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Ali A, Pettenuzzo T, Ramadan K, Farrell A, Di Nardo M, Liu M, Keshavjee S, Fan E, Cypel M, Del Sorbo L. Surfactant therapy in lung transplantation: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Transplant Rev (Orlando) 2021; 35:100637. [PMID: 34224988 DOI: 10.1016/j.trre.2021.100637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2021] [Revised: 06/25/2021] [Accepted: 06/27/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Despite numerous reports demonstrating the efficacy of exogenous surfactant therapy during lung transplantation, this strategy remains absent in routine clinical use. Here, we systematically review and meta-analyze the effect of exogenous surfactant on respiratory pathophysiological variables during lung transplantation. METHODS To identify relevant clinical and pre-clinical studies, we performed an electronic search of MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane CENTRAL from inception to June 11, 2021. In addition, research-in-progress databases were searched. Randomized and non-randomized adult and pediatric clinical studies and animal experiments that compared the use of surfactant for lung transplantation with a control group were included. The primary outcome was the ratio of arterial oxygen partial pressure to fractional inspired oxygen (PaO2/FiO2 ratio). RESULTS From 1,041 citations, we identified 35 studies, of which 6 were clinical studies and 29 were pre-clinical. Thirty-two studies were included in the quantitative analysis. The administration of surfactant therapy during clinical lung transplantation significantly improved PaO2/FiO2 ratio in recipients (mean difference [MD] 93 mmHg, 95% confidence interval [CI] 25-160 mmHg, p < 0.01). Similar results were seen in pre-clinical settings (MD 201 mmHg, 95% CI 145-256 mmHg, p < 0.01). Moreover, surfactant benefited a range of important physiologic and biologic outcomes after preclinical lung transplantation. The overall certainty of evidence was very low. CONCLUSIONS Exogenous surfactant therapy improves post-transplant lung function; however, its effects on clinical outcomes remain uncertain. High-quality randomized controlled trials are needed to determine whether the physiologic benefits of surfactant therapy affect patient-important outcomes in lung transplant recipients.
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- Aadil Ali
- Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, University Health Network, University of Toronto, MaRS Discovery District, 101 College St, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada.
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- Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, 204 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1T8, Canada.
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- Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, University Health Network, University of Toronto, MaRS Discovery District, 101 College St, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada.
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- Library & Information Services, University Health Network, 101 College St, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada.
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- Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, University Health Network, University of Toronto, MaRS Discovery District, 101 College St, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada.
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- Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, University Health Network, University of Toronto, MaRS Discovery District, 101 College St, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada.
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- Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, University Health Network, University of Toronto, MaRS Discovery District, 101 College St, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada; Division of Thoracic Surgery, University Health Network, University of Toronto, 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2C4, Canada.
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- Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, 204 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1T8, Canada.
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- Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, University Health Network, University of Toronto, MaRS Discovery District, 101 College St, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada; Division of Thoracic Surgery, University Health Network, University of Toronto, 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2C4, Canada.
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- Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, University Health Network, University of Toronto, MaRS Discovery District, 101 College St, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada; Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, 204 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1T8, Canada.
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Report of the ISHLT Working Group on primary lung graft dysfunction Part IV: Prevention and treatment: A 2016 Consensus Group statement of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant 2017; 36:1121-1136. [DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2017.07.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2017] [Accepted: 07/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Herrmann G, Knudsen L, Madershahian N, Mühlfeld C, Frank K, Rahmanian P, Wahlers T, Wittwer T, Ochs M. Effects of exogenous surfactant on the non-heart-beating donor lung graft in experimental lung transplantation - a stereological study. J Anat 2014; 224:594-602. [PMID: 24527871 DOI: 10.1111/joa.12167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The use of non-heart-beating donor (NHBD) lungs may help to overcome the shortage of lung grafts in clinical lung transplantation, but warm ischaemia and ischaemia/reperfusion injury (I/R injury) resulting in primary graft dysfunction represent a considerable threat. Thus, better strategies for optimized preservation of lung grafts are urgently needed. Surfactant dysfunction has been shown to contribute to I/R injury, and surfactant replacement therapy is effective in enhancing lung function and structural integrity in related rat models. In the present study we hypothesize that surfactant replacement therapy reduces oedema formation in a pig model of NHBD lung transplantation. Oedema formation was quantified with (SF) and without (non-SF) surfactant replacement therapy in interstitial and alveolar compartments by means of design-based stereology in NHBD lungs 7 h after cardiac arrest, reperfusion and transplantation. A sham-operated group served as control. In both NHBD groups, nearly all animals died within the first hours after transplantation due to right heart failure. Both SF and non-SF developed an interstitial oedema of similar degree, as shown by an increase in septal wall volume and arithmetic mean thickness as well as an increase in the volume of peribron-chovascular connective tissue. Regarding intra-alveolar oedema, no statistically significant difference could be found between SF and non-SF. In conclusion, surfactant replacement therapy cannot prevent poor outcome after prolonged warm ischaemia of 7 h in this model. While the beneficial effects of surfactant replacement therapy have been observed in several experimental and clinical studies related to heart-beating donor lungs and cold ischaemia, it is unlikely that surfactant replacement therapy will overcome the shortage of organs in the context of prolonged warm ischaemia, for example, 7 h. Moreover, our data demonstrate that right heart function and dysfunctions of the pulmonary vascular bed are limiting factors that need to be addressed in NHBD.
