Status:

COMPLETED

Treating Frailty in Lung Transplant Candidates (PREHAB)

Lead Sponsor:

University of California, San Francisco

Conditions:

Advanced Lung Disease

Eligibility:

All Genders

50+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

In this pilot project, 35 lung transplant candidates will be recruited to participate in a three month individualized home-based program focused on exercise and nutrition optimization. This pilot is d...

Detailed Description

Lung transplantation aims to extend survival, reduce disability, and improve health-related quality of life for persons suffering from advanced lung diseases. Despite rigorous candidacy screening prac...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Adult lung transplant candidates in the UCSF Lung Transplant Program aged \>=50
  • Ability to understand and speak English or lives with a family member who has the ability to understand and speak English.
  • A diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or pulmonary fibrosis (PF).
  • A supplemental oxygen requirement with exercise that can be delivered safely at home using their home oxygen concentrator (as determined by clinically available six-minute walk distance test)
  • Waitilisted or soon to be waitlisted for lung transplantation at UCSF
  • Short Physical Performance Battery (SPBB) frailty score of 9 or less (range 0 - 12; lower scores = worse frailty).
  • Must be an outpatient.
  • Willing and able to come to UCSF Parnassus Campus for 1 day in-person training program.

Exclusion

  • Inability to speak or understand English or does not live with a family member who has the abilty to understand and speak English.
  • Subject does not possess home oxygen equipment (if supplemental oxygen is required for exercise)
  • Already or soon to be enrolled in a traditional hospital based pulmonary rehabilitation program
  • Lives alone.
  • A diagnosis of primary or secondary pulmonary hypertension. Diagnosis will be determined by clinically available right heart catheterization pulmonary arterial mean pressure \>= 30 mm Hg or transthoracic echocardiogram pulmonary arterial systolic pressure \> 50 mm Hg or report of moderate right ventricular dysfunction or worse. These tests are performed as part of routine clinical care in the lung transplant program. Echocardiograms are repeated every 6 months while patients are listed for transplantation.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

December 11 2015

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

December 14 2017

Estimated Enrollment :

26 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03457545

Start Date

December 11 2015

End Date

December 14 2017

Last Update

March 7 2024

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