Heart-Lungs Interactions: Basics and Clinical Implications PDF
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Mathieu Jozwiak and Jean-Louis Teboul
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This review article discusses the interplay between the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, focusing on the clinical implications of heart-lung interactions, particularly in the context of fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated patients. It details various tests for fluid responsiveness and the complex pathophysiological mechanisms linked to these interactions.
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Jozwiak and Teboul Annals of Intensive Care (2024) 14:122 Annals of Intensive Care https://doi.org/10.1186/s13613-024-01356-5 REVIEW...
Jozwiak and Teboul Annals of Intensive Care (2024) 14:122 Annals of Intensive Care https://doi.org/10.1186/s13613-024-01356-5 REVIEW Open Access Heart–Lungs interactions: the basics and clinical implications Mathieu Jozwiak1,2* and Jean‑Louis Teboul3 Abstract Heart–lungs interactions are related to the interplay between the cardiovascular and the respiratory system. They result from the respiratory-induced changes in intrathoracic pressure, which are transmitted to the cardiac cavi‑ ties and to the changes in alveolar pressure, which may impact the lung microvessels. In spontaneously breathing patients, consequences of heart–lungs interactions are during inspiration an increase in right ventricular preload and afterload, a decrease in left ventricular preload and an increase in left ventricular afterload. In mechanically venti‑ lated patients, consequences of heart–lungs interactions are during mechanical insufflation a decrease in right ven‑ tricular preload, an increase in right ventricular afterload, an increase in left ventricular preload and a decrease in left ventricular afterload. Physiologically and during normal breathing, heart–lungs interactions do not lead to significant hemodynamic consequences. Nevertheless, in some clinical settings such as acute exacerbation of chronic obstruc‑ tive pulmonary disease, acute left heart failure or acute respiratory distress syndrome, heart–lungs interactions may lead to significant hemodynamic consequences. These are linked to complex pathophysiological mechanisms, includ‑ ing a marked inspiratory negativity of intrathoracic pressure, a marked inspiratory increase in transpulmonary pressure and an increase in intra-abdominal pressure. The most recent application of heart–lungs interactions is the prediction of fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated patients. The first test to be developed using heart–lungs interac‑ tions was the respiratory variation of pulse pressure. Subsequently, many other dynamic fluid responsiveness tests using heart–lungs interactions have been developed, such as the respiratory variations of pulse contour-based stroke volume or the respiratory variations of the inferior or superior vena cava diameters. All these tests share the same limitations, the most frequent being low tidal volume ventilation, persistent spontaneous breathing activity and car‑ diac arrhythmia. Nevertheless, when their main limitations are properly addressed, all these tests can help intensivists in the decision-making process regarding fluid administration and fluid removal in critically ill patients. Keywords Cardiac loading conditions, Intrathoracic pressure, Fluid responsiveness, Transpulmonary pressure Background The hemodynamic consequences of heart–lungs interac- tions result from the fact that in the confined space of the thorax, the cardiovascular system on the one hand and the respiratory system on the other hand are subject to *Correspondence: Mathieu Jozwiak different pressure regimes. Physiologically and during [email protected] normal breathing, heart–lungs interactions do not lead 1 Service de Médecine Intensive Réanimation, CHU de Nice Hôpital to significant hemodynamic consequences. This is not Archet 1, 151 Route Saint Antoine de Ginestière, 06200 Nice, France 2 UR2CA, Unité de Recherche Clinique Côte d’Azur, Université Côte d’Azur, the case during acute exacerbation of asthma or chronic 06200 Nice, France obstructive pulmonary disease, acute left heart failure 3 Faculté de Médecine Paris‑Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, 94270 Le and during weaning from mechanical ventilation. In Kremlin‑Bicêtre, France the first part of this review, heart–lungs interactions in © The Author(s) 2024. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. 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In the second breathing patients part of this review, heart–lungs interactions and their A simple way to describe heart–lungs interactions is potential harmful or beneficial hemodynamic impact in to consider the interactions between two pumps: the different clinical settings as well as their potential clinical smaller (circulatory pump) being contained within the implications will be discussed. larger (respiratory pump). While the respiratory pump acts as a suction pump, developing a negative pressure to allow air entry into the airways and blood into cardiac cavities, the circulatory pump acts as a pressure pump, developing a positive pressure to eject blood towards the arterial tree. As the circulatory pump is contained within Fig. 1 Summary of heart–lungs interaction in spontaneously breathing