Is Progression of Pulmonary Fibrosis due to Ventilation-induced Lung Injury?
Is Progression of Pulmonary Fibrosis due to Ventilation-induced Lung Injury?
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DOI:
10.1164/rccm.201903-0497pp
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发表时间:
2019-07-15
影响因子:
24.7
通讯作者:
Schwartz, David A.
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作者:
Albert, Richard K.;Smith, Bradford;Schwartz, David A.
Pulmonary fibrosis can develop in association with genetic variants, occupational and environmental exposures, adverse reactions to numerous medications, and many connective tissue diseases, and it can also be idiopathic. Subclassifications of pulmonary fibrosis are identified on the basis of clinical presentations, roentgenographic manifestations, and/or histology. Wnt (Wingless/integrase 1) activation of c-Jun and b-catenin has been suggested as a unifying molecular pathway resulting in fibrosis because c-Jun and b-catenin upregulate expression of many profibrotic factors (1), but little is known about what activates these pathways or the mechanism (s) explaining what appears to be a self-sustaining temporal and spatial progression of injury. Ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) contributes to the mortality of the acute respiratory distress syndrome by two putative mechanisms that are not mutually exclusive. The first is the mechanical stress on epithelial cells that occurs as a result of cyclical opening and closing of collapsed alveoli and/or small airways during the ventilatory cycle (termed “atelectrauma”). The second is the mechanical strain on epithelial cells in alveoli that are adjacent to areas of airspace collapse when these alveoli approach their maximum volume owing to parenchymal interdependence (termed “volutrauma”). This strain can also occur in the absence of collapse as a result of high transpulmonary pressures. Because airspace collapse can occur during spontaneous breathing as well as during mechanical ventilation, we are defining VILI as ventilation-rather than ventilator-induced lung injury.The purpose of this perspective article is to summarize information supporting the hypothesis that VILI can be a unifying pathogenic process explaining the selfperpetuating injury and progression of pulmonary fibrosis (Figure 1). We review studies demonstrating that alveolar collapse has been a repeatedly observed pathologic finding in pulmonary fibrosis, thereby providing a setting in which VILI can occur. We summarize studies showing that in patients with pulmonary fibrosis, many of the risk factors and genetic variants related to the condition, as well as most of the models used to study it, are associated with surfactant abnormalities and/or with AT2 (alveolar type 2) cell injury that could result in surfactant abnormalities, thereby providing an explanation for why collapse develops. We also estimate the mechanical strain resulting from volutrauma and