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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-7-7
pubmed:abstractText
Patients with infantile spinal muscular atrophy develop pectus excavatum along with a severe restrictive syndrome as a result of failure to expand the upper chest wall and lungs because of intercostal muscle weakness. By using an automatic motion analyzer to provide three-dimensional computer analyses of images sampled at 25 Hz, 9 spinal muscular atrophy Type II patients and 13 controls underwent kinematic analysis of thoracoabdominal movements partitioned into the upper thorax, lower thorax, and abdominal volume compartments. The analyses were performed during spontaneous breathing for the controls and during spontaneous breathing and while using mechanically assisted ventilation for the patients. Vital capacity, maximum inspiratory pressures, and nocturnal oxyhemoglobin saturation and transcutaneous carbon dioxide tensions were also measured for the patients. The kinematic data demonstrated a paradoxical ventilatory pattern for the spontaneously breathing SMA patients with the following inspiratory volume changes: upper thorax, -6.4+/-9.6%; lower thorax, 7.3+/-15.8%; abdominal, 99.1+/-21.3%. During mechanical ventilation, the compartmental volume changes were as follows: upper thorax, 13.5+/-6%; lower thorax, 13.7+/-7.9%; abdominal, 72.7+/-9.3%. This kinematic pattern is comparable with that seen in spontaneously breathing normal subjects. We conclude that mechanical ventilation can normalize kinematic volume changes during alveolar ventilation and that this might help deter loss of thoracic compliance caused by the chronic hypoventilation of the upper thoracic compartments. Kinematic analysis may be helpful for choosing the ventilation parameters to optimize therapeutic benefits.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0894-9115
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
77
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
188-92
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Kinematic analysis of patients with spinal muscular atrophy during spontaneous breathing and mechanical ventilation.
pubmed:affiliation
Dipartimento Medicina Riabilitativa, Ospedale Valduce, Como, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't