Assessment of the prognostic significance of the leg positive pressure stress echocardiography for patients with chronic heart failure
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Patients with chronic heart failure
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000014675
- Lead Sponsor
- Division of cardiology, Kobe university hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete: follow-up complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 70
Inclusion Criteria
Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
1) Patients with significant hypotension (<90/50mmHg) or uncontrolled hypertension (>160/90mmHg). 2) Patients with acute illness within 3 months. 3) Patients with life-threatening ventricular arrhythmia. 4) Patients with NYHA 4 heart failure. 5) Patients with severe hepatic diseases including fulminant hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, or hepatic tumor. 6) Patients with severe renal diseased or those with hemodialysis. 7) Patients who experienced malignancy within 5 years. 8) Pregnant women. 9) Patients with venous thrombosis or the history of venous thrombosis.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional,observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Combined endpoint of admission due to heart failure, death from heart failure, and sudden cardiac death
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1) Change in NYHA functional class from baseline 2) Changes in left ventricular ejection fraction, left ventricular end-diastolic, and end-systolic volume from baseline 3) Changes in right ventricular and left atrial function from baseline using speckle-tracking echocardiography