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ToolsBowater, S.E., Weaver, R.A., Beadle, R.M., Frenneaux, M.P., Marshall, J.M. and Clift, P.F. (2016) Assessment of the physiological adaptations to chronic hypoxemia in Eisenmenger syndrome. Congenital Heart Disease, 11 (4). 341–347. ISSN 1747-079X
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Objective: Eisenmenger syndrome is characterized by severe and lifelong hypoxemia and pulmonary hypertension. Despite this, patients do surprisingly well and report a reasonable quality of life. The aim of this study was to investigate whether these patients undergo adaptation of their skeletal and cardiac muscle energy metabolism which would help explain this paradox. Design and Setting: Ten patients with Eisenmenger syndrome and eight age- and sex-matched healthy volunteers underwent symptom—limited treadmill cardiopulmonary exercise testing, transthoracic echocardiography and 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy of cardiac and skeletal muscle. Five subjects from each group also underwent near infrared spectroscopy to assess muscle oxygenation. Results: Despite having a significantly lower peak VO2, patients with Eisenmenger syndrome have a similar skeletal muscle phosphocreatine (PCr) recovery, a measure of oxidative capacity, when compared to healthy controls (34.9 s ± 2.9 s vs. 35.2 s ± 1.7 s, P = .9). Furthermore their intracellular pH falls to similar levels during exercise suggesting they are not reliant on early anaerobic metabolism (0.3 ± 0.06 vs. 0.28 ± 0.04, P = .7). While their right ventricular systolic function remained good, the Eisenmenger group had a lower cardiac PCr/ATP ratio compared to the control group (1.55 ± 0.10 vs. 2.17 ± 0.15, P < .05). Conclusions: These results show that adult patients with Eisenmenger syndrome have undergone beneficial physiological adaptations of both skeletal and cardiac muscle. This may, in part, explain their surprisingly good survival despite a lifetime of severe hypoxemia and adverse cardiopulmonary hemodynamics.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | eisenmenger syndrome,hypoxemia,magnetic resonance spectroscopy,energy metabolism |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2016 16:00 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2024 01:31 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/59646 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/chd.12373 |
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