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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nagel, Christian
• Nasereddin, Mohammed
• Benjamin, Nicola
• Egenlauf, Benjamin
• Harutyunova, Satenik
• Eichstaedt, Christina A.
• Xanthouli, Panagiota
• Mayer, Eckhard
• Grünig, Ekkehard
• Guth, Stefan

Titel

Supervised Exercise Training in Patients with Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension as Early Follow-Up Treatment after Pulmonary Endarterectomy: A Prospective Cohort Study

Ist Teil von

• Respiration, 2020-08, Vol.99 (7), p.577-588

Ort / Verlag

Basel, Switzerland: S. Karger AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Background: Data on exercise training in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) after pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) as well as data on clinical and haemodynamic changes shortly after PEA are lacking. Objective: The objective of this prospective study was to analyse the safety, feasibility, and the effectiveness of combined supervised inpatient rehabilitation in patients with CTEPH directly after PEA. Methods: CTEPH patients started a 19-week rehabilitation program (3 weeks as inpatients and continued at home for another 16 weeks) with supervised exercise training as follow-up treatment shortly after PEA. Haemodynamics were assessed by right heart catheterisation before PEA and 22 weeks after PEA. Non-invasive assessments as transthoracic echocardiography and 6-min walking distance (6MWD) were performed before PEA and after 3 (that is, beginning of rehabilitation), 6, and 22 weeks following PEA. Adverse events were recorded throughout the study. Results: Forty-five CTEPH patients were included (49% female, 57.6 ± 12.4 years old, 60% WHO functional class III). Rehabilitation was started 3.3 ± 0.9 weeks after PEA. Exercise training was well tolerated in all patients without severe side effects. Haemodynamics measured by right heart catheterisation significantly improved from pre-PEA to 22 weeks post-PEA in cardiac output (+1.2 ± 1.5 L/min, 33.4%, p = 0.001) and mean pulmonary arterial pressure (–19 ± 13 mm Hg, –39.6%, p < 0.0001). Right heart size measured by echocardiography, 6MWD, quality of life, and oxygen saturation significantly improved not only within the first 3 weeks after PEA but also during the following 19 weeks of exercise training. Conclusions: Supervised exercise training was feasible as early follow-up treatment after PEA. Further controlled studies are needed to discriminate the effects of PEA and early follow-up rehabilitation. Trial Registration: The study was registered at clinicaltrials.gov (NCT01393327) on July 13, 2011. The study start date was January 2010, and completion date was December 2013.