Effect of Smoking on Ventilation-Perfusion Ratio

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Smoking is one of the world's leading health hazards. Besides being a major risk factor in the etiology of COPD and lung cancer, cigarette smoke is also a causative agent lung diseases characterized by bronchiolar and interstitial inflammation. However, the associated lung pathology of smoking is not only a risk in the development of lung diseases, but also widely recognized as a major risk factor associated with perioperative respiratory and cardiovascular complications. Apart from the long term effects of cigarette smoke, acute effects of the inhalation of cigarettes smoke may influence the course of lung pathology. The inhalation of smoke causes inflammation in the lung by inducing chemotaxis and activation of neutrophils and macrophages and induces oxidative stress. As the acute inflammatory response to smoke inhalation seems to be the underlying mechanism for chronic diseases of smokers, exploring the field of the acute pulmonary changes after exposure to cigarette smoke is highly relevant. One reason for acute hypoxia and injury during smoking might be a severe mismatch of ventilation and perfusion of the lung. Using the multiple inert gas elimination technique (MIGET), a distribution of ventilation-perfusion ratios in the lung can be calculated by analyzing data on the retention and excretion of six infused inert gases. A saline solution containing the gases is infused intravenously. When passing through the lung the gases are either eliminated from the blood or retained depending on their partition coefficient and local V/Q ratio. The concentrations of the gases are measured in the mixed venous blood or the mixed expired gas and the arterial blood allowing for the calculation of retention and excretion and the derivation of V/Q distribution. MIGET is the experimental gold standard to determine the Ventilation-Perfusion ratio of the lung. The aim of this study is to show the acute effect of smoking on ventilation/perfusion ratio distribution in the lung in otherwise healthy smokers.

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT02963467
Study type	Interventional
Source	Medical University of Vienna
Contact	Stefan Boehme, Ass.-Prof. Dr.
Phone	00436766767144
Email	stefan.boehme@meduniwien.ac.at
Status	Recruiting
Phase	N/A
Start date	September 17, 2018
Completion date	September 2019

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