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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-9-13
pubmed:abstractText
A series of 31 patients with various degrees of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) underwent radionuclide ventriculography with right heart catheterization. The patients were divided into 2 groups on the basis of their reduction in forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1). In patients with FEV1 greater than or equal to 1,300 ml (group 1) the oxygen partial pressure (PaO2) did not significantly change with exercise, while in patients with FEV1 less than or equal to 1,200 ml (group 2) the PaO2 significantly decreased (p less than 0.05) with exercise. The groups were significantly different from each other as to the correlation between hemodynamic and noninvasive parameters. In the resting state, the correlation between pulmonary artery mean pressure (PAP) and both residual volume to total lung capacity (RV/TLC) and PaO2 was close only in group 2. By contrast, the right ventricular end diastolic wall thickness (RWD) correlated closely with PAP in both groups. With exercise close correlations were observed between PAP and the noninvasive parameters: RWD, PaO2 and right ventricular ejection fraction in both groups. Arterial CO2 partial pressure (PaCO2) was only increased (greater than or equal to 45 mm Hg) in group 2. This parameter correlated moderately closely with PAP both in the resting and the exercise state only in group 2. The predictive value of PaCO2 greater than or equal to 45 mm Hg for estimation of PAP greater than 35 mm Hg during exercise was 100%. We conclude that separation of patients with COPD into groups with different impairments of the lung function parameter FEV1 can improve the correlation coefficients between noninvasive and invasive parameters. The exercise values obviously correlate more closely than the resting values. An increased value of echocardiographically determined RWD seems to be a reliable parameter for prediction of PAP.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0252-1164
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
106-16
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Relation of noninvasive parameters and pulmonary artery mean pressure in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Ulm, FRG.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article