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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the heart at rest and stress conditions relative to the cardiopulmonary exercise capacity in young adults after neonatal surgery for transposition of the great arteries.


Clinical Trial Description

After ASO obstruction of the transposed coronary arteries with resulting reduced perfusion of the heart at stress or abnormities of the right ventricular blood flow resulting in increasing heart rate as well as abnormities in pulmonary flow can appear. In this single centre trial a large homogeneous group of young adults after surgery for transposition of the great arteries (TGA), the so called artery switch operation (ASO), will undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the heart at rest and under drug- induced stress to receive data of the functional status of the heart and its perfusion as well as data of the pulmonary arterial perfusion.

Also obstruction of the pulmonary arteries will lead to reduced perfusion and cardiopulmonary exercise capacity.

Therefore the MRI data will be compared to cardiopulmonary exercise capacity data determined by cardio pulmonary stress test (CPX) concerning the feasibility of a correlation of the data and possible generalisation of the results leading to long term assessment of coronary perfusion and myocardial status after ASO for recommendations of physical activity of the young adults. ;


Study Design

Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Basic Science


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NCT number NCT02415491
Study type Interventional
Source RWTH Aachen University
Contact Hedwig Hoevels- Guerich, Prof MD
Phone +49 241 80
Email hhoevels-guerich@ukaachen.de
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date May 2015
Completion date November 2016

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