Pulmonary recruitment is a phenomenon that occurs in the lung when pressure is applied to the airways in such a way as to open up unused or collapsed alveolar segments not participating in gas exchange. CPAP is frequently described as being able to stent or stretch the airways open. This allows for deeper penetration into the alveolar region of the lung by each breath, and this stenting holds the airways open longer during exhalation. There is a subsequent decrease in work of breathing, due to an increase in lung compliance and lessening of auto-PEEP.
Auto-PEEP is the abnormal residual pressure above atmospheric pressure that is trapped in the distal airways and alveoli at the end of exhalation. Distribution of ventilation improves, as does secretion removal. Hemodynamics are improved by reducing pre- and afterload. When speaking in terms of the heart muscle, preload is the stretch on the ventricular muscle fibers before the next contraction occurs.
Preload is created by the volume of blood left in the ventricle after the chamber has contracted and relaxed end-diastolic volume. As the ventricle fails, the end-diastolic volume increases, and the cardiac muscles stretch as a result.
The more they stretch, the more forcefully they are able to contract Starling's law , until a physiological limit is reached. When that limit is exceeded, the ventricle is now in failure. Factors that influence preload include the degree of stiffness of the ventricular wall compliance , changes in circulating blood distribution and volume and the ability for the atria to contract normally.
Afterload is the sum of the external forces that oppose blood being ejected out of the ventricle. There are two main components of afterload: tension in the ventricular wall and peripheral resistance impedance. Factors that oppose ventricular emptying include ventricular distention, increased intraventricular pressure, a thin ventricular wall, negative intrathoracic pressure and peripheral resistance caused by the arterial tree.
CPAP is believed to support the heart in failure by increasing intrathoracic pressure. This causes an increase in cardiac output by decreasing the pressure gradient across the ventricular wall transmural ventricular pressure or afterload.
This in turn allows the left ventricular end-diastolic volume to decrease, thereby reducing afterload. As a result, left ventricular ejection fraction is increased, muscle strength improves, and blood pressure and pulse rate decrease. Overnight plasma and urinary norepinephrine levels fall. Since there is less stretching of the myocardial muscles, the blood natriuretic peptide level falls.
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Last Update Posted : May 30, Study Description. Heart failure affects approximately million North Americans and is increasing in prevalence. OSA is the repeated temporary interruption of breathing during sleep and occurs when the air passages in the upper respiratory tract become blocked during sleep. OSA adversely affects the cardiovascular system resulting in hypoxia decrease in oxygen supply , which decreases the oxygen supply to the heart.
It has also been shown that CPAP reduces angina during sleep, minimizes sympathetic nervous system SNS activation and improves left ventricular LV function, although the mechanism of action is not clear. Carbon acetate PET imaging allows for the assessment of how the heart works and how efficiently the heart uses oxygen in certain circumstances. Carbon hydroxyephedrine HED measures cardiac nervous system activity, which may have an effect on heart rate.
The study will evaluate the term effects of continuous positive airway pressure CPAP , a common treatment for patients with OSA, on the heart's efficiency or ability to work and its effect on the nervous system activity of the heart. Two patient groups will be evaluated 1. Measurements will be obtained at baseline, 1 week where possible and weeks.
Detailed Description:. Secondary Hypotheses: In patients with chronic stable heart failure and OSA, CPAP leads to an early 1 week'' reduction in daytime oxidative metabolism that precedes the improvement in work-metabolic index, indicating an early energy sparing effect; CPAP leads to i an increase in daytime myocardial SN pre-synaptic function as measured by increased [11C]HED retention on PET imaging, and ii a parallel decrease in sympathetic and increase in vagal modulation of sino-atrial discharge i.
FDA Resources. Arms and Interventions. PET imaging at baseline, 1 week and weeks. PET imaging at Baseline, 1 week and weeks. Outcome Measures. Primary Outcome Measures : Measurements of oxidative metabolism 11C clearance rate constant 'k' and WMI [ Time Frame: at weeks ] The differences in the measurements of oxidative metabolism 11C clearance rate constant 'k' and WMI will be analyzed using t-tests for the treatment groups.
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