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The Prognostic Role and Diagnostic Efficacy of Exercise Right Heart Catheterization With a Simultaneous Echocardiography in Patients With Dyspnea on Exertion

Recruiting
Conditions
Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction
Chronic Pulmonary Thromboembolism (Disorder)
Interventions
Diagnostic Test: Exercise hemodynamic test
Registration Number
NCT05490901
Lead Sponsor
Samsung Medical Center
Brief Summary

To evaluate the role of exercise hemodynamic testing in the diagnostic workup for patients with dyspnea on exertion referred to the catheterization lab.

Detailed Description

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a major public health problem that has no proven effective treatment. However, in practice, it's difficult to recognize early stage of HFpEF by resting hemodynamic study and echocardiography because the patients mainly complaint of dyspnea only during exercise but not resting condition. Accordingly, exercise stress test will be helpful to provide more information on pathophysiology, diagnosis, and severity in various cardiovascular diseases such as HFpEF, valvular heart disease, and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Thus, the broad objective of this proposal is to characterize the dynamic changes in cardiopulmonary mechanics during stress in patients with exertional dyspnea, establishing a comprehensive multimodality diagnostic approach to the evaluation of exercise intolerance. Specifically, this study will compare established and novel parameters derived from echocardiography and CPX with simultaneous, gold standard invasive measures of cardiovascular hemodynamics at rest and with exercise stress to define the role of noninvasive testing in the diagnostic workup for patients with dyspnea on exertion referred to the catheterization lab.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
400
Inclusion Criteria
  • Subject must be at least 19 years of age.
  • Patients with dyspnea on exertion
  • Written informed consent of participating subjects after being fully briefed (for prospective analysis)
Exclusion Criteria
  • Patients with incomplete hemodynamic data at rest or exercise
  • Advanced tumor disease or other diseases with a short life expectancy
  • Uncontrolled systemic arterial hypertension ( > 160/100 mmHg at rest)
  • FEV1<50% predicted
  • TLC<60% predicted

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Patients with Unexplained DyspneaExercise hemodynamic testPatients with dyspnea on exertion
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Proportion of exercise induced pulmonary artery wedge pressure >25 mmHgduring the procedure

Number of Participants with Diagnosis of earlier heart failure with preserved ejection fraction based on exercise PCWP

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Lactate level at peak exerciseduring the procedure

Serum lactate level at peak exercise

LA stiffnessduring the procedure

LA stiffness measured by LA strain/E/e' using Transthoracic echocardiography

coronary flow reserveduring the procedure

invasively measured coronary flow reserve

Proportion of exercise induced pulmonary hypertension > 30 mmHgduring the procedure

Number of Participants with Diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension based on mean pulmonary pressure at peak exercise

Correlation between peripheral venous pressure and right atrial pressure assumed by echocardiographyduring the procedure

Correlation between peripheral venous pressure and right atrial pressure assumed by echocardiography

Ventilatory mechanicsduring the procedure

ratio of minute ventilation to carbon dioxide production (VE/VCO2)

Aerobic capacityduring the procedure

peak oxygen consumption (VO2)

index of microcirculatory resistanceduring the procedure

invasively measured index of microcirculatory resistance

change of E/e' between at rest and peak exercisebetween at rest and peak exercise

The change of E/e' between at rest and peak exercise

Rates of rehospitalization due to heart failure5 years follow-up

Rehospitalization due to heart failure

The change of right ventricular systolic pressure (RVSP) between at rest and peak exercisebetween at rest and peak exercise

The change of RVSP between at rest and peak exercise

change of Tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) between at rest and peak exercisebetween at rest and peak exercise

The change of TAPSE between at rest and peak exercise

change of S' between at rest and peak exercisebetween at rest and peak exercise

The change of S' between at rest and peak exercise

Rates of all-cause death5 years follow-up

Follow-up death

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Samsung Medical Center

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Seoul, Korea, Republic of

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