Prehabilitation in Patients on a Waiting List for a Transplant

Transplant Dysfunction Clinical Trial

Official title: Individualized Prehabilitation Program for Patients on a Waiting List for a Transplant.

Status Not yet recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of this study is to prove the effects of a individualized prehabilitation program (muscular strength and endurance) in patients in a waiting list for a transplant. The investigators want to see if patients that did a prehabilitation program have better results in the postoperative period.

Clinical Trial Description

Some characteristics of the fragile people, like as sarcopenia, are related with worse results after a transplant. Increasing the cardiorespiratory fitness with an exercise program during the preoperative period has shown improvements in patients after a surgery. It is produced a decreased in his functions, including a loss of muscle mass.

Prehabilitation is a exercise program before a surgery. This program will improve the patient's starting functional status and therefore recovery.

Physical activity is one of the most powerful predictors of mortality risk. Several studies say that a improved cardiorespiratory fitness by exercise before a surgery has a great impact in the patients after the intervention in short and long term. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Transplant Dysfunction

• NCT number: NCT03314376
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Malaga
• Contact: Antonio I Cuesta-Vargas, PhD
• Phone: 952137551
• Email: acuesta@uma.es
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2, 2020
• Completion date: June 1, 2021