Coronary Artery Disease(CAD)

ORBITA-SOLAR is an invasive physiological cardiac catheterisation study that aims to determine whether different coronary stenoses have different angina thresholds. The angina threshold is defined as the amount of coronary flow reduction required to reproduce symptoms. Sixty patients with symptoms of stable angina and 2 coronary artery stenoses amenable to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) will be recruited. This study will use intra-coronary balloon inflation during supine exercise on an ergometer to measure the fractional flow reserve (FFR) and non-hyperemic pressure ratio (NHPR) that relates to angina onset, in real time, at the location of each stenosis.

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate whether a management strategy based on coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) for patients with non-obstructive coronary artery disease can improve the LDL-C target achievement rate compared to a traditional management strategy without follow-up CCTA, thereby reducing the incidence of major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events over a 3 years period, including all-cause mortality, myocardial infarction, ischemia driven revascularation and stroke.

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of visual reading in XTR004 PET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) for detecting restrictive stenosis, using quantitative coronary angiography (QCA) and fractional flow reserve (FFR) as reference standards in patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease.

Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, necessitating advancements in diagnostic techniques (Parulkar et al., 2025). According to the British Heart Foundation, over 250 million individuals worldwide are living with CAD, making it the most commonly diagnosed heart condition globally. In 2021, CAD was responsible for approximately 9 million deaths, accounting for about one in every seven deaths globally

This interventional prospective randomized study is designed to compare hemodynamic management using postural mobilization (+/- noradrenaline) versus noradrenaline only in patients undergoing open-heart coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.

This study plans to enroll 150 patients who are candidates for "intervention without implantation" therapy and they will be randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to either the new-generation Firesorb scaffold group (BRS group, N=75) or the drug-coated balloon group (DCB group, N=75). All enrolled patients will undergo angiographic follow-up at 1 year post-procedure, and serial follow-up (via telephone or outpatient visit) will be performed at 1 month, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, and 5 years post-procedure. The primary study endpoint was percentage diameter stenosis at 1 year post-procedure.

The goal of this clinical trial is to determine whether a non-invasive coronary assessment strategy using photon-counting detector computed tomography (PCD-CT) is non-inferior to invasive coronary angiography (ICA) for evaluating coronary artery disease (CAD) prior to transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients with severe aortic stenosis.