Determinants of Improved Dyspnea and Exercise Tolerance With Nasal High-Flow O2 Therapy in Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease: A Pilot Physiological Study.
Sarah Thivent, Marylise Ginoux, Samuel Verges, Frédéric Hérengt, Mathieu Marillier
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Abstract
We tested the respective effect of high-flow and supplemental O2 from nasal high-flow O2 therapy (NHFO2) on dyspnea and exercise tolerance in fibrotic interstitial lung disease. Supplemental O2 and NHFO2 (but not high-flow) provided improvements in these outcomes at "iso-O2 saturation" due to reduced ventilatory requirements. Physiological benefits derived from O2 supplementation are thus likely primary drivers of dyspnea relief and improved exercise tolerance on NHFO2 (vs air) in these patients.
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Respirology is a journal of international standing, publishing peer-reviewed articles of scientific excellence in clinical and clinically-relevant experimental respiratory biology and disease. Fields of research include immunology, intensive and critical care, epidemiology, cell and molecular biology, pathology, pharmacology, physiology, paediatric respiratory medicine, clinical trials, interventional pulmonology and thoracic surgery.
The Journal aims to encourage the international exchange of results and publishes papers in the following categories: Original Articles, Editorials, Reviews, and Correspondences.
Respirology is the preferred journal of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, has been adopted as the preferred English journal of the Japanese Respiratory Society and the Taiwan Society of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and is an official journal of the World Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology.