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Study NCT ID: NCT06723795
Status: RECRUITING
Last Update Posted: 2025-09-30
First Post: 2024-12-04
Is NOT Gene Therapy: True
Has Adverse Events: False

Brief Title: Cardiovascular Assessment and Treatment During COPD Exacerbation to Improve Diagnosis and Outcomes
Sponsor: Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Organization:

Study Overview

Official Title: Early Cardiovascular Risk Assessment of Patients With COPD During Respiratory Exacerbation for the Identification and Treatment of Cardiovascular Comorbidity
Status: RECRUITING
Status Verified Date: 2025-08
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: False
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
Acronym: CATCH
Brief Summary: This is a research study involving patients hospitalized for COPD flare-ups. Patients will be randomly assigned to two groups: one group will only see a pulmonologist (lung doctor), and the other group will also be seen by a cardiologist (heart doctor) during their hospital stay. Both groups will fill out a questionnaire, and the pulmonologist will review their lung disease, adjust their treatment, and recommend follow-up care. The cardiologist will also assess the second group for heart diseases (like high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, or heart failure) and start or adjust heart treatment if needed. Both groups will be followed up by phone 1, 3, 6 and 12 months later to check for changes in treatment, new heart problems, COPD flare-ups, or death.
Detailed Description: This is a single-center, prospective, randomized study involving patients hospitalized for COPD exacerbation. Eligible patients will be identified either by the internal medicine department doctors or by reviewing the admission diagnoses of hospitalized patients in the hospital's database. After obtaining informed consent, the patients will be randomized into two groups.

Both groups will complete a background questionnaire and will be assessed by a pulmonologist during the hospitalization, who will focus on their lung disease, optimize basic treatment, and recommend follow-up as needed. The intervention group will undergo an additional evaluation by a cardiologist during the hospitalization, who will check for cardiovascular diseases (such as hyperlipidemia, diabetes, ischemic heart disease, hypertension, or heart failure) and adjust or start treatment according to new or existing diagnoses.

Both groups will receive follow-up phone calls about 1, 3, 6, and 12 months later to evaluate any changes in treatment following the intervention, new diagnoses or events of cardiovascular diseases, COPD exacerbations, and mortality.

Study Oversight

Has Oversight DMC: False
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?: False
Is a FDA Regulated Device?: False
Is an Unapproved Device?: None
Is a PPSD?: None
Is a US Export?: None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?: