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Study NCT ID: NCT06615934
Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Last Update Posted: None
First Post: 2024-05-06

Brief Title: Effects of Aerobic and Resistance Exercises on Inpatients Liver Transplantation Recipients
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Study Overview

Official Title: Comparing the Effects of Aerobic and Resistance Exercises With Routine Physiotherapy in Inpatients Immediately After Liver Transplantation on Muscle Strength Functional and Aerobic Capacity and Blood Biomarkers
Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Status Verified Date: 2024-09
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
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Brief Summary: The prevalence of chronic liver disease and primary liver cancer is still increasing on a global scale and so are their associated deaths

Compared to other diseases death from liver disease often means premature death because two-thirds of the lives lost are working years

Liver transplantation LT is an important and life-saving treatment option for the treatment of congenital metabolic disorders acute liver failure end-stage chronic liver disease ESLD and primary liver cancers

Modern liver transplantation is characterized by significant improvements in post-transplant patient survival graft survival and quality of life

Impaired physical fitness of patients with end-stage liver disease often persists after liver transplantation and compromises post-transplant recovery

Prior to liver transplantation excess ammonia taken up by skeletal muscle is a major metabolic driver of muscle wasting in end-stage liver disease and mainly inhibits the mTOR signaling pathway that supports muscle protein synthesis

Because excess ammonia is no longer present after transplantation recovery of muscle mass and function can be expected in patients However immunosuppression with calcineurin inhibitors that inhibit the mTOR signaling pathway may improve lethal length

It is also thought that post-transplant treatment regimens contribute to delayed recovery of decreased bone mineral density and increased fracture risk

Greater muscle mass as measured by creatinine clearance at 1 year after transplantation was associated with longer recipient and allograft survival

The results of previous studies indicate low cardiovascular fitness in patients after liver transplantation

Since after liver transplantation cardiovascular diseases cause 19 to 42 of deaths not related to the liver performing aerobic exercises to obtain and maintain cardiovascular fitness after liver transplantation can reduce the mortality rate After transplanting reduced significantly

Considering the important role of the immune system in transplant rejection the safety of sports training is very important in terms of not over-activating the immune system and endangering the life of the transplanted tissue In previous studies related to exercise and immune system activity and inflammatory cytokines after transplantation it has been shown that moderate exercise including aerobic and resistance exercises can inhibit inflammatory cytokines and have beneficial effects on the immune system

High levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha TNF-α in the period after transplant surgery are associated with an increased risk of transplant rejection

Aerobic exercise reduces levels of inflammatory cytokine TNF-α and markers of liver function in patients with chronic liver diseases

According to this evidence it seems that doing sports exercises is effective in reducing the risk of transplant rejection and modulating the patients immune system Acute graft rejection occurs days to weeks after transplantation The immune system can see the transplanted organ as foreign and attack it destroy it and lead to transplant rejection

Considering the mentioned benefits of exercise therapy after liver transplantation it is possible that the early start of exercise therapy in the hospitalization phase leads to a reduction in the risk of transplant rejection and improvement of allograft residues in patients after liver transplantation

Considering that the current evidence shows that there is no use of a specific rehabilitation protocol in the hospitalization phase of patients after liver transplantation we intend to evaluate its effects with changes in the common physiotherapy program in these departments according to the specific conditions of these patients In other words despite the acceptable therapeutic effects the use of a combined protocol of aerobic and resistance exercises in the hospitalization phase of these patients has not been reported so far
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