Efficacy of Early Home-based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program for Patients After Acute Myocardial Infarction

Lin Xu

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acute Myocardial Infarction

Treatments: Other: enter the usual care program; Behavioral: entailing an early home-based CR program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02584192

CR2014

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of this CR program on the improvement of myocardial function using the three-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (3D-STE) in AMI patients.

Full description

The effect of early short-term home-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program on left ventricular function in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients is not clear yet.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being aged 18-65 years with a confirmed AMI diagnosis
• Being suitable for the CR program
• Undergoing PCI at the entry

Exclusion criteria

• Known ischemic heart disease, heart valvular lesions, intra-ventricular conduction disturbances, malignant arrhythmia, cardiac shock, and poor echocardiographic conditions to take STE examination

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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52 participants in 2 patient groups

the rehabilitation group

Experimental group

Description:

entailing an early home-based CR program

Treatment:

Behavioral: entailing an early home-based CR program

the control group

Other group

Description:

enter the usual care program, including the importance of carrying out physical activity, which was performed during inpatient care.

Treatment:

Other: enter the usual care program