# Diastolic Exercise Stress Testing in Heart Failure

> **NCT04970953** · — · TERMINATED · sponsor: **University Hospital, Essen** · enrollment: 19 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Right heart catheterization

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT04970953
- **Lead sponsor:** University Hospital, Essen
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** —
- **Study type:** OBSERVATIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2021-08-09
- **Primary completion:** 2023-01-13
- **Final completion:** 2023-02-20
- **Target enrollment:** 19 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** We raised ethical concerns to proceed an invasive study despite having shown the expected results after 19 patients.
- **Last updated:** 2023-05-11


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04970953

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT04970953, "Diastolic Exercise Stress Testing in Heart Failure". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-09 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT04970953. Licensed CC0.

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