PH Flashcards
Definition
↑ PA pressure
* Systolic >30mmHg
* Diastolic >19mmHg
* Mean >14mmHg
Mechanisms for pulmonary hypertension
- ↑ PVR
o ↑ resistance to pulmonary venous drainage
o ↓ CSA of pulmonary vascular bed
Loss of pulmonary vessels
Luminal narrowing
Pulmonary vasoconstriction - ↑pulmonary blood flow (RV CO)
o Persistent exposure to ↑ blood flow → pulmonary artery pathology
o Permanent ↑ PVR - ↑blood viscosity
Etiology/classification
- PAH
- PVH 2nd to L heart dz
- PH 2nd to pulmonary dz
- PH from PTE
- Misc
Precapillary PH causes
o Idiopathic
o Systemic to pulmonary shunt: VSD, ASD, PDA
o Collagen vascular dz
o Drugs/toxins
o Vasoactive substances: TXA2, histamine, serotonine, endothelin
o PTE
o Persistent PH of the newborn
o ↑ blood flow
o HW
Pathophys L to R shunt PH
↑ pulmonary blood flow
Shear stress on pulmonary endothelial lining → PH
Significant PH can result in sunt reversal → Eisenmenger physiology
Causes of PH from incr blood flow
anemia, thyrotoxicosis, exercise
Pathophys PH w/ HW
Physical presence of HW and by products
Potentially irreversible endothelial damage
Capillary PH causes
o Pulmonary diseases:
Asthma, bronchitis, bronchomalacia
Interstitial lung disease: pulmonary fibrosis
o PTE
o Lungworms
o Neoplasia
o Sleep disorder breathing
o Alveolar hypoventilation disorders
o Chronic exposure to high altitude
Post capillary PH causes
= pulmonary venous hypertension
o L sided heart disease and secondary LAE
From ↑LAP
CVD, MVS, CM
o Pulmonary venous obstruction
o Neoplasia
o Congenital abnormalities
Misc causes
o Compression of pulmonary vessels
o Lymphadenopathy
o Neoplasia
o Fibrosing mediastinitis
o Granulomatous dz
o Sarcoidosis, histiocytosis, lymphangiomatosis
Feline PH causes
few case reports associated with
* PTE, R to L shunting PDA, HW, chronic upper airway obstruction, Aelurostrongylus abstrutus
Pathologic features of PH
- Grade 1: medial hypertrophy
- Garde 2:
o Medial hypertrophy
o Cellular intimal proliferation - Grade 3: partially reversible
o Intimal hyperplasia → lumen occlusion
o Early arterial dilation - Grade 4: irreversible
o Advanced arterial dilation
o Plexiform lesions in muscular arteries and capillaries - Grade 5: angiomatoid formation (terminal) plexiform lesions
- Grade 6: fibrinoid acute necrotizing arteritis
Features of pulmonary vascular bed
low pressure, low resistance, high capacitance
o PAP determined by: RV CO (blood flow), PVR, PVP
Pathophys of primary PH
imbalance btw vasoconstriction and dilation
- RV systolic overload from PH
o Diastolic overload from TR
o ↓ RV systolic performance with exercise - LV diastolic UNDERload
o Reduced compliance
Vasoconstriction agents
Alveolar hypoxia
ET1
Serotonin
TxA2
PDGF
Alveolar hypoxia on PVR
physiologic response shunting blood from hypoventilated areas → better ventilated areas of the lungs
ET1 PVR
- Released from vascular endothelium in response to changes in
o Blood flow
o Vascular stretch
o [Thrombin] - Causes: vasoconstriction, SM growth, ↑collagen synthesis, promotes vascular remodelling
- ↑ [ET1] in Hu with PH, also reported in dogs
Serotonin effect on PVR
- Vasoconstrictor
- Promote SM cell hypertrophy and hyperplasia
TXA2 and PGI effect on PVR
- Arachidonic metabolite of PA vascular cells
- TXA2: vasoconstrictor
o Predominates in patients w PH - Prostacyclin: vasodilator, inhibitor of platelet activation, antiproliferative properties
Platelet derived GF effect on PVR
- Induce PA SM cell proliferation and migration
Vasodilator agents
NO
NO effect on PVR
- Potent vasodilator, inhibitor of platelet activation and SM cell proliferation
- Synthetized from arginine and O2 by NOS enzyme in endothelium
o Activate cGMP → vasodilation
o cGMP inactivated by PDE5 isoenzyme
Cardiac KT pressure study PH 2nd to HW
- PA: ↑systolic, mean, diastolic P
- PCWP: should be normal
- RV: ↑ systolic P
Cardiac KT pressure study PH 2nd to MVS
- PA: ↑
o Normal in early stage of dz
o ↑ as a reflect of ↑LAP
o Late stage can have marked ↑ - PCWP: should be elevated from ↑LAP
o ↑a and v wave
o Prolonged Y descent - RV: elevated if PH present