High-intensity Training Safely Improves Exercise Capacity in Heart, Lung, Kidney, and Liver Transplant Recipients: a Comparative Study

Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Activity After Organ Transplantation

Treatments: Other: High-intensity training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03329586

Exercise in transplantation

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will investigate whether high-intensity exercise training can safely improve physical performance in long-term stable heart, kidney, lung, and liver transplant recipients. Adult transplant recipients will participate in Transplantoux, a 6-month individualized home- and group-based training program, with the goal to cycle the Mont Ventoux in France. The investigators will do cardiopulmonary exercise testing : maximal oxygen consumption, maximal power and BMI.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• minimum post-transplant period of 6 months
• no acute rejection during the immediately preceding 6 months

Exclusion criteria

• patients with cardiovascular or orthopedic contra-indications for intensive physical exercise

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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42 participants in 1 patient group

Training

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: High-intensity training