Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) for Patients Following Lung Transplantation
Brief Summary: Lung transplantation (LT) is now an established treatment option for patients with a wide variety of end-stage lung diseases- aims to improve quality of life and survival. Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is widely recognized as an important component of care of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), it improves dyspnea, exercise tolerance, quality of life, and reduces healthcare resource utilization.

The goal of pulmonary rehabilitation following lung transplantation is to enhance the physiological and functional benefits resulting from surgery. Inspiratory muscle Training (IMT) is defined as any intervention with the goal of training the inspiratory muscles. IMT can improve inspiratory muscles strength, endurance and exercise capacity in adults with COPD. IMT provides additional benefits to patients undergoing PR program and is worthwhile even in patients who have already undergone a general exercise reconditioning (GER) program. IMT will provide additional benefits (together or without) PR to patients following lung transplantation. No formal guidelines exist regarding the optimal methods of exercise training component of pulmonary rehabilitation for patients recovering from lung transplantation. This study will evaluate the unique influence of IMT in Patients Following Lung Transplantation.


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A: Arm Label: 1; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Conventional or regular pulmonary rehabilitation program alone | Arm Label: 2; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Device: very low load IMT (sham IMT) alone | Arm Label: 3; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Device: Conventional or regular pulmonary rehabilitation program + targeted inspiratory resistive or threshold IMT | Arm Label: 4; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Device: Targeted inspiratory resistive or threshold IMT alone | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Conventional or regular pulmonary rehabilitation program alone; Assigned to Arm(s): 1 | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: very low load IMT (sham IMT) alone; Assigned to Arm(s): 2 | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: Conventional or regular pulmonary rehabilitation program + targeted inspiratory resistive or threshold IMT; Assigned to Arm(s): 3 | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: Targeted inspiratory resistive or threshold IMT alone; Assigned to Arm(s): 4
B: Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: exercise training; psychosocial support; Assigned to Arm(s): N/A
C: Arm Label: Tele-coaching + Usual Care; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Tele-coaching + Usual Care | Arm Label: Usual Care; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Tele-coaching + Usual Care; Assigned to Arm(s): Tele-coaching + Usual Care
D: Arm Label: LTGO-Home Based Exercise; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: LTGO-Home Based Exercise | Arm Label: Enhanced Usual Care; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Behavioral: Enhanced Usual Care | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: LTGO-Home Based Exercise; Assigned to Arm(s): LTGO-Home Based Exercise | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Enhanced Usual Care; Assigned to Arm(s): Enhanced Usual Care

Answer: A