Inspiratory Muscle Training in Pulmonary Hypertension

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Pulmonary Hypertension

Treatments: Other: Inspiratory muscle training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01410279

09032

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is evaluate the effect the inspiratory muscle training on the functional capacity of patients with pulmonary hypertension.

Full description

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a syndrome, in the case of hemodynamic alteration of a number of diseases and processes, such as the progressive increase in pulmonary vascular resistance, right heart failure and early death. Frequently patients with PH have reduced functional capacity, quality of life and survival. It was demonstrated recently that patients with HP also have inspiratory muscle weakness, possibly further increase the fatigue and dyspnea during exercise. To meet this need, inspiratory muscle training can lead to significant improvement in respiratory muscle strength, exercise tolerance and dyspnea, thus resulting in reduction of discomfort during activities of daily living, increase in exercise capacity and improved quality of life in different situations.

Enrollment: 34 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis pulmonary hypertension
• World Health Organization (WHO) functional class II to IV
• inspiratory muscle weakness

Exclusion criteria

• obesity
• chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• orthopedic and neurological disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind