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CompletedNCT03859115

Effects of TENS on Myocardial Protection in Patients Undergoing AVR

Status
Completed
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
30 (actual)
Sponsor
Seoul National University Hospital · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
20 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

Patients undergoing aortic valve replacement are randomized to receive TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) or sham stimulation at one arm for 30 min under various anesthetic conditions: no anesthesia (preanesthesia), sevoflurane or propofol anesthesia. Cardioprotective effects of TENS are compared through Langendorff rat heart perfusion system using plasma dialysate from patients.

Detailed description

Patients undergoing aortic valve replacement are randomized to one of six groups: preanesthesia-TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation), preanesthesia-sham, sevoflurane-TENS, sevoflurane-sham, propofol-TENS, propofol-sham. Patients receive TENS or sham stimulation (without electrical pulse generation) at one arm for 30 min under no anesthesia (preanesthesia) or sevoflurane or propofol anesthesia. In all patients, blood samples are obtained before and after TENS or sham procedure to make plasma dialysate to perfuse rat hearts subjected to ischemia-reperfusion injury through Langendorff system. Cardioprotective effects are determined by comparing infarct sizes of rat hearts perfused with human plasma dialysate, which reflects cardioprotective effects of TENS in human subjects. By comparing infarct size differences, the myocardial protective effects of TENS in various anesthetic conditions can be determined in human subjects undergoing aortic valve replacement.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
PROCEDURETENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation)transcutaneous nerve stimulation with electrical pulse generation
PROCEDUREsham interventionsham stimulation without electrical pulse generation

Timeline

Start date
2019-03-15
Primary completion
2020-04-08
Completion
2021-01-04
First posted
2019-03-01
Last updated
2021-01-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03859115. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.