NCT00580437

Pre-operative Evaluation of Kidney & Pancreas Transplant Patients

The Analysis of Data Collected During Angiography and Dobutamine Stress Contrast Echocardiograms in the Pre-Evaluation of Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 150 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Nebraska · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Examine the clinical utility of the dobutamine stress contrast echoes and angiograms obtained routinely in the evaluation of patients prior to kidney or pancreas transplantation.

Detailed description

Although there is an increasing quantity of data demonstrating the value of stress echo in risk stratifying patients for cardiac risk prior to major non-cardiac surgery, the current clinical practice utilized for assessing patients being evaluated for kidney or pancreas transplantation is both a stress echocardiogram and a coronary angiogram. This gap in opinion appears to be a concern on the part of both nephrologists, endocrinologists, and surgeons that the stress echocardiogram may miss significant angiographic disease that could result in major post-operative complications in this high-risk subgroup of patients (unstable angina, non-fatal infarction, or death).

Conditions

• Kidney Transplantation
• Pancreas Transplantation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Dobutamine Stress Echocardiogram	stress echocardiograms involving the use of intravenous Optison or Definity contrast agents to improve endocardial definition

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-05-02
• Primary completion: 2012-03-01
• Completion: 2012-04-01
• First posted: 2007-12-24
• Last updated: 2024-02-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States