Study of Women With Acute Coronary Syndromes and Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Disease (SWAN)

This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Sponsor:
Collaborator:
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Harmony R. Reynolds, New York University School of Medicine
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00798122
First received: November 24, 2008
Last updated: October 2, 2012
Last verified: October 2012

November 24, 2008
October 2, 2012
March 2006
August 2010   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
IVUS and MRI findings [ Time Frame: within one week of enrollment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Same as current
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Study of Women With Acute Coronary Syndromes and Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Disease
Study of Women With Acute Coronary Syndromes and Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Disease

Approximately 600,000 women are treated for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) annually in the US. ACS includes heart attack and a milder form called unstable angina. Many of these women have angiograms of which 14-39% show no "significant" coronary artery disease (CAD, cholesterol plaque accumulation in arteries of the heart). The remaining majority of women with ACS have cholesterol plaque buildup which appears severe enough on angiography to limit blood flow to the heart.

It is difficult to advise women with heart attacks and no major heart artery blockages on what to do if chest pain happens again. Additional studies are needed to find out why this sort of heart attack happens and to help doctors understand how to treat patients who have this problem in the best possible way.

Some women with heart attacks who have no major blockage in heart arteries have cholesterol plaque in the arteries of the heart cannot be seen on angiography but can be seen using a newer technique called intravascular ultrasound (IVUS). IVUS involves creating pictures of the artery walls using ultrasound (sound waves) from within the artery itself. In some women without major heart artery blockage, heart attack is caused by low blood flow due to disease of smaller blood vessels which cannot be seen on angiography or IVUS. This problem can be found using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which can show blood flow to the heart. MRI may also be used to show where the heart has been damaged. The pattern of damage could suggest that a heart attack in a woman, who has no badly blocked heart arteries, happened for one (or more) of these reasons or another reason.

The Study of Women with ACS and Non-obstructive CAD (SWAN) will use IVUS and MRI to help determine the reasons for heart attacks in women with no major blockages in heart arteries.

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Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
Acute Coronary Syndromes
  • Procedure: Intravascular ultrasound
    intravascular ultrasound
  • Procedure: MRI
    cardiac MRI
Experimental: Women
IVUS and MRI performed in women with no obstructive CAD at angiography
Interventions:
  • Procedure: Intravascular ultrasound
  • Procedure: MRI
Reynolds HR, Srichai MB, Iqbal SN, Slater JN, Mancini GB, Feit F, Pena-Sing I, Axel L, Attubato MJ, Yatskar L, Kalhorn RT, Wood DA, Lobach IV, Hochman JS. Mechanisms of myocardial infarction in women without angiographically obstructive coronary artery disease. Circulation. 2011 Sep 27;124(13):1414-25. Epub 2011 Sep 6.

*   Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
 
Active, not recruiting
50
December 2012
August 2010   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Inclusion Criteria:

  • women
  • positive cardiac markers and/or ST elevation
  • scheduled for angiography

Exclusion Criteria:

  • prior diagnosis of obstructive CAD
  • contraindication to IVUS and/or MRI
  • use of vasospastic agent
Female
18 Years and older
No
Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
United States
 
NCT00798122
DD CSDA 2006066
Yes
Harmony R. Reynolds, New York University School of Medicine
New York University School of Medicine
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Principal Investigator: Harmony Reynolds, M.D. New York University School of Medicine
New York University School of Medicine
October 2012

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