Portal Vein Flow Variability to Quantify Right-Sided Hemodynamic Congestion (PORTAL)

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Doppler Echocardiography

Right Heart Catheterisation

Heart Failure

Congestion

Central Venous Pressure

Treatments

Diagnostic Test: Comprehensive transthoracic echocardiography, Doppler echography & Kino-cardiograph (Kino)

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05411263

EC-2021-268

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the accuracy of a comprehensive venous Doppler echography including the portal vein pulsatility index (PVPI) to quantify invasively measured right-sided venous pressures. A substudy will correlate invasive and non-invasive hemodynamic measurements to ballistocardiography and seismocardiography with the Kino-cardiograph (Kino) device (HeartKinetics, Waterloo, Belgium).

Enrollment

61 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 99 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

At least 18 year old and able to provide informed consent;
Consecutive patients scheduled for right heart catheterisation by a dedicated heart failure specialist at the Centre of Cardiovascular Diseases (University Hospital Brussels, Jette, Belgium).

Exclusion criteria

Major anatomical variations of the portal veins (agenesis of left and right portal vein) and/or arterio-portal vein fistula;
Patients with Child-Pugh B or C liver cirrhosis or liver transplant;
Body Mass Index < 20 kg/m².