Journal of the American Heart Association
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Reduction in overall occurrences of ischemic events with vorapaxar: results from TRACER.
Clinical trials traditionally use time-to-first-event analysis embedded within the composite endpoint of cardiovascular death (CVD), myocardial infarction (MI), or stroke. However, many patients have >1 event, and this approach may not reflect overall experience. We addressed this by analyzing all cardiovascular events in TRACER. ⋯ ClinicalTrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT00527943.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Remote ischemic preconditioning in children undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass: a single-center double-blinded randomized trial.
Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) harnesses an innate defensive mechanism that protects against inflammatory activation and ischemia-reperfusion injury, known sequelae of cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. We sought to determine the impact of RIPC on clinical outcomes and physiological markers related to ischemia-reperfusion injury and inflammatory activation after cardiac surgery in children. ⋯ clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT00650507.