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Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

https://read.qxmd.com/read/37729924/surgery-and-anesthesia-in-patients-with-pulmonary-hypertension
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Robin Condliffe, Ruth Newton, Kris Bauchmuller, Tessa Bonnett, Robert Kerry, Alexa Mannings, Amanda Nair, Karen Selby, Paul P Skinner, Victoria J Wilson, David G Kiely
Pulmonary hypertension is characterized by right ventricular impairment and a reduced ability to compensate for hemodynamic insults. Consequently, surgery can be challenging but is increasingly considered in view of available specific therapies and improved longer term survival. Optimal management requires a multidisciplinary patient-centered approach involving surgeons, anesthetists, pulmonary hypertension clinicians, and intensivists. The optimal pathway involves risk:benefit assessment for the proposed operation, optimization of pulmonary hypertension and any comorbidities, the appropriate anesthetic approach for the specific procedure and patient, and careful monitoring and management in the postoperative period...
September 20, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37709284/extracorporeal-life-support-in-pulmonary-hypertension-practical-aspects
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Marius M Hoeper
Extracorporeal life support (ECLS), in particular veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, has emerged as a potentially life-saving treatment modality in patients presenting with pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure refractory to conventional treatment. Used mainly as a bridge to lung transplantation, ECLS is also being used occasionally as a bridge to recovery in patients with treatable causes of right heart failure. This review article describes indications, contraindications, techniques, and outcomes of the use of ECLS in patients with PH, focusing on practical aspects in the management of such patients...
September 14, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37709283/pulmonary-hypertension-associated-with-left-heart-disease
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Claudia Baratto, Sergio Caravita, Jean-Luc Vachiéry
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a common complication of diseases affecting the left heart, mostly found in patients suffering from heart failure, with or without preserved left ventricular ejection fraction. Initially driven by a passive increase in left atrial pressure (postcapillary PH), several mechanisms may lead in a subset of patient to significant structural changes of the pulmonary vessels or a precapillary component. In addition, the right ventricle may be independently affected, which results in right ventricular to pulmonary artery uncoupling and right ventricular failure, all being associated with a worse outcome...
September 14, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37595615/medical-emergencies-in-pulmonary-hypertension
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Samuel Seitler, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Sabine Ernst, Laura C Price
The management of acute medical emergencies in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) can be challenging. Patients with preexisting PH can rapidly deteriorate due to right ventricular decompensation when faced with acute physiological challenges that would usually be considered low-risk scenarios. This review considers the assessment and management of acute medical emergencies in patients with PH, encompassing both pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), acknowledging these comprise the more severe groups of PH...
August 18, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37595614/updated-hemodynamic-definition-and-classification-of-pulmonary-hypertension
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Benoit Lechartier, Mithum Kularatne, Xavier Jaïs, Marc Humbert, David Montani
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a pathophysiological manifestation of a heterogeneous group of diseases characterized by abnormally elevated pulmonary arterial pressures diagnosed on right heart catheterization. The 2022 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and European Respiratory Society (ERS) Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of PH provides a new hemodynamic definition to define PH by lowering the threshold of the mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) to 20 mm Hg. Precapillary PH is thus now defined as a mPAP >20 mm Hg together with a normal pulmonary artery wedge pressure (<15 mm Hg) and an increased pulmonary vascular resistance (>2 Wood Units)...
August 18, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37567252/blood-gas-transport-implications-for-o2-and-co2-exchange-in-lungs-and-tissues
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Peter D Wagner
The well-known ways in which O2 and CO2 (and other gases) are carried in the blood were presented in the preceding chapter. However, what the many available texts about O2 and CO2 transport do not emphasize is why knowing how gases are carried in blood matters, and this second, companion, article specifically addresses that critical aspect of gas exchange physiology. During gas exchange, both at the lungs and in the peripheral tissues, it is the shapes and the slopes of the O2 and CO2 binding curves that explain almost all of the behaviors of each gas and the quantitative differences observed between them...
