Clinical Trials in Cardiology - C

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CAB
Calcium Antagonists in Blacks
Arch Intern Med 1998;158:2029-2034

CABADAS
prevention of Coronary Artery Bypass graft occlusion by Aspirin, Dipyridamole and Acenocoumarol/phenoprocoumon Study
Lancet 1993;342:257-64
Eur Heart J 1994;15:1129-34
J Am Coll Cardiol 1994;24:1181-1188

CABG Patch
trial of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft surgery with/without simultaneous epicardial Patch for automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator
N Engl J Med 1997;337:1569-1575

CABG Patch (substudy)
trial of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft surgery with/without simultaneous epicardial Patch for automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator
Mechanisms of death in the CABG Patch trial. Circulation 1999;99:1416-1421

CABRI
Coronary Angioplasty versus Bypass Revascularization Investigation
Lancet 1995;346:1179-1184

CABRI
Coronary Artery Bypass Revascularization Investigation

CADI
Coronary Artery Disease in Asian Indians

CADI
Controlled Abciximab and Device Investigation to Lower Late Angioplasty Complications

CADILLAC
Controlled Abciximab and Device Investigation to Lower Late Angioplasty Complications
N Engl J Med 2002;346:957–966

CADRES
Coronary Artery Descriptors and REStenosis project

CADS
Captopril And Digoxin Study

CAFA
Canadian Atrial Fibrillation Anticoagulation study
(a) J Am Coll Cardiol 1991;18:349-55
(b) Can Med Assoc J 1996;154:1669-74

CAFS
Canadian Atrial Fibrillation Study
J Am Coll Cardiol 1991;18:349-55
Can Med Assoc J 1996;154:1669-74

CALYPSO
Cylexin as an Adjunct to Lytic therapy to Prevent SuperOxide reflow injury

CAMCAT
CAnadian Multicenter Clentiazem Angina Trial
J Am Coll Cardial 1993;21:964-70

CAMELOT
Comparison of Amlodipine vs Enalapril to Limit Occurrences of Thrombosis

CAMI
Canadian Assessment of Myocardial Infarction

CAMIAT
Canadian Amiodarone Myocardial Infarction Arrhythmia Trial
Lancet 1997;349:675-82

CANDLE
Candesartan vs Losartan Efficacy Study
Heart Disease 1999;1:52-57

CAMIAT
CAnadian Myocardial Infarction Amiodarone Trial

CAPARES
Coronary AngioPlasty Amlodipine REStenosis Study
J Am Coll Cardiol 2000;35:592-599

CAPAS
Cutting Balloon Angioplasty vs Plain Old Balloon Angioplasty Randomized Study in Type B/C Lesions
Am Heart J 2001;142:782–789

CAPE
Circadian Anti-ischemia Program in Europe
J Am Coll Cardiol 1994;24:1460-7
Cardiology 1994;85(suppl 2):24-30

CAPE 2
Circadian Anti-ischemia Program in Europe II
J Am Coll Cardiol 2002;40:917–925

CAPITOL
Captopril Post-Infarction Tolerance

CAPPHY
CAptopril Primary Prevention in Hypertension

CAPPP
CAPtopril Prevention Project
J Hypertens 1990;8:985-90
Am J Hypertens 1994;7(suppl):82S-3S
Lancet 1999;353:611-616

CAPRICORN
Carvedilol Post-Infarct Survival Control in LV Dysfunction
Lancet 2001; 357:1385-1390

CAPRIE
Clopidogrel vs Aspirin in Patients at Risk of Ischemic Events
Lancet 1996;348:1329-39
Am J Cardiol 2002;90:760–762

CAPS
Cardiac Arrhythmia Pilot Study
Am J Cardiol 1988;61:501-9

CAPTIM
Comparison of Angioplasty and Prehospital Thrombolysis in Acute Myocardial Infarction
Lancet 2002;360:825–829

CAPTIN
Captopril before reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction
J Am Coll Cardiol 1993;21:371A

CAPTIN
CAPtopril plus Tissue-plasminogen-activator following acute myocardial INfarction

CAPTISM
CAPTopril Insulin Sensitivity Multicenter study

CAPTURE
Chimeric 7E3 AntiPlatelet Therapy in Unstable angina REfractory to standard treatment
Circulation 1996;93:637
Lancet 1997;349:1429-35

