| Mechanisms of periodic breathing during exercise in patients with chronic heart failure. | |
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PMID: 18187746 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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BACKGROUND: Periodic breathing (PB) in heart failure (HF) is attributed to many factors, including low cardiac output delaying the time it takes pulmonary venous blood to reach the central and peripheral chemoreceptors, low lung volume, lung congestion, augmented chemoreceptor sensitivity, and the narrow difference between eupneic carbon dioxide tension and apneic/hypoventilatory threshold. METHODS AND RESULTS: We measured expired gases, ventilation, amplitude, and duration of PB in 23 patients with PB during progressive exercise tests done with 0 mL, 250 mL, or 500 mL of added dead space. Periodicity of PB remained constant despite heart rate, oxygen consumption, and minute ventilation increasing. Within each PB cycle, starting from the beginning of exercise, the largest (peak) tidal volume approached maximum observed tidal volume, while the smallest (nadir) tidal volume increased as exercise power output increased. PB ceased when nadir tidal volume reached peak tidal volume. End-tidal carbon dioxide increased with added dead space, and PB ceased progressively earlier during the exercise done with increased dead space. CONCLUSION: Circulatory delay does not contribute to the PB observed in exercising HF patients. The pattern of gradually increasing nadir tidal volume during exercise and the effect of dead space on both PB ceasing and end-tidal carbon dioxide suggest that low tidal volume and carbon dioxide apnea threshold are important contributors to PB that occurs during exercise in HF. |
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Authors:
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Piergiuseppe Agostoni; Anna Apostolo; Richard K Albert |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Chest Volume: 133 ISSN: 0012-3692 ISO Abbreviation: Chest Publication Date: 2008 Jan |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2008-01-11 Completed Date: 2008-03-06 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 0231335 Medline TA: Chest Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 197-203 Citation Subset: AIM; IM |
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Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Istituto di Cardiologia, Università di Milano, Via Parea 4, 20138 Milan, Italy. piergiuseppe.agostoni@ccfm.it |
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Aged Exercise / physiology* Female Heart Failure / physiopathology* Humans Male Respiration* Respiratory Dead Space |
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