Evaluation of cerebrovascular lesions and cognitive impairment in elderly patients with heart failure
- Conditions
- a disease affecting an artery within the braincerebrovascular lesions caused by heart failureor supplying blood to the brain caused by a disorder in which the heart loses it's ability to pump blood efficiently100192801000796310009841
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON30982
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 45
Inclusion Criteria
Aged 70 years and over, Able to visit the Deventer Hospital, documented diagnosis of heart failure, Full comprehension of the Dutch language, informed consent
Exclusion Criteria
Metal pieces anywhere in the body, Defribillator, Pacemaker, Metal pins in the cerebrovascular circulation, Neurostimulator in the spinal canal, (Blood vessel ) Stent in the past 6 weeks, Ossicle prothesis, bladderstimulator, insulinpump
Claustrophobia, Acute disease or acute care needed, Dialysis, Life expectancy of less than 3 months, Medically unstable or too sick to be referred to the heart failure outpatient clinic during the inclusion period, Patients with a documented diagnosis of dementia, Nursing home patients
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Amount of cebrovasculair lesions, mainly consisting of white matter lesions<br /><br>which will be semiquantitatively measured by volumetry</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>(lacunar) infarctions<br /><br>atrophy</p><br>