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Filter by:The effect of an acute intake of medium-chain fatty acids on heart function measured by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) will be measured in individuals with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and in matched healthy controls with normal heart function. This aim will be investigated in a cross-over study including two visits: acute intake of medium-chain fatty acid or long-chain fatty acid as control. In addition, the effect of acute medium-chain fatty acid compared with long-chain fatty acid intake on whole-body lipid and glucose metabolism will be investigated.. The hypothesis is that acute consumption of medium-chain fatty acid will improve cardiac function in patients with heart failure.
Heart Failure (HF) is a significant health concern, affecting around 1-2% of people in Western countries. The risk of developing HF during a lifetime is about 20%. Despite advancements in HF care, the one-year mortality rate for HF patients remains high. HF patients also experience reduced physical capacity and quality of life. The heart relies heavily on a process called oxidative metabolism for energy, and this process requires a continuous supply of energy sources like fatty acids, glucose, and ketone bodies. In HF, there's a shift in how the heart uses these energy sources, which affects its efficiency. Ketone bodies such as 3-OHB, are molecules that can provide the heart with a more efficient energy source compared to traditional ones like fatty acids or glucose. They are produced in the liver and are important for supplying energy during fasting, exercise, and illness. Recent research suggests that 3-OHB might have benefits for HF patients beyond just providing energy. It seems to reduce inflammation and oxidative stress in the heart. Some studies in healthy individuals have shown that infusing 3-OHB increases blood flow to the heart. In HF patients, the investigators aim to explore the cardiac effects of a two-week supplement of 3-OHB. The aim is to investigate if this supplement can increase the heart's consumption and utilization of 3-OHB. The study involves 12 patients with HF and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). The patients will receive a ketone ester supplement four times a day for two weeks, and then they'll take an isocaloric placebo supplement for another two weeks. The investigators will use positron emission tomography (PET) to study the cardiac oxygen consumption and 3-OHB uptake. This is done by injection of tracers (11-C-3-OHB and 11-C-acetate). The study will also look at myocardial external efficiency (MEE) and myocardial blood flow (MBF). For a subset of participants, the investigators will also take myocardial biopsies and perform more detailed analyses, e.g. respirometry and electron microscopy or single nucleus mRNA sequencing, proteomics and metabolimcs, to understand the impact of the supplement on the heart's cellular structures and functions, transcriptome, proteome and metabolome. Ultimately, this study aims to determine whether supplementing HF patients with 3-OHB can improve the heart's energy usage and potentially provide other beneficial effects. This research might pave the way for new treatments that enhance the heart's function and quality of life for HF patients.
Acorai is developing the Acorai Heart Monitor, a handheld electronic device for monitoring pressures inside the heart in a non-invasive manner, by placing the device on the chest of a patient. Currently these intracardiac pressures are measured in an invasive way, during a right heart catheterisation procedure. This procedure carries risks to the patient. There is a clinical need for a non -invasive, easy to use, tool to monitor patients that suffer from heart failure. The study aim is to use the Acorai device to collect the intracardiac pressure measurements from patients admitted to hospital with heart failure and who are awaiting discharge home. Using the data, we will assess the feasibility of the Acorai derived cardiac output measurements, and assess what data best predicts survival, death, or major adverse cardiac events (MACE)
The importance of assessing venous congestion in heart failure patients is widely acknowledged, but its study is hampered by the lack of a practical evaluation tool. Venous excess ultrasound score (VExUS) is a promising noninvasive ultrasound-guided modality that can detect and objectify clinically significant organ congestion. VExUS congestion grading score was still not formally validated in patients with AHF, as there is limited data on its clinical application in this group of patients.
This is a single-arm cohort study aimed to evaluate change of arteriovenous fistula volume blood flow / cardiac output ratio in patients with chronic heart failure (NYHA I-II classes) and with preserved ejection fraction as a result of a hemodialysis session after a "long" interdialysis interval.
Fluid status and congestion can be determined by the CPM wearable device and correlates with non-invasive measures and biochemical markers of congestion and changes in congestion.
Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a syndrome complicating heart disease, the prevalence of which has reached epidemic levels. According to global statistics the most common causes of CHF are coronary heart disease (CHD): 26.5%, arterial hypertension (AH):26.2% . The category of patients with CHD complicated by CHF prevails in clinical practice, requiring an optimized approach to determining prognosis in order to improve the effectiveness of therapy. In the literature, this issue has been studied with the use of general clinical, biochemical, instrumental criteria. Nevertheless, the problem of optimized prognosis in patients with CHF remains. Its solution may lie in the study of metabolic parameters of biological media - skin, blood serum by Raman spectroscopy. Skin is an accessible tissue for studying the effects of a wide range of age-dependent noncommunicable diseases, including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and chronic kidney disease. We were one of the first to use skin RS as a method of determining renal dysfunction, a necessary component of chronic kidney disease. However, the applicability of RS/SERS in the diagnosis and prognosis of specific diseases, as well as in the collection of statistical data for this analytical approach, remains an open question . Despite the fact that the method is classified as analytical, it can be used to identify not so much specific chemical molecules as their specific loci, which provide vibrations that change the wavelengths of the scattered spectrum. The resulting spectrum can be presented as a metabolic "portrait" of the disease, with the most informative loci, the combination of which is associated with a negative prognosis. The innovative analytical methods of optical spectroscopy proposed in this project provide new level information about hundreds of molecules and their active centers that have prospects as biomarkers. This study aims to determine the clinical relevance of skin and serum RS in patients with CHF, realized on state-of-the-art instrumentation in a comprehensive patient study setting. The research proposed in this project will contribute to the development of high-tech production of new optical devices for rapid diagnosis and prognosis of a wide range of diseases.
This was a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-parallel-controlled Phase II clinical study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of HRS9531 Injection compared to placebo in obese subjects with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. A total of 200 obese subjects with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction would be enrolled. Eligible subjects were randomly assigned to either HRS9531 group or placebo group and were treated with HRS9531 injection or placebo, respectively, for 52 weeks.
Heart failure is a syndrome that progresses with symptoms and signs caused by cardiac dysfunction and results in a shortened life expectancy (1). Acute heart failure resulting in hospitalization is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. With the increase in the severity of the disease and rapid advances in the treatment of heart failure, these patients are frequently hospitalized and monitored in intensive care. (2) Five years after diagnosis, mortality can be up to 67%. Additionally, it is known that patients with heart failure are hospitalized on average once a year after diagnosis. (3) In a multicenter study, it constituted 14% of 3000 cardiac patients admitted to intensive care units. Additionally, due to longer ICU stays, these patients accounted for 33% of total inpatient days. An increasing number of heart failure patients require intensive care due to respiratory failure, regardless of left ventricular ejection fraction. Heart failure accounts for approximately one-third of patient days in intensive care units, and this burden is increasing. This shows that attention should be paid to the quality of care for patients requiring critical care. (2) Multidisciplinary programs have been implemented to deal with the high prevalence. However, the optimal follow-up frequency is unknown. Therefore, some tools are needed to improve patient prognosis (3). Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is a biomarker whose values in both urine and plasma have been associated with acute kidney injury (AKI). Although NGAL is an early specific biomarker for AKI, it has not yet come into routine use, but is frequently used in clinical and experimental studies (4). Venous load ultrasonography score (VExUS) is a new systemic congestion scoring method based on inferior vena cava dilation and pulsed wave Doppler (PW-Doppler) morphology of the hepatic, portal and renal veins. It has been proposed as a score to assess systemic congestion.
The objective of this pilot study is to establish evidence to support the validity of HT in improving skeletal muscle function and physical capacity of patients with HFpEF. Our central hypothesis is that HT treatment will lead to improvements in skeletal muscle and microvascular function compared to a control intervention. As a result, we anticipate that patients treated with HT will demonstrate improved skeletal muscle microvascular blood flow and oxygenation resulting in enhanced exercise tolerance. To explore this hypothesis, we propose the following specific aim: Explore the effects of home-based HT on exercise tolerance in patients with HFpEF.