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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the GENOSS stent in patients with coronary artery disease who underwent treatment using the GENOSS stent manufactured with domestic technology.
The gp-multitool.de study is a cluster-randomized controlled trial that aims to enhance evidence-based and patient-centered care for patients with multimorbidity by assessing and providing information relevant for the primary care of this patient group. This pilot study examines the feasibility of the gp-multitool.de study, i.e., intervention and evaluation in GP practices in urban and rural administrative districts in Germany.
One of the most common medical approaches to the treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD) is the percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) which became frequent due to high efficiency and safety of this procedure. Modern-day advances in pharmacotherapy and the device innovations over the last thirty years enhanced the benign outcomes of patients with unstable or multivessel CAD, and multiple co-morbidities, treated by PCI . In-stent restenosis (ISR) is a recognized complication following percutaneous coronary intervention in which the luminal diameter is narrowed through neointimal hyperplasia and vessel remodeling. Although rates of ISR have decreased in most recent years owing to newer generation drug-eluting stents, thinner struts, and better intravascular imaging modalities, ISR remains a prevalent dilemma that proves to be challenging to manage. Several factors have been proposed to contribute to ISR formation, including mechanical stent characteristics, technical factors during the coronary intervention, and biological aspects of drug-eluting stents .identification of risk factors and mechanisms underlying ISR is necessary for understanding the process, the risk stratification, and optimal treatment development. Restenosis, as a physiological response to mechanical damage, involves two mechanisms which are neointimal hyperplasia and vessel remodeling [3]. Several factors such as age, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, stenting of small coronary arteries, and final total length of stents have been shown to be associated with an elevated risk of restenosis.
The purpose of this study is to assess the engagement and usefulness of Care4Today® Connect CAD-PAD digital platform in participants with coronary artery disease or peripheral artery disease (CAD or PAD).
The percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for chronic total occlusion (CTO) coronary artery disease is difficult, the success rate is low, and the incidence of re-occlusion and restenosis is high. With the wide application of imaging technology represented by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), the success rate of CTO PCI has been significantly improved. Drug-coated balloons (DCB), as a treatment without metal implantation, has lower lumen loss and no significant increase in the rate of revascularization. Through IVUS measurement of vascular lumen after CTO opening, appropriate instruments can be selected for adequate dilation, and appropriate treatment methods can be selected according to different lumen structures. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical effect of IVUS-guided DCB therapy on CTO lesions.
Developed nations worldwide are currently enduring a health crisis, as chronic diseases continue to decrease quality of life and promote additional disease states or even death for much of the population. Rural populations are at a particular disadvantage, as they lack access to health clubs, wellness programs and similar resources that are more available in urban areas. Although pharmaceutical therapies have continued to show therapeutic advancements, the rates of disease onset and death from chronic disease has not seen similar improvements, and in fact continue to worsen. Excitingly, significant evidence has been published demonstrating an affordable, effective treatment to directly treat and prevent these chronic diseases, but few have demonstrated successful implementation of this therapy, which is improved lifestyle. Specifically, physical activity and healthy body composition are powerful therapeutics that have been demonstrated to effectively combat and prevent chronic diseases. Additionally, improving these lifestyle factors are often more effective than pharmaceutical interventions without the wide range of side effects. Unfortunately, barriers exist on multiple tiers in the practice of family medicine that demote the implementation of lifestyle medicine. To better serve patients at risk of, or suffering from chronic disease, the investigators are seeking to establish a lifestyle medicine prescription program for rural West Virginia. This program will provide patient education on the benefits of physical activity, body composition, and help patients identify strategies to implement healthy lifestyle choices that can be sustainable for the long-term. Patients will be advised on local opportunities to increase physical activity (yoga studio, martial arts, fitness facilities, aquatic center, etc.) and provided access to the facilities they are most likely to adhere to regularly. They will also be provided training on exercise techniques, equipment, and facilities to increase familiarity and comfort in these settings.
This study is to explore whether a computed tomography (CT) scan of the heart arteries might improve the care of patients that have presented with a suspected Type 2 myocardial infarction (MI). The Investigators hope to demonstrate that these patients may be the ideal group of patients to benefit from cardiac CT scan imaging by; 1. confirming whether they have any disease in their heart arteries 2. demonstrating the severity of the heart artery disease 3. revealing an alternative cause for their presentation 4. avoiding the need for an invasive heart artery angiogram.
The treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions continue to remain challenges. Due to the special hemodynamics caused by the special anatomical structure of the coronary bifurcation, it is easy to cause vascular crest displacement and plaque formation. The existing single-stent strategy and double-stent strategy are easy to cause vascular crest offset, stent accumulation, in-stent thrombosis, in-stent restenosis and other poor long-term prognosis. Stent-balloon-stent (Stent-balloon-stent, SBS) technique enables the guide wire to enter the side branch from the mesh at the distal end of the main vascular stent, and the drug balloon is used to dilate the opening of the side branch, so that the opening area of the side branch is more than 5mm².The SBS technique reduces the risk of branch vascular dissection, occlusion, snow shoveling phenomenon, maintain the original state of bifurcated blood vessels to the greatest extent, should have a good impact on the long-term prognosis of patients with coronary bifurcation lesions (CBL). The purpose of this study is to explore the feasibility, safety and effectiveness of SBS technique.
This study enrolled patients who used to received PCI therapy with nonintervened coronary lesions. Baseline characteristics and laboratory testing were collected to find out the risk factor difference between ISR and nonintervened coronary lesions.
A total of 9269 adults who received CCTA scans for coronary disease evaluation during a general medical checkup at the Health Screening and Promotion Center in Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea between January 2007 and December 2011 were initially selected. All participants were provided with information about the potential benefits and risks of CCTA and made the decision to undergo the procedure at their own expense. They were also informed that their clinical and radiological data would be used for this study and gave their consent. Of these individuals, 7129 agreed to participate, and 6343 were enrolled in this CCTA registry.