patients and in mechanically ventilated patients. In physiological conditions (spontaneously breathing), inspiratory increase in right ventricular (RV) preload and decrease in left ventricular (LV) preload are the two predominant global effects of ventilation on cardiac loading conditions. In patients with healthy lungs and heart (mechanical ventilation), decrease in RV preload and increase in LV preload during insufflation are the two predominant global effects of ventilation on cardiac loading conditions Jozwiak and Teboul Annals of Intensive Care (2024) 14:122 Page 3 of 13 the thorax, the circulatory pump is affected by the pres- negativity of the intrathoracic pressure is transmitted to sures generated by the respiratory pump. the right atrium, thus increasing the pressure gradient between the extrathoracic venous territory and the right Initiating phenomena atrium. Simultaneously, the increase in intra-abdominal Intrathoracic pressure negativity pressure due to the descent of the diaphragm, contrib- Spontaneous inspiration is responsible for a nega- utes to the increase in this gradient since it increases the tive intrathoracic pressure. The difference between the mean systemic pressure and drives venous blood into the intrathoracic pressure and the alveolar pressure must thorax. increase during inspiration so that the latter becomes lower than the atmospheric pressure and allows air enter- Inspiratory increase in right ventricular afterload ing the airways. From a serial component viewpoint, the pulmonary cir- culation may be divided in extra-alveolar vessels and Increase in intra‑abdominal pressure intra-alveolar vessels. Lung volume expansion dur- The negative intrathoracic pressure is essentially driven ing inspiration compresses lumens of intra-alveolar ves- by the diaphragm which lowers at inspiration and sels resulting in an exponential increase in intra-alveolar increases the intra-abdominal pressure: the thorax and vessels resistance. By contrast, increase in lung volume abdomen have opposite pressure regimes at inspiration induces an exponential decrease in extra-alveolar vessels. resistance. Indeed, as lung volume increases the radial interstitial forces increase, resulting in widening of extra- Cardiac consequences alveolar vessels diameters. Thus, the resulting total pul- Inspiratory increase in right ventricular preload monary vascular resistance describes a U shape with a The systemic venous return to the right atrium is driven nadir corresponding to a lung volume equal to the func- by the pressure gradient between the upstream capaci- tional residual capacity (FRC) (Fig. 2) [4–6]. tive venous system where the mean systemic pressure From a parallel component viewpoint, the pulmonary prevails and the downstream right atrium. Thus, the sys- circulation is distributed along a gravitational gradient temic venous return is closely linked to the right atrial of the vascular-alveolar pressure difference (Fig. 3). pressure: the more the right atrial pressure decreases, the Accordingly, by decreasing intrathoracic pressure more more the venous return increases. At inspiration, the than alveolar pressure, spontaneous inspiration may Fig. 2 Relationship between pulmonary vascular resistance and lung volume. The dotted blue line represents the pulmonary vascular resistance of the extra-alveolar vessels. The dotted red line represents the pulmonary vascular resistance of the intra-alveolar vessels Jozwiak and Teboul Annals of Intensive Care (2024) 14:122 Page 4 of 13 Fig. 3 Concept of the pulmonary West’s zone illustrating the distribution of the pulmonary circulation along a gravitational gradient of the vascular-alveolar pressure difference. Palv alveolar pressure, PPV pulmonary venous pressure, PPA pulmonary artery pressure cause a larger proportion of the pulmonary circulation non-extensive envelope with high elastance, resulting in to behave as West’s zone 2, especially when the pulmo- a constant sum of the volumes of the right and left ven- nary venous pressure is low. Consequently, pulmonary tricles. Finally, the small inspiratory increase in transpul- vascular resistance and right ventricular afterload may monary pressure could result in a shift of blood from the increase, at least during inspiration. It is noteworthy that pulmonary venous circulation to the left atrium. Never- in case of normal breathing conditions (no deep inspira- theless, this mechanism is probably of minor importance tory efforts, normal compliance of the respiratory sys- since studies in normal subjects showed a decrease in tem) the difference between the inspiratory decrease in left ventricular preload during inspiration [7, 9, 10]. It is intrathoracic pressure and the inspiratory decrease in likely that the parallel and more importantly the serial alveolar pressure is small so that the inspiratory increase ventricular interdependence phenomena are responsi- in pulmonary vascular resistance will be of minor degree. ble for the decrease in left ventricular preload during inspiration, which eventually results in a decrease in left Inspiratory decrease in left ventricular preload ventricular stroke volume (if the left ventricle is preload- First, the inspiratory increases in right ventricular dependent) [9, 10] and thus in arterial pulse pressure preload and afterload may induce an increase in right during inspiration. ventricular volume during inspiration. This will result