Detecting Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) in Patients With Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) by Ultrasound

Echosense

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Systemic Sclerosis; Pulmonary Hypertension

Treatments: Radiation: Doppler ultrasound

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT02243111

DOP22_1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Doppler signals can be recorded from the lung parenchyma by means of a pulsed Doppler ultrasound system incorporating a special signal processing package; i.e. the transthoracic parametric Doppler (TPD) (EchoSense Ltd., Haifa, Israel). Systemic sclerosis patients often develop pulmonary vascular disease leading to pulmonary hypertension. The TPD system may provide important insight into pulmonary blood vessels characteristics by the LDS signals that are related to pulmonary hypertension.

The TPD performance in detecting PAH in SSc patients will be assessed in the study.

Enrollment: 1 patient

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Able and willing to give signed informed consent prior to enrollment
2. Male or female, ≥ 18 years of age
3. Diagnosis of SSc according to 2013 ACR/EULAR SSc Classification Criteria (van den Hoogen 2013): Score ≥ 9.
4. Patients with RHC data available from measurement within 3 weeks prior to TPD assessment
5. No change in or initiation of PAH specific therapy between the last RHC and TPD

Exclusion criteria

1. People unable or unwilling to give informed consent.
2. PCWP or LVEDP > 15 mmHg
3. Any PH etiology outside Group 1 (Dana Point, 2008)
4. Pregnant women
5. Patients having severe chest wall deformity

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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1 participants in 1 patient group

Doppler ultrasound

Experimental group

Description:

Recording Doppler signals from the lungs

Treatment:

Radiation: Doppler ultrasound