CAPTURE (Substudy)
C7E3 Fab AntiPlatelet Therapy in Unstable REfractory angina
Circulation 1998;98:1358-1364

CAR
Cardiac Ablation Registry

CARAFE
Cocktail Attenuation of Rotational Ablation Flow Effects study

CARAT
Coronary Angioplasty and Rotablator Atherectomy Trial

CARDIA
Coronary Artery Risk Development In young Adults
(a) Arteriosclerosis 1989;9:656-64
(b) Circulation 1996;93:60-6

CARDIAC
CARdiovascular DIsease and Alimentary Comparison study

CARDS
Collaborative Atorvastatin Diabetes Study

CARE
Calcium Antagonist in Reperfusion

CARE
Carvedilol Atherectomy Restenosis trial

CARE
Cholesterol And Recurrent Events
(a) Am J Cardiol 1991;68:1436-46
(b) Am J Cardiol 1995;75:621-23
(c) Am J Cardiol 1995;76:98C-106C
(d) N Engl J Med 1996;335:1001-9
(e) Circulation 1998;97:1446-1452

CARE (Substudy)
Cholesterol And Recurrent Events
Reduction of stroke incidence after myocardial infarction with pravastatin
Circulation 1999;99:216-223

CARE (Substudy)
Cholesterol And Recurrent Events
Cardiovascular events and their reduction with pravastatin in diabetic
and glucose intolerant myocardial infarction survivors with average cholesterol levels
Circulation 1998;98:2513-2519

CARE (Substudy)
Cholesterol And Recurrent Events
Inflammation, pravastatin, and the risk of coronary events after
myocardial infarction in patients with average cholesterol levels.
Circulation 1998;98:839-844

CARE (Substudy)
Cholesterol And Recurrent Events
Effect of pravastatin on cardiovascular events in older patients with myocardial
infarction and cholesterol levels in the average range.
Ann Intern Med 1998;129:681-689

CARE (Substudy)
Cholesterol And Recurrent Events
Influence of baseline lipids on effectiveness of pravastatin
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999;33:125-130

CARE (Substudy)
Cholesterol And Recurrent Events
Effect of pravastatin on cardiovascular events in women after myocardial infarction.
J Am Coll Cardiol 1998;32:140-146

CARE (Substudy)
Cholesterol And Recurrent Events
Long term effects of pravastatin on plasma concentration of C-reactive protein
Circulation 1999;100:230-235

CARE
Clinical Altace Real-world Efficacy
Clin Ther 1996;18:658-70

CARET
Carotene And Retinol Efficacy Trial
N Engl J Med 1996;334:1150-55

CARPORT
Coronary Artery Restenosis Prevention On Repeated Thromboxane A2-antagonism study
Circulation 1991;84:1568-80

CARS
Coumadin Aspirin Reinfarction Study
Lancet 1997;350:389-396

CART
Classification And Regression Trees models

CART
Colchicine Angioplasty Restenosis Trial

CART
Coronary Angioplasty Restenosis Trial
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999;33:1619-1626

CASA
Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse study

CASANOVA
Carotid Artery Stenosis with Asymptomatic Narrowing: Operation Versus Aspirin

CASCADE
Cardiac Arrest in Seattle: Conventional versus Amiodarone Drug Evaluation
(a )Am J Cardiol 1991;67:578-84
(b) Am J Cardiol 1993;72:1295-300
(c) Am J Cardiol 1993;72:70F-74E
(d) Am J Cardiol 1993;72:280-7
(e) Am J Cardiol 1993;72:1295-300
(f) Am J Cardiol 1994;73:237-41

CASCADE
Conventional antiarrhythmic vs Amiodarone in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest Drug Evaluation

CASH
Cardiac Arrest Study Hamburg
(a) Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 1993;16:552-8

CASH
Caring About Seniors' Health study

CASIS
Canadian Amlodipine/Atenolol in Silent ischemia Study
J Am Coll Cardiol 1995;25:619-25

