Evaluating venous compliance in heart failure
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Heart failureCardiovascular - Other cardiovascular diseases
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12622000011785
- Lead Sponsor
- The Alfred Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 70
Inclusion Criteria
Investigative group:
- diagnosed Heart failure, aiming for an equal share of 25 HFpEF patients and 25 HFrEF patients
- NYHA II-IV.
- Ischaemic or non-Ischaemic aetiology.
- Stable heart failure therapy for 1 month (a <50% adjustment to diuretics is permissible)
Healthy volunteers:
-never diagnosed with heart failure (nil diagnosis of cardiomyopathy)
Exclusion Criteria
oPrior heart transplantation
oComplex congenital heart disease
oUnstable heart failure requiring high dose inotropes (milrinone >15ug/min, dobutamine >5 ug/kg/min or adrenaline > 2ug/min) or mechanical circulatory support
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method