in an inspiratory increase in right ventricular stroke volume Inspiratory increase in left ventricular afterload if the right ventricle is preload-dependent. This increase The left ventricular afterload can be thought as the effort will be transmitted to the left ventricle during the follow- required by the left ventricle to eject blood up to the level ing expiration because of the long pulmonary transit time of pressure of the extrathoracic vessels (atmospheric (several seconds). This serial ventricular interdependence pressure for the vessels of the neck and upper limbs, will thus contribute to lower left ventricular filling and intra-abdominal pressure for the abdominal aorta). At preload during inspiration than during expiration. inspiration, the negative intrathoracic pressure places the Second, the increase in right ventricular volume during left ventricle at a lower level and makes its ejecting effort inspiration could result in a discrete decrease in left ven- greater, thus increasing the left ventricular afterload [11, tricular filling due to the mechanism of parallel ven- 12]. The hemodynamic consequences of an increase in tricular interdependence. The latter is related to the left ventricular afterload are negligible in patients with fact that the heart is contained within the pericardium, a normal left ventricular function due to the physiological Jozwiak and Teboul Annals of Intensive Care (2024) 14:122 Page 5 of 13 relative cardiac "afterload-independence". In this regard, resistance by an amount depending on tidal volume in studies in normal subjects showed a small reduction (and an exponential way. The second mechanism is related to not an augmentation) of left ventricular end-diastolic vol- the more pronounced increase in alveolar pressure than ume [7, 9, 10] due to the above-mentioned mechanisms. intrathoracic pressure during insufflation, which may In summary, the cardiac consequences of spontaneous potentially result in a transfer of West’s zone 3 to West’s inspiration are an increase in right ventricular preload zone 2. This mechanism may occur when the alveolar and afterload, a decrease in left ventricular preload and pressure becomes higher than the pulmonary venous an increase in left ventricular afterload. However, during pressure during insufflation. The main conditions of this quiet spontaneous breathing in normal humans, these occurrence are the presence of a low pulmonary venous consequences are of limited degree resulting in fine in a pressure (e.g. in case of low central blood volume) and a small decrease in left ventricular stroke volume, arterial marked insufflation-related increase in transpulmonary pulse and systolic pressures at inspiration. However, in pressure (alveolar pressure minus intrathoracic pressure) some pathological conditions, the cardiac consequences due to high tidal volume ventilation or to reduced lung can be of major importance (see below). compliance, which reduces the airway pressure trans- mission [14, 15]. So, the lower the lung compliance (or Heart–lungs interactions in mechanically the lower the compliance of the respiratory system), the ventilated patients lower the transmission of the airway pressure and the Initiating phenomena higher the transpulmonary pressure. For all these rea- During mechanical ventilation, the alveolar and intratho- sons, mechanical insufflation should increase pulmonary racic pressures are positive during the entire respiratory vascular resistance and right ventricular afterload. cycle with a minimum at end-expiration. Heart–lungs However, in patients with normal compliance of the res- interactions under mechanical ventilation are related to piratory system, this effect should be limited if low tidal the impairment of right ventricular filling and ejection volume ventilation is used, what is usually the case in due to the increase in these pressures. critically ill patients who receive mechanical ventilation. Cardiac consequences Decrease in right ventricular preload during insufflation Increase in left ventricular preload during insufflation During mechanical insufflation, the increase in intratho- First, the increase in transpulmonary pressure during racic pressure is transmitted to the right atrium. This insufflation may induce a shift of blood from the pulmo- should reduce the pressure gradient between the venous nary venous circulation to the left atrium, thus increas- system and the right atrium and thus should decrease ing the filling of the left ventricle at the same time. the systemic venous return. However, other mecha- Second, due to the serial ventricular interdependence, nisms can be involved. During mechanical insufflation, the decrease in systemic venous return combined with the intra-abdominal pressure should also increase, which the impeded right ventricular ejection during insuffla- in turn should increase the mean systemic pressure by tion result in a decrease in the left ventricular filling and facilitating blood redistribution from the unstressed preload during the following expiration because of the to the stressed blood volume. This effect can be lim- long pulmonary transit time. In accordance with these ited if the unstressed blood volume is low (e.g. in case mechanisms, an increase in echocardiographic indexes of volume depletion). Baroreceptor-related sympathetic of left ventricular preload during insufflation was demon- stimulation could also increase