A Collaborative Approach

Led by a team of experienced, academically focused physicians, the CCAL philosophy espouses to maintain a high level of scientific inquiry for all contracted research projects. The expertise offered includes interventional cardiology, coronary physiology, and medical device technology from a multinational physician team. Other members comprising the CCAL staff include data analysts, as well as, clinical, research, data and administrative coordinators.

CCAL's dynamic staff and unique collegial relationships reflect the commitment of CCAL to clinical excellence. For truly turnkey operative outcomes, collaboration and coordination with CCAL will produce optimally performed clinical services.

Together with interdisciplinary collaborations and consultations, CCAL's state-of-the-art facilities provide for unique and timely opportunities and new techniques and refinements in managing clinical projects.

• Research Laboratories
• QCA AND QCU Laboratories
• Core Data Facility
• Research Studies and Clinical Trials
• Interdisciplinary Collaborations

Current CCAL Clinical Trials:

• ABACAS – Adjunctive Balloon Angioplasty following Coronary Atherectomy Study
• ASSURE – A Stent vs Stent Ultrasound Remodeling Evaluation (substudy of SCORES Trial)
• AVID – Angiography Vs. Intravascular Ultrasound Directed Coronary Stent Placement
• CRUISE – Can Routine Ultrasound Influence Stent Expansion (substudy of STARS Trial)
• DESIRE – DEbulking and Stenting In Restenosis Elimination
• FORECAST – FFR Or RFVR Evaluation of Coronary Artery Stenosis vs Thallium
• GIPSI – Gradual Inflation at Optimum Pressure vs Stent Implantation
• GUIDE – Guidance by Ultrasound Imaging for Decision Endpoints
• Infiltrator – Ethyl Alcohol to Reduce Coronary Intimal Hyperplasia after Stenting using the Infiltrator Intramural Drug Delivery Catheter
• OARS – Optimal Atherectomy Restenosis Study
• OSTI I – Optimal STent Implantation Study
• OSTI II – The Second Optimal STent Implantation Study
• PRESTO – Prevention of REStenosis with Transilast and Its Outcomes: A Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Trial
• PREVENT – Brachytherapy Trial
• REDUCE – Restenosis reDUction by Cutting balloon Evaluation
• SCORES – Stent COmparative REStenosis Trial
• START – STents And Radiation Therapy Trial
• STRUT – Stent Treatment Region Assessed by Ultrasonic Tomography
• ULTRA – UtiLizing the GFX 2.5 STent in Small DiameteR Arteries
• WRIST – Washington Radiation for In-stent ReStenosis Trial

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