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Activity at Pulse Pressure Above an Individual Threshold in Patients With LVAD

NCT02304965 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 7

Last updated 2015-09-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Pilot study in patients with continuous flow left ventricular assist device (cfLVAD) to proof the feasibility of a specific individual training at home aimed to increase pulse pressure above a predefined threshold which might attenuate the loss of arterial wall thickness.

Hypothesis:

Increasing daily physical activity near to normal (\> 10.000 steps per day) with a pre-defined level of pulse pressure (intensity) is a realizable and feasible approach to investigate changes in arterial wall thickness and cardio-respiratory capacity in cfLVAD patients.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Daily physical activity

A combination of walking (\> 10.000 steps per day) and cycling on a stationary bicycle at home at an individual intensity. For the activity walking patients need to walk at a certain speed (e.g. 3 km/h) in order to be in the range of pulsatility as obtained from their pre-training treadmill test. For cycling a defined power in watt and duration will be given to each patient as defined from the pre-training cycling test.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hannover Medical School

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sven Haufe, Dr. · Hannover Medical School

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
45 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-11-30
Primary Completion
2015-06-30
Completion
2015-09-30

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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