Pretoia, South Africa

Optimal Target Low-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Level for Small Vessel Occlusion Stroke

ARTEMIS - A Research Study to Look at How Ziltivekimab Works Compared to Placebo in People With a Heart Attack

A Study of Jyseleca Tablet (Filgotinib Maleate) in Korean Participants

Study With Various Immunotherapy Treatments in Participants With Lung Cancer

Anatomic Versus Physiologic Guidance for Complete Revascularization With DES Eluting in Patients With CAD

This is a prospective, multicenter center, open-label, randomized trial to compare QCA-guided versus FFR-guided CR strategies in patients with significant CAD who are undergoing PCI with DES. Patients with symptoms or evidence of myocardial ischemia are eligible for enrollment if there have stenotic lesions with a diameter stenosis of 50%-90% in major epicardial coronary arteries ≥ 2.25 mm in diameter by visual estimation, and CR is expected to be achievable by PCI. The detailed information for inclusion and exclusion criteria is described below in the session 4. Patients meeting inclusion criteria without any exclusion criteria will be randomized to either QCA-guided CR or FFR-guided CR group. In the QCA-guided CR group, PCI will be performed if there are lesions with diameter stenosis ≥ 50% by QCA during the index procedure (and, if necessary, planned staged procedure). In the FFR-guided CR group, FFR is measured for the target coronary lesions, and then PCI will be performed for the lesions with FFR ≤0.80. Post-PCI FFR measurement is strongly recommended. However, additional procedures are not recommended based on post-PCI FFR value because there is no consensus of the optimal cut-off value to define physiologic CR. In both QCA-guided and FFR-guided PCI groups, imaging guidance during PCI is left at the discretion of the operator. However, routine high pressure post-dilation with noncompliant balloons is recommended to achieve optimal stent expansion with minimal residual stenosis (diameter stenosis < 10% on visual estimation). Patients will be followed clinically at 1, 6, 12 months, and then upto 5 years after the index procedure

Drug-Coated Balloon in Patients With High Bleeding Risk

Second-generation DES is the standard of care for patients with coronary artery disease who are deemed eligible for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Despite many advantages, DES inevitably accompany disadvantages such as the occurrence of late stent thrombosis and the need for maintaining dual antiplatelet (DAPT) for certain period due to permanent vascular implant, which lead to both increased ischemic and bleeding events. As an alternative to DES, drug-coated balloon (DCB), a novel treatment strategy, which has benefit of having shorter DAPT maintenance duration due to the absence of metallic scaffolds and polymers, has been introduced. Based on meta-analysis based on many randomized clinical trials (RCT), its use has been established in in-stent restenosis of bare-metal stents (BMS) and DES. Furthermore, recently published RCT demonstrated efficacy and safety of DCB in de-novo coronary lesions in small vessels with reference vessel size<3.0mm. However, studies exploring the feasibility of DCB in de-novo coronary artery stenosis beyond small vessels are limited. Furthermore, there is scarce data comparing DCB with DES in patients with de-novo coronary artery stenosis and high bleeding risk (HBR), a situation in which long-term maintenance of DAPT is a clinical dilemma. In previous BASKET-SMALL 2 trial, DCB showed noninferiority to DES in patients with de-novo coronary artery stenosis and small vessel disease. However, this trial was conducted in non-HBR patients, and the number of participated patients was insufficient. In another RCT, DEBUT trial exclusively enrolled patients with HBR and de-novo coronary artery stenosis. Although the DEBUT trial showed superiority of DCB angioplasty over implantation of BMS to treat de-novo coronary artery stenosis in patients with HBR, the results could not be applicable in contemporary practice because BMS has been no longer in clinical use. Recently, multiple RCTs have proved short-term DAPT (1-3 months) has comparable efficacy to longer term DAPT in HBR patients using latest second-generation DES. On this background, the current trial aims to compare clinical outcomes between DCB and DES to treat de-novo coronary artery stenosis in patients with HBR receiving guideline-directed short-term DAPT.

Atrial Sensing Capability for Better Detection of Atrial Fibrillation

Implantable cardioverter defibrillators(ICD) therapy has been shown to reduce sudden cardiac death and improve survival in cardiac arrest survivors as well as in heart failure patients with left ventricular dysfunction. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is commonly found in ICD implantation patients up to 50%. AF is an independent predictor of mortality, inappropriate shock, and embolic events. Therefore, early detection of AF in patients with ICD is essential for improving the quality of life and overall prognosis of the patients. Conventional ICDs consist of a single chamber (SC) ICD with a lead only in the right ventricle (RV) and dual chamber (DC) ICD with each lead in the right atrium (RA) and RV. SC ICD has the advantage of shorter procedure time, lower cost compared to DC ICD. In contrast, DC ICD has the advantage of being able to monitor atrial arrhythmic events, but complication rates were higher and additional cost and longer procedure time are usually required than SC ICD. Sixty percent of ICD implantation patients who have are SC ICD Recently, a unique ICD lead with atrial sensing ring capable of monitoring the atrial electrical signals has been developed [Intica 7 VR-T DX ICD (Biotronik., Germany)]. Therefore, turning off the atrial sensing function makes it functionally the same as SC ICD whereas turning on makes it function similar to DC ICD without additional cost and procedure time. Therefore, Detection of AF could be made earlier with VDD ICD versus conventional SC ICD without atrial sensing capability, providing a better chance to improve the prognosis of ICD patients. However, no study exists which shows whether VDD ICD is better for detecting atrial tachyarrhythmia than conventional SC ICD. Therefore, we designed a multicenter prospective randomized study comparing the AF diagnostic efficacy of VDD ICD (with atrial sensing 'ON') against conventional SC ICD. As the second phase, we also plan to compare inappropriate therapy rate according to atrial sensing status of VDD ICD.

Androgen Deprivation Therapy on Bone Mineral Density Change in Prostate Cancer Patients

Objective: To determine the rate of bone mass loss induced by two therapeutic strategies of ADT (CAD versus IAD) in men with prostate cancer. Design, setting, and participants: the investigators will perform randomized, open label clinical trial. Men aged over 50 yrs old with prostate cancer (localized, locally advanced, metastatic prostate cancer) who are treated with primary ADT for newly diagnosed prostate cancer or salvage ADT at biochemical recurrence following radical prostatectomy will be included. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of the following treatment arms: Arm 1 (CAD): ADT without any discontinuation during study period (12 months). Arm 2 (IAD): ADT for the first 6 months of study period, if the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) reaches its nadir (< 4 ng/dL) and serum testosterone reaches castration level (< 50 ng/dL). Outcomes: Primary outcome: change of L-spine total BMD. Secondary outcomes: change of femur neck BMD, incidence rate of osteoporosis, risk of 10 year major osteoporotic fracture, quality of life based on Expanded Prostate Cancer Index (EPIC) questionnaire. Timing of outcome measurement: at baseline and up to 12 months after randomization. Statistical analyses: student's t test for continuous outcomes and Fisher's exact or chi-square test for dichotomous outcomes.

Multicenter Prospective Registry Study of Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma

- Newly diagnosed DLBCL patients treated with R-CHOP chemotherapy - Prphylactic peg-filgrastim on the day after chemotherapy

Evaluation of the First, Second, and New Drug-Eluting Stents in Routine Clinical Practice

Consecutive patients receiving New DES without a mixture of other DES