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UnknownNCT01252407
Acute Effect of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation in Heart Failure
Acute Effect of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation on the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Systems in Individuals With Heart Failure
- Status
- Unknown
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 30 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Federal University of Health Science of Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 70 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine acute effect the transctutaneous electrical nerve stimulation in sympathetic and parassympathetic system in individuals with heart failure.
Detailed description
Heart failure (HF) is the inability of the heart to maintain adequate levels of blood supply to tissues. In recent years there has been an increased prevalence of heart failure (HF), in Brazil there are about two million people diagnosed with HF and 240,000 new cases per year. Thus, the IC constitutes the most serious problem now and in the fields of cardiology and public health. Sympathetic activity is increased and correlates with a worse prognosis and survival in these patients. Currently, the pharmacological blockade of the sympathetic system by chronic use of beta-blockers are commonly used to treat hyperactivity, but these interventions have side effects. The transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) has been used successfully to control pain in different clinical conditions and may be a noninvasive strategy to reduce drug and not the severity of increased sympathetic.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation | Application of low frequency (10-Hz) and high frequency (100-Hz) TENS, in two different days |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2010-11-01
- Primary completion
- 2013-03-01
- Completion
- 2013-12-01
- First posted
- 2010-12-03
- Last updated
- 2012-08-02
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Brazil
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01252407. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.