mean systemic pressure strated. It is noteworthy that if the right ventricular during mechanical insufflation. These two latter mecha- ejection is markedly impeded during insufflation, right nisms can limit the decrease in the venous return pres- ventricular overload might occur and result in a leftward sure gradient so that during normal tidal insufflation, the septal shift. This septal shift during insufflation could decrease in venous return is small. reduce the distensibility of the left ventricle and impedes its filling through the parallel ventricular interdepend- Increase in right ventricular afterload during insufflation ence [8, 18]. Nevertheless, even if the right ventricular As for spontaneous breathing, two different mechanisms stroke volume decreases during insufflation [17, 19] due are involved in the inspiratory increase in right ven- to the combined effects of decrease in right ventricu- tricular afterload. The first mechanism is related to the lar preload and increase in right ventricular afterload, U-shape relationship between pulmonary vascular resist- unchanged and not enlarged right ventricular end-dias- ance and lung volume. In normal lung conditions, tolic volume during insufflation was reported [17, 19] the end-expiratory lung volume equals the FRC so that making the occurrence of a pronounced leftward septal mechanical insufflation increases the pulmonary vascular shift during insufflation unlikely. Jozwiak and Teboul Annals of Intensive Care (2024) 14:122 Page 6 of 13 Decrease in left ventricular afterload during insufflation implications. Heart–lungs interactions in these different Mechanical ventilation decreases the left ventricular after- clinical settings will be briefly summarized below. load during inspiration and therefore should facilitate the left ventricular ejection. This transient and “paradoxical” Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary phenomenon may be explained by a brief synergy between disease the respiratory and the circulatory pumps, both of which Dynamic hyperinflation is one of the characteristics develop positive pressure at the same time. The increase of acute exacerbation of characteristics of chronic in intrathoracic pressure is transmitted to the left ventri- obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Such a phe- cle and the intrathoracic part of the aorta, resulting in a nomenon is favored by (i) increased airway resistance decrease in the transmural aortic pressure. Thus, during related to bronchoconstriction, mucosal oedema and insufflation, the positive intrathoracic pressure places the excessive sputum, (ii) decrease elastic recoil pres- left ventricle at a higher level and makes its ejection effort sure, (iii) tachypnea, which reduces the time devoted lower, thus decreasing the left ventricular afterload [11, 12]. to expiration, and (iv) mainly expiratory airflow limi- This effect could have a positive impact on left ventricular tation. This results in an end-expiratory lung volume stroke volume in case of left ventricular afterload-depend- higher than the relaxation lung volume and therefore ence, a phenomenon sometimes observed in patients with in a positive static end-expiratory elastic recoil pres- left ventricular dysfunction. sure called intrinsic positive end-expiratory pressure In summary, right and left ventricular loading conditions (PEEP). This leads to accentuated inspiratory negativity vary over the respiratory cycle. This leads to a higher left of intrathoracic pressure and increased work of breath- ventricular stroke volume and hence of arterial pulse and ing. These events should increase cardiac output systolic pressures during insufflation than during expira- to meet increased oxygen demand. Increased sympa- tion. To distinguish between a true increase in systolic thetic activity leading to tachycardia participates in this arterial pressure during insufflation compared to apneic response. The marked negativity of the intrathoracic conditions and a true decrease of systolic arterial pres- pressure also contributes to increasing systemic venous sure during expiration compared to apneic conditions, it return and cardiac output since it decreases the right was proposed to observe the change in the arterial pres- atrial pressure. At the same time the increase in intra- sure signal during a brief interruption of the ventilator at abdominal pressure increases the mean systemic pres- end-expiration. The delta Up (Δup) component—the sure so that the venous return pressure gradient should difference between the maximal systolic arterial pressure increase. However, in case of a very marked inspiratory and the apneic systolic arterial pressure—should reflect the negativity of intrathoracic pressure, the intra-abdomi- true increase in left ventricular stroke volume during insuf- nal pressure may become so positive in relation to the flation due to either the blood shift from the pulmonary right atrial pressure that it leads to collapse of the infe- capillaries to the left atrium and/or the left ventricular rior vena cava in its subdiaphragmatic segment, which afterload decrease (see above). The delta Down (Δdown) interrupts the inspiratory increase in systemic venous component—the difference between the apneic systolic return (Fig. 4) [22, 23]. This phenomenon may occur arterial pressure and the minimal systolic arterial pres- mostly when patients are hypovolemic. In