# Usefulness of Lung Ultrasound in Ambulatory Management of Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

> **NCT03262571** · PHASE3 · TERMINATED · sponsor: **IRCCS San Raffaele** · enrollment: 244 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Chronic Heart Failure
- Lung; Congestive
- Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

## Interventions

- **DIAGNOSTIC_TEST:** Lung ultrasound

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT03262571
- **Lead sponsor:** IRCCS San Raffaele
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** PHASE3
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2010-12
- **Primary completion:** 2016-03
- **Final completion:** 2016-03
- **Target enrollment:** 244 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Because at the interim analysis the pre-specified stopping boundary for an overwhelming benefit had been crossed.
- **Last updated:** 2017-08-25


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03262571

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT03262571, "Usefulness of Lung Ultrasound in Ambulatory Management of Patients With Chronic Heart Failure". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT03262571. Licensed CC0.

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