Increased arterial carboxyhemoglobin concentrations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Hiroyasu Yasuda, Mutsuo Yamaya, Katsutoshi Nakayama, Satoru Ebihara, Takahiko Sasaki, Shoji Okinaga, Daisuke Inoue, Masanori Asada, Miyako Nemoto, Hidetada Sasaki

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Abstract

Rationale: Exhaled carbon monoxide (CO) and arterial blood carboxyhemoglobin concentrations (Hb-CO) Increase In Inflammatory pulmonary diseases. Objectives: To study whether arterial Hb-CO Is useful to monitor disease activity In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who had stopped smoking. Methods: We measured arterial Hb-CO, arterlovenous Hb-CO differences, and FEV, In 58 patients with COPD and 61 ex-smoking control subjects. Results: Arterial Hb-CO concentrations In patients at stable conditions were higher than those In control subjects (p < 0.0001). Furthermore, the Hb-CO concentrations In patients at the exacerbations (p < 0.0001) were higher than those at the stable conditions. Arterial Hb-CO concentrations In patients at stage III were higher than those In patients at stage II, and the Hb-CO concentrations In patients at stage IV were higher than those in patients at stage III at the stable conditions and exacerbations. Arterial Hb-CO correlated with exhaled CO In patients with COPD at stage II and stage III at the exacerbations. Arterial Hb-CO inversely correlated with the arterial blood partial oxygen pressure and FEV1. Arterlovenous Hb-CO differences in patients at the exacerbations did not differ from those In patients at stable conditions and from those In control subjects. Moreover, arterial Hb-CO correlated with serum C-reactive protein values and serum lipld peroxide concentrations. Conclusions: These findings suggest that increased arterial Hb-CO may relate to severity In patients with COPD because of lung and systemic inflammation and production of reactive oxygen species.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1246-1251
Number of pages6
JournalAmerican journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
Volume171
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005 Jun 1

Keywords

  • Carbon monoxide
  • Carboxyhemoglobin
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Heme oxygenase
  • Systemic inflammation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

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