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Clinical Trials/ISRCTN39223875
ISRCTN39223875
Completed
Not Applicable

Telemonitoring in heart failure: a multicentre randomised trial

Heart Centre Hasselt vzw (Belgium)0 sites160 target enrollmentFebruary 9, 2010

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Not specified
Sponsor
Heart Centre Hasselt vzw (Belgium)
Enrollment
160
Status
Completed
Last Updated
11 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
February 9, 2010
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
11 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
Heart Centre Hasselt vzw (Belgium)

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • 1\. Patients hospitalised for decompensated heart failure, necessitating intravenous (IV) diuretics or augmentation of oral (PO) diuretic, IV inotropic or IV vasodilator. Patients should be stabilised with treatment including angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors (or angiotensin II receptor antagonists \[AIIA]), betablockers and diuretics at discharge.
  • 2\. Patients should be capable of understanding the aims of the study and to use the telemonitoring system
  • 3\. Aged between 50 and 85 years, either sex

Exclusion Criteria

  • 1\. Reversible forms of heart failure
  • 2\. Heart failure due to aortic stenosis
  • 3\. Isolated right heart failure
  • 4\. Patients residing in elderly homes
  • 5\. Severe renal disease (glomerular filtration rate \[GFR] less than 20 ml/min), planned dialysis in the next 6 months
  • 6\. Planned implantation of biventricular pacemaker, or cardiac surgery
  • 7\. Life expectancy less than 1 year
  • 8\. Severe pulmonary disease

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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