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Reconditioning of an injured lung graft with intrabronchial surfactant instillation in an ex vivo lung perfusion system followed by transplantation. J Surg Res 2013; 184:1143-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2013.04.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2012] [Revised: 03/18/2013] [Accepted: 04/19/2013] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Inci I, Hillinger S, Arni S, Jungraithmayr W, Inci D, Vogt P, Leskosek B, Hansen G, Weder W. Surfactant Improves Graft Function After Gastric Acid–Induced Lung Damage in Lung Transplantation. Ann Thorac Surg 2013; 95:1013-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.10.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2012] [Revised: 08/31/2012] [Accepted: 10/11/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Knudsen L, Boxler L, Mühlfeld C, Schaefer IM, Becker L, Bussinger C, von Stietencron I, Madershahian N, Richter J, Wahlers T, Wittwer T, Ochs M. Lung preservation in experimental ischemia/reperfusion injury and lung transplantation: A comparison of natural and synthetic surfactants. J Heart Lung Transplant 2012; 31:85-93. [DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2011.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2011] [Revised: 08/31/2011] [Accepted: 10/04/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Jiao X, Keating E, Tadayyon S, Possmayer F, Zuo YY, Veldhuizen RA. Atomic force microscopy analysis of rat pulmonary surfactant films. Biophys Chem 2011; 158:119-25. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2011.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2011] [Revised: 06/03/2011] [Accepted: 06/04/2011] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Knudsen L, Waizy H, Fehrenbach H, Richter J, Wahlers T, Wittwer T, Ochs M. Ultrastructural changes of the intracellular surfactant pool in a rat model of lung transplantation-related events. Respir Res 2011; 12:79. [PMID: 21669009 PMCID: PMC3125224 DOI: 10.1186/1465-9921-12-79] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2011] [Accepted: 06/14/2011] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury, involved in primary graft dysfunction following lung transplantation, leads to inactivation of intra-alveolar surfactant which facilitates injury of the blood-air barrier. The alveolar epithelial type II cells (AE2 cells) synthesize, store and secrete surfactant; thus, an intracellular surfactant pool stored in lamellar bodies (Lb) can be distinguished from the intra-alveolar surfactant pool. The aim of this study was to investigate ultrastructural alterations of the intracellular surfactant pool in a model, mimicking transplantation-related procedures including flush perfusion, cold ischemia and reperfusion combined with mechanical ventilation. METHODS Using design-based stereology at the light and electron microscopic level, number, surface area and mean volume of AE2 cells as well as number, size and total volume of Lb were determined in a group subjected to transplantation-related procedures including both I/R injury and mechanical ventilation (I/R group) and a control group. RESULTS After I/R injury, the mean number of Lb per AE2 cell was significantly reduced compared to the control group, accompanied by a significant increase in the luminal surface area per AE2 cell in the I/R group. This increase in the luminal surface area correlated with the decrease in surface area of Lb per AE2. The number-weighted mean volume of Lb in the I/R group showed a tendency to increase. CONCLUSION We suggest that in this animal model the reduction of the number of Lb per AE2 cell is most likely due to stimulated exocytosis of Lb into the alveolar space. The loss of Lb is partly compensated by an increased size of Lb thus maintaining total volume of Lb per AE2 cell and lung. This mechanism counteracts at least in part the inactivation of the intra-alveolar surfactant.