addi- sure—should reflect the true decrease in left ventricular tion, due to the marked negativity of the intrathoracic stroke volume during expiration due to the time-delayed pressure compared to the alveolar pressure, the right (long pulmonary transit time) decrease in right ventricular ventricular afterload should increase more during acute stroke volume during insufflation. The delta Up component exacerbation than during quiet breathing conditions in could be predominant in case of congestive heart failure patients with COPD. Moreover, worsening of hypox- while the delta Down component could be predominant emia during acute exacerbation of COPD may aggra- in case of hypovolemia. Finally, as we detail below, the vate the pulmonary hypertension and hence induce magnitude of the variation of left ventricular stroke volume a more marked increase in the right ventricular after- and thus of arterial pulse pressure during mechanical ven- load through the hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction tilation has been proposed to identify fluid responsiveness. mechanism. The role of hypercapnia on pulmonary vas- cular resistance is less clear as it was reported to have a Heart–lungs interactions in clinical settings pulmonary vasodilatory or a pulmonary vasoconstrict- and clinical implications ing effect depending on some experimental conditions In several clinical settings, heart–lungs interactions may. However, it is likely that during hypoxemia, hyper- lead to significant hemodynamic consequences because capnia should further increase pulmonary vasocon- of specific pathophysiological mechanisms, may explain striction. In patients with prior right ventricular the interest of some therapeutics and may have clinical dysfunction, as it is sometimes the case in COPD, an Jozwiak and Teboul Annals of Intensive Care (2024) 14:122 Page 7 of 13 Fig. 4 Concept of abdominal vascular zone conditions illustrating the effects of intra-abdominal pressure on systemic venous return. IAP intra-abdominal pressure, PIVC intramural pressure of inferior vena cava at the level of the diaphragm, PC critical closing transmural pressure additional increase in right ventricular afterload may situation could be risky if the episode of acute respiratory further worsen the right ventricular dysfunction failure is only related to acute exacerbation of COPD. and may potentially lead to decreased stroke volume. In summary, systemic venous return should normally Acute left heart failure increase during acute exacerbation of COPD, in par- In spontaneously breathing patients with acute heart ticular during inspiration. However, marked inspiratory failure, the same initiating phenomena than those efforts with exaggerated drops in intrathoracic pressure described above for patients with acute exacerbation may result in reduction in venous return due to flow limi- of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease may partici- tation of the inferior vena cava and increased abdominal pate to the hemodynamic consequences of heart–lungs pressure, especially when the intravascular volume is interactions. In this clinical setting, the accentuated low. On the other hand, in some conditions, right ven- inspiratory negativity of intrathoracic pressure is tricular afterload may markedly increase during acute related to reduced lung compliance and increased air- exacerbation of COPD. In case of previously dilated right way resistance. The reduced lung compliance is a ventricle, left ventricular filling can be limited through consequence of interstitial and/or alveolar oedema. biventricular interdependence resulting in decreased The increase in airway resistance may be related to stroke volume and increased left ventricular filling pres- several mechanisms [27, 28]: (i) a bronchial wall thick- sure. For patients with history of COPD and chronic left ening because of bronchial oedema formation and/ ventricular dysfunction presenting with acute respiratory or increased vascular volume, (ii) a reflex broncho- failure, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish clinically constriction of vagal origin, stimulated by increased between acute exacerbation of COPD and cardiogenic pulmonary vascular pressures and/or interstitial or pulmonary oedema since the former could favor the lat- peribronchial oedema and/or (iii) a bronchial hyper- ter due to heart–lungs interactions. This emphasizes the reactivity. The marked decrease in intrathoracic pres- need for individualized assessment at least using echo- sure during inspiration along with the increase in cardiography before administering any treatment. For intra-abdominal pressure should markedly increase example, deliberate administration of diuretics in this the left ventricular afterload with potential decrease Jozwiak and Teboul Annals of Intensive Care (2024) 14:122 Page 8 of 13 in the left ventricular stroke volume since the left ven- benefits in terms of clinical and/or oxygenation improve- tricle is dependent on its afterload when it is failing. ment [30, 37–40]. In addition, the hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction may accentuate the increase in the right ventricular Cardiac dysfunction induced by weaning from mechanical afterload. ventilation Heart–lungs interactions also explain the beneficial Echocardiographic studies have shown that left ventricu- effects of positive pressure ventilation on the cardio- lar