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JOURNAL ARTICLE
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Responses to constant work rate bicycle ergometry exercise in primary pulmonary hypertension: the effect of inhaled nitric oxide.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2000 August
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to investigate the responses of patients with primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) to constant work rate exercise and to examine the effect of nitric oxide (NO) inhalation.
BACKGROUND: Maximal exercise tolerance is reduced in PPH, but gas exchange responses to constant work rate exercise have not been defined. We hypothesized that increased pulmonary vascular resistance in PPH would reduce the rate of rise of minute oxygen consumption in response to a given work rate. Because NO may lower pulmonary vascular pressures in PPH, we also postulated that inhaled NO might ameliorate gas exchange abnormalities.
METHODS: Nine PPH patients and nine matched normal subjects performed 6-min duration constant work rate cycle ergometry exercise (33.9+/-13.4 W). Patients performed two experiments: breathing air and breathing air with NO (20 ppm). Preexercise right ventricular systolic pressure was assessed by Doppler echocardiography. Normal subjects performed the air experiment only. Gas exchange and heart rate responses were characterized by fitting monoexponential curves.
RESULTS: In PPH patients, resting right ventricular systolic pressure fell after NO inhalation (from 83.8+/-16.9 to 73.9+/-21.6 mm Hg, p<0.01, analysis of variance with Tukey correction), but not after breathing air alone (from 88.0+/-20.8 to 86.7+/-20.6 mm Hg, p = NS). Nitric oxide did not affect any of the gas exchange responses. Minute oxygen consumption was similar by the end of exercise in patients and normals, but increased more slowly in patients (mean response time [MRT]: air, 63.17+/-14.99 s; NO, 61.60+/-15.45 s) than normals (MRT, 32.73+/-14.79, p<0.01, analysis of variance, Tukey test). Minute oxygen consumption kinetics during recovery were slower in patients (MRT air: 82.50+/-29.94 s; NO, 73.36+/-15.87 s) than in normals (MRT, 34.59+/-7.11 s, p<0.01). Heart rate kinetics during exercise and recovery were significantly slower in patients than in normals.
CONCLUSIONS: The cardiac output response is impaired in PPH. Nitric oxide lowered pulmonary artery pressure at rest, but failed to improve exercise gas exchange responses.
BACKGROUND: Maximal exercise tolerance is reduced in PPH, but gas exchange responses to constant work rate exercise have not been defined. We hypothesized that increased pulmonary vascular resistance in PPH would reduce the rate of rise of minute oxygen consumption in response to a given work rate. Because NO may lower pulmonary vascular pressures in PPH, we also postulated that inhaled NO might ameliorate gas exchange abnormalities.
METHODS: Nine PPH patients and nine matched normal subjects performed 6-min duration constant work rate cycle ergometry exercise (33.9+/-13.4 W). Patients performed two experiments: breathing air and breathing air with NO (20 ppm). Preexercise right ventricular systolic pressure was assessed by Doppler echocardiography. Normal subjects performed the air experiment only. Gas exchange and heart rate responses were characterized by fitting monoexponential curves.
RESULTS: In PPH patients, resting right ventricular systolic pressure fell after NO inhalation (from 83.8+/-16.9 to 73.9+/-21.6 mm Hg, p<0.01, analysis of variance with Tukey correction), but not after breathing air alone (from 88.0+/-20.8 to 86.7+/-20.6 mm Hg, p = NS). Nitric oxide did not affect any of the gas exchange responses. Minute oxygen consumption was similar by the end of exercise in patients and normals, but increased more slowly in patients (mean response time [MRT]: air, 63.17+/-14.99 s; NO, 61.60+/-15.45 s) than normals (MRT, 32.73+/-14.79, p<0.01, analysis of variance, Tukey test). Minute oxygen consumption kinetics during recovery were slower in patients (MRT air: 82.50+/-29.94 s; NO, 73.36+/-15.87 s) than in normals (MRT, 34.59+/-7.11 s, p<0.01). Heart rate kinetics during exercise and recovery were significantly slower in patients than in normals.
CONCLUSIONS: The cardiac output response is impaired in PPH. Nitric oxide lowered pulmonary artery pressure at rest, but failed to improve exercise gas exchange responses.
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