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Cardiac rehabilitation versus standard care after aortic aneurysm repair (Aneurysm CaRe): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Bahia, SS; Holt, PJ; Ray, KK; Ussher, M; Poloniecki, JD; Sharma, R; Bown, MJ; Hinchliffe, RJ; Thompson, MM; Karthikesalingam, A (2015) Cardiac rehabilitation versus standard care after aortic aneurysm repair (Aneurysm CaRe): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 16 (1). p. 162. ISSN 1745-6215 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0669-2
SGUL Authors: Holt, Peter James Edward Thompson, Matthew Merfyn Ussher, Michael Henry

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Abdominal and thoracic aortic aneurysms (A/TAA) are an important cause of mortality amongst the older population. Although A/TAA repair can be performed with low peri-operative risk, overall life expectancy remains poor in the years that follow surgery. The majority of deaths are caused by heart attack or stroke, which can both be prevented by cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in patients with clinically-manifest coronary artery disease. A Cochrane review has urged researchers to widen the use of CR to other populations with severe cardiovascular risk, and patients surviving A/TAA repair appear ideal candidates. However, it is unknown whether CR is feasible or acceptable to A/TAA patients, who are a decade older than those currently enrolling in CR. Aneurysm-CaRe is a feasibility randomised controlled trial (RCT) that will address these issues. METHODS AND DESIGN: Aneurysm-CaRe is a pilot RCT of CR versus standard care after A/TAA repair, with the primary objectives of estimating enrolment to a trial of CR after A/TAA repair and estimating compliance with CR amongst patients with A/TAA. Aneurysm-CaRe will randomise 84 patients at two sites. Patients discharged from hospital after elective A/TAA repair will be randomised to standard care or enrolment in their local CR programme with a protocolised approach to medical cardiovascular risk reduction. The primary outcome measures are enrolment in the RCT and compliance with CR. Secondary outcomes will include phenotypic markers of cardiovascular risk and smoking cessation, alongside disease-specific and generic quality-of-life measures. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ISRCTN 65746249 5 June 2014.

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Additional Information: © 2015 Bahia et al.; licensee BioMed Central. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
Keywords: Aorta, aneurysm, cardiovascular risk, survival, General & Internal Medicine, 1102 Cardiovascular Medicine And Haematology, 1103 Clinical Sciences
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute (MCS)
Academic Structure > Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute (MCS) > Vascular & Cardiac Surgery (INCCVC)
Academic Structure > Population Health Research Institute (INPH)
Journal or Publication Title: Trials
ISSN: 1745-6215
Language: eng
Dates:
DateEvent
15 April 2015Published
Publisher License: Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0
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Project IDFunderFunder ID
PG/13/98/30490British Heart Foundationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000274
PubMed ID: 25873189
Web of Science ID: WOS:000353458000001
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URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/107418
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0669-2

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