diastolic dysfunction and increased left ventricular vascular system in patients with acute left ventricular filling pressure are common during weaning failure [41, heart failure in contrast to what occurs in patients 42]. In a high percentage of cases of weaning failure, a with healthy heart and justify the use of non-invasive cardiogenic pulmonary oedema may occur. The risk mechanical ventilation for the treatment of severe pul- factors for weaning-induced pulmonary oedema (WIPO) monary oedema. are COPD, cardiopathy (dilated and/or hypertrophic First, positive pressure ventilation, when PEEP is and/or hypokinetic cardiopathy and/or significant valvu- added, reduces the venous return pressure gradient by lar disease) and obesity. increasing the right atrial pressure. This could lead to The WIPO is mainly induced by the shift from a posi- a decrease in the right ventricular preload and central tive to a negative pressure ventilation after disconnect- blood volume. The PEEP-induced decrease in cardiac ing the ventilator [44–46]. The inspiratory negativity of preload and central blood volume may be particularly intrathoracic pressure may be accentuated by the resist- beneficial in patients with heart failure with preserved ance of the chest tube. This results in the heart–lungs ejection fraction, as non-failing left ventricle is more interactions described above in spontaneously breathing preload-dependent than afterload-dependent. patients, leading to unfavorable loading cardiac condi- Second, the use of positive pressure ventilation, tions (increase in right ventricular preload and afterload when PEEP is added, may also improve left ventricular and increase in left ventricular afterload) and eventually function through a decrease in left ventricular after- to WIPO. In patients with chronic right ventricular load [29, 31–34]. This effect is secondary to both the dysfunction, right ventricular enlargement during wean- attenuation and suppression of the inspiratory nega- ing can play a role in the development of WIPO through tivity of intrathoracic pressure [26, 31]. The PEEP- a biventricular interdependence mechanism. In patients induced decrease in left ventricular afterload may be with chronic left ventricular dysfunction, increase in particularly beneficial in patients with heart failure left ventricular afterload due to accentuated negativ- with reduced ejection fraction, as failing left ventricle ity of intrathoracic pressure, increased intra-abdominal is more afterload-dependent than preload-dependent. pressure and sympathetic-related arterial hypertension Thus, while positive pressure ventilation decreases should also play an important role in the occurrence of stroke volume in patients with normal cardiac function, WIPO. In any case, a positive fluid balance also contrib- it increases it in patients with left ventricular dysfunc- utes to WIPO. tion [33, 34]. Some studies also suggested a potential role of myo- A third beneficial effect of positive pressure ventilation cardial ischemia in the development of WIPO. Myocar- with PEEP both in patients with acute heart failure with dial ischemia would be related to the increase in cardiac preserved or reduced ejection fraction is the alleviation work (secondary to the increased work of breathing), the of possible myocardial ischemia by restoring the balance increase in left ventricular afterload and to the decrease between myocardial oxygen supply and demand. The in coronary perfusion [49, 50]. Nevertheless, recent find- increase in myocardial oxygen supply results from the ings suggest that myocardial ischemia plays no major role restoration of arterial oxygenation and the improvement in the pathophysiology of WIPO [43, 48, 51]. of coronary perfusion by reducing left ventricular end- Finally, it is well-established that left ventricular dias- diastolic pressure, the downstream pressure of coronary tolic dysfunction is also involved in the pathophysiol- perfusion. The decrease in myocardial oxygen demand ogy of WIPO [41, 42, 48], while the potential role of left results from the decrease in work of the respiratory mus- ventricular systolic dysfunction remains unclear cles which, in respiratory failure, have a consider- and is the subject of ongoing study (SystoWean study, able oxygen consumption , thus reducing blood flow NCT05226247).Since WIPO can be secondary to dif- to the respiratory muscles and redistributing it to other ferent mechanisms, it is important not only to diagnose organs. it (for example using changes in hemoconcentration All these theoretical advantages of non-invasive venti- parameters during a weaning trial) but to identify what lation in patients with acute left heart failure have been are the main underlying mechanism(s) in order to apply demonstrated in many clinical trials showing clinical the most appropriate treatment. Jozwiak and Teboul Annals of Intensive Care (2024) 14:122 Page 9 of 13 Acute respiratory distress syndrome ARDS include both closed alveoli units, which could As detailed above, the main heart–lungs interactions be re-opened, and normal alveoli units, which could be include the effects of intrathoracic pressure on right ven- overdistended. Thus, the impact of PEEP on pulmonary tricular preload and left ventricular afterload and the vascular resistance would depend on the recruitment/ effects of transpulmonary pressure on right ventricular overdistension ratio for a given