CASIS
Coronary Artery Stent Implantation Study

CASS
Coronary Artery Surgery Study
(c) Circulation 1983;68:939-950
(a) N Engl J Med 1984;310:750-8
(c) Circulation 1990;82:1629-1646
(c) Circulation 1990;82:1647-1658
(b) J Am col cardiol 1991;18:343-8
(c) Circulation 1995;91:2335-44

CASSIS
Czech And Slovak Spirapril Intervention Study
Eur J Clin Pharmacol 1995;49:95-102

CAST
Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial
(a) N Engl J Med 1989;321:406-12
(b) N Engl J Med 1991;324:781-788
(c) J Am coll Cardiol 1991;18:14-19
(d) J Am Coll Cardiol 1991;18:20-8
(e) Circulation 1994;90:2843-52
(f) Circulation 1995;91:79-83

CAST II
Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial II
(a) N Engl J Med 1992;327:227-33
(b) J Am Coll Cardiol 1992;19:894-98
(c) Control Clin Trials 1994;15:437-49

CAST
Chinese Acute Stroke Trial
Lancet 1997;349:1641-9

CASTEL
CArdiovascular STudy in the Elderly
Jpn Heart J 1994;35:589-600

CASTOR
Coronary Angioscopic STudy of Restenosis

CAT
CArdiomyopathy Trial

CAT
Chinese Angiotensin-converting-enzyme-inhibitor in acute myocardial-infarction Trial

CATCH
Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health

CATS
Canadian American Ticlopidine Study
Lancet 1989;i:1215-20

CATS
Captopril And Thrombolysis Study
(a) J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 1992;19(suppl 4):S18-24
(b) Eur Heart J 1994;15:898-907
(c) J Am Coll Cardiol 1996;28:114-121
(d) J Am Coll Cardiol 1997;30:400-405

CAVA
Coronary Atherectomy Versus Angioplasty

CAVATAS
Carotid And Vertebral Artery Transluminal Angioplasty Study

CAVEAT
Coronary Angioplasty Versus Excisional Atherectomy Trial
(a) N Engl J Med 1993;329:221-27
(b) Circulation 1995;91:2158-2166

CAVEAT II
Coronary Angioplasty Versus Excisional Atherectomy II Trial
(a) Circulation 1995;91:1966-1974

CCABOT
Cornell Coronary Artery Bypass Outcomes Trial

CCAIT
Canadian Coronary Atherosclerosis Intervention Trial
(a) Circulation 1994;89:959-968
(b) Circulation 1995;92:2404-2410

CCAT
Canadian Coronary Atherectomy Trial
Can J Cardiol 1997;13(9):825-830.

CCC
Canadian Cardiovascular Coalition study

CCCCP
Comprehensive Cardiovascular Community Control Program

CCHD
Caephilly Collaborative Heart Disease study

CCHP
Corpus Christi Heart Project

CCHS
Copenhagen City Heart Study

CCORP
Cornell-China-Oxford Research Project

CCP
Cooperative Cardiovascular Project
JAMA 1999;282:341-348

CCPT
Chinese Cancer Prevention Trial

CCRT
Cardiac Catheter Re-use Trial

CCS-1
Chinese Cardiac Study
Lancet 1995;345:686-687

CCSG
Canadian Cooperative Study Group

CCSRG
Cochrane Collaboration Stroke Review Group

CCT
Chinese Captopril Trial

CDP
Coronary Drug Project
(a) Circulation 1973;47(suppl 1):11-50
(b) JAMA 1975;231:360-81

CDPAS
Coronary Disease Prevention with Aspirin Study

CDPAS
Coronary Drug Project Aspirin Study

CEASE
Collaborative European Anti-Smoking Evaluation

CECCC
Confidential Enquiry into Cardiac Catheterization Complications

CEDARS
Comprehensive Evaluation of Defibrillators And Resuscitative Shock study

CEDIM
Italian study in L-Carnitine and Digital Echocardiography in Myocardial infarction
L-Carnitine Echocardiografia Digitalizzata Infarto Miocardico
J Am Coll Cardiol 1995;26:380-387

CEI-AMI
Converting Enzyme Inhibitor treatment of patients in China with Acute Myocardial Infarction

