Improving oxygenation during bronchopulmonary lavage using nitric oxide inhalation and almitrine infusion
Improving oxygenation during bronchopulmonary lavage using nitric oxide inhalation and almitrine infusion
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DOI:
10.1097/00000539-199908000-00008
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发表时间:
1999-08-01
影响因子:
5.7
通讯作者:
Fischler, M
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作者:
Moutafis, M;Dalibon, N;Fischler, M
The treatment of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis may require bronchopulmonary lavage. This technique, described in 1966 (1), can be associated with significant oxygenation and hemodynamic changes. By compressing the vasculature of the nonventilated lung, the lavage fluid can decrease blood flow to the lung and divert flow to the ventilated lung, consequently increasing Pao2 during the lung-filling phases because of a low intrapulmonary shunt. When the lavage fluid is drained from the lung, pulmonary vasculature is no longer compressed, and blood flow is increased. Emptying of the lung can then impair pulmonary gas exchange because the shunt increases (2–4).Hypoxemia can be so severe that bronchopulmonary lavage may require extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (5, 6). New therapeutics, such as nitric oxide (NO) and almitrine, provide a nonventilatory technique for treating hypoxemia, especially in patients suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome and hypoxia during one-lung ventilation (7). We used these therapeutics in a case of bronchopulmonary lavage.