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Filter by:This study is a randomized controlled multicenter clinical trial, in which about 340 patients with newly diagnosed or prior diagnosed chronic heart will be recruited. Patients will be randomly divided into Angiotensin-Neprilysin Inhibition (ARNI) group and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers (ACEI/ARB) group. All-cause death, cardiac death and re-hospitalization due to heart failure will be evaluated in 1, 3, 6, 12 months after recruitment.
The aim of this study is to investigate the possibility of optimizing the performance of CRT-D in non-responding patients through utilization of cardiac strain speckle tracking
Aims: To explore the clinical effect on exercise tolerance and quality of life, safety and tolerability of pacing at higher outputs in patients with chronic heart failure and a pacemaker. Background: Heart failure (HF) is a very common condition of breathlessness or fatigue associated with heart muscle weakness. In around 30% of people with HF, a pacemaker-based treatment known as cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) can improve symptoms and prognosis by retuning the timing of the contraction of the heart. However, the effect of CRT is variable and unpredictable, with around 1 in 3 of people obtaining no obvious symptomatic benefit. One of the reasons for this might be that the pacemaker pulse does not activate all of the heart muscle cells at the same time or at all. In order to provide the longest possible battery life span, the default programming for all pacemakers is to provide a stimulus at an arbitrary level above the capture threshold (at which the spike leads to contraction). Whilst this is reasonable in a normal heart where the aim is to treat a slow heart rate, in heart failure, where the aim is to retune all parts of the heart, it is possible that this is not enough to provide consistent contraction of all heart muscle cells. It is possible that providing a higher output electrical signal from the pacemaker will activate more of the heart muscle cells immediately and thereby improve the contraction of the heart. The investigators think that this might be important at rest, but even more important during activity. This concept has never been tested before in a systematic manner but could have large implications for people with heart failure and existing CRT devices which could simply be reprogrammed to derive greater benefits for patients during everyday activities. Design: The proposed project has two parts: Study 1 - 105 patients with a CRT pacemaker for heart failure but ongoing symptoms will be invited to attend the National Institute of Health Research Clinical Research Facility. Symptoms, medication, hospitalisation information will be collected and a heart ultrasound scan using the pacemaker to increase the heart rate will be done to describe the force frequency relationship. Patients will perform a cardiopulmonary exercise test. Of these patients, 40 will be invited to return for two further visits, to perform an exercise test each time with the pacemaker programmed to its usual output or high output pacing. At each visit, including the heart scans, the order of the programming will be random, and neither the observer nor the patient will know how the device has been programmed. Study 2 - 70 patients will be invited to participate in a longer term study of whether high output pacing is safe, well tolerated and has effects on walk time (on a treadmill) and heart pumping function. Participants will be randomly allocated to one of two groups: high output or standard pacemaker settings. In the high output group, the pacemaker will be programmed to deliver the highest output possible or tolerated. In the standard care group patients will have standard output settings.
Based on the safety evaluation of primates, the best cell transplantation scheme was integrated. One patient with CHF caused by coronary heart disease, one patient with CHF caused by dilatation and one patient with CHF caused by Keshan disease were selected and treated with autologous iPS differentiated cardiomyocyte intravenous transplantation. The safety evaluation of human body was completed and combined with subjective and objective indexes respectively. Structural and functional indicators were used to evaluate the therapeutic effect of cell transplantation. The results of animal experiments confirmed the safety and effectiveness of intravenous myocardial cell transplantation, and clarified its possible mechanism.
The purpose of the study is investigate the effects of NMES in regulation of serum IL-6 and IL-15 in chronic heart failure patients who received standard inpatient cardiac rehabilitation protocol
The study aim is to monitor, during exercise tests carried out in various conditions, the alveolar dead space, by means of continuous transcutaneous measurement of Pt CO2, which would be used as a surrogate for arterial PaCO2. Validity of this measurement needs to be assessed against arterial sampling (either arterial, or arterialized capillary), especially with regards to the lag time required by the CO2 diffusion from the arterial compartment (PaCO2) to the cutaneous one (PtCO2), in particular when rapid changes of CO2 might be induced by exercise. The evaluation will be done in 2 different settings: - intensive care patients, equipped, for their routine clinical care, with an arterial line; this allows for a precise timed comparison between PaCO2 and PtCO2 readouts; - routine exercise test, where blood gas evaluation is done essentially by means of arterialized earlobe capillary sampling. Following assessment of validity of the measurement (and the lag time PaCO2-PtCO2 which might be necessary to introduce as a correction), evolution of dead space during excise test will be tested in different conditions: Healthy subjects, patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), chronic heart failure (CHF), hyperventilation, Pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH), or interstitial lung disease (ILD)
Elevated Heart rate (HR) (≥ 70 bpm) is one of the contributing factors in increasing the burden of hospitalization among Heart Failure patient. Ivabradine is a novel, selective and specific in inhibiting a Funny current in sinoatrial node Node and approved as an alternative therapy for Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) patients. CHF patients when treated with Ivabradine reported 39%, and 30% reduction in mortality and hospitalization rate respectively. Patient were treated with Ivabradine 5mg twice daily to determine its effect in lowering Heart rate and the Quality of Life (QOL) in Chronic Heart Failure patients
Medtronic is sponsoring the Apogee study to further enhance scientific understanding of the implant procedure, optimized blood pressure management, and anticoagulation/ antiplatelet therapy in patients receiving a Medtronic HeartWare™ Ventricular Assist Device (HVAD™) for destination therapy. The Apogee study is conducted within Medtronic's Product Surveillance Platform.
Medtronic is sponsoring the HeartWare™ HVAD™ Destination Therapy (DT) Post Approval Study (PAS) to further confirm safety and effectiveness of the HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device System (HVAD System) when used as intended, in "real-world" clinical practice. The Destination Therapy Post Approval Study (DT PAS) is conducted within Medtronic's Product Surveillance Platform.
Heart failure is a cardiac structural or functional disorder that, despite normal filling pressures, leads to inability to deliver enough oxygen to meet the metabolic needs o tissue. Heart failure is a serious chronic condition that affects a large proportion of the adult population in the world causing high mortality, leading to exercise intolerance and reduced health-related quality of life. Patients included in the cardiac rehabilitation program slow down disease progression, hospitalization decreases, quality of life improves and health expenditures decrease. Despite the frequent use of upper extremities in daily living activities, studies investigating the effect of upper extremity aerobic training on daily living activities, functional exercise capacity and other outcomes are limited. No studies have investigated the effect of upper extremity aerobic exercise training on physical activity level, functional and maximal exercise capacity and other measures in patients with heart failure.