patients. The current prospective, randomized, multi-center trial was therefore designed to prove that the characterization of the mechanical properties of the left ventricle can improve patient selection for CRT. Patients will be randomized into one of two study arms: a control study arm with treatment recommendation based on clinical guidelines criteria, or an experimental study arm with treatment recommendation based on the presence of mechanical dyssynchrony. All patients will receive a CRT implantation. In the control study arm, bi-ventricular pacing will be turned on. In the experimental study arm, bi-ventricular pacing will be turned on or off, depending on the presence or absence of mechanical dyssynchrony, respectively. The primary endpoint will be non-inferiority in outcome of a treatment recommendation based on mechanical dyssynchrony, achieved with a lower number of CRT devices implanted, effectively leading to a lower number needed to treat. Outcome measures are the average relative change in continuously measured LVESV per arm and the percentage 'worsened' according to the Packer Clinical Composite Score per arm after 1 year follow-up.
This study will investigate whether there is an association between insulin resistance and cardiac function in children with dilated or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. This study will also investigate whether there is an association between FGF21 and cardiac function in children with dilated or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and whether this is mediated through greater insulin resistance and/or through independent effects.
This study is being performed to understand the effect of different doses of CK-3773274 on patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
This clinical study is designed to show that a multidisciplinary team following a pre-specified standard of care medication decision model based on data from an implanted cardioverter device will increase the rate of change in Guideline Directed Medical Therapy (GDMT) in the intervention group compared to the conventional group in patients with ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathies.
Diabetic cardiomyopathy is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. It is considered as a cardiac muscle disorder secondary to diabetes mellitus (DM). Certain studies show the clinical benefit of SGLT-s inhibitors on reducing cardiovascular outcomes amongst patients with type II DM that go beyond the correction of hyperglycemic perse. Thus an observational imaging study is proposed to identify mechanistic insights of the drug group over cardiovascular events.