PMID: 8610951May 1, 1996Paper

Aerosolized prostacyclin and iloprost in severe pulmonary hypertension

Annals of Internal Medicine
H OlschewskiW Seeger

Abstract

To compare the effects of aerosolization of prostacyclin and its stable analog iloprost with those of nasal oxygen, inhaled nitric oxide, and intravenous prostacyclin on hemodynamics and gas exchange in patients with severe pulmonary hypertension. Open uncontrolled trial. Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen Germany. 4 patients with primary pulmonary hypertension and 2 patients with severe pulmonary hypertension associated with calcinosis, the Raynaud phenomenon, esophageal dysfunction, sclerodactyly, and telangiectasia (the CREST syndrome). All were classified as New York Heart Association class III or class IV. Short-term applications of O2, inhaled nitric oxide, intravenous prostacyclin, aerosolized prostacyclin, and aerosolized iloprost during repeated catheter investigation of the right side of the heart within a 1-month period. One patient had long-term therapy with inhaled iloprost. Aerosolized prostacyclin decreased pulmonary artery pressure in 6 patients from (mean +/- SE) 62.3 +/- 4.1 mm Hg to 50.8 +/- 5.5 mm Hg and reduced pulmonary vascular resistance from 1721 +/- 253 dyne/s cm-5 to 1019 +/- 203 dyne/s cm-5, and it increased cardiac output from 2.75 +/- 0.21 L/min to 4.11 +/- 0.54 L/min, mixed venous oxygen saturation...Continue Reading

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