Inspiratory capacity is not altered in operable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Manuel J Richter; Henning Gall; Gesa Wittkämper; Werner Seeger; Eckhard Mayer; Hossein A Ghofrani; Stefan Guth; Frank Reichenberger

doi:10.1177/2045893217709763

Inspiratory capacity is not altered in operable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Pulm Circ. 2017 Apr-Jun;7(2):543-546. doi: 10.1177/2045893217709763. Epub 2017 May 12.

Authors

Manuel J Richter^{1

2}, Henning Gall², Gesa Wittkämper², Werner Seeger², Eckhard Mayer³, Hossein A Ghofrani^{1

2}, Stefan Guth³, Frank Reichenberger⁴

Affiliations

¹ 1 Department of Pneumology, Kerckhoff Heart, Rheuma and Thoracic Center, Bad Nauheim, Germany.
² 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany.
³ 3 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kerckhoff Heart, Rheuma and Thoracic Center, Bad Nauheim, Germany.
⁴ 4 Asklepios Hospital, German Center for Lung Research, Gauting, Germany.

Abstract

Pathological alterations of inspiratory capacity (IC) have been observed in pulmonary hypertension. However, the clinical significance of IC in operable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) without other pulmonary diseases remains unknown. CTEPH patients scheduled for pulmonary endarterectomy were prospectively screened. Despite being associated with functional capacity, pathological alterations of IC were not observed.

Keywords: chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension; inspiratory capacity; pulmonary endarterectomy.