Heart & Vascular Care Clinical Trials

Cardiovascular Research offers public programs on healthy eating, women and heart disease, caring for your heart, medication versus meditation, healthy living, healthy cooking demonstrations, and atrial fibrillation.

Cardiovascular Research offers an annual spring symposium for physicians and other health care professionals. The focus of the symposium is to educate these professionals on the latest advances that have been identified in subjects such as congestive heart failure; acute coronary syndrome; carotid occlusive disease; peripheral arterial disease; applications for the 64-slice CT scanner; lipid management; metabolic syndrome; atrial fibrillation, vulnerable plaque, and advancements in percutaneous valve.

All clinical trials have criteria that must be met before volunteers qualify to participate. Before you are enrolled in a clinical trial, you must be given all the facts about a study before you decide and consent to participate. This informed consent will include details about treatments you may receive and the possible benefits and risks.

Anyone who participates in a clinical trial has the right to leave the study at any time. The doctors and nurses will monitor your study treatment closely. If at any time during treatment a treatment is no longer in your best interest, you will be removed from the study. The study portion of your treatment will be stopped and the standard of care treatment will continue.

For more detailed information about informed consent, a good resource is:

www.emedicinehealth.com
www.cancer.gov

You have the right to ask any questions about your treatment, clinical studies, research testing on blood samples and tissue, the potential and/or known hazards of a study and the rights of research patients at any time. If you have any questions about these rights, you may contact the Human Protections Administrator at 219-836-6862.

The Community Healthcare System Cardiovascular Research Department seeks to break down access barriers by making cardiovascular clinical research trials available in the community setting, so people can be treated close to home. Funding is used to help educate the community about the prevention, detection and treatment of heart disease, and the importance of clinical research.

Learn more about how to support cardiovascular research here.

Trial: Standardized Invasive Hemodynamics for Elevated Gradients Post TAVR (DISCORDANCE TAVR)
National Clinical Trial #: NCT04827238

Trial: Distal Evaluation of Functional Performance with Intravascular Sensors to Assess the Narrowing Effect:  Guided Physiologic Stenting (DEFINE GPS)
National Clinical Trial #: NCT04451044

Trial: DEFIANCE: RCT of ClotTriever System vs Anticoagulation in Deep Vein Thrombosis
National Clinical Trial #: NCT05701917

Trial: Perivenous Dexamethasone Therapy: Examining Reduction of Inflammation After Thrombus Removal to Yield Benefit in Acute Femoropopliteal DVT (DEXTERY-AFP)
National Clinical Trial #: NCT04862468

Trial: Perivenous Dexamethasone Therapy: Examining Reduction of Inflammation After Thrombus Removal to Yield Benefit in Subacute and Chronic Iliofemoral DVT (DEXTERITY-SCI)
National Clinical Trial #: NCT4858776

Trial: Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of the AlphaVac Multipurpose Mechanical Aspiration (MMA) F1885 PE for Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Embolism (APEX-AV)
National Clinical Trial #: NCT05318092

Trial: Tack Optimized Balloon Angioplasty Post-Market Study (TOBA PMS)
National Clinical Trial #: NCT05361967

Trial: A Prospective Single-Arm Multicenter Study of the Bare Temporary Spur Stent System for the Treatment of Vascular Lesions Located in the InfraPopliteal Arteries Below the Knee (DEEPER REVEAL)
National Clinical Trial #: NCT05358353

Trial: Post Approval Study (PAS) of the Optimizer Smart and CCM Therapy (OPTIMIZER PAS)
National Clinical Trial #: NCT03970343