Differential contribution of dead space ventilation and low arterial pCO2 to exercise hyperpnea in patients with chronic heart failure secondary to ischemic or idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

Autor: Stephanie Bayne, Stefan D. Anker, Panagiota Georgiadou, Darrel P. Francis, Andrew J.S. Coats, Adam C. Scott, Sabine Genth-Zotz, Roland Wensel, Massimo F. Piepoli
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: The American Journal of Cardiology. 93:318-323
ISSN: 0002-9149
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2003.10.011
Popis: In chronic heart failure (CHF), the abnormally large ventilatory response to exercise (VE/VCO(2) slope) has 2 conceptual elements: the requirement of restraining arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO(2)) from increasing (because of an increased ratio between increased physiologic dead space and tidal volume [VD/VT]) and the depression of arterial pCO(2) by further increased ventilation, which necessarily implies an important non-carbon dioxide stimulus to ventilation. We aimed to assess the contribution of these 2 factors in determining the elevated VE/VCO(2) slope in CHF. Thirty patients with CHF underwent cardiopulmonary exercise testing (age 65 +/- 11 years, left ventricular ejection fraction 34 +/- 15%, peak oxygen uptake 15.2 +/- 4 ml/kg/min, VE/VCO(2) slope 36.4). At rest and during exercise, arterial pCO(2) was measured and VD was calculated and separated into serial and alveolar components. VD/VT decreased from 0.57 at rest to 0.44 at peak exercise (p
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