View clinical trials related to Ventricular Septal Defect.
Filter by:The purpose of this clinical trial is to verify the safety and effectiveness of the Fully Absorbable VSD Occlusion System and VSD Occlusion System produced by Shanghai shape memory alloy materials co., LTD. Clinical trials are designed as prospective, multicenter, randomized controlled, noninferiority clinical trials. Prospective randomized multicenter trial involving about 108 subjects will be enrolled in 4 centers. Patients will be randomized to two groups in equal proportion (54 in each). The success rate of occlusion at 6 months after operation is the main evaluation index in this clinical trial.
The overall objective for this study is to evaluate the cardiopulmonary function of VSD-patients compared with healthy age- and gender-matched controls. VSD patients with a surgically corrected defect and VSD patients with a small persistent defect will be included.
With advances in interventional cardiac catheterization, ventricular septal defect (VSD) could be successfully treated via transcatheter device closure. Cardiac catheterization team of National Taiwan University Children's Hospital has recently treated more than 60 patients with VSD using this technique. Both treatment effect and follow-up results were encouraging. Of particular notice is that many patients experienced subjective improvement in exercise tolerance after VSD closure. Traditionally, VSD could only be repaired by open-heart surgery under cardiopulmonary bypass. Therefore, VSD closure would be considered only for those with moderate to large defect, significant heart failure, or presenting with significant exercise intolerance. With the success in transcatheter closure of VSD, a procedure which is safer and leading to faster recovery comparing to cardiac surgery, device closure of VSD would be a reasonable and sensible treatment of choice if it is beneficial for long-term cardiac function and exercise performance. This project will prospectively enroll 50 patients with VSDs subject to transcatheter closure of the defect in our institute. Before device closure and 6 months after closure, participants will be assessed with image studies (including speckle tracking and tissue Doppler echocardiography), measurements of serum biomarkers (including B-type natriuretic peptide and biomarkers of collagen metabolism), and standard cardiopulmonary exercise test. The purpose of this study is to investigate the potential benefits of closing VSD with respect to cardiac function and exercise performance, which might serve as basis to redefine future indication of VSD closure.
The overall objective for this study is to test whether β2-agonists will affect the cardiopulmonary capacity of VSD-operated patients compared with un-operated VSD-patients and healthy age- and gender-matched controls.
Isolated ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a well know congenital heart anomaly. If discovered in infancy or early childhood surgical intervention can be of necessity depending on the size of the defect, to assure a healthy adulthood. The long-term results of surgical closure of VSD in childhood are good and after surgery the children are considered as equally healthy and physically fit as their peers. However, there is inconsistency in data regarding follow-up on this group of patients, in relation to exercise capacity as a measure of the cardiopulmonary function. To further approach this matter the post-operative cardiac factors of these patients have to be investigated. With this study the investigators intend to examine the long-term outcome on cardiac output after heart surgery in VSD-patients. It presents an opportunity to also evaluate the correlation between cardiac output determined by gas-exchange and by MRI. The overall objectives of this study are to 1) examine whether VSD-operated patients have reduced cardiac output during exercise in comparison with matched controls, and furthermore 2) to evaluate a correlation between cardiac output measured by MRI and cardiac output determined by gas-exchange. The project is designed as a long-term follow-up and method study. A cohort of 20 children who in the 1990's underwent surgical closure of a congenital VSD will be asked to participate in this study. An equal amount of healthy young adults, will function as control group. Each participant will complete two different exercise tests, a MRI of the heart during lower body exercise on a supine ergometer bicycle, and a Supine ergometer bicycle exercise test. This data can be used for comparing cardiac output between the test groups, and furthermore it allows an evaluation of the correlation between the two methods. VSD is as described, the most common congenital heart anomaly. If not intervened with in childhood, it can cause severe heart complications later in life. It is unclear whether this intervention can cause long-term impact on patients exercise capacity, and for that reason it is of great importance that we strive for improving our knowledge of the long-term postsurgical outcome after VSD-closure.
The purpose of this Phase I study is to determine the safety of a drug called dexmedetomidine (DEX) as part of a balanced general anesthetic and sedative strategy for neonates and infants undergoing corrective cardiac surgery that requires the use of cardiopulmonary bypass for congenital cardiac problems. This study will also design and validate a dosing schema for the use of DEX as described above.
Intraoperative myocardial and pulmonary protection is important for better outcome after cardiac surgery. Ischemic preconditioning is one of organ protective strategies against ischemia-reperfusion injury by applying brief ischemia to the target organ before a subsequent critical ischemia, and its effect has been confirmed. However, its clinical application is not easy because ischemic insult may aggravate the function of vulnerable organ. On the other hand, remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) is another protective approach by applying ischemia to other less vulnerable organ such as skeletal muscle before critical ischemia-reperfusion injury to heart. The effect of RIPC has been well demonstrated in adults and children. However, Little is known about the effect of remote ischemic precondition on the pediatric myocardium to ischemia and reperfusion injury. The effect of RIPC on the children remains to be further evaluated because the degree of ischemia-reperfusion injury is different according to age, cardiac pathology and cyanosis. In addition, the previous report on children dealt with a diverse range of congenital heart defects with a wide age range. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of RIPC on myocardial and pulmonary protection in infants with pulmonary hypertension who need repair of simple ventricular septal defect.
This clinical trial will determine the safety and effectiveness of intravenous L-citrulline in children undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass during heart surgery. Participants will be randomly assigned to either L-citrulline or a placebo (a substance that has no medicine in it). Citrulline is a protein building block in the body that can convert into another substance, nitric oxide (NO), which controls blood pressure in the lungs. Increased blood pressure in the lungs can be an important surgical problem; it may also lead to problems following surgery, such as severe high blood pressure in the lungs (pulmonary hypertension), increased time spent on a breathing machine, and a longer stay in the intensive care unit (ICU). The hypothesis of this study is that perioperative supplementation with intravenous citrulline will increase plasma citrulline, arginine and NO metabolites and prevent elevations in the postoperative PVT leading to a decrease in the duration of postoperative invasive mechanical ventilation. The objective of this study is to determine in a randomized placebo controlled phase IB multicenter clinical trial if a revised protocol of intravenous L-citrulline delivery given perioperatively achieves a plasma citrulline level of > 100 umol/L in children undergoing surgical repair of an atrial septal defect,ventricular septal defect or an atrioventricular septal defect.
To assess whether the drug ketamine given prior to cardiopulmonary bypass can decrease injury to the cells in the brain.