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Rehabilitation in Patients With Congenital Heart Disease

NCT01463800 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 28

Last updated 2017-10-02

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Exercise intolerance is a major burden for patients with complex congenital heart disease (CHD), significantly affecting their quality of life. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing provides a reliable tool both for assessing exercise capacity of CHD patients and for risk stratification and is becoming part of the routine clinical assessment of these patients. Exercise has an effect on the muscular, metabolic and circulatory systems. While exercise training has been widely studied in chronic heart failure, its efficacy in adults with CHD remain unknown. The investigators hypothesize that structured exercise training will improve exercise intolerance, in particular peak VO2. The aim of this multicenter, randomized study is to evaluate the impact of structured exercise training on exercise intolerance in patients with complex CHD.

Conditions

  • Heart Defects, Congenital

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Structured exercise training

12 weeks low level ambulatory structured exercise training

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Daniel Tobler, MD · University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-05-31
Primary Completion
2016-05-31
Completion
2017-01-01

Countries

  • Spain
  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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