The European respiratory journal, 2017-10, Vol.50 (4), p.1701008-1701008
2017
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Combined measurement of carbon monoxide and nitric oxide lung transfer does not improve the identification of pulmonary hypertension in systemic sclerosis
- Ist Teil von
- The European respiratory journal, 2017-10, Vol.50 (4), p.1701008-1701008
- Ort / Verlag
- England: European Respiratory Society Journals Ltd
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2017
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- Quelle
- MEDLINE
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Screening is important to determine whether patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) have pulmonary hypertension because earlier pulmonary hypertension treatment can improve survival in these patients. Although decreased transfer factor of the lung for carbon monoxide ( ) is currently considered the best pulmonary function test for screening for pulmonary hypertension in SSc, small series have suggested that partitioning into membrane conductance (diffusing capacity) for carbon monoxide ( ) and alveolar capillary blood volume ( ) through combined measurement of and transfer factor of the lung for nitric oxide ( ) is more effective to identify pulmonary hypertension in SSc patients compared with alone. Here, the objective was to determine whether combined - partitioned with recently refined equations could more accurately detect pulmonary hypertension than alone in SSc.For that purpose, 572 unselected consecutive SSc patients were retrospectively recruited in seven French centres.Pulmonary hypertension was diagnosed with right heart catheterisation in 58 patients. , and were all lower in SSc patients with pulmonary hypertension than in SSc patients without pulmonary hypertension. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for the presence of pulmonary hypertension was equivalent for (0.82, 95% CI 0.79-0.85) and (0.80, 95% CI 0.76-0.83), but lower for (0.75, 95% CI 0.71-0.78) and (0.66, 95% CI 0.62-0.70).Compared with alone, combined - does not add capability to detect pulmonary hypertension in unselected SSc patients.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0903-1936eISSN: 1399-3003DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01008-2017Titel-ID: cdi_hal_primary_oai_HAL_hal_04301872v1
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- Schlagworte
- Adult, Alveoli, Blood-Air Barrier, Capillary Permeability, Carbon monoxide, Carbon Monoxide - metabolism, Early Diagnosis, Early Medical Intervention, Female, France, Human health and pathology, Humans, Hypertension, Hypertension, Pulmonary - diagnosis, Hypertension, Pulmonary - metabolism, Hypertension, Pulmonary - physiopathology, Hypertension, Pulmonary - therapy, Life Sciences, Lung - physiopathology, Lungs, Male, Mathematical models, Membrane conductance, Middle Aged, Nitric oxide, Nitric Oxide - metabolism, Pulmonary Diffusing Capacity - methods, Pulmonary Gas Exchange, Pulmonary hypertension, Pulmonology and respiratory tract, Reproducibility of Results, Respiratory function, Respiratory Function Tests - methods, Scleroderma, Scleroderma, Systemic - complications, Scleroderma, Systemic - physiopathology, Systemic sclerosis, Transfer factor