Abstract | BACKGROUND: In COPD patients, hyperinflation impairs cardiac function. We examined whether lung deflation improves oxygen pulse, a surrogate marker of stroke volume. METHODS: In 129 NETT patients with cardiopulmonary exercise testing ( CPET) and arterial blood gases (ABG substudy), hyperinflation was assessed with residual volume to total lung capacity ratio (RV/TLC), and cardiac function with oxygen pulse (O(2) pulse=VO(2)/HR) at baseline and 6 months. Medical and surgical patients were divided into "deflators" and "non-deflators" based on change in RV/TLC from baseline (∆RV/TLC). We defined deflation as the ∆RV/TLC experienced by 75% of surgical patients. We examined changes in O(2) pulse at peak and similar (iso-work) exercise. Findings were validated in 718 patients who underwent CPET without ABGs. RESULTS: In the ABG substudy, surgical and medical deflators improved their RV/TLC and peak O(2) pulse (median ∆RV/TLC -18.0% vs. -9.3%, p=0.0003; median ∆O(2) pulse 13.6% vs. 1.8%, p=0.12). Surgical deflators also improved iso-work O(2) pulse (0.53 mL/beat, p=0.04 at 20 W). In the validation cohort, surgical deflators experienced a greater improvement in peak O(2) pulse than medical deflators (mean 18.9% vs. 1.1%). In surgical deflators improvements in O(2) pulse at rest and during unloaded pedaling (0.32 mL/beat, p<0.0001 and 0.47 mL/beat, p<0.0001, respectively) corresponded with significant reductions in HR and improvements in VO(2). On multivariate analysis, deflators were 88% more likely than non-deflators to have an improvement in O(2) pulse (OR 1.88, 95% CI 1.30-2.72, p=0.0008). CONCLUSION:
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Authors | Carolyn E Come, Miguel J Divo, Raúl San José Estépar, Frank C Sciurba, Gerard J Criner, Nathaniel Marchetti, Steven M Scharf, Zab Mosenifar, Barry J Make, Cesar A Keller, Omar A Minai, Fernando J Martinez, MeiLan K Han, John J Reilly, Bartolome R Celli, George R Washko, NETT Research Group |
Journal | Respiratory medicine
(Respir Med)
Vol. 106
Issue 1
Pg. 109-19
(Jan 2012)
ISSN: 1532-3064 [Electronic] England |
PMID | 21843930
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Randomized Controlled Trial, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
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Copyright | Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
Topics |
- Aged
- Blood Gas Analysis
- Cohort Studies
- Exercise Test
- Female
- Forced Expiratory Volume
- Humans
- Lung
(metabolism, pathology, physiopathology)
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Multivariate Analysis
- Oxygen Consumption
- Pneumonectomy
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
(metabolism, pathology, physiopathology)
- Stroke Volume
- Total Lung Capacity
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