Cardiopulmonary Stress Testing (CPET) AlloSure Study
AlloSure Test Characteristics in Immunologically Quiescent and Immunologically Active Heart Transplant Recipients: Does Maximal Cardiopulmonary Stress Testing Prior to Assay Preserve Test Specificity While Enhancing Sensitivity?
Baylor Research Institute
27 participants
May 21, 2020
OBSERVATIONAL
Conditions
Summary
1. Cell-free DNA does not vary significantly as a function of the activity of immunologically quiescent cardiac transplant recipients, despite the metabolic demands of the transplanted organ. (The implication of the null result would be that no restrictions to patient activity, nor modification of cardiac rehabilitation prescription, would be necessary to maintain proper test characteristics of AlloSure testing). 2. In immunologically active cardiac transplant allografts, exercise prior to assay of donor-derived cell-free DNA can be used to increase the sensitivity of the AlloSure test. (The implication of this would be that the optimal time-frame for drawing an Allosure may actually be post-exercise, and that window will be characterized).
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria1
- Post-orthotopic heart transplant patients
Exclusion Criteria5
- orthopedic, neurologic and/or any other limitations that do not allow for exercise testing on a treadmill or cycle ergometer;
- individuals who require supplemental oxygen or have current permanent tracheostomies will be excluded from this study;
- individuals who are discharged to a long-term acute care facility;
- skilled nursing facility or with palliative care or hospice care will be excluded; (e) inmates and pregnant women;
- (f) patients with antibody-mediate rejection that are not felt to be safe for cardiopulmonary stress testing.
Interventions
* The cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is done. * EKG testing will be done as part of the CPET test. Allosure testing will be done at baseline and then at 1 hr, 4 hrs, 1 day, 7 days after CPET.
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NCT04656080