August 11, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37567251/blood-gas-transport-carriage-of-oxygen-and-carbon-dioxide-in-blood
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Peter D Wagner
The ways in which oxygen (O2 ) and carbon dioxide (CO2 ) are carried in the blood are well known and well understood, with a plethora of textbooks, both general and lung specific, all presenting the topic in a very similar manner. This first of two companion chapters similarly summarizes this information. First, carriage of gases by physical solution is described, followed by discussion of O2 , carbon monoxide, and CO2 transport in that order. However, what available texts have not emphasized is why knowing how gases are carried in blood matters, and the second, companion, chapter specifically addresses that critical aspect of gas exchange physiology...
August 11, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37567250/monographic-issue-on-pulmonary-hypertension-medical-and-interventional-treatment-for-chronic-thromboembolic-pulmonary-hypertension
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Marion Delcroix, Catharina Belge, Geert Maleux, Laurent Godinas
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is a rare complication of acute pulmonary embolism. The reasons why clots do not resorb are incompletely understood, but the result is partial or complete fibrothrombotic obstruction of pulmonary arteries. A secondary microvasculopathy aggravates the pulmonary hypertension (PH) as a consequence of high flow and shear stress in the nonoccluded arteries. The treatment of CTEPH has long been purely surgical, but many patients were inoperable because of inaccessible lesions or severe comorbidities...
August 11, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37541315/tissue-perfusion-and-diffusion-and-cellular-respiration-transport-and-utilization-of-oxygen
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Connie C W Hsia
This article provides an overview of the journey of inspired oxygen after its uptake across the alveolar-capillary interface, and the interplay among tissue perfusion, diffusion, and cellular respiration in the transport and utilization of oxygen. The critical interactions between oxygen and its facilitative carriers (hemoglobin in red blood cells and myoglobin in muscle cells), and with other respiratory and vasoactive molecules (carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, and carbon monoxide), are emphasized to illustrate how this versatile system dynamically optimizes regional convective transport and diffusive gas exchange...
August 4, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37541314/heart-lung-interactions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Natsumi Hamahata, Michael R Pinsky
The pulmonary and cardiovascular systems have profound effects on each other. Overall cardiac function is determined by heart rate, preload, contractility, and afterload. Changes in lung volume, intrathoracic pressure (ITP), and hypoxemia can simultaneously change all of these four hemodynamic determinants for both ventricles and can even lead to cardiovascular collapse. Intubation using sedation depresses vasomotor tone. Also, the interdependence between right and left ventricles can be affected by lung volume-induced changes in pulmonary vascular resistance and the rise in ITP...
August 4, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37487527/the-right-ventricle-in-pulmonary-hypertension
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jeroen N Wessels, Lucas R Celant, Frances S de Man, Anton Vonk Noordegraaf
The right ventricle plays a pivotal role in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH). Its adaptation to pressure overload determines a patient's functional status as well as survival. In a healthy situation, the right ventricle is part of a low pressure, high compliance system. It is built to accommodate changes in preload, but not very well suited for dealing with pressure overload. In PH, right ventricular (RV) contractility must increase to maintain cardiac output. In other words, the balance between the degree of RV contractility and afterload determines stroke volume...
July 24, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37487526/the-diagnostic-approach-to-pulmonary-hypertension
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Adam Torbicki, Marcin Kurzyna
The clinical presentation of pulmonary hypertension (PH) is nonspecific, resulting in significant delays in its detection. In the majority of cases, PH is a marker of the severity of other cardiopulmonary diseases. Differential diagnosis aimed at the early identification of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) who do require specific and complex therapies is as important as PH detection itself. Despite all efforts aimed at the noninvasive assessment of pulmonary arterial pressure, the formal confirmation of PH still requires catheterization of the right heart and pulmonary artery...
July 24, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37487525/perioperative-management-in-pulmonary-endarterectomy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
David P Jenkins, Guillermo Martinez, Kiran Salaunkey, S Ashwin Reddy, Joanna Pepke-Zaba
Pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) is the treatment of choice for patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (PH), provided lesions are proximal enough in the pulmonary vasculature to be surgically accessible and the patient is well enough to benefit from the operation in the longer term. It is a major cardiothoracic operation, requiring specialized techniques and instruments developed over several decades to access and dissect out the intra-arterial fibrotic material. While in-hospital operative mortality is low (<5%), particularly in high-volume centers, careful perioperative management in the operating theater and intensive care is mandatory to balance ventricular performance, fluid balance, ventilation, and coagulation to avoid or treat complications...