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- Lars Knudsen
- Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
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HOLLER JULIA, ZAKRZEWICZ ANNA, GARN HOLGER, HIRSCHBURGER MARKUS, KUMMER WOLFGANG, PADBERG WINFRIED, GRAU VERONIKA. Increased expression of epidermal fatty acid-binding protein by alveolar macrophages during acute rejection of rat lungs. APMIS 2010; 118:791-800. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2010.02662.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Inci I, Arni S, Acevedo C, Jungraithmayr W, Inci D, Vogt P, Weder W. Surfactant alterations following donation after cardiac death donor lungs. Transpl Int 2010; 24:78-84. [PMID: 20723176 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2010.01154.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The use of lungs from donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors is one of the strategies to increase the donor pool. The aim of this study was to assess the surfactant alterations in DCD donor lungs. Pigs were sacrificed and left untouched for 1 (DCD1), 2 (DCD2) and 3 (DCD3) h. Lungs were then topically cooled with saline for 1, 2 or 3 h to reach a total ischemic time of 4 h. Heart-beating donors (HBD) served as control group. Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) samples were assessed for protein levels and surfactant function. Left lungs were prepared for ex-vivo evaluation. Pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR), oxygenation, airway pressure (AWP) and wet-to-dry weight ratio were significantly different between HBD and DCD3 groups (P < 0.05). BAL protein levels were statistically higher in DCD3 compared with HBD group (P < 0.05). Surface tension and surface tension measured at minimal bubble diameter (adsorption) were lower in HBD compared with DCD groups (P < 0.05). Adsorption was also lower in DCD1 compared with DCD2 (P < 0.05). Adsorption and surface tension were correlated with oxygenation and AWP (P < 0.05). This study has shown that lung function deteriorates with increasing warm ischemic time intervals. BAL protein, surface tension, adsorption, peak AWP and PVR increase significantly after 2 h of warm ischemia together with a significant reduction of the ratio PaO(2)/FiO(2).
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- Ilhan Inci
- Division of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Mühlfeld C, Becker L, Bussinger C, Vollroth M, Nagib R, Schaefer IM, Knudsen L, Richter J, Madershahian N, Wahlers T, Wittwer T, Ochs M. Exogenous surfactant in ischemia/reperfusion: Effects on endogenous surfactant pools. J Heart Lung Transplant 2010; 29:327-34. [DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2009.07.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2009] [Revised: 07/28/2009] [Accepted: 07/29/2009] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Manning EW, Patel MB, Garcia-Covarrubias L, Rahnemai-Azar AA, Pham SM, Majetschak M. Proteasome peptidase activities parallel histomorphological and functional consequences of ischemia-reperfusion injury in the lung. Exp Lung Res 2009; 35:284-95. [PMID: 19415546 DOI: 10.1080/01902140802668823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Several lines of evidence suggest that the proteasome contributes to ischemia-reperfusion injury (I-RI) of organs. Although I-RI contributes to multiple disease processes in the lung, the regulation of proteasome activities during pulmonary I-RI is unknown. Thus, the authors performed a pilot study to define time-related changes of lung proteasome peptidase activities and to evaluate if possible alterations correspond to morphological and functional consequences of I-RI using a rat model. Animals underwent 120 minutes of unilateral lung ischemia. Ischemic and contralateral lungs were harvested at multiple time points for up to 168 hours of reperfusion (I-R30 min-168 h). Chymotryptic-like (CT-L) and tryptic-like (T-L) proteasome peptidase activities were measured in lung extracts. An early I-R-associated inactivation of proteasome activities paralleled impairment of oxygenation, edema formation, and degree of histopathology, and resolved with restoration of function within 24 to 72 hours. Although functional and histomorphological baseline conditions were still not fully achieved at I-R168h, proteasome activities increased continuously 1.4-fold (CT-L) and 5.7-fold (T-L) until I-R168h. Apparent K(M) values for the CT-L/T-L substrates were not influenced by I-R. This pilot study establishes an initial link between proteasome activities and physiological relevant consequences of lung I-RI, and further points towards a possible role of the proteasome during the postischemic tissue repair process.
