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TEE and Dysphagia in Lung Transplantation

NCT06089434 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 116

Last updated 2025-07-18

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Summary

The primary outcome of this study is dysphagia (difficulty swallowing) on postoperative speech and swallow evaluation following lung transplantation.

Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) (creates pictures of the heart from inside the participants body) is routinely performed for all lung transplantations at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and it is the standard of care. Patients are randomized to two groups. The intervention group would limit the number of TEE clips (# pictures taken) per case. The control group would leave the number of TEE clips to the discretion of the attending anesthesiologist.

The investigators hypothesize that reduction in TEE imaging during lung transplantation will reduce dysphagia.

Conditions

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) with limited number of TEE clips

The intervention group would be limited to fewer than 20 TEE clips per case (versus the average of \~ 80-100 TEE clips per case).

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) with number of TEE clips per attending anesthesiologist

The control group would leave the number of TEE clips to the discretion of the attending anesthesiologist.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • J.Prince Neelankavil, MD · University of California, Los Angeles

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-07-12
Primary Completion
2026-06-30
Completion
2026-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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