Effect of Prescribed Cardiac Rehabilitation in Patients With Advanced Heart Failure or Ventricular Assist Device

German Heart Institute

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Heart Failure

Treatments: Procedure: Exercise training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04696900

REHAB-HF/VAD

Details and patient eligibility

About

This trial will evaluate the effect of prescribed exercise training on quality of life and exercise capacity of patients with advanced heart failure or after ventricular assist device implantation. Furthermore, clinical, laboratory and echocardiographic markers of heart failure, rehospitalization rates and cost-effectiveness will be assessed.

Enrollment: 14 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age >17 years
• written informed consent
• chronic end-stage systolic heart failure with or without ventricular assist device
• clinically stable for at least 6 weeks
• prescription of cardiac rehabilitation

Exclusion criteria

• addictions or other illnesses that impact the ability to understand the nature, scope and consequences of the trial
• lack of knowledge of German to fully understand study information
• pregnancy, pre-menopausal women
• participation in the rehabilitation program < 80%
• contraindications of cardiopulmonary exercise testing on an ergometer

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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14 participants in 1 patient group

Exercise training

Other group

Description:

14 participants will absolve a prescribed exercise training for 12 months.

Treatment:

Procedure: Exercise training