Status:

COMPLETED

Cardiovascular, Pulmonary and Skeletal Muscle Evaluation Postoperative in Fontan Patients: Effects of Exercise Training

Lead Sponsor:

University of Sao Paulo

Collaborating Sponsors:

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Conditions:

Congenital Heart Disease

Single Ventricle

Eligibility:

All Genders

12-30 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Introduction: The Fontan operation is the surgical treatment in most patients with either anatomic or functional single ventricles. In this operation, the subpulmonary ventricle is bypassed, connectin...

Detailed Description

All subjects were submitted to cardiovascular magnetic resonance, echocardiography, cardiopulmonary exercise test, complete lung function, catecholamine and B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) plasmatic ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Both gender, aged between 12 and 30 years
  • Patients undergoing the Fontan operation with time postoperatively ≥5 years
  • Clinically stable patients, no arrhythmia in the last electrocardiogram or clinical assessment
  • Consent by the cardiologist
  • Patients who voluntarily signed the consent form.

Exclusion

  • Patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome
  • Changes that reduce musculoskeletal walking skills
  • Neurological sequelae, patients with associated genetic syndrome, disturbance cognitive or psychiatric
  • Patients with a history of ventricular arrhythmias, cardio respiratory arrest, users of anti-arrhythmic drugs and / or underwent implantation of pacemaker
  • Atrial arrhythmia requiring treatment in the last 6 months
  • Patients with heart failure not controlled by medications and lung hypertension
  • Patients with protein-losing enteropathy
  • Severe hypoxemia (oxygen saturation \<80% at rest)
  • Symptomatic patients with a diagnosis of diaphragmatic paresis or paralysis postoperative patients, with or without plication
  • Patients with moderate to severe asthma
  • Patients who live outside the area of Sao Paulo

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 31 2013

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

October 30 2020

Estimated Enrollment :

60 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT02283255

Start Date

January 31 2013

End Date

October 30 2020

Last Update

December 7 2022

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InCor Heart Institute

São Paulo, Brazil, 05403000