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Register: Netherlands Trial Register
Last refreshed on: 28 April 2013
Main ID:  NTR2731
Date of registration: 03/02/2011
Primary sponsor: Erasmus Medical Center
Public title: Exercise Training in Congenital Heart Disease.
Scientific title: Exercise Training in Congenital Heart Disease: Is it effective and safe and does it improve quality of life? - TOFFIT
Date of first enrolment: 28/1/2010
Target sample size: 150
Recruitment status: recruiting
URL:  http://www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/admin/rctview.asp?TC=2731
Study type:  intervention
Study design:  Randomised: Yes; Masking: Single; Control: Active; Group: Parallel; Type: 2 or more arms, randomized  
Countries of recruitment
The Netherlands
Contacts
Name: E.M.W.J.  Utens
Address:  Postbus 2060 3000 CB Rotterdam The Netherlands
Telephone: +31 (0)10 7036092
Email: e.utens@erasmusmc.nl
Affiliation: 
Name: W.A.  Helbing
Address:  Postbus 2060 3000 CB Rotterdam The Netherlands
Telephone: +31 (0)10 7036264
Email: w.a.helbing@erasmusmc.nl
Affiliation: 
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Surgical repair for Tetralogy of Fallot through transatrial-transpulmonary repair, below the age of 2 years, or;

2. Surgical repair for single ventricle physiology, with intracardiac or extracardiac tunnel, performed before the age of 6 years as a (at least) 2-stage procedure (previous partial cavopulmonary repair);

3. At least 12 years of age;

4. Being followed in Erasmus MC, LUMC, UMC St Radboud, UMCU Wilhelmina Children's Hospital.

Exclusion criteria: 1. Inability to exercise;

2. Mental retardation;

3. Standard contra-indications for MRI;

4. Ventricular outflow obstruction (peak Doppler gradient > 60 mm Hg).


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Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Tetralogy of Fallot, Congenital heart disease, Fontan procedure

Intervention(s)
The patients randomized to the exercise program will perform exercise training. The exercise training program will consist of 3 training sessions of 1 hour per week, for a 3-month period. Training will be aerobic at 60% of heart rate reserve. Standardized training will be performed group-wise under supervision of a physiotherapist at local fitness-centers.

The patients randomized to the control group will continu their daily activities.
Primary Outcome(s)
1. Aerobic fitness;

2. Cardiac functioning;

3. Daily physical activity;

4. Health related quality of life.
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
NL25800.078.09
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Netherlands Heart Foundation (NHS, Nederlandse Hartstichting), Stichting Rotterdams Kinderrevalidatie Fonds Adriaanstichting
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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