Unknown

Dataset Information

0

Acute vasoreactivity testing during right heart catheterization in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: Results from the pulmonary vascular disease phenomics study.


ABSTRACT: Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is believed to involve both vascular obstruction and vasoconstriction; hence, pulmonary vasodilators such as riociguat may be beneficial. Acute vasoreactivity testing (AVT) is seldom performed routinely in CTEPH patients, so there is limited understanding of the frequency and significance of an acute vasodilator response. Systematic vasodilator testing with oxygen (O2) and oxygen plus inhaled nitric oxide (O2 + iNO) was performed as part of the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Omics (PVDOMICS) NHLBI project, providing an opportunity to examine AVT responses in CTEPH. Patients with CTEPH enrolled in PVDOMICS (n = 49, 40 with prevalent CTEPH [82%]) underwent right heart catheterization including AVT with O2 and O2 + iNO. Hemodynamics were obtained at baseline and with each challenge. Fourteen of 49 patients (29%) had >20% drop in pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) with O2. With O2 + iNO, 30/49 (61%) had >20% drop in PVR, 20% had >20% drop in mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) and PVR, and 8% had >10 mmHg decline in mPAP to mPAP < 40 with normal cardiac output. Patients on riociguat had less response to O2 + iNO than patients on phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors. Our findings shed light on the significant variability in vascular tone that is present in CTEPH, confirming that CTEPH represents a combination of mechanical obstruction and vasoconstriction that appears similar to that observed with Group 1 PAH. Additional study regarding whether results of acute vasodilator testing predict response to therapy and relate to prognosis is warranted.

SUBMITTER: Frantz RP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9817070 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

altmetric image

Publications

Acute vasoreactivity testing during right heart catheterization in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: Results from the pulmonary vascular disease phenomics study.

Frantz Robert P RP   Leopold Jane A JA   Hassoun Paul M PM   Hemnes Anna R AR   Horn Evelyn M EM   Mathai Stephen C SC   Rischard Franz P FP   Larive A Brett AB   Tang W H Wilson WHW   Park Margaret M MM   Hill Nicholas S NS   Rosenzweig Erika B EB  

Pulmonary circulation 20230106 1


Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is believed to involve both vascular obstruction and vasoconstriction; hence, pulmonary vasodilators such as riociguat may be beneficial. Acute vasoreactivity testing (AVT) is seldom performed routinely in CTEPH patients, so there is limited understanding of the frequency and significance of an acute vasodilator response. Systematic vasodilator testing with oxygen (O<sub>2</sub>) and oxygen plus inhaled nitric oxide (O<sub>2</sub> + iNO) was  ...[more]

Similar Datasets

| S-EPMC7178492 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC5858628 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC8851783 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC5530573 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC10111481 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC4860553 | biostudies-other
| S-EPMC9476889 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC6601160 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC4391185 | biostudies-literature