Value of 6-minute Walk Test in Grown Ups With Congenital Heart Defects (GUCH)

Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf

Status: Completed

Conditions: Congenital Heart Disease

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02193243

Six-Minute Walk Test

Details and patient eligibility

About

The six-minute walk test is an established submaximal exercise test. Its role in examination of grown-up patients with congenital heart disease (GUCH) is not studied so far. Objective of this study was a comparison of the 6MWT with other established parameters of functional capacity, in grown-up patients with GUCH.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• congenital heart defect
• > 18 years

Exclusion criteria

• mental or physical incapability of exercise testing
• non-cardiac limitations of physical capacity, as e.g. orthopedic diseases or febrile infections
• severe psychiatric diseases