Characteristics of the Respiratory System Status in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis and the Dependence of its Syntropic Lesions on the Severity of the Disease due to C. G. Child - R. N. Pugh Class
Journal Title: Lviv Clinical Bulletin - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 14
Abstract
Introduction. Today we know, that the course of liver cirrhosis (LC) depends on a number of factors: the nervous and humoral regulation, the proportion of cells, that form the sinusoidal blood flow, neurotransmitters of the autonomic nervous system and other features, that ensure the normal course of the physiological processes and portal pressure maintenance. The result of their equilibrium disorder is the formation of collateral blood flow, esophageal varices, often associated with portal gastro- gantry, entero-, colopathy, splenomegaly, ascites. Changes of the blood circulation, accompanying LC, is the basis not only for portal hypertension and its characteristic complications, but also for blood flow disorders, practically, in all organs, including the lungs, with the appearance of the severe pathological changes there, which have, in this case, the causal connection with the degree of pressure increase in the liver portal system. Assessment of the respiratory system status in cirrhotic patients and the dependence of the syntropic disorders on the severity of the disease would optimize the assistance for this large group of patients, but until now this aspect of the problem has not been studied. Aim. To describe the status of the respiratory system in patients with liver cirrhosis and the dependence of its syntropic lesions on the severity of the disease due to C. G. Child - R. N. Pugh class. Materials and methods. In a randomized way with preliminary stratification by the presence of respiratory dysfunction, caused by birth defects, hereditary diseases of respiratory system, infectious, autoimmune, allergic, neoplastic, toxic and occupational factors, identified as syntropic, we have involved into the study 93 cirrhotic patients (45.4 % of all surveyed persons [29 women (31.2 %) and 64 men (68.8 %) aged 27 to 73 years, - the most able-bodied population category]) and divided them by the severity classes of LC (criteria of C. G. Child - R. N. Pugh). To achieve the aim of the study all the patients were examined using clinical-laboratory and instrumental methods. Was conducted a clinical review, was determined the arterial blood oxygen saturation in standing and lying position, using pulse oxymetry, were calculated some indices of cardiovascular functioning (heart rate, pulse blood pressure, medium dynamic pressure, peripheral resistance, minute volume of blood), the study of blood gas composition of the venous blood and alveolar-arterial gradient for oxygen, spirometry (determination of lung capacity, respiratory volume, minute volume of breath, forced vital capacity, forced expiratory volume in 1 minute, Tiffno index), electrocardiography and echocardiography, was calculated the average pressure in the pulmonary artery, followed by statistical processing of the results. According to the results of our study can be observed the tendency of negative dynamics of respiratory failure in cirrhotic patients, depending on the severity of the disease by the criteria of C. G. Child - R. N. Pugh. All the patients of the experimental group showed the signs of increasing dyspnea with acrocyanosis and the appearance of “spider veins”, symptoms of hypoxemia, more expressed in a lying position, increased minute volume of blood, that deepens it, because of the reduced transit time of blood, and, respectively, the gas exchange through the expanded lung capillaries. Intense reduction of the partial pressure of CO2 indices, O2 partial pressure, blood oxygen saturation, total CO2 level, free and bound O2 levels, compared with the reference rates (p < 0.05), confirm the presence of hypoxemia, due to disorders of ventilation-perfusion relationships and formation of arterio-venous shunts. Conducted instrumental examination revealed the nature of the restrictive type of dyspnea and deny the signs of pulmonary hypertension in these patients. Conclusions. Among the diseases of the respiratory system 54.6 % of cirrhotic patients had concomitant lesions. The incidence of diffuse pneumofibrosis syndrome was 45.4 % and was significantly (p < 0,05) raising with the increase of the disease severity according to C. G. Child – R. N. Pugh and therefore, has common cause and/or pathogenic mechanisms with it, which makes it a syntropic hepato-pulmonary syndrome. In patients with liver cirrhosis and syntropic hepato-pulmonary syndrome the indices of oxygen saturation of capillary and venous blood and its gas composition were significantly lower (p < 0.05) compared with the reference rates, and its severity, assessed by the results of clinical-laboratory and instrumental survey of respiratory system, has directly proportional dependence on the class of liver cirrhosis by C. G. Child – R. N. Pugh - the heavier liver damage, the more severe dyspnea, lung ventilation function violations of restrictive type with hypoxemia and blood gas composition disorders, with reduced ability of hemoglobin to bind and also carry oxygen and more pronounced formation of arterio-venous shunts.
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Соломія Толопко
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