Right-to-left shunt with hypoxemia in pulmonary hypertension
2009
Vodoz , Jean-Frédéric (Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon(France). Hôpital Louis Pradel, Service de Pneumologie, Centre de Référence des Maladies Orphelines Pulmonaires) | Cottin , Vincent (INRA (France). UMR 0754 Rétrovirus et Pathologie Comparée) | Glerant , Jean-Charles (Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon(France). Hôpital Louis Pradel, Laboratoire d'Exploration Fonctionnelle Respiratoire Hospices) | Derumeaux , Geneviève (Université Lyon 1Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon(France). Hôpital Louis Pradel, Laboratoire d'Echocardiographie) | Khouatra , Chahéra (Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon(France). Hôpital Louis Pradel, Service de Pneumologie, Centre de Référence des Maladies Orphelines Pulmonaires) | Blanchet , Anne-Sophie (Hospices Civils de LyonUniversité Lyon 1, Lyon(France). Hôpital Louis Pradel, Service de Pneumologie, Centre de Référence des Maladies Orphelines Pulmonaires) | Mastroïanni , Bénédicte (Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon(France). Hôpital Louis Pradel, Service de Pneumologie, Centre de Référence des Maladies Orphelines Pulmonaires) | Bayle , Jean-Yves (Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon(France). Hôpital Louis Pradel, Laboratoire d'Exploration Fonctionnelle Respiratoire) | Mornex , Jean-Francois (INRA (France). UMR 0754 Rétrovirus et Pathologie Comparée) | Cordier , Jean-François (INRA (France). UMR 0754 Rétrovirus et Pathologie Comparée)
Background: Hypoxemia is common in pulmonary hypertension (PH) and may be partly related to ventilation/perfusion mismatch, low diffusion capacity, low cardiac output, and/or right-to-left (RL) shunting. Methods: To determine whether true RL shunting causing hypoxemia is caused by intracardiac shunting, as classically considered, a retrospective single center study was conducted in consecutive patients with precapillary PH, with hypoxemia at rest (PaO(2) < 10 kPa), shunt fraction (Qs/Qt) greater than 5%, elevated alveolar-arterial difference of PO(2) (AaPO(2)), and with transthoracic contrast echocardiography performed within 3 months. Results: Among 263 patients with precapillary PH, 34 patients were included: pulmonary arterial hypertension, 21%; PH associated with lung disease, 47% (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 23%; interstitial lung disease, 9%; other, 15%); chronic thromboembolic PH, 26%; miscellaneous causes, 6%. Mean pulmonary artery pressure, cardiac index, and pulmonary vascular resistance were 45.8 +/- 10.8 mmHg, 2.2 +/- 0.6 L/min/m(2), and 469 +/- 275 dyn.s.cm(-5), respectively. PaO2 in room air was 6.8 +/- 1.3 kPa. Qs/Qt was 10.2 +/- 4.2%. AaPO(2) under 100% oxygen was 32.5 +/- 12.4 kPa. Positive contrast was present at transthoracic contrast echocardiography in 6/34 (18%) of patients, including only 4/34 (12%) with intracardiac RL shunting. Qs/Qt did not correlate with hemodynamic parameters. Patients' characteristics did not differ according to the result of contrast echocardiography. Conclusion: When present in patients with precapillary PH, RL shunting is usually not related to reopening of patent foramen ovale, whatever the etiology of PH.
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