Clinical trial NCT05502263: Interest of CPET to Predict Mortality and Complications of Lung Resection Candidates
Official title: Interest of Maximal Oxygen Uptake and Ventilatory Inefficiency (VE/VCO2 Slope) Measured During Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test on Morbidity and Mortality of Lung Resection Candidates
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Exercise Test
Thoracic Cancer
Lead sponsor: Université Libre de Bruxelles
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-08-16
Enrollment: 100
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Lobectomy or Segmentectomy or Wedge Resection for a patient Non-Small Cell Lung cancer patient

Brief summary: Anatomic lung resection is the treatment of choice for the management of cancerous lung nodules Non-Small-Cell Lung Carcinoma (NSCLC). Systematic functional evaluation can reduce the risk of mortality and morbidity of candidates. Scientific societies recommend a cardiac and spirometry evaluation (including pulmonary diffusion capacity). In this context, patients with FEV1 or less than 80% of the predicted value are subjected to a more thorough evaluation of the physical physical capacity by cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) to determine VO2 max (Brunelli et al 2009). Patients with a VO2 max \<35% of predicted values or \<10ml/kg/min, or a postoperative predicted value of DLCO or FEV1(ppoDLCO, ppoVEMS) less than 30% associated with a postoperative VO2max less than 35% or 10 ml/min/kg should be offered an alternative treatment option (Begum et al 2016). In contrast, a VO2max greater than 20ml/min/kg is considered at low surgical risk (Brunelli et al 2009).

For patients with a VO2 max between 10 and 20ml/kg/min, operability depends on the extent of the resection. In this group of patients, other parameters measured with CPET could be used to optimize the selection of patients given the inability of some the inability of some patients to provide a maximal effort, thus resulting in a sub-maximal evaluation of physical capacity.

The VE/VCO2 slope, ventilatory equivalents or chronotropic recovery are parameters classically used in classically used in heart failure and have recently been shown to be independent prognostic factors as independent prognostic factors for 90-day and 2-year mortality after anatomical lung resection. Moreover, these factors do not depend on the maximality of the test and could again help us to risk-stratify for a sub-maximal and therefore not optimal test.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria: Lobectomy or Segmentectomy or Wedge Resection for Non-Small Cell Lung cancer

- Performed CPET

Exclusion Criteria:

* pulmonary resection for diagnostic
* pneumonectomies and any extensive resections (chest wall-associated resections, Pancoast tumors, resection of the atrium or superior vena cava, resection of the diaphragm, spinal resection, pleuro-pneumonectomy, tracheal sleeve pneumonectomy, intrapericardial pneumonectomy), as well as metastases, benign lesions, and any other non-oncologic pulmonary resections

Primary outcomes:
measure: Mortality
timeFrame: within 30 days after surgery
measure: Mortality
timeFrame: within 12 months after surgery
measure: Major respiratory complication in hospital
timeFrame: within 30 days after surgery
measure: Minor respiratory complication in hospital
timeFrame: within 30 days after surgery
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Brussels
country: Belgium
facility: Erasme Hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: Erasme University Hospital ULB
name: Kevin Forton, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Brunelli A, Belardinelli R, Pompili C, Xiume F, Refai M, Salati M, Sabbatini A. Minute ventilation-to-carbon dioxide output (VE/VCO2) slope is the strongest predictor of respiratory complications and death after pulmonary resection. Ann Thorac Surg. 2012 Jun;93(6):1802-6. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.03.022. Epub 2012 May 4.