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Filter by:The aim of this prospective trial is the manifestation of guidelines developed for outpatient cardiac rehabilitation in Austria. The evaluation of prospective and retrospective data is supposed to give evidence on morbidity and/or mortality advantages compared to patients not participating in cardiac rehabilitation programs. The database created in this context is supposed to pave the way as instrument to document and comprehend quality and cost effectiveness of outpatient cardiac rehabilitation in Austria as a key for quality management.
Background: - Family-based approaches to reduce disease risk and promote healthy behaviors may be better than targeting individuals. Risk assessments based on family health history may help educate families on disease risks and encourage them to change physical activity and food choices. Specifically, researchers want to better understand the role of mothers in teaching healthy behaviors to their families. Objectives: - To determine mothers influence on diet and health-related behaviors. - To study an intervention tool that connects family health history and disease risk. Eligibility: - 18 years of age who have at least one child living at home. Design: - Participants will complete a survey over the phone. The survey will take 30 to 40 minutes to complete. The survey will collect family health history on heart disease, diabetes, colorectal cancer, and breast cancer. - Researchers will give participants a Family Health Package (FHP). The FHP will provide information on family health history and disease risk. It will also recommend behaviors that can reduce health risks. - Two weeks after sending the FHP, participants will complete a phone survey about the FHP materials and their social networks. - Some participants will be invited to focus groups. The focus groups will explore diet and health behavior. They will look at food purchasing and preparation and meal sharing. The groups will also discuss attitudes toward healthy eating and physical activity. Each focus group will last 1 to 2 hours. - Participants will be asked to complete an electronic survey regarding participants health status, causal health beliefs, risk perceptions, and intentions to communicate health information. - Then, participants will have the opportunity to use the electronic version of the FHP, which will assess family health history. - After using the FHeP, participants will complete a short electronic survey to identify knowledge and understanding gained from the use of the application, changes in communication intentions, and suggestions for improvements to the application. - Upon completion of the electronic portion of the study, a study team member will conduct a semi-structured interview to allow the participants to qualitatively evaluate their user experience, including satisfaction and usefulness. - This study process will take approximately 60-90 minutes.
The aim of the study is to analyze the potential of pressure controlled intermittent coronary sinus occlusion (PICSO) to prevent/reverse the ischemic burden as well as reperfusion injury. To achieve insight into the clinical significance of this local preconditioning effect, global hemodynamics, cardiac performance and clinical outcome in the first 30 days will be related to the ability of this intervention to protect the myocardium in elective surgical procedures, ameliorating cellular decay and preserving the microcirculation therefore improving graft flow, reducing enzyme leakage and finally improving myocardial performance.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the introduction of large-scale personalized and technology supported telemonitoring and health coaching interventions produces benefits in terms of health related quality of life, health status and empowerment of patients with a cardiovascular disease. In addition, the trials evaluate the economical and organizational impact of the new services and examine their acceptability by patients and health professionals.
The Study plan is a post-market prospective, multi-center, open-label registry. The vein graft failure rates for the currently commercialized C-Port devices will be compared to an a priori rate taken from the peer-reviewed literature.
Prospective, randomized, double blind trial. The rationale of the study is the concept that fresh frozen plasma (FFP) is still largely used in cardiac surgery, despite the fact that prothrombin complexes and fibrinogen are available.The experimental hypothesis is that cardiac surgery patients may be operated with no use of FFP and with a coagulation factors replacement based on fibrinogen and prothrombin complexes (when needed). Primary endpoint: Transfusion avoidance Secondary endpoints: Transfusion limitation, massive blood transfusion, bleeding. Study population: high-risk adult cardiac surgery patients Sample size : 2 groups of 60 patients each
Establish the normal distributions of Rb-82, N-13 ammonia, and F-18 FDG (radioactive tracers) in the heart using PET imaging. These tracers would be eventually used in evaluating the hearts of patients with heart disease. Normal healthy volunteers will be carefully screened for this study. Subjects will be given IV administration of Rb-82 and N-13 to acquire rest/stress imaging. Normal subjects not excluded by any unexpected abnormality during the Rb-82 or N-13 rest/stress studies will undergo a glucose loading F-18 FDG imaging protocol, viability protocol using the hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp with simultaneous IV infusions of dextrose and insulin according to standard procedures in our laboratory. These same subjects will have a F-18 FDG protocol after following a high fat, protein permitted, no carbohydrate diet for approximately 30 hours prior to F-18 FDG injection. The F-18 FDG radiotracer will be given through an IV.
Effect of enteral nutrition in the outcome of patients has the objective to determine the effect of implementing a nutritional support protocol on the outcome of cardiovascular surgery patients, the main justification of the study its the prevalence of malnutrition over the hospitalized patients and the way this complication influence the treatment efficacy, the risk of complications over these patients, the costs, the prognosis, mortality and hospital stay. This study will be a control clinical trial, randomized and double blind.
ICY-AVNRT (Intracardiac CrYoablation for AtrioVentricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia) is a prospective multi-center, nonrandomized, single arm, controlled, unblinded, investigational clinical study. The purpose of this clinical study is to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of the Freezor® Xtra Cardiac CryoAblation Catheter for the cryoablation of the conducting tissues of the heart in the treatment of patients with atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) using an endocardial approach.
The goal of the study is to test the efficacy of an EPA-enriched oil made by DuPont versus a DHA-enriched oil, a standard fish oil preparation, and olive oil placebo in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. This study will compare the efficacy of 1800 mg/day of EPA versus 1800 mg/day of DHA versus a fish oil product containing 1800 mg of EPA and 1200 mg of DHA/day as compared to olive oil placebo at 6 grams/day over a 6 week period in a parallel arm design study of 120 healthy adults studied in both the fasting and post-prandial state. Safety will be monitored by assessing for adverse reactions, measuring vital signs and a variety of lab tests including a complete metabolic profile and complete blood count. Efficacy will be assessed by measuring changes in fatty acid profile and or fatty acid ratios,as well as by measuring plasma lipids, lipoproteins, and markers of inflammation.