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Clinical Trials/ACTRN12609000077268
ACTRN12609000077268
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The effect of exercise training on safety, exercise capacity and quality of life in people with pulmonary arterial hypertension - a pilot study

Alfred Hospital0 sites10 target enrollmentJanuary 30, 2009

Overview

Phase
未知
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Not specified
Sponsor
Alfred Hospital
Enrollment
10
Status
Recruiting
Last Updated
6 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
January 30, 2009
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
6 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
Alfred Hospital

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • Patients will be eligible for inclusion if they are are aged over 18 years and in New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class II – III. Eligible patients will also be clinically stable and compensated on optimal medical therapy. Clinical stability will be defined as stable symptoms and no evidence of heart failure, a stable NYHA score and no changes in medical therapy over the last three months (16\). Patients wth Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (IPAH) as well as those with Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) related to connective tissue disease, congenital heart disease, sarcoidosis or the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) will be eligible to participate. All patients will need to have had PAH confirmed on prior right heart catheterisation.

Exclusion Criteria

  • recent syncope (within the last three months) or comorbidities which would preclude participation in an exercise program

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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