Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Cirrhotic Patients: a Pilot Study

Completed

Conditions studied: End Stage Liver Disease

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01658982

Run by

Mayo Clinic

People needed

6

Starts

2012-08-01

Expected to finish

2013-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-12-02

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• listed for liver transplantation with end stage liver disease

You may not qualify if…

• patients listed for liver transplant without end stage liver disease

Where it is running

• Mayo Clinic — Rochester, Minnesota, United States

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