Prehabilitation and Posttransplant Training Program in Liver Transplantation

Launched by MARIA DELS ANGELS CEBRIA I IRANZO, PT, PHD · Jan 27, 2020

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ClinConnect Summary

The main objective is to study the post-surgical impact (post-S) of a Prehabilitation program on candidates for liver transplantation (LT), as well as to study the effects of posttransplant training on the clinical and functional evolution of the recipients. Also this project pretends to assess the influence of functional capacity (FC) improvement on the short and long term post-S evolution of the LT candidates. This is a prospective randomized clinical trial in which three phases follow: Prehabilitation, training and follow-up. The sample will be constituted by 60 candidates for LT, random...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Indication of elective liver transplant with favorable cardiorespiratory evaluation that does not contraindicate the transplant.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Any orthopedic, motor, functional, neurological, cognitive or linguistic limitation that prevents the realization of the Prehabilitation program
• • Inability to perform psychometric tests
• • Esophageal varices not treated with ligature or beta-blockers
• • Varicose veins with a high risk of digestive hemorrhage
• • Hemoglobin \<80 g/l
• • Contraindication to weight loading
• • Impossibility to comply with the Prehabilitation program (hospital admission, work, geographical location)
• • Multi-organ transplantation and liver retransplantation
• • Refusal or lacks capacity to give informed consent