Using Helium-Oxygen to Improve Regional Deposition of Inhaled Particles: Mechanical Principles
| Autor: | Caroline Majoral, Jose G. Venegas, Elliot Greenblatt, Marine Pichelin, Spyridon Montesantos, Ira Katz, Georges Caillibotte, Joy Conway, John S. Fleming, Andrew R. Martin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Pharmaceutical Science Nanotechnology Context (language use) Helium Models Biological Administration Inhalation Humans Deposition (phase transition) Pharmacology (medical) Particle Size Diffusion (business) Lung Serum Albumin Aerosols Tomography Emission-Computed Single-Photon Cross-Over Studies Chemistry Oxygen Inhalation Therapy Fluid mechanics Organotechnetium Compounds Mechanics respiratory system Sedimentation Asthma Aerosol Inhalation Case-Control Studies Gases Particle size Radiopharmaceuticals Particle deposition |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery. 27:71-80 |
| ISSN: | 1941-2703 1941-2711 |
| Popis: | Helium-oxygen has been used for decades as a respiratory therapy conjointly with aerosols. It has also been shown under some conditions to be a means to provide more peripheral, deeper, particle deposition for inhalation therapies. Furthermore, we can also consider deposition along parallel paths that are quite different, especially in a heterogeneous pathological lung. It is in this context that it is hypothesized that helium-oxygen can improve regional deposition, leading to more homogeneous deposition by increasing deposition in ventilation-deficient lung regions.Analytical models of inertial impaction, sedimentation, and diffusion are examined to illustrate the importance of gas property values on deposition distribution through both fluid mechanics- and particle mechanics-based mechanisms. Also considered are in vitro results from a bench model for a heterogeneously obstructed lung. In vivo results from three-dimensional (3D) imaging techniques provide visual examples of changes in particle deposition patterns in asthmatics that are further analyzed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD).Based on analytical modeling, it is shown that deeper particle deposition is expected when breathing helium-oxygen, as compared with breathing air. A bench model has shown that more homogeneous ventilation distribution is possible breathing helium-oxygen in the presence of heterogeneous obstructions representative of central airway obstructions. 3D imaging of asthmatics has confirmed that aerosol delivery with a helium-oxygen carrier gas results in deeper and more homogeneous deposition distributions. CFD results are consistent with the in vivo imaging and suggest that the mechanics of gas particle interaction are the source of the differences seen in deposition patterns. However, intersubject variability in response to breathing helium-oxygen is expected, and an example of a nonresponder is shown where regional deposition is not significantly changed. |
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