patient and at a given afterload, making lung compliance (or compliance of the time of the disease, as it was illustrated in a recent clinical respiratory system) one of the main important variables study. This maybe explains why different responses in heart–lungs interactions. Due to both the decrease in of the right ventricular afterload to PEEP were reported airway pressure transmission secondary to reduced lung in ARDS patients [55–59]. It is noteworthy that if PEEP compliance [14, 15] and the low tidal volume ventila- improves gas exchange, it should decrease hypoxic vaso- tion strategies , the changes in intrathoracic pressure constriction and thus decrease the pulmonary vascular induced by mechanical ventilation are expected to be resistance. too small to markedly alter hemodynamics over the ven- In addition, PEEP could exert effects on the systemic tilatory cycle in patients with acute respiratory distress venous return determinants. By increasing the intratho- syndrome (ARDS). Although the respiratory changes in racic pressure, the right atrial pressure, which is the transpulmonary pressure should be less negligible than downstream pressure to systemic venous return should the changes in intrathoracic pressure due to low airway increase, although the reduced airway pressure transmis- pressure transmission [14, 15], the use of low tidal vol- sion during ARDS should attenuate this effect [14, 15]. ume ventilation strategies should attenuate the changes On the other hand, the mean systemic pressure (i.e. the in right ventricular afterload during the ventilatory cycle upstream pressure to systemic venous return) should also. increase and therefore limit the effects of the increase in More significant are the hemodynamic effects of PEEP intrathoracic pressure on venous return due to combined in patients with ARDS. The expected benefits of PEEP effects of the PEEP-induced increased intra-abdominal application are the reduction of non-aerated lung and pressure and to other adaptive mechanisms improvement of arterial oxygenation. The risks of including sympathetic-mediated mechanisms. In particu- PEEP application are lung overdistension, atelectrauma lar, the activation of the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone and hemodynamic instability due to decrease in car- system during positive pressure ventilation may increase diac output. The appropriate level of PEEP should be the mean systemic pressure by inducing a venoconstric- individualized, although there is no current strong rec- tion of the splanchnic vasculature which in turn results in ommendation on how to titrate PEEP. The impact a shift of blood into the systemic circulation. Never- of PEEP on hemodynamics may involve its effect on theless, both the PEEP-induced increased intra-abdomi- the right ventricular afterload through the increase of nal pressure and the other adaptive mechanisms may also transpulmonary pressure and/or its effect on the right increase venous resistance in some extent [61, 63]. If dur- ventricular preload through the increase in intrathoracic ing ARDS, it seems thus unlikely that PEEP would mark- pressure. In patients with ARDS, the right ventricular edly reduce cardiac output through a primary impact on afterload is already increased due to several mechanisms systemic venous return, such a mechanism cannot be that increase the pulmonary vascular resistance. These excluded in patients who receive heavy sedation able to mechanisms include hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstric- blunt the adaptive responses to PEEP. tion, mediators-related pulmonary vasoconstriction, Previous clinical data have suggested that the decrease microthrombi formation in pulmonary vessels, and pul- in right ventricular preload secondary to decreased sys- monary vascular remodeling. Even when lung protective temic venous return may play an important role in the ventilation is applied, acute cor pulmonale is observed in PEEP-induced decrease in cardiac output [55–57, 64, 20–25% of cases , probably due to the above-men- 65]. Others have suggested a predominant role of the tioned mechanisms. increased right ventricular afterload [59, 66]. Many of the In this context, the role of PEEP on the right ventricu- following factors could explain such divergent results: the lar afterload depends on its impact on lung mechanics. capacity of PEEP to induce lung recruitment vs. overd- If PEEP only recruits closed alveoli units, the end-expir- istension, its capacity of improving arterial oxygenation, atory lung volume would increase toward the FRC so the amount of tidal volume, the degree of airway pressure that the pulmonary vascular resistance would decrease. transmission, the level of sedation, the degree of right By contrast, if PEEP creates overdistension of lung ventricular preload-dependence and afterload-depend- units, it will increase the resistance of intra-alveolar ves- ence, and the degree of left ventricular preload-depend- sels of these units and therefore will increase the pul- ence and afterload-dependence. Finally, the volume status monary vascular resistance. The lungs of patients with also plays a key role. In case of decreased central blood Jozwiak and Teboul Annals of Intensive Care (2024) 14:122 Page 10 of 13 volume (i.e. due to volume depletion), a larger propor- several limitations exist in critically ill patients, the most tion of the lungs are under West’s