Cardiorespiratory system in adult patients with mucoviscidosis
Naumenko, Z.K.; Nekliudova, G.V.; Cherniak, A.V.; Amelina, E.L.; Kalmanova, E.N.; Chuchalin, A.G.
Terapevticheskii Arkhiv 74(3): 52-55
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 0040-3660 PMID: 11980124 Document Number: 546749
To study cardiorespiratory system in adult patients with mucoviscedosis. External respiration function, echocardiographic and dopplercardiographic evidence were analysed for 22 patients with mucoviscedosis. 66.7% examinees had mixed pulmonary ventilation disorders, 46% were found to have low diffuse capacity of the lungs correlating in degree with ventilatory abnormalities. Dilated right heart and high systolic pressure in the pulmonary artery were registered in 14% patients with marked obstruction. Left ventricular systolic and diastolic defects occurred in 23%. Adult patients with mucoviscedosis have mixed disorders of pulmonary ventilation, high pressure in pulmonary circulation and developing pulmonary heart in patients with severe obstruction.