A STEP for Patients Prior to Undergoing TAVR: A Pilot Study

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Conditions studied: Frail Elderly, Aortic Valve Stenosis

In brief

The aim of this pilot study is to establish whether a Supervised TAVR Exercise Program (STEP) can safely improve the frailty status in patients with symptomatic severe aortic valve stenosis prior to undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02766075

Run by

OSF Healthcare System

People needed

4

Starts

2016-05-01

Expected to finish

2018-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-04-12

Who can join

Age: 50 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• All adult patients scheduled to undergo first-time elective TAVR

You may not qualify if…

• Vulnerable populations including prisoners, pregnant females and patients less than 18 years age.
• Patients with history of unstable angina, myocardial infarction, or decompensated heart failure in the week prior to screening
• Patients with physical limitations (i.e. debilitating stroke, amputation, unable to complete initial screening frailty profile)
• Patients with advanced dementia or cognitive deficits (i.e. unable to follow instructions of initial screening frailty profile)
• Exercise-induced arrhythmias

Where it is running

• OSF St. Francis Medical Center — Peoria, Illinois, United States

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