New ultrasound measure may spot heart risk after chest surgery
NCT ID NCT05060302
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tested whether a new heart ultrasound measurement can predict serious heart complications after chest surgery. Researchers followed 191 adults who had lung surgery and performed heart ultrasounds before surgery, two days after, and fifteen days after. They tracked whether patients had heart problems like irregular heartbeat or heart failure within 30 days of surgery.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could lead to a better way to predict heart complications after chest surgery, helping doctors identify high-risk patients earlier.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, single-center pilot study, so results may not apply to all patients. The new measurement technique is still being tested and may not prove to be better than existing methods.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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191 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Sep 2021
- Finished
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Jan 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult patient (\>18 years) * Patient hospitalized at the Amiens University Hospital for scheduled thoracic surgery (lobectomy, pneumonectomy, wedge resection). * Surgery by thoracotomy or video-assisted thoracic surgery * Information of the patient and collection of his non-opposition Exclusion Criteria: * Patient with poor echogenicity on TTE not allowing evaluation of 2D-STE or conventional parameters of the RV. * Patient with a rapid supraventricular rhythm disorder (HR \> 100) at the time of TTE * Patient under mechanical ventilation * Patient under extracorporeal membrane oxygenation * Patients under guardianship or legal protection * Patients whose clinical condition does not allow for their non-opposition * Pregnant women
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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CHU Amiens Picardie
Amiens, France
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