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Filter by:Ischemic heart disease (IHD) and its treatment carry profound public health and economic implications. Among Veterans, IHD represents one of the most common causes of death and disability, with over 500,000 affected individuals' annually. Rheumatic disease, though far less common than IHD can affect multiple organ systems and requires therapies costing in excess of $50,000 a year. Optimal treatment of Veterans with IHD and rheumatic disease requires a number of medications to maintain or improve health. Not taking medications as prescribed, however, is common and increases the risk of subsequent adverse events (cardiac death and myocardial infarction [MI]). To improve medication adherence rates and the cardiac health of Veterans with IHD, the investigators propose to test a medication adherence intervention. Known as VA SEPPRMACI-ARM (Secondary Event Prevention using Population Risk Management After PCI and for Anti-Rheumatic Medications), this intervention will consist of: proactive real-time adherence monitoring of patients and targeting of individuals if they have not refilled their medication a given number of days after it was due for refill. The intervention will employ a tailored, escalating-intensity approach which begins with some combination of personalized short messaging service (SMS) text messages and interactive voice response (IVR) telephone technology, depending on patient preference. Patients not completing SMS and then IVR by not refilling their medication (or declining SMS and not completing IVR) escalate to a trained research interventionalist. The interventionalist will contact the patient and address adherence barriers based on the dimensions outlined by the World Health Organization (WHO) that are specific to each patient. The investigators will test the intervention on IHD patients who have recently undergone PCI-a cardiac procedure commonly used among IHD patients to improve the heart's blood flow and in patients starting anti-rheumatic medication. The investigators will test the intervention at four VA Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories (CCLs) and have 12 sites serving as usual care controls.
Coronary drug-eluting stent (DES) has been launched in China for more than ten years. Although it effectively decreases the overall incidence of re-stenosis, DES cannot inhibit the progression of atherosclerosis plaque outside segments. It was shown that the progression rate of non-target atherosclerosis plaque for patients with DES implantation was 6-10%, which indicated that current secondary prevention for coronary heart disease (CHD) is far from the achievement of ideal conditions. Atherosclerosis has many risk factors based on current CHD guidelines, among which the level of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) is the most concerned one. Large clinical studies on statins were performed in the world during the past 20 years. It was demonstrated in these studies that statins were significant to both primary and secondary preventions of CHD. What's more, the lower of LDL level is reached, the lower incidence of clinical cardiovascular events is achieved. However, cardiovascular events were still not avoidable especially for the secondary prevention of CHD even if the level of LDL was significantly controlled under the recommended range of guidelines by high dosage of statins. It was shown in some recent studies that high loading dosage of statins may effectively control the progression of coronary plaque. However, multiple studies found it was hard to control the progression of all patients of coronary plaque due to individual difference. Currently China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has not approved the loading dosage of all statins because of possible high safety issues and confusions about the appropriate application in Chinese patients, as well as economy burden to Chinese patients with high treatment cost. How to evaluate individual progression risk of coronary plaque and enhance risk factors control and the treatment of statins for necessary population, is currently an issue, which should be solved in the diagnosis and treatment of CHD. The inhibition in the progression of atherosclerosis plaque is not absolutely dependent on the decrease of LDL. Large number of studies found other risk factors. For instance, diabetes and chronic kidney diseases may also be associated with the progression of plaque. However, the potential impact and control are still uncertain up to date. Based on these background, we design a retrospective study, Risk Factors Promoting Coronary Plaque Progression In China (The RIPPER Study), to solve these issues.
MeRes-1 Extend study is designed as prospective, multinational, multicentre, single arm, open label, pilot study to assess the safety and performance of the MeRes100 Sirolimus Eluting Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold System (BRS) in subjects with de novo native coronary artery lesions. 64 subjects will be enrolled from the 8 centers located in Asia Pacific, Europe, Brazil and South Africa. Primary outcome of study will be Proportion of population reporting Major Adverse Cardiac Events at 6 months from the day of index Procedure.
This study assesses the impact of diastolic heart failure on exercise capacity in women who have a previous coronary condition. All the participants will go through the same evaluation.
The aim of the Danish Organization for Randomized Trials with Clinical Outcome (SORT OUT) is to compare the safety and efficacy of the polymer-free Biolimus-eluting BIOFREEDOM stent with a biodegradable-polymer Sirolimus-eluting ORSIRO stent in a population-based setting, using registry detection of clinically driven events
MINT: A pilot, multi-centre, open-label randomized controlled trial of two commonly used transfusion strategies in patients with myocardial infarction.
To compare clinical safety & efficacy of fixed-high potent statin therapy (according to 2013 ACC/AHA guideline) vs. targeted LDL-C goal statin therapy (LDL<70mg/dL) for secondary prevention. Total 4400 patients with coronary artery disease patients requiring statin treatment were categorized fixed high-potent statin group and targeted LDL-C group. The investigators will compare primary endpoint (major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular event (MACCE)) and secondary endpoint (1. New onset diabetes mellitus after randomization, 2. Hospitalization due to heart failure, 3. Deep vein thrombosis or Pulmonary thromboembolism, 4. Percutaneous trans-luminal angioplasty on peripheral artery obstructive disease, 5. Aortic intervention or operation, 6. ESRD with renal replacement therapy).
This study will assess the differences between Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) measurements made by the Navvus catheter and a commercially available pressure guidewire in up to 240 subjects where FFR is clinically indicated. All subjects will receive diagnostic treatment according to clinical indications and center standard practice.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and performance of a new version of a coronary artery stent for treating blockages in the arteries supplying blood to the heart muscle. The Amaranth Medical APTITUDE scaffold releases a drug (sirolimus) to reduce the likelihood of the treated blood vessel developing a new blockage. In addition, the scaffold dissolves away over time, leaving no permanent implant after the blood vessel has healed.
To compare treatment with Aspirin Protect® twice a day (100 mg in the morning and 100 mg in the evening) versus Aspirin Protect® 100 mg once per day on a composite end-point of ischemic events in diabetic patients, or in patients with a known risk factor for non-optimal aspirin response (obesity, abdominal obesity or coronary event occurring with long-term aspirin),with acute coronary syndrome. It is expected that aspirin taken twice a day will reduce the occurrence of new ischemic event after acute coronary syndrome in diabetic patients or in patients with a known risk factor.