Influence of Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure on Central Apnea in Heart Failure
- 30 March 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Circulation
- Vol. 99 (12), 1574-1579
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.99.12.1574
Abstract
Background —Recent studies suggest that acute pulmonary congestion induces hyperventilation and that hyperventilation-related hypocapnia leads to ventilatory control instability and central sleep apnea. Whether chronic pulmonary congestion due to congestive heart failure (CHF) is associated with central apnea is unknown. We hypothesized that CHF patients with central apnea would have greater pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) than patients without central apnea and that PCWP would correlate with central apnea severity. Methods and Results —Seventy-five stable CHF patients underwent right heart catheterization and, on the basis of overnight sleep studies, were divided into central apnea (n=33), obstructive apnea (n=20), or nonapnea groups (apnea-hypopnea index [AHI] P r =0.47, P =0.006) and degree of hypocapnia (Pa co 2 : r =−0.42, P =0.017). Intensive medical therapy in 7 patients with initially high PCWP and central apneas reduced both PCWP (29.0±2.6 [20 to 38] to 22.0±1.8 [17 to 27] mm Hg; P P =0.005). Conclusions —PCWP is elevated in CHF patients with central apneas compared with those with obstructive apnea or without apnea. Moreover, a highly significant relationship exists between PCWP, hypocapnia, and central apnea frequency and severity.Keywords
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