CompletedNo phase
Prehabilitation for Patients Awaiting Liver Transplantation
Key facts
- Who runs it
- McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
- Where
- Canada1 site in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Completed
- People taking part
- 25 people enrolled
- Started
- 23 Feb 2022
- Ended
- 1 Dec 2025
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- Prehabilitation
- Record updated
- 16 April 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Age above 18 years
- Diagnosis of cirrhosis, based on a combination of clinical, laboratory, imaging, or histology
- Active on the liver transplant waiting list of the MUHC
Who cannot take part
- Awaiting combined organ transplantation
- Awaiting repeat liver transplantation
- Biological Model for End Stage Liver Disease >20
- Significant heart disease
- Condition limiting mobilization and/or exercise, or recurrent falls
- Platelets <20,000/µL, or hemoglobin <80g/L
- Hepatic decompensation within the last month
- High risk varices not on primary or secondary prevention
- Recurrent large volume paracentesis
- Persistent hepatic encephalopathy
- Altered hemodynamics
This trial has no sites in United States.
It has sites in one country. Choose a country to see its sites.
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
This study will assess the feasibility, safety and effectiveness of a structured prehabilitation program combining exercise training, nutritional optimization and psychological support for patients with cirrhosis awaiting liver transplantation.
The group in the trial
- PrehabilitationTreatment being tested
Multimodal prehabilitation program
Data and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Does a Multimodal Prehabilitation Program Improve Markers of Frailty in Patients With Cirrhosis Undergoing Liver Transplantation? A Feasibility Trial
- Record updated
- 16 April 2026