• J. Card. Fail. · Oct 2004

    Reduced pulmonary clearance of endothelin in congestive heart failure: a marker of secondary pulmonary hypertension.

    • Cezar Staniloae, Jocelyn Dupuis, Michel White, Gilbert Gosselin, Ihor Dyrda, Marc Bois, Jacques Crépeau, Raoul Bonan, Alexandre Caron, and Joël Lavoie.
    • Department of Medicine, Montreal Heart Institute, Quebec, Canada.
    • J. Card. Fail. 2004 Oct 1; 10 (5): 427-32.

    BackgroundEndothelin-1 (ET-1) levels are elevated in congestive heart failure (CHF) in relation with the severity of pulmonary hypertension. We evaluated whether a reduced pulmonary ET-1 clearance could contribute to this elevation.Methods And ResultsWe determined pulmonary ET-1 clearance in 24 patients with CHF in relation with hemodynamics, plasma ET-1, and N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) levels. Pulmonary ET-1 extraction, measured by the single bolus indicator-dilution technique, was reduced to 32 +/- 14% in comparison to historic controls (47 +/- 7%). Plasma ET-1 clearance by the lungs (924 +/- 588 mL/min) was also much lower than in controls (1424 +/- 79 mL/min). Clearance correlated inversely with mean pulmonary artery pressure (PAP, r = -.47, P = .017) and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (r = -.47, P = .017) and positively with the rate of left ventricular (LV) relaxation LV -dP/dt (r = .593, P = .004). After multivariate analysis, only mean PAP and LV -dP/dt were independently correlated with ET-1 clearance (r = -.40, P = .03, and r = .55, P = .005, respectively). Plasma ET-1 levels did not correlate with clearance (r = .038, P = .86), and there was no significant arteriovenous ET-1 gradient. There was a mild nonsignificant correlation between plasma ET-1 and pulmonary artery systolic pressure (r = .38, P = .06), but a strong correlation with right atrial pressure (r = .696, P < .0001) and NT-proBNP levels (r = .51, P = .001), which were maintained after multivariate linear regression (r = .60, P = .001, and r = .32, P = .04, respectively).ConclusionPulmonary ET-1 clearance is reduced in CHF in relation with the severity of pulmonary hypertension. This reduced clearance does not significantly modulate plasma ET-1 levels. Whether this is only a marker of secondary pulmonary hypertension or could modulate pulmonary vascular tone will require further studies.

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