CELL
Cost Effectiveness of Lipid Lowering study
J Intern Med 1996;240:13-22

CEN
Clinical Experience Network study

CEOEECP
Clinical Evaluation Of Enhanced External Counter-Pulsation

CEPRIM
Cebutid 50 En Prevention des Reocclusions coronaires apres reperfusion Myocardique a la phase aigue d'un Infarctus

CESAR 2
Clinical European Studies in Angina and Revascularization 2
Eur Heart J 1999;20:51-57

CESG
Cerebral Embolism Study Group trial

CET
Collaborative Eclampsia Trial

CHA
Chicago Heart Association detection project in industry

CHAD
Cholesterol Hypertension And Diabetes study

CHAMP
Children's HIV and AIDS Model Program

CHAMP
Combination Hemotherapy And Mortality Prevention

CHAOS
Cambridge Heart AntiOxidant Study
Lancet 1996;347:781-6

CHAOS
Cardiovascular disease,Hypertension and hyperlipidemia,Adult-onset diabetes,Obesity,and Stroke

CHAP
CHoay Against Phlebitis

CHAPS
Carvedilol Heart Attack Pilot Study

CHAS
Coronary Health Assessment Study

CHEC
Community Hypertension Evaluation Clinic program

CHF-STAT
Congestive Heart Failure-Survival Trial of Antiarrhythmic Therapy
(a) Control Clin Trials 1992;13:339-50
(b) Circulation 1996;93:2128-34

CHF-STAT (Substudy
Congestive Heart Failure-Survival Trial of Antiarrhythmic Therapy
Spontaneous conversion a dn maintenance of sinus rhythm by amiodarone in patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation. Circulation 1998;98:2574-79

CHIC
Cardiovascular Health In Children study

CHIP
Continuous Health Improvement Program

CHIP
Coronary Health Improvement Project

CHOICE
Congestive Heart failure mOrtality Investigation on Carvedilol's Efficacy

CHQCP
Cleveland Health Quality Choice Project

CHS
Cardiovascular Health Study

CHS
Charleston Heart Study

CHS
Chinese Health Study

CHS
Community Health Study

CHS
Congenital Heart Surgeons Society study

CHS
Copenhagen city Heart Study

CHS
Coronary Heart Study

CIAIT
Chinese Infarction ACE-Inhibitor Trial

CIBIS
Cardiac Insufficiency BIsoprolol Study
(a) J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 1990;16(suppl 5):S158-63
(b) Circulation 1994;90:1765-1773

CIBIS II
Cardiac Insufficiency BIsoprolol Study II
Fundam Clin Pharmacol 1997;11:138-42
Lancet 1999 Jan 2;353(9146):9-13

CIDS
Canadian Implantable Defibrillator Study
(a) Am J Cardiol 1993;72:103F-108F
(b) Circulation 2000;101:1297-1302

CIDS
Canadian Internal Defibrillator Study

CIS
multicenter Coronary Intervention Study
Eur Heart J 1997;18:226-234

CITO
Collaborazione Italiana per la Trombosi in Ortopedia

CITTS
Central Illinois Thrombolytic Therapy Study

CLAS
Cholesterol Lowering Atherosclerosis Study
(a) JAMA 1987;257:3233-40
(b) Circulation 1991;83:438-47

CLAS II
Cholesterol Lowering Atherosclerosis Study
(a) JAMA 1990;264:3013-7

CLASP
Collaborative Low-dose Aspirin Study in Pregnancy

CLASP
PreeCLampsia prevention with low-dose ASPirin

CLASSICS
Clopidogrel Aspirin Stent Interventional Cooperative Study

CLEOPAD
CLOpidogrel in Peripheral Arterial Disease

CLIP
Cholesterol Lowering Intervention Program

CLOUT
Core LaboratOry UlTrasound analysis study

CLUE
study of blood pressure in Washington County, Maryland, conducted during cancer screening with the slogan "give us a CLUE to cancer"

CME
Continuing Medical Education trial

CMS
Copenhagen Male Study

CNR-ILS
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Italian Longitudinal Study on Aging

CNR-OD1
Italian CNR multicentre prospective study OD1
Eur Heart J 1989;10:292-303

COBALT
Continuous infusion versus Bolus Alteplase Trial

COBALT
Continuous infusion vs double-Bolus administration of ALTeplase
N Engl J Med 1997;337:1124-1130

COCS
Cornell-Oxford China Study

COMAC-Epidemiology
COMite d'Action Concertee-Epidemiology research studies

COMET
(This trial is now underway comparing metoprolol to carvedilol).

