Cardiac Strain Using Speckle Tracking Echocardiography During Orthotopic Liver Transplantation

Mayo Clinic

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Liver Transplant Disorder; Reperfusion Injury

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04316468

20-001209

Details and patient eligibility

About

Researchers are trying to improve the understanding of systolic function of the heart at the time of liver reperfusion in patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age greater than 18 years
• Undergoing primary orthotopic liver transplantation

Exclusion criteria

• Redo orthotopic transplantation
• Acute or fulminant liver failure
• Patient with pre-existing atrial fibrillation or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Patients with an abnormal preoperative stress test (EF <55%, areas of prior infarct, ongoing ischemia)