3-dimensional Sensor Technology to Quantify Leg-edema

Medical University of Graz

Status: Unknown

Conditions: ADHF

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01700023

24-536 ex 11/12

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is two-fold:

1. to test 3-dimensional reconstruction of leg-edema in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure with leg-edema.
2. to measure changes in QRS-morphology in a simulation of conventional blood-pressure measurement in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure.

Full description

Leg-edema are common in patients with worsening heart failure. Apart from using a measuring tape there is no standardized tool to quantify leg-edema. Consequently, in patents with heart failure early detection of leg-edema is quite difficult.

From earlier pacemaker-studies it has been shown that an increase of afterload changes ECG-signals. Currently it is unknown how simple diagnostic procedures such as measuring blood-pressure affect QRS-morphology in patients with heart failure.

Enrollment: 15 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• hospitalization for worsening heart failure
• age greater than 18 years
• ability to stand without help from others
• informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• leg-edema of non-cardiac origin (venous, lymphatic)
• dialysis shunt

Trial design

15 participants in 1 patient group

patients with leg-edema

Description:

patients with decompensated heart failure presenting with leg-edema