Home-Based Exercise After LVAD Implantation
This study is looking at how a home-based exercise program using a smartphone app affects people who have recently received a HeartMate 3™ left ventricular assist device (LVAD), which is a pump that helps your heart. Researchers want to see if this exercise program can improve your physical activity, strength, and overall quality of life compared to usual care. You might be able to join if you are at least 18 years old, have recently had your first HeartMate 3™ LVAD implanted, can walk on your own, and own a smartphone with internet. The study will measure changes in your physical activity and capacity, like your step count and walking distance, after 6 months.
- Study design
- This interventional study plans to enroll 100 participants. You will be randomly assigned to either the exercise intervention group or the usual care group.
- What's involved
- You will have baseline assessments including wearing an activity tracker, a six-minute walk test, frailty testing, surveys, and a CT scan. If in the exercise group, you'll have an initial training session and follow an individualized exercise plan.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Your physical activity and capacity will be measured again at 6 months to see the effects of the intervention.
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Home-Based Exercise Program Using Mobile Technology After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation
At a glance
Conditions
NCT06291922
Where you'd take part
This study runs at 4 sites. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohiono site contact published
Recruiting
Henry Ford Health
Detroit, Michiganno site contact published
Recruiting
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniano site contact published
Recruiting
University of Utah Health
Salt Lake City, Utahno site contact published
Recruiting
Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.
Study leadership
- Himabindu Vidula, MD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · University of Pennsylvania
Who to contact
Opens a ready-to-send draft in your own email app — review before sending.
What this trial measures
- Effects of exercise intervention on physical activity and capacity (step count)6 months
The investigators will compare the effects of the exercise intervention vs. usual care on physical activity and capacity measured by daily steps captured by an activity tracking watch.
- Effects of exercise intervention on physical activity and capacity (distance)6 months
The investigators will compare the effects of the exercise intervention vs. usual care on physical activity and capacity measured by six-minute walk test distance.