title: Determination of total effective vascular compliance in patients with sepsis syndrome.
abstract: Changes in capacitance vessels have important consequences on cardiac filling pressure and fluid volume distribution in patients with sepsis syndrome. Vascular compliance may be evaluated from the slope of the relationship between changes in total blood volume (deltaTBV) and changes in central venous pressure (deltaCVP) during acute volume expansion (450 ml of gelatin fluid over 6 min), i.e., from the deltaTBV/deltaCVP ratio. The mean ratio (ml x mm Hg-1 x kg-1) was 2.03 +/- 0.21 in control subjects, 1.43 +/- 0.25 in mechanically ventilated patients without sepsis syndrome, and 0.94 +/- 0.24 in mechanically ventilated patients with sepsis syndrome (p < 0.0001 versus the other two groups). Based on echocardiographic determinations, cardiac performance was constantly found within the normal range (cardiac output ranged from 5.6 +/- 1.2 to 6.7 +/- 2.0 L/min in nonseptic patients from 6.8 +/- 1.9 to 7.8 +/- 2.2 in septic patients). Effective compliance of the total vascular bed is therefore reduced in patients with sepsis syndrome, independently of the hemodynamic modifications due to mechanical ventilation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, INSERM U 337, Broussais Hospital, Paris, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Stephan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Novara
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tournier
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Maillet
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: London
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Safar
authors.forename: J Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Fagon
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001810:Blood Volume; D002302:Cardiac Output; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002496:Central Venous Pressure; D003187:Compliance; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D005440:Fluid Therapy; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010952:Plasma Substitutes / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D018746:Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D018924:Vascular Capacitance; D014655:Vascular Resistance
chemical_list: D010952:Plasma Substitutes