Exercise Intervention in Liver Transplant Patients

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

83

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

July 31, 2016

Primary Completion Date

December 31, 2019

Study Completion Date

December 31, 2019

Conditions
End Stage Liver DiseaseSarcopeniaLiver Cirrhoses
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Exercise Program

They will perform low-intensity, low-resistance exercise facilitated by a DVD video in their home. This exercise program lasts for 30 minutes at a time. Patients will be instructed to engage in this exercise program 3-4 times per week but not more often than 4 times per week. Pre-transplant patients will be asked to do the exercises from enrollment to transplant. Post-transplant patients will be asked to do the exercises for 6 months.

Trial Locations (3)

21218

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

27708

Duke University, Durham

94143

University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco

Sponsors

Collaborators (1)

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Johns Hopkins University

OTHER

collaborator

Duke University

OTHER

lead

University of California, San Francisco

OTHER