The purpose of this study is to collect data to determine if the medication, Ranolazine, effects heart muscle function in patients who have areas of non-revascularizable heart muscle.
Many cardiac patients with severe coronary artery disease have areas of ischemic LV myocardium that cannot be revascularized (Non-R). The investigators propose to identify such patients via retrospective case review of CMRI data, as well as identify the exact regions which specify Non-R coronary anatomy. This selected study group will have a specific echocardiographic imaging protocol performed, which includes the known ischemic regions. All segments will be collected and analyzed as a pre-therapeutic baseline using specialized STE software to derive strain values. Following eight (8) weeks of ranolazine therapy, each subject will be re-interrogated with the same echocardiographic imaging protocol and have identical measurements of regional strain performed. Ranolazine will be added to the patients' usual medical therapy. Each patient will serve as their own control, from baseline to post therapeutic state. It is the hypothesis of the investigators, that additional therapeutic dosing of ranolazine will improve regional and perhaps global myocardial function. Improvement in LV mechanical function (regional and global) will be quantitated and objectively elucidated by STE derived myocardial strain as described further in this document.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study group will receive additional therapeutic dosing of drug.
Saint Thomas Heart at Saint Thomas West
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Measurement of strain
Changes in 3D regional left ventricular myocardial strain assessed by speckle-tracking
Time frame: 8 weeks
Left ventricular function
2D global longitudinal strain and various other echo parameters of left ventricular function
Time frame: 8 weeks
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