zone 2 conditions, so frequent ones being low tidal volume ventilation, persis- that the pulmonary vascular resistance and the right ven- tent spontaneous breathing activity, and cardiac arrhyth- tricular afterload should increase. The importance of this mia [82–84]. It is noteworthy that in patients with ARDS, phenomenon was illustrated in a study including patients particularly when they are ventilated with high PEEP with ARDS. In this study, pulmonary thermodilu- level, a high PPV might be related to right ventricu- tion and echocardiography parameters showed first an lar failure and to be a sign of right ventricular afterload impairment of right ventricular function when PEEP was dependence rather than fluid responsiveness. In this case increased from 5 cmH2O to the level judged appropriate of possible false positive PPV, it is suggested to assess the by the attending physician (on average 13 cmH2O) and changes in PPV during a passive leg raising. If no change then a return of the right ventricular function to the pre- in PPV is observed, a high PPV indicates right ventricular PEEP condition during passive leg raising, a maneuver afterload dependence, while a decrease in PPV suggests that can simulate fluid loading. fluid responsiveness [82, 85]. Several other heart–lungs interaction tests have been Prediction of fluid responsiveness developed to predict fluid responsiveness. Some of Fluid administration is the first-line therapy in the early them such as pulse contour-based stroke volume varia- phases of shock states, except in patients with cardio- tion and respiratory variation of the inferior or superior genic shock with pulmonary oedema [67, 68]. The main vena cava diameters assessed by ultrasound imaging are goal of fluid administration is to increase the systemic not superior to PPV [86, 87] and share the same limita- venous return pressure gradient, the cardiac preload, and tions as PPV [83, 84]. In patients ventilated with a tidal ultimately cardiac output and oxygen delivery. Neverthe- volume < 8 mL/kg, the tidal volume challenge can reliably less, fluid administration increases cardiac output only in predict fluid responsiveness by assessing the response half of patients and fluid accumulation is harmful in of PPV to a brief increase in tidal volume (by 2 mL/kg) critically ill patients [70–73] and in patients with ARDS. Recently, it was shown that the response of PPV to. Therefore, is it currently recommended to assess passive leg raising can also predict fluid responsiveness fluid responsiveness in patients with shock after the ini- in cases of low tidal volume ventilation [89–91], even in tial phase of management [67, 68, 75]. Static markers of the case of persistent spontaneous breathing activity. preload cannot reliably predict fluid responsiveness and This test and the tidal volume challenge have the advan- dynamic tests have thus been developed to predict fluid tage to require only an arterial catheter. Very recently, responsiveness in patients under mechanical ventilation it has been shown the increase in cardiac output or the [76, 77], most of them being based on heart–lungs inter- pulse pressure induced by a PEEP decrease may also reli- actions. The first dynamic test that has been devel- ably predict fluid responsiveness in patients with ARDS oped is the respiratory variation of pulse pressure (PPV) receiving low tidal volume ventilation. , which is an easily obtained reflection of the respira- tory variation of stroke volume, since for a constant arte- Conclusion rial compliance, pulse pressure mainly depends on stroke Heart–lungs interactions describe the interactions volume. If the right ventricle is preload-dependent, between the respiratory and the circulatory pump in the decrease in its preload during mechanical insufflation the confined space of the thorax and result from the should result in a decreased right ventricular stroke vol- respiratory-induced changes in intrathoracic pressure, ume at the same time and thus in a decreased left ven- which are transmitted to the cardiac cavities and to the tricular preload during expiration due to the pulmonary changes in alveolar pressure, which may impact the lung transit time. This can in turn induce a decrease in left microvessels. Physiologically, heart–lungs interactions ventricular stroke volume if the left ventricle is preload- do not lead to significant hemodynamic consequences. dependent. Therefore, the more the left ventricular In patients with acute respiratory failure, heart–lungs stroke volume and the pulse pressure change during the interactions may have significant hemodynamic conse- mechanical ventilation cycle, the more likely the patient’s quences that can worsen the clinical conditions. The use heart is preload-dependent and hence, the patient is fluid of PEEP in patients mechanically ventilated for ARDS responsive [78, 79]. If one of the two ventricles is preload- may result in hemodynamic compromise, especially independent, mechanical ventilation-induced changes when PEEP exerts excessive lung overdistension. The in right ventricular preload do not result in significant most recent application of heart–lungs interactions is the changes in left ventricular stroke volume so that PPV is prediction of fluid responsiveness in mechanically venti- low. Many clinical studies confirmed the validity of these lated patients. 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