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Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Cirrhotic Patients: a Pilot Study

NCT01658982 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 6

Last updated 2013-12-02

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Optimizing patient survival and organ utility is a constant struggle for the liver transplant community. Despite rigorous cardiovascular evaluation before liver transplantation cardiovascular events are one of the leading causes of post-transplant morbidity and mortality in both early and late post transplant periods. Poor performance on measures of cardiopulmonary fitness has been associated with worse outcomes in liver transplant candidates. The investigators seek to determine the feasibility of obtaining measures of cardiopulmonary performance in liver transplant candidates from standard cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) and from a modified 3 minute step test and to determine whether the 3 minute step test is suitable for the assessment of cardiopulmonary fitness in a future outcome study.

Conditions

  • End Stage Liver Disease

Interventions

OTHER

cardiopulmonary exercise testing

3 minute step test compared to 6 minute bicycle test

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Kymberly Watt, MD · Mayo Clinic

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-08-31
Primary Completion
2013-06-30
Completion
2013-07-31

Countries

  • United States

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