Coronary Arteriogenetic Heparinized Exercise

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study evaluates the addition of heparin to a 2-week cycle of physical rehabilitation in the treatment of refractory angina. Half of the patients will undergo heparin-primed physical rehabilitation, while the other half will undergo only physical rehabilitation.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Clinical Centre of Serbia
• Collaborator: Fondazione C.N.R./Regione Toscana "G. Monasterio", Pisa, Italy
• Treatments: Calcium heparin; Heparin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients with documented coronary artery disease not amenable of future treatment and belonging to "no-option" category with symptoms consistent with angina pectoris

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with unstable angina, recent myocardial infarction, uncontrolled hypertension, hemodynamically valvular heart disease, bronchial asthma, and neurologic and/or orthopedic illnesses that limit exercise capacity .

• Patients receiving vitamin K antagonist.

• Patients actively involved in programmes of cardiac rehabilitation or exercise training.