Oxygen therapy may worsen the survival rate in rats with monocrotaline-induced pulmonary arterial hypertension

PloS One
Naoto FujitaHidetaka Imagita

Abstract

Although oxygen therapy rapidly improves arterial oxygen saturation in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, the effects of chronic administration of oxygen are unknown. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of chronic oxygen therapy on the histological changes and survival rate in rats with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension. Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension was induced by monocrotaline injection. The rats were then randomly assigned to receive or not receive oxygen therapy (O2 group and non-O2 group, respectively). The rats in the O2 group were exposed to a high (90%) oxygen environment from day 17 following injection of monocrotaline, when hypoxemia was first observed. The pulmonary arteriole walls were significantly thicker in monocrotaline-injected rats than in saline-injected rats as vehicle on day 19 and were significantly thicker in the rats that received oxygen therapy than in the rats that did not. Right ventricular inflammations were significantly higher in monocrotaline-injected rats than in saline-injected rats on day 19 and were significantly higher in the rats that received oxygen therapy than in the rats that did not. By day 20 after injection of monocrotaline, t...Continue Reading

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