July 24, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37487524/management-of-pulmonary-hypertension-associated-with-chronic-lung-disease
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Isabel Blanco, Fernanda Hernández-González, Agustín García, Rodrigo Torres-Castro, Joan A Barberà
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a common complication of chronic lung diseases, particularly in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and interstitial lung diseases (ILD) and especially in advanced disease. It is associated with greater mortality and worse clinical course. Given the high prevalence of some respiratory disorders and because lung parenchymal abnormalities might be present in other PH groups, the appropriate diagnosis of PH associated with respiratory disease represents a clinical challenge...
July 24, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37467769/ventilation-mechanics
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ramon Farré, Daniel Navajas
A fundamental task of the respiratory system is to operate as a mechanical gas pump ensuring that fresh air gets in close contact with the blood circulating through the lung capillaries to achieve O2 and CO2 exchange. To ventilate the lungs, the respiratory muscles provide the pressure required to overcome the viscoelastic mechanical load of the respiratory system. From a mechanical viewpoint, the most relevant respiratory system properties are the resistance of the airways ( R aw ), and the compliance of the lung tissue ( C L ) and chest wall ( C CW )...
July 19, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37459884/pulmonary-function-in-human-spaceflight
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jan Stepanek, Rebecca S Blue, Desmond Connolly
Human spaceflight is entering a time of markedly increased activity fueled by collaboration between governmental and private industry entities. This has resulted in successful mission planning for destinations in low Earth orbit, lunar destinations (Artemis program, Gateway station) as well as exploration to Mars. The planned construction of additional commercial space stations will ensure continued low Earth orbit presence and destinations for science but also commercial spaceflight participants. The human in the journey to space is exposed to numerous environmental challenges including increased gravitational forces, microgravity, altered human physiology during adaptation to weightlessness in space, altered ambient pressure, as well as other important stressors contingent on the type of mission and destination...
July 17, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37459883/end-of-life-and-palliative-care-issues-for-patients-living-with-pulmonary-arterial-hypertension-barriers-and-opportunities
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hyeon-Ju Ali, Sandeep Sahay
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive, incurable disease that results in significant symptom burden, health care utilization, and eventually premature death. Despite the advancements made in treatment and management strategies, survival has remained poor. End-of-life care is a challenging issue in management of PAH, especially when patients are in younger age group. End-of-life care revolves around symptom palliation and reducing psychosocial disease burden for a dying patient and entails advanced care planning that are often challenging...
July 17, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37494141/control-of-breathing
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jerome A Dempsey, Joseph F Welch
Substantial advances have been made recently into the discovery of fundamental mechanisms underlying the neural control of breathing and even some inroads into translating these findings to treating breathing disorders. Here, we review several of these advances, starting with an appreciation of the importance of V̇A :V̇CO2 :PaCO2 relationships, then summarizing our current understanding of the mechanisms and neural pathways for central rhythm generation, chemoreception, exercise hyperpnea, plasticity, and sleep-state effects on ventilatory control...
July 11, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37429332/exercise-physiology-and-cardiopulmonary-exercise-testing
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kathy E Sietsema, Harry B Rossiter
Aerobic, or endurance, exercise is an energy requiring process supported primarily by energy from oxidative adenosine triphosphate synthesis. The consumption of oxygen and production of carbon dioxide in muscle cells are dynamically linked to oxygen uptake (V̇O2 ) and carbon dioxide output (V̇CO2 ) at the lung by integrated functions of cardiovascular, pulmonary, hematologic, and neurohumoral systems. Maximum oxygen uptake (V̇O2max ) is the standard expression of aerobic capacity and a predictor of outcomes in diverse populations...
July 10, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37429331/respiratory-system-dynamics
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
David A Kaminsky, Donald W Cockcroft, Beth E Davis
While static mechanical forces govern resting lung volumes, dynamic forces determine tidal breathing, airflow, and changes in airflow and lung volume during normal and abnormal breathing. This section will examine the mechanisms, measurement methodology, and interpretation of the dynamic changes in airflow and lung volume that occur in health and disease. We will first examine how the total work of breathing can be described by the parameters of the equation of motion, which determine the pressure required to move air into and out of the lung...
July 10, 2023: Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
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