Posted Mon, Sep, 23,2013
Published today in Clinical Medicine Insights: Circulatory, Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine is a new original research article by Bryan J. Taylor, Thomas P. Olson, Chul-Ho-Kim, Dean MacCarter and Bruce D. Johnson. Read more about this paper below:
Title
Use of Noninvasive Gas Exchange to Track Pulmonary Vascular Responses to Exercise in Heart Failure
Abstract
We determined whether a non-invasive gas exchange based estimate of pulmonary vascular (PV) capacitance [PVCAP = stroke volume (SV) × pulmonary arterial pressure (Ppa)] (GXCAP) tracked the PV response to exercise in heart-failure (HF) patients. Pulmonary wedge pressure (Ppw), Ppa, PV resistance (PVR), and gas exchange were measured simultaneously during cycle exercise in 42 HF patients undergoing right-heart catheterization. During exercise, PETCO2 and VE/VCO2 were related to each other (r = −0.93, P < 0.01) and similarly related to mean Ppa (mPpa) (r = −0.39 and 0.36; P < 0.05); PETCO2 was subsequently used as a metric of mPpa. Oxygen pulse (O2 pulse) tracked the SV response to exercise (r = 0.91, P < 0.01). Thus, GXCAP was calculated as O2 pulse × PETCO2. During exercise, invasively determined PVCAP and non-invasive GXCAP were related (r = 0.86, P < 0.01), and GXCAP correlated with mPpa and PVR (r = −0.46 and −0.54; P < 0.01). In conclusion, noninvasive gas exchange measures may represent a simple way to track the PV response to exercise in HF.
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