Estimated Echocardiographic Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure in Heart Failure

University of Palermo

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Heart Failure

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: normal sodium diet

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01738659

UNIPA

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study was to verify the effects of moderate versus low sodium intake on pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP), determined by Doppler echocardiography and tissue Doppler imaging in patients suffering from compensated heart failure.

Full description

the study outcome is hospital readmission and mortality after 12 months of two different sodium diet.

Enrollment: 143 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• compensated HF patients

Exclusion criteria

• decompensated HF patients

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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143 participants in 1 patient group

normal sodium diet (120 mmol/die)

Experimental group

Description:

active comparator: low sodium diet (80 mmol/die)

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: normal sodium diet