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Performance Diagnosis of a Patent Foramen Ovale During Lung Transplantation Using Transesophageal Echocardiography (FOP-TP)

H

Hopital Foch

Status

Completed

Conditions

Lung Transplant; Complications

Treatments

Diagnostic Test: search for a patent foramen ovale

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04165161
2018_0098

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators hypothesis is that an injection into the inferior vena cava associated with a provocation maneuver should allow to increase the incidence of FOP found by transesophageal echocardiography in a population of patients undergoing lung transplantation.

Enrollment

50 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Aged 18 years old minimum
  • Benefiting from a lung transplant
  • Having an upper vena cava catheter and a lower vena cava catheter set up as part of the usual care
  • Having signed a consent form
  • Affiliated to a insurance scheme or beneficiary (excluding AME)

Exclusion criteria

  • Pregnant or lactating women
  • Having a contraindication to the insertion of the esophageal ultrasound probe
  • deprived of liberty or under guardianship

Trial design

Primary purpose

Other

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Crossover Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

50 participants in 4 patient groups

superior without positive tele-expiratory pressure
Other group
Description:
Diagnostic Test: Contrast injection in the superior vena cava territory + controlled ventilation without positive tele-expiratory pressure
Treatment:
Diagnostic Test: search for a patent foramen ovale
superior with 10 cmH2O positive tele-expiratory pressure
Other group
Description:
Diagnostic Test: Contrast injection in the superior vena cava territory + controlled ventilation with 10 cmH2O positive tele-expiratory pressure
Treatment:
Diagnostic Test: search for a patent foramen ovale
inferior without positive tele-expiratory pressure
Other group
Description:
Diagnostic Test: Contrast injection in the inferior vena cava territory + controlled ventilation without positive tele-expiratory pressure
Treatment:
Diagnostic Test: search for a patent foramen ovale
inferior with 10 cmH2O positive tele-expiratory pressur
Other group
Description:
Diagnostic Test: Contrast injection in the inferior vena cava territory + controlled ventilation with 10 cmH2O positive tele-expiratory pressure
Treatment:
Diagnostic Test: search for a patent foramen ovale

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Marc Fischler, MD, PhD; Elisabeth Hulier-Ammar

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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