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Filter by:The root cause of heart attacks and strokes is atherosclerosis, the hardening and thickening of blood vessels due to the presence of "plaque" which is a build-up of fat and cholesterol in the walls of vessels. To diagnose heart disease, patients receive a stress test to find out if they require surgery. Up to 52% of patients receiving an angiogram (surgery) to look at plaque blockages in the heart are found to be normal (no blockage). Patients who are suspected of having heart disease often undergo a stress test, which helps cardiologists decide if the patient has heart disease, but stress tests can give false results. In Ontario alone, 90% are stress tests are found to be normal and patients are sent home with little follow-up. Of these 3-5% (~4,000 patients/year) will have a major cardiovascular event (heart attack, surgery, or death) within 3 years. We need to improve the stress test accuracy to reduce cardiac outcome. We now know that it is not just the total amount of plaque that leads to heart attacks and strokes, but the composition of the plaque that can lead to breakage causing a heart attack. Plaques are soft and fragile, and typically contain fat and small leaky blood vessels within their cores. If we are able to identify patients that have leaky plaques using ultrasound, we may be able to improve the accuracy of stress testing. We propose a study looking at the combination of stress testing (assessing heart function) and neck ultrasound (assessing plaque composition), to identify patients at risk for cardiovascular events (heart attacks and death). We will enrol patients from 6 sites across Canada and follow-them for cardiac outcome for 3 years.
Prospective biomedical research study
As an effective treatment for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), early reperfusion may reduce the infarct size and improve the prognosis of patients. However, it remains uncertain whether adjunctive thrombolytic therapy administered immediately prior to primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) improves outcomes in patients undergoing the procedure within 120 minutes. In this investigator-initiated, prospective, multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, subjects meeting the inclusion/exclusion criteria should be randomly assigned 1:1 to the trial group (r-SAK) or the control group (placebo). The risk of major adverse cardiovascular events within 90 days will be observed.
For a long time, the right ventricle has been the "forgotten chamber", but with the deepening of people's understanding of the disease, right ventricular dysfunction has become an important factor to evaluate the disease progression and late prognosis of patients with AMI. Right ventricular myocardial strain derived from two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography is a new method for early evaluation of regional and global right ventricular systolic function, and its repeatability is much higher than that of LVEF. Acute inferior myocardial infarction is often caused by occlusion of the proximal middle segment of the right coronary artery. Many studies have confirmed that RVMS is an independent predictor of poor prognosis in patients with AIMI. However, 60% of the right ventricular systolic function is contributed by the left ventricle and interventricular septum, and the left anterior descending branch and the left circumflex branch are the main sources of blood supply to the left ventricle and interventricular septum, so in theory, non-RCA occlusion can also lead to varying degrees of right ventricular dysfunction. However, there are few studies on the role of RVMS in predicting the prognosis of AMI patients caused by non-RCA occlusion. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to prospectively study the value of dynamic changes of RVMS in predicting the prognosis of patients with acute myocardial infarction with different infarct-related vessels, in order to provide more clinical reference information for the diagnosis and treatment of AMI.
Magnetocardiography (MCG) is a promising noninvasive and accurate method for detecting myocardial ischemia. Although progress has been made in this area, there is a lack of studies using up-to-date examination instruments for the calibration of MCG analysis. This is a prospective single-center study aiming to build accurate analytical models of MCG to detect coronary lesions and myocardial necrosis. Coronary lesions are measured by coronary angiography (CAG) or coronary CTA, and are defined by both the stenosis degree and the computer-simulated fraction flow reserve. Myocardial necrosis is examined and quantified by cardiac MR. Healthy volunteers, chest pain patients who will receive CAG or CTA examination, and patients with acute myocardial infarction will be enrolled in this study.
ECMO has been used to save the lives of many critically ill patients with cardiorespiratory dysfunction as important rescue therapy. Though the proportion of ECMO applied to this population has been increasing year by year, clinical outcomes of AMI remain poor with high in-hospital mortality. Thus, it is necessary to characterize clinical features and investigate potentially modifiable factors contributing to outcomes of AMI patients who received ECMO treatment.
Ticagrelor-based De-escalation of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting trial (TOP-CABG trial) is a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, non-inferiority, parallel controlled trial. The aim of TOP-CABG is to investigate whether de-escalated dual antiplatelet therapy (De-DAPT) is non-inferior to dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) in efficacy on inhibiting great saphenous vein (SVG) graft occlusion and is superior in reducing bleeding events in patients accepting coronary artery bypassing grafting.
The purpose of this study is to learn if a voice analysis smartphone app which detects anxiety and depression could be used along with cardiac rehabilitation to improve results compared to cardiac rehabilitation alone.
This is a prospective, multi-center, single-arm, open-label, First in Human clinical trial to provide preliminary evidence for the safety and efficacy of the novel IoNIR stent system.
During the outbreak of COVID-19, for patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction with unclear infection, the time of primary PCI is uncertain, and it is often expected to exceed 90 minutes or even 120 minutes. In indicated patients, intravenous thrombolysis has significantly improved the recanalization time of criminal vessels.