Interest of a 30 Minutes' Intermittent Work Exercise Test in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Cardiac and Pulmonary Functions

University Hospital, Strasbourg, France

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Treatments: Procedure: EFR

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00295113

2398

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to observe the ventilatory and cardiac function (included the pulmonary arterial pressure) during an intermittent work exercise test with high density work load.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• COPD patients (male and female) with moderate obstruction (FEV1/CV<60%)

Exclusion criteria

• acute respiratory disease
• any type of cardiac disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)