Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Cardiac Repolarization: Data from a Randomized Controlled Trial.
- Sievi NA Pulmonary Division, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Clarenbach CF
- Kohler M
- 2016-04-15
Published in:
- Respiration; international review of thoracic diseases. - 2016
Adult
Aged
Analysis of Variance
Arrhythmias, Cardiac
Blood Pressure
Electrocardiography
Female
Forced Expiratory Volume
Heart
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Pneumonectomy
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
Respiratory Function Tests
English
BACKGROUND
Altered cardiac repolarization is a risk factor for sudden cardiac death and seems to be increased in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients.
OBJECTIVE
Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) has been shown to improve breathing mechanics and lung function in patients with severe COPD and emphysema and possibly also improve altered cardiac repolarization.
METHODS
Thirty patients scheduled for LVRS were randomized to LVRS or to the control group. We investigated the treatment effect 3 months after LVRS on measures of cardiac repolarization and dispersion of repolarization (QTc interval, QT dispersion) derived from electrocardiography. Univariable and multivariable analyses were used to identify possible confounders influencing the treatment effect.
RESULTS
LVRS was associated with an improvement in lung function (mean ± SD residual volume/total lung capacity of -9 ± 11% and forced expiratory volume in 1 s of +30 ± 29%). LVRS did not significantly reduce QTc (median -5.3 ms, 95% confidence interval, CI -15.5 to 3.7, p = 0.214) and QT dispersion (median -3.0 ms, 95% CI -13.0 to 7.0, p = 0.536) compared to the control group. No significant association between change in QTc and change in QT dispersion, respectively, and change in possible confounders was found.
CONCLUSION
LVRS seems to have no effect on cardiac repolarization in patients with COPD. Thus, lung hyperinflation seems not to be a causal mechanism for altered cardiac repolarization in COPD patients.
Altered cardiac repolarization is a risk factor for sudden cardiac death and seems to be increased in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients.
OBJECTIVE
Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) has been shown to improve breathing mechanics and lung function in patients with severe COPD and emphysema and possibly also improve altered cardiac repolarization.
METHODS
Thirty patients scheduled for LVRS were randomized to LVRS or to the control group. We investigated the treatment effect 3 months after LVRS on measures of cardiac repolarization and dispersion of repolarization (QTc interval, QT dispersion) derived from electrocardiography. Univariable and multivariable analyses were used to identify possible confounders influencing the treatment effect.
RESULTS
LVRS was associated with an improvement in lung function (mean ± SD residual volume/total lung capacity of -9 ± 11% and forced expiratory volume in 1 s of +30 ± 29%). LVRS did not significantly reduce QTc (median -5.3 ms, 95% confidence interval, CI -15.5 to 3.7, p = 0.214) and QT dispersion (median -3.0 ms, 95% CI -13.0 to 7.0, p = 0.536) compared to the control group. No significant association between change in QTc and change in QT dispersion, respectively, and change in possible confounders was found.
CONCLUSION
LVRS seems to have no effect on cardiac repolarization in patients with COPD. Thus, lung hyperinflation seems not to be a causal mechanism for altered cardiac repolarization in COPD patients.
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- English
- Open access status
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- DOI 10.1159/000445030
- PMID 27078496
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/263443
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