Increased extravascular lung water in patients with low pulmonary artery occlusion pressure after acute myocardial infarction.
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the clinical characteristics of increased extravascular lung water (EVLW) in patients with low pulmonary artery occlusion pressure (PAOP) in the early phase of acute myocardial infarction.


METHODS
Consecutive sample for descriptions of the clinical features of medical disorders.


METHODS
A general medicine group practice in a university hospital.


METHODS
Sixteen patients with low PAOP (less than 18 mm Hg) on the initial measurement obtained within 12 hr of chest pain onset.


RESULTS
EVLW was measured by the thermal indocyanine green dye double-indicator dilution method. QRS score was obtained on hospital day 7 from the Selvester's QRS Scoring System. Eleven (69%) patients had increased EVLW greater than 7 mL/kg despite low PAOP. EVLW had no significant correlation with PAOP and the difference between plasma colloid osmotic pressure and PAOP, but did have a significant correlation with pulmonary vascular resistance index (r2 = .31, p less than .05), and QRS score (r2 = .45, p less than .005).


CONCLUSIONS
Larger infarcts led to increased EVLW even with low PAOP, and the accumulation of increased EVLW around the small arterioles might have led to increased pulmonary vascular resistance.
Takayama
Y
Y
Second Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan.
Iwasaka
T
T
Sugiura
T
T
Sumimoto
T
T
Takeuchi
M
M
Tsuji
H
H
Takashima
H
H
Taniguchi
H
H
Inada
M
M
D001794:Blood Pressure; D015633:Extravascular Lung Water / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007201:Indicator Dilution Techniques; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009997:Osmotic Pressure; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D014655:Vascular Resistance