• Critical care medicine · Nov 2008

    Randomized Controlled Trial

    Nitric oxide inhalation and glucocorticoids as combined treatment in human experimental endotoxemia.

    • Lars Hållström, Elisabeth Berghäll, Claes Frostell, Alf Sollevi, and Anne L Soop.
    • Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge and Solna, Stockholm, Sweden. lars.hallstrom@karolinska.se
    • Crit. Care Med. 2008 Nov 1;36(11):3043-7.

    ObjectiveInhaled nitric oxide and glucocorticoids as a combination therapy may attenuate endotoxin-induced inflammatory responses in humans as indicated by levels of cytokines and clinical signs. Since other authors have shown that combined inhaled nitric oxide and steroids improved the histologic damage both in pulmonary and systemic organs in a porcine endotoxin model, we examined if an anti-inflammatory interaction could be demonstrated in humans.DesignDouble-blind, crossover, placebo-controlled randomized study.SettingThe intensive care unit in a university hospital.SubjectsFifteen healthy white volunteers (4 women, 11 men).InterventionsEndotoxin (2 ng/kg) was administered intravenously. Thirty minutes thereafter the volunteers were given glucocorticoids (2 mg/kg) intravenously and inhaled nitric oxide 30 ppm or placebo (nitrogen) administered through a nasal cannula. Blood samples and clinical signs were collected before and up to 5.5 hrs after the endotoxin infusion.Measurements And Main ResultFollowing endotoxin body temperature and heart rate increased significantly compared with baseline. There were no differences observed between the treatments. Endotoxin challenge also markedly elevated the plasma levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interleukin (IL)-6, IL-10, and IL1-ra concentrations during the study period. No difference between placebo/glucocorticoids and inhaled nitric oxide/glucocorticoids treatment was seen in the cytokine response.ConclusionsIn a human experimental inflammatory model using endotoxin, inhaled nitric oxide and glucocorticoids in low doses given after the endotoxin challenge did not modify the inflammatory cascade as monitored in this study.

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