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Filter by:The purpose of this trial is to assess the safety of AMI-DC treatment. The participants who voluntarily sign the consent form will be screened according to the inclusion/exclusion criteria then allocated either to the experimental group (drug therapy and AMI-DC therapy) or to the control group (drug therapy only). Both the experimental group and the control group are treated with standard medical therapy after PCI. The experimental group will be hospitalized for 4-5 days after 1st injection, and 1 day after 2nd injection. Vital signs are collected after 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours and 4 hours after the 1st and 2nd injections and the subjects will be monitored 24 hours for safety assessment. The identical examination will also be performed in the control group and the results will be collected.
This is a prospective observational study of consecutive patients presenting with STEMI to the Prince of Wales Hospital over a 12-month period. All patients will receive standard of care including reperfusion and GDMT irrespective of study enrolment. Patient will be followed for 9 months after enrolled in this study. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) using a hand-held ultrasound (Vscan, GE Healthcare) will be performed to assess baseline LVEF within 48 hours of admission. Patients with baseline moderate-to-severe LV dysfunction by visual POCUS assessment (i.e. LVEF <40%) will be recruited for follow-up LVEF assessment at 3 months. Patients with persistent LVEF <40% by POCUS will undergo formal echocardiography to confirm LVEF by either 2D area (Simpson's rule) and 3D volumetric measurements. In 9 month visit, patient's clinical data will be collected and no echo is needed during this visit.
To assess whether vulnerable coronary plaques have more uptake of 68Ga-Dotatate than non-vulnerable plaques.
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of mortality worldwide. Every year, millions of people suffer its most adverse manifestation, an acute myocardial infraction (AMI). The majority of these patients present at least one of the standard modifiable risk factors (SMuRFs). These include smoking, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and diabetes mellitus (DM). However, emerging scientific evidence recognizes a clinically significant proportion of patients presenting with life-threatening AMI without any SMuRF (SMuRF-less patients). This proportion of patients with ACS without SMuRF appears to be increasing during the last two decades and has recently been reported as high as 20% (of total AMIs). To date, there are no scientific data capable of highlighting specific risk factors-biomarkers responsible for the development of AMIs SMuRF-less patients. Therefore, two groups of patients with AMI (with SMuRFs vs SMuRF-less) will be compared regarding their clinical, laboratory and imaging (echocardiographic and angiographic) profile, and possible predictive factors leading to SMuRF-less AMI will be evaluated. On the basis of the above, the aim is to prospectively analyze a cohort of well-characterized patients with AMI. The rationale of the study is to investigate potential correlations between metabolic profile of patients and SMuRF-less AMI. This could lead to the development of predictive risk stratification algorithms for patients without SMuRFs and coronary artery disease.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation applied with an electromagnetic therapy stimulator 'ALTMS-A' for upper-limb motor function recovery with the sham control group for those who need upper-limb rehabilitation treatment for subcortical and brainstem stroke
Recently, a predictive model has been developed to assess the risk of myocardial infarction or cardiac arrest (MICA) during and after surgery using the American Society of Surgeons' National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) database. In this MICA model, 180 hospital databases were used in 2007 and 2008 and included more than 200 000 patients. The Gupta score developed with this MICA model identified five predictors of perioperative myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest: type of surgery, functional status, creatinine increase (>130 mmol/L or >1.5 mg/dL), age, and American Association of Anesthesiologists (ASA) class. The Gupta score is presented as an interactive risk calculation program in the 2014 guideline of the ACC/AHA. The risk can be calculated simply and accurately at the bedside or clinic. The Gupta score is in spreadsheet format and can be downloaded online at http://www.surgicalriskcalculator.com/miorcardiacarrest. Unlike the previously used indexes, a scoring system has not been established. An estimate of the probability of myocardial infarction/cardiac arrest is provided for individual patients. In this study, the primary aim was to compare the frequency of cardiology consultation requests according to the use of the Gupta score. The secondary aim is to evaluate the perioperative clinical results (coronary angiography, ECHO, acute coronary syndrome, arrhythmia, 30-day mortality, etc.).SPSS 21.0 (Version 22.0, SPSS, Inc, Chicago, IL, USA) program will be used for statistical analysis. After applying the Shapiro-Wilk test for normality, the student's t-test will be used if the distribution is normal, and the Mann-Whitey U test will be used if the distribution is not normal. Fisher's exact test or chi-square test will be used for categorical variables. Results p<0.05 will be considered significant.
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is myocardial necrosis caused by acute and continuous ischemia and hypoxia of coronary artery. It can be complicated with arrhythmia, shock or heart failure, which is often life-threatening. The disease is the most common in Europe and the United States, where about 1.5 million people suffer from myocardial infarction every year. China has shown an obvious upward trend in recent years, with at least 500000 new cases every year and at least 2 million current cases . At present, China has a high incidence rate of heart failure after myocardial infarction. The incidence of heart failure within 7 days after myocardial infarction is 19.3%, and the incidence of heart failure from 30 days to 6.7 years after myocardial infarction is 13.1%~37.5%. The incidence of heart failure after myocardial infarction significantly increases the risk of short-term and long-term death, and the prognosis is poor. At present, there is a lack of unified guidance and norms for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention and control strategies of heart failure after myocardial infarction. Cardiac remodeling is the basic pathological process of heart failure after myocardial infarction, and it is also one of the main factors affecting the prognosis of patients. Studies have shown that 30% of AMI have ventricular remodeling 6 months after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and the risk of ventricular remodeling in anterior wall myocardial infarction is the highest. According to foreign literature data, the probability of ventricular remodeling after anterior wall acute myocardial infarction is about 13%, which is 1.9 times higher than that in other parts.Opening the infarct related coronary artery early can save the dying myocardium, reduce the infarct myocardial area and reduce the loss of cardiomyocytes.
This study is a prospective, open-label, two-arm, randomized multicenter trial to identify whether immediate multi-vessel PCI would be better in clinical outcomes compared with culprit lesion-only PCI for AMI and multi-vessel disease with an advanced form of CS patients who require veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenator (VA-ECMO).
The adaptive immune response plays an important role in myocardial healing and remodeling after acute myocardial infarction in patients. Therefore, the involved lymphocytes represent a novel target for therapeutic interventions. However, there are no established blood-derived biomarkers to predict the quantity and quality of the adaptive immune response to cardiac injury. Multimodal imaging of the heart and immunologic organs might provide such information. Recent retrospective analysis of patients after MI revealed enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes associated with increased CXCR4 radiotracer accumulation, thereby indicating that CXCR4 PET-based lymph node imaging provides a non-invasive quantitative readout of the local adaptive immune response. These considerations are further fuelled by the fact that, within lymph nodes, CXCR4 is expressed almost exclusively on lymphocytes, whereas various other cell types express CXCR4 within the myocardium. This leads to the hypothesis that the size of mediastinal lymph nodes and their respective CXCR4 PET signals correlate with the adaptive immune response to cardiac injury and might provide predictive information for functional cardiac decline during follow-up. This prospective clinical study will use multimodal imaging to monitor chemokine receptor 4 (CXCR4) expression in the lymph nodes, myocardium, spleen, and bone marrow after acute MI. The combination of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), echocardiography, and positron emission tomography (PET) along with blood collection for immunophenotyping will allow to determine i) if the size of mediastinal lymph nodes and their respective PET-derived CXCR4 signals at baseline correlate with the adaptive immune response to acute cardiac injury; and ii) if they predict cardiac adverse remodelling during longitudinal follow-up.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of ketotifen (MC stabilizer) on the basis of standard treatment after primary PCI in STEMI patients. The ketotifen group and the control group were the ketotifen group and the control group. The control group continued to receive STEMI standard treatment. The ketotifen group received ketotifen for 3 months on the basis of standard treatment within 24 hours after primary PCI, and was followed up for 1 year. Infarct size, as well as differences in echocardiography, markers of two-dimensional speckle tracking, inflammatory factors and MC markers, and major adverse cardiovascular events.