COMMIT
COMMunity Intervention Trial for smoking cessation

COMMIT
COMprehensive Multidisciplinary Interventional Trial for regression of coronaryu artery disease

COMPASS
COMPArative trial of Saruplase versus Streptokinase
J Am Coll Cardiol 1998;31:487-493

CONCORDE
the name was chosen for the trial to represent Anglo-French collaboration

CONSENSUS
COoperative North Scandinavian ENalapril SUrvival Study
(a) N Engl J Med 1987;316:1429-35
(b) Circulation 1990;82:1730-6
(c) Am J cardiol 1990;66:40-5D
(d) Am J Cardiol 1992;69:103-7

CONSENSUS II
COoperative New Scandinavian ENalapril SUrvival Study II
(a) Circulation 1991;84(suppl 2):II-366
(b) N Engl J Med 1992;327:678-84

CONVINCE
Controlled Onset Verapamil INvestigation for Cardiovascular Endpoints
Ann NY Acad Sci 1996;783:278-94
Controll Clin Trials 1998;19:370-390

Copenhagen AFASAK
copenhagen Atrie Flimmer Aspirin Ankoagulation study
Lancet 1989;i:175-9

Copenhagen City Heart Study
Am J Hypertens 1997;10:634-9

COPERICUS
CarvedilOL ProspEctive RaNdomIzed Cumulative Survival Trial

CORALI
CORonarography + ALImentation

CORAMI
Cohort of Rescue Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction

CORDIS
Cardiovascular Occupational Risk factor Determination in ISrael

CORE
Collaborative Organization for RheothRx Evaluation
Circulation 1997;96:192-201

CORGENE
CORonary disease and angiotensin-converting-enzyme I/D GENotypE

CORIS
COronary RIsk factor Study

COTAIM
COntinuation of Trial of Antihypertensive Interventions and Management

COURT
A randomized trial of COntrast media Utilization in high Risk pTca
Circulation 2000;101:2172-2177

CPAS
Canadian Prinivil Atenolol Study

CPEP
Chicago Coronary Prevention Evaluation Program

CPHRP
Coronary Prevention and Hypertension Research Project
J Hum Hypertens 1993;7:100

C-PORT
The Atlantic Cardiovascular Patient Outcomes Research Team
JAMA 2002;287:1943–1951

CPPT
Coronary Primary Prevention Trial

CPRG
Coronary Prevention Research Group study with oxprenolol following myocardial infarction

CPS
Caerphilly Prospective Study

CPSTS
Chinese Post Stroke Treatment Study

COIN
Clinical Quality Improvement Network study

CRAC
Compliance Related Acute Complication study

CRAFT
Catheterization Rescue Angioplasty Following Thrombolysis
J Am coll Cardiol 1991;17(suppl A):276A

CRAFT I
Controlled Randomized Atrial Fibrillation Trial
J Am Coll Cardiol 1993;21:478A

CREW
Coronary Regression with Estrogen in Women

CRIB
Clinical Risk Index for Babies investigation

CRIS
Calcium-antagonist Reinfarction Italian Study
Am J Cardiol 1996;77:365-369

CRISP
Cholesterol Reduction In Seniors Program
Arch Intern Med 1994;154:529-39

CRIYFS
Cardiovascular Risk In Young Finns Study

CRUSADE
Coronary Revascularization UltraSound Angioplasty Device trial

CSCHDS
Caerphilly and Speedwell Collaborative Heart Disease Studies

CSS
Copenhagen Stroke Study

CSSCD
Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease

CTAF
Canadian Trial of Atrial Fibrillation
N Engl J Med 2000;342:913-920

CTOPP
Canadian Trial of Physiological Pacing
N Engl J Med 2000;342:1385-1391

CTRD
Cardiac Transplant Research Database study

CTS
Collaborative Transplant Study

CURVES
The CURVES study
Comparative Dose Effecacy of Atorvastatin, Simvastatin, Pravastatin, Lovastatin and Fluvastatin
Am J Cardiol 1998;81:582-587

CVST-T
Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis Trial

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