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Interventions Against Insulin Resistance in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
The primary objective of this study is to determine the impact of two interventions against insulin resistance on the composite endpoint of 10% improvement in baseline six minute walk distance or improvement in World Health Organization (WHO) functional class in humans with pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH).
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Long-term Oxygen Therapy in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Who Live at High Altitude
A clinical, prospective, randomized controlled trial to determine the effect of prescribing oxygen in a group of COPD (chronic pulmonary disease) patients with PaO2 (arterial oxygen tension) ≥50 and ≤55 mmHg who do not have erythrocytosis or pulmonary hypertension on echocardiogram (which are considered manifestations of chronic hypoxia)
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Medication Reconciliation in Pulmonary Hypertension
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a life threatening condition. In PH, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and chronic thrombo-embolic chronic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) are two rare diseases requiring specific and complex drug management. In France ,a part of these treatments ,only available in hospital pharmacies, are generally unknown from community health care professionals despite the high risk of drug-interactions and side effects. Anticipating medication errors at the begging of the disease is therefore important, and could be done through medication reconciliation.
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Novel Echocardiographic Methods for Early Identification of Neonates at Risk for Chronic Pulmonary Hypertension
Chronic pulmonary hypertension (cPHT) is a serious cardiopulmonary disorder that causes low oxygen levels in the blood, difficulty in breathing and ultimately heart failure. Newborn babies born extremely premature frequently suffer from cPHT while receiving treatment in neonatal intensive care units and are more likely to die than those without cPHT. Echocardiography is the investigation of choice for the assessment of heart function in premature infants however however there is a significant lack of standardization, sensitivity, and reliability for echocardiography parameters and a lack of consensus regarding optimal detection...
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Positioning Imatinib for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) is a rare condition in which a narrowing of blood vessels carrying blood through the lungs puts an increased work load on the heart; it has to work harder to pump blood through the lungs. While current treatments relieve some of the symptoms, they do not stop or reverse the disease in the affected blood vessels. Imatinib is a medicine licensed for some types of cancers. A published study has shown that imatinib can have beneficial effects on blood flow through the lungs and exercise capacity in patients with PAH, even when added to existing treatments. However, there have been concerns about its ...
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Postoperative Morbidity / Mortality Rates of Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension
Pulmonary hypertension (PHT) is an oPAP ≥25 mmHg as assessed by right heart catheterization at rest. It is divided into 5 groups according to its etiology and mechanism. The first group is patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension due to various reasons (drugs, connective tissue diseases, etc.). Group 2 is classified as left heart failure, group 3 is due to chronic lung disease and hypoxemia, group 4 is due to pulmonary arterial obstruction (most commonly CTEPH), and group 5 is patients with pulmonary hypertension due to multifactorial unspecified causes. In the pathophysiology, pulmonary hypertension occurs when the balance is...
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Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Improvement With Nutrition and Exercise (PHINE)
The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which diet and exercise may improve PAH through the modulation of insulin sensitivity. The central hypothesis is that dysregulated glucose metabolism elicits a response in PAH patients that can be modified by exercise and diet, thereby leading to improvements in pulmonary vascular disease.
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Pulmonary Vascular Disease Phenomics Program PVDOMICS
It is recognized that patients with various forms of heart and lung disease exhibit varying degrees of pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary vascular remodeling, and right ventricular dysfunction. The genetic, molecular, and cellular processes driving these phenomena are not well understood. Rapid advances in high throughput omic methodology, combined with powerful bioinformatics and network biology capability, have created the opportunity to conduct studies that broadly search for homologies and differences across the spectrum of disease states associated with pulmonary hypertension, and determinants of the spectrum of right ventricular...
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Quality of Life Assessed With the PAH SYMPACT Questionnaire
Researchers are evaluating quality of life in pulmonary hypertension subjects using the Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension-Symptoms and Impact (PAH-SYMPACT) Questionnaire and assessing the questionnaires' performance with regard to relationship to other markers of disease severity, response to treatment, and outcome in a clinical practice setting.
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Recognition of Heart Failure With Micro Electro-Mechanical Sensors (REFLECS)
The study will test the ability a novel wearable sensor based on a smartphone app (Precordior CardioSignal app) in combination with a sensor device (Suunto Movesense sensor) to non-invasively measure cardiac motion and function.
Clinical TrialsJames Wetherill2020-12-18T13:53:16-05:00
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