Intrapulmonary Shunting during Induced Hypotension
Intrapulmonary Shunting during Induced Hypotension
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诱发低血压期间的肺内分流
DOI:
10.1097/00132586-198212000-00001
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发表时间:
1982
影响因子:
5.7
通讯作者:
E. Lear
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作者:
P. Casthely;S. Lear;J. Cottrell;E. Lear
The effect of sodium nitroprusside (SNP) and nitroglycerin (TNG) on pulmonary shunting (&OV0422;s/&OV0422;t) in 14 consenting adults [nine with normal lung function and five with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)] was studied under general anesthesia. &OV0422;s/&OV0422;t significantly increased (p > 0.005) from 5.19% to 8.81%, whereas pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP) decreased from 18.5 to 8 torr (p > 0.005) and pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) decreased from 235 to 147.75 dynes sec/cm5 (p > 0.025) when SNP was administered to patients with normal lung function. Nitroglycerin increased &OV0422;s/&OV0422;t from 5.13% to 6.19% (p > 0.005), whereas PAP decreased from 18 to 10 torr (p > 0.005) and PVR decreased from 237 to 162.6 dynes sec/cm5 (p > 0.025) in these patients. In patients with COPD, SNP and TNG produced no significant changes in &OV0422;s/&OV0422;t, PAP, or PVR. Cardiac output remained unchanged in both groups of patients. Various mechanisms to explain these results can be postulated. When hypotension is induced in patients with normal pulmonary function, PAP decreases and the effect of gravity puts more blood through dependent areas where most of the shunt units are. In patients with COPD, destructive vascular changes increase PAP, preventing vasodilators from decreasing PVR. In addition, dilation of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (if present) by SNP and TNG will occur independent of the two previously mentioned mechanisms. These results provide evidence that SNP-and TNG-induced hypotension may cause significant impairment in pulmonary gas exchange in patients with normal lung function. In patients with COPD pulmonary gas exchange is not affected after deliberate hypotension with SNP or TNG.