Comparison of intravenous sildenafil with inhaled nitric oxide for acute vasodilator testing in pulmonary arterial hypertension

Autor: Shine Kumar, Danish Memon, Manu Raj, Amitabh C. Sen, Jessin P. Jayasankar, Sreelakshmi P. Leeladharan, Abish Sudhakar, Raman K. Kumar
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Pulmonary Circulation, Vol 12, Iss 4, Pp n/a-n/a (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2045-8940
DOI: 10.1002/pul2.12180
Popis: Abstract Acute vasodilator testing (AVT) identifies acute responders for initiation of calcium channel blockers in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and operability in congenital heart disease (CHD). We sought to determine the feasibility of intravenous sildenafil (ivS) as an alternative to inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) in AVT. All patients with PAH undergoing cardiac catheterization for AVT (November 2015 to December 2020) were prospectively enrolled. Hemodynamic data were obtained at baseline, with iNO 20 ppm and ivS (0.25 mg/kg for children and 10 mg for adults). We studied 44 patients with a mean age of 20.5 ± 14.4 years (27 [61%] females and 20 [45%] children). There were 17 (38.6%) patients in the CHD group for operability assessment and 27 patients in non‐CHD group (idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension—16 [36.3%], residual PAH after shunt closure—7 [15.9%], and 2 cases [4.5%] each of familial PAH and portopulmonary hypertension). There was an excellent intraclass correlation for mean pulmonary artery pressures (0.903, 95% confidence interval, CI: 0.809–0.949, p
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