Exercise MRI to Evaluate Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Children With Heart Disease

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

20 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-01-20

Study Completion Date

2027-12-31

Brief Summary

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There are many barriers to heart-healthy lifestyles in pediatric patients with acquired and congenital heart disease. Investigators want to further understand how participants heart and skeletal muscles work together during exercise and evaluate the impact on cardiac function. To do this, the investigators will use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to scan the heart and skeletal muscles during exercises to assess blood flow, oxygenation and function.

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Detailed Description

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Exercise cardiac MRI's are the non-invasive gold standard for assessing biventricular function during exercise. While exercise MRI has not been previously studied in pediatric HTRs, it has been effectively utilized in children with single ventricle congenital heart disease. The purpose of this study is to fully understand the cardiac adaptations induced by exercise training.

Primary objective: Evaluate the association between exercise MRI cardiac and skeletal muscle measures and cardiorespiratory fitness in pediatric acquired (HTRx) and CHD participants.

Hypothesis: Cardiac adaptations to exercise and skeletal muscle functioning will be positively associated with measured CRF in CHD patients and those post-transplant.

Secondary objective: Evaluate changes in exercise MRI measures of cardiac and skeletal muscle function following a 12-week high-intensity interval training (HIIT) exercise protocol in children with acquired and congenital heart disease.

Hypothesis: a 12-week HIIT intervention will result in improvements in cardiac and skeletal muscle responses to exercise.

This will be a single-center, prospective observational study.

Participants will include 10-18 year old pediatric heart transplant recipients (HTR) and congenital heart disease (CHD) patients followed at the Stollery Children's Hospital.

Participants will undergo cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) using a cycle ergometer and standardized protocols. On a separate day (within 2 weeks of the testing), participants will return and undergo a standard cardiac MRI to assess resting ventricular structure and function. They will then complete an exercise cardiac MRI assessment using an MRI-compatible stepping ergometer.

Participants and their parent will also be asked to complete questionnaires to determine their feelings towards exercise and physical activity.

As this will be a single-center study. The analysis will be largely exploratory and the sample size will be determined based on the available patient population. Based on a review of potentially eligible participants at our center, the investigators anticipate recruiting 10 participants post-HTR and 10 CHD participants to evaluate the primary objective. As the secondary objective (changes in cardiac and skeletal muscle MRI measures) requires repeated assessments and involvement in the MedBIKE™ HIIT trial, recruitment to address this objective may be lessened; the investigators thus anticipate recruiting \~6 participants post-transplant and 6 participants with CHD. The statistical analysis will be carried out in collaboration with the Women and Children's Health Research Institute (WCHRI) biostatistics team (accounted for in budget). Differences in MRI and CPET measures among participants, and changes in the measures (Objective 2) will be evaluated by independent t-tests or Mann-Whitney tests for continuous variables and chi-square or Fisher's exact tests for categorical variables. Pearson correlations will be used to evaluate associations between VO2peak (and other CPET measures of CRF) and measures of cardiac function and output and peripheral muscle oxygen extraction.

Conditions

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Pediatric ALL Congenital Heart Disease Heart Transplantation

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_ONLY

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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