The consortium of the Research group of Nephrology and Renal transplantation, the Research Group Cardiovascular Exercise Physiology Leuven and Rehabilitation in Chronic Internal Disorders Research Unit Ghent aims at investigating the role of exercise therapy in the management of patients following kidney transplantation.

The present project is a multicentre collaboration between different research groups and clinical partners from KU Leuven, UZ Leuven, UGent and UZ Gent.

Project

PHOENIX-Kidney is an RCT (n=147 patients) aiming to provide the clinical evidence base for the use of home-based exercise therapy as an accessible, clinical, and cost-effective treatment to prevent the deleterious effects of sedentary behaviour on physical fitness and cardiovascular health outcomes in patients following kidney transplantation. Primary outcome is cardiorespiratory fitness assessed by peak oxygen consumption. Secondary outcomes are cardiovascul...