Your participation in a clinical trial could benefit you, your loved ones, and many others.
A clinical trial is a research study to answer specific questions about new therapies or methods of using established treatments. Clinical trials are used to determine whether new drugs or treatments are both safe and effective. Most current drug therapies were initially developed in past clinical trials.
If you have any type of cardiovascular disorder including heart failure, arrhythmia, acute coronary syndrome, myocardial infarction, or end-stage heart disease, your participation in a clinical trial could yield benefits for yourself and others. The Research Center is currently investigating the following areas:
- General and preventive cardiology: pharmalogical therapies aimed at improving medical management of cardiovascular disease (heart attack, stroke and peripheral vascular disease);
- Cardiovascular imaging : improvement of imaging techniques including echocardiograms, nuclear ventriculography , CT scans and MRIs;
- Cardiothoracic surgery: we are widely recognized for our leadership in staged palliation for univentricular hearts including hypoplastic left-heart syndrome, tricuspid atresia, and many others .
- Electrophysiology : the improvement of heart rhythm stabilization therapies through pharmacological and mechanical therapies (including ablation and resynchronization).
- Heart failure : studies involving novel medical therapies as well as pharmacological mechanical (ventricular assist devices) therapies.
- Interventional cardiology : research involving
- the latest stents for coronary and peripheral arteries;
- non-invasive valve replacement
- Stem cell and regeneration research: University Hospitals Case Medical Center is a national site for stem cell research, and leader of the Ohio Cell-based Therapy Consortium. Current trials are underway to examine cell-based therapy for ischemic heart and peripheral vascular disease.
- Vascular surgery : we developed subintimal balloon angioplasty, a cutting-edge procedure that improves circulation in lower limbs that would have been previously unsalvageable.
For more information on clinical trials including who can participate and safety regulations, please visit University Hospitals clinical trials page.
How to participate:
If you would like to participate in one of our clinical trials, or to simply obtain more information, please call 216-844-3130 or email uhhv@uhhospitals.org. (Referring physicians can contact us at the same phone and email address.) We are located in the main campus of University Hospitals Case Medical Center