Bioelectrical Impedance Spectroscopy in Heart Transplantation: Tracking Post-Transplant Changes in Body Composition and Correlation With Conventional Preoperative Risk Assessment Modalities

Completed

Conditions studied: Heart Transplant Failure and Rejection

In brief

Patients with marginal physiologic reserve, severe frailty, and/or malnutrition may be regarded as unsuitable candidates for advanced cardiac replacement therapies. However, little data exist on precisely which measures are predictive of subsequent adverse events. Assessment of nutritional status and frailty is still largely predicated on crude and obsolete parameters, such as baseline serum albumin level or body mass index (BMI). In this prospective cohort study the investigators will evaluate the use of bio-electrical impedance spectroscopy (BIS) as a measure of body composition and assess the associations with surgical outcomes.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03373279

Run by

Baylor Research Institute

People needed

69

Starts

2017-02-01

Expected to finish

2023-12-30

Last updated by the study team

2026-01-22

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Listed for a native heart transplant at BUMC
• At least 18 years of age

You may not qualify if…

• Women during pregnancy
• Patient currently has a ventricular assist device

Where it is running

• Baylor University Medical Center — Dallas, Texas, United States

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