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  • Title: VE/VCO2 Slope and Functional Capacity in Patients Post-Heart Transplantation.
    Author: Tsai WJ, Tsai HY, Kuo LY, Lin YS, Chen BY, Lin WH, Shen SL, Huang HY.
    Journal: Transplant Proc; 2018 Nov; 50(9):2733-2737. PubMed ID: 30401386.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: The ventilatory efficiency represented cardiovascular, pulmonary, and musculoskeletal performance into an integrate index has been used as long-term and short-term prognostic variables in congestive heart failure. The heart failure patients post heart transplantation, whether the ventilatory efficiency was also normalized is still unknown. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study. We measured ventilation to carbon dioxide production slope and oxygen consumption in peak exercise (peak VO2) by cardiopulmonary exercise test, which represented ventilatory efficiency and functional capacity respectively. Strength of hand grip, the 30-second chair stand test, and 6-minute walking test were also evaluated. Patients with ventilation to carbon dioxide production slope <30 were defined as the normal group; others were defined as the abnormal group. Independent t tests and paired t tests were used when appropriate. The level of statistical significance was set at .05. RESULTS: There were 51 clinically stable post-heart transplantation patients (age 53 ± 12.4 years; 86.3% were male) at 65.14 ± 41.17 months after transplantation. The ventilation to carbon dioxide production slope was 29.2 ± 5.6, which significantly improved compared to that recorded 1 month after heart transplantation (32.6 ± 6.4). There were 20 patients in the abnormal group, characterized by lower 6-minute walking test distance (normal vs abnormal, 422.5 ± 97.8 vs 532.6 ± 87.6 m) and peak VO2 (normal vs abnormal, 14.9 ± 5.3 vs 18.8 ± 5.1 mL/kg/min). The abnormal ventilation to carbon dioxide production slope was significantly correlated with 6-minute walking test distances in multivariate analyses. CONCLUSION: Our findings indicate that the ventilation to carbon dioxide production slope is partially abnormal among patients post-heart transplantation. A ventilation to carbon dioxide production slope above the normal range is characterized by a lower peak VO2 during cardiopulmonary exercise test and lower 6-minute walking test distance. The ventilation to carbon dioxide production slope is also significantly negatively correlated with peak VO2, peak work rate, and 6-minute walking test distance. The prognostic utility of the ventilation to carbon dioxide production slope for patients post-heart transplantation requires further investigation.
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