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Filter by:To evaluate the safety and efficacy of Danzol in lung transplant recipients with short telomeres. Subjects with short telomeres recipient of lung transplant, will be randomized in the first month post-transplant to either placebo or Danazol (200mg bid) in a 2:1 ratio.
When suitable donor lungs become available for a consented recipient, and the donor cross clamp time occurs between 6pm and 4am, the transplant procedure (anesthesia starting time) will be allowed to be moved to a 6am start or later with the lungs being preserved at 10C cold static preservation upon organ arrival to our hospital using a specific refrigerator. The maximum allowed time between donor cross clamp and recipient anesthesia initiation will be 12h.
The purpose of this study is to see if adding a drug called Regadenoson to the EVLP circulation reservoir during perfusion of marginal donor lungs will help increase the likelihood that the donor lungs will become usable for transplantation.
Patients undergoing a lung transplant will be enrolled. All patients will undergo lung transplantation with standard post-operative management, including triple immunosuppression. As soon as the patient is deemed appropriate to take medications via the oral route, they will be converted from IR tacrolimus to Envarsus XR. Patients will be followed per site's standard of care.
Introduction: Following pulmonary transplantation (PT), peripheral and respiratory muscle weakness, and associated global malfunction are some of the limiting factors in rapid recovery. Effective early implantation pulmonary rehabilitation programs are currently lacking. Objectives: To introduce an early rehabilitation program in the ICU after PT to see if there is an improvement in functionality, an increase in strength and muscle mass, an improvement in the strength of the respiratory muscles and a shorter hospitalization time in the ICU and in the ward. Methodology: A single-blind randomized clinical trial will be performed to divide patients with PT into one experimental group and another control group. Prior to the PT, those patients between the ages of 18 and 70 will be recruited, to be admitted to the ICU of Vall Hebron University Hospital, and who have been prescribed pulmonary rehabilitation with onset in the first 15 days after the surgery. The control group receives regular treatment in the ICU, which includes muscle strengthening exercises, passive/assisted or active mobilizations, and respiratory physiotherapy with breathing muscle strengthening in a medium load. The experimental group receives a new early rehabilitation program based on a patient's in-bed cycling that allows controlled and adapted training to the patient's situation, along with coordinated exercise with neuromuscular electrostimulation and respiratory physiotherapy with breathing muscle strengthening in a high load. Improvement will be observed through functional scales (6MWT), muscle dynamometry, manual muscle test (MRC-SumScore), bioimpedanciometry, inspiratory and maximal expiratory pressures, spirometry, frailty and sarcopenia tests and a long-term Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing. Expected Outcomes: Patients who perform the experimental group are expected to have an early discharge from the ICU and a reduction of the total hospital admission. Is also expected that the experimental group will improve the functional capacity and muscular strength, and they will have a lower risk of fragility in long term. It is also expected that the patients in the experimental group will soon be able to normalize their oxygen consumption a year after lung transplantation.
The purpose of the registry will be to support ongoing research in the etiology, early diagnosis, clinical management, and prognosis of lung cancer and other cancers and diseases of the thorax by developing a complete repository of specimens from patients with thoracic disease including but not limited to suspected lung cancer, mediastinal and pleural tumors, lung transplants and from patients at a very high risk of developing other thoracic cancers or other thoracic diseases.
This study aims to evaluate the pharmacokinetics (PK) of apixaban in kidney and lung transplant recipients stabilized on either cyclosporine or tacrolimus as part of their immunosuppressive therapy.
The study population will be patients with planned double-lung transplant, with preoperative ex-vivo reconditioning procedure. The ex-vivo procedure will be performed for lungs considered as limit to be directly implanted according to the national classification or in case of Maastrich 3 decision. They required a rehabilitation procedure like ex-vivo to determine their quality. Once the procedure initiated, the unused remaining liquid will be retrieved for the first gasometry usually performed. This will be the time T1 of sampling. The unused remaining liquid will be retrieved for the gasometry of end of procedure usually performed, before the graft cooling. This will be the time T2. The purge liquid of first lung at the declamping of the pulmonary artery will be retrieved at the time of unclamping (time T3 of sampling). The purge liquid of the second lung at the declamping of the pulmonary artery will be retrieved with the same procedure (time T4 of sampling). The samples will be analysed with ELISA technique. The endothelial dysfunction will be evaluated with plasma concentration of heparan sulphate, syndecan-1, endothelin-1 and i-NOS.
A prospective, open label, study designed to assess the affect of the Reflux Band® UES Assist Device (Reflux Band) on reflux in patients that have undergone lung transplantation.
The specific aim of this study is to determine the impact of the addition of a dedicated mobility technician to the care team on specialty specific outcomes for patients recovering from surgical treatment for a hip or lower extremity long bone fracture or a lung transplant. The practice of post-operative early ambulation has been shown to improve outcomes by promoting enhanced recovery after surgery in a variety of patients. To that end, VUMC is establishing a "Culture of Mobility". To do so, additional personnel are being hired to help ambulate patients with traumatic hip and femur fractures, other fractures of the lower extremity long bones, as well as those post-lung transplant or readmitted post-lung transplant based upon the best available evidence supporting mobility programs. The added personnel are needed as the currently available resources have insufficient bandwidth to ensure complete early ambulation for all patients. The relative effectiveness of adding a dedicated resource is assumed. Although the literature suggests adding person-hours increases the amount of mobility achieved, there is an opportunity to evaluate whether this is really the case. The goal of this study is to evaluate the impact of adding the mobility technician to the existing care team. The mobility technician will be assisting patients who could benefit from early ambulation after surgery. We hypothesize that by adding this staffing resource, more patients will get the appropriate level of usual care. Specifically, we expect that adding the resource increases the proportion of those patients who are receiving the prescribed amount of early ambulation post-surgery, with subsequent improvements in functional independence at discharge, and decreases length of stay since patients achieve readiness for discharge sooner.