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Airway hyperresponsiveness with chest strapping: A matter of heterogeneity or reduced lung volume?
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  19429518     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Chest wall strapping has been recently shown to be associated with an increase in airway responsiveness to methacholine. To investigate whether this is the result of the decreased lung volume or an increased heterogeneity due to chest wall distortion, ten healthy volunteers underwent a methacholine challenge at control conditions and after selective strapping of the rib cage, the abdomen or the whole chest wall resulting in similar decrements of functional residual capacity and total lung capacity but causing different distribution of the bronchoconstrictor. Methacholine during strapping reduced forced expiratory flow, dynamic compliance, and reactance at 5Hz and increased pulmonary resistance and respiratory resistance at 5Hz that were significantly greater than at control and associated with a blunted bronchodilator effect of the deep breath. However, no significant differences were observed between selective and total chest wall strapping, suggesting that the major mechanism for increasing airway responsiveness with chest wall strapping is the breathing at low lung volume rather than regional heterogeneities.
Authors:
Riccardo Pellegrino; Pasquale P Pompilio; Giulia Innocenti Bruni; Giorgio Scano; Claudia Crimi; Luigi Biasco; Giuseppe Coletta; Giuseppe Cornara; Roberto Torchio; Vito Brusasco; Raffaele L Dellacà
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Randomized Controlled Trial     Date:  2009-02-05
Journal Detail:
Title:  Respiratory physiology & neurobiology     Volume:  166     ISSN:  1569-9048     ISO Abbreviation:  Respir Physiol Neurobiol     Publication Date:  2009 Mar 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2009-05-11     Completed Date:  2009-06-16     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101140022     Medline TA:  Respir Physiol Neurobiol     Country:  Netherlands    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  47-53     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Centro di Fisiopatologia Respiratoria e di Studio della Dispnea, Azienda Ospedaliera S. Croce e Carle, Cuneo, Italy.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adult
Airway Resistance / drug effects,  physiology*
Analysis of Variance
Humans
Immobilization
Lung / physiology*
Lung Compliance / drug effects
Lung Volume Measurements / methods
Male
Methacholine Chloride / pharmacology
Middle Aged
Parasympathomimetics / pharmacology
Respiratory Hypersensitivity / chemically induced,  physiopathology*
Respiratory Mechanics / drug effects,  physiology*
Spirometry
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
0/Parasympathomimetics; 62-51-1/Methacholine Chloride

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