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- Eddie W Manning
- Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
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van der Kaaij NP, Lachmann RA, Bogers AJJC, Lachmann B. Surfactant alterations and treatment of lung transplant ischemia–reperfusion injury. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1080/17471060500466691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Inci I, Ampollini L, Arni S, Jungraithmayr W, Inci D, Hillinger S, Leskosek B, Vogt P, Weder W. Ex Vivo Reconditioning of Marginal Donor Lungs Injured by Acid Aspiration. J Heart Lung Transplant 2008; 27:1229-36. [DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2008.07.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2008] [Revised: 07/18/2008] [Accepted: 07/29/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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van der Kaaij NP, Kluin J, Haitsma JJ, den Bakker MA, Lambrecht BN, Lachmann B, de Bruin RWF, Bogers AJJC. Ischemia of the lung causes extensive long-term pulmonary injury: an experimental study. Respir Res 2008; 9:28. [PMID: 18366783 PMCID: PMC2335107 DOI: 10.1186/1465-9921-9-28] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2007] [Accepted: 03/26/2008] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Background Lung ischemia-reperfusion injury (LIRI) is suggested to be a major risk factor for development of primary acute graft failure (PAGF) following lung transplantation, although other factors have been found to interplay with LIRI. The question whether LIRI exclusively results in PAGF seems difficult to answer, which is partly due to the lack of a long-term experimental LIRI model, in which PAGF changes can be studied. In addition, the long-term effects of LIRI are unclear and a detailed description of the immunological changes over time after LIRI is missing. Therefore our purpose was to establish a long-term experimental model of LIRI, and to study the impact of LIRI on the development of PAGF, using a broad spectrum of LIRI parameters including leukocyte kinetics. Methods Male Sprague-Dawley rats (n = 135) were subjected to 120 minutes of left lung warm ischemia or were sham-operated. A third group served as healthy controls. Animals were sacrificed 1, 3, 7, 30 or 90 days after surgery. Blood gas values, lung compliance, surfactant conversion, capillary permeability, and the presence of MMP-2 and MMP-9 in broncho-alveolar-lavage fluid (BALf) were determined. Infiltration of granulocytes, macrophages and lymphocyte subsets (CD45RA+, CD5+CD4+, CD5+CD8+) was measured by flowcytometry in BALf, lung parenchyma, thoracic lymph nodes and spleen. Histological analysis was performed on HE sections. Results LIRI resulted in hypoxemia, impaired left lung compliance, increased capillary permeability, surfactant conversion, and an increase in MMP-2 and MMP-9. In the BALf, most granulocytes were found on day 1 and CD5+CD4+ and CD5+CD8+-cells were elevated on day 3. Increased numbers of macrophages were found on days 1, 3, 7 and 90. Histology on day 1 showed diffuse alveolar damage, resulting in fibroproliferative changes up to 90 days after LIRI. Conclusion The short-, and long-term changes after LIRI in this model are similar to the changes found in both PAGF and ARDS after clinical lung transplantation. LIRI seems an independent risk factor for the development of PAGF and resulted in progressive deterioration of lung function and architecture, leading to extensive immunopathological and functional abnormalities up to 3 months after reperfusion.
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Kermeen FD, McNeil KD, Fraser JF, McCarthy J, Ziegenfuss MD, Mullany D, Dunning J, Hopkins PM. Resolution of Severe Ischemia–Reperfusion Injury Post–Lung Transplantation After Administration of Endobronchial Surfactant. J Heart Lung Transplant 2007; 26:850-6. [PMID: 17692791 DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2007.05.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2007] [Revised: 02/22/2007] [Accepted: 05/29/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is a prominent cause of primary graft failure after lung transplantation and is associated with an altered surfactant profile. Experimental animal studies have found that replacement with exogenous surfactant administered via fiber-optic bronchoscopy (FOB) enhanced recovery from IRI with improved pulmonary compliance and gas exchange after lung transplantation. We report our clinical experience with FOB instillation of surfactant in severe IRI after human lung transplantation. METHODS This study is a retrospective review of 106 consecutive lung or heart-lung transplants performed at a single institution. Severe IRI was defined as diffuse roentgenographic alveolar infiltrates, worsening hypoxemia and decreased lung compliance within 72 hours of lung transplantation. One vial of surfactant (20 mg/ml phospholipid) was instilled into each segmental bronchus upon diagnosis of IRI. RESULTS Six patients (5 bilateral sequential and 1 re-do heart-lung transplant), mean age 46 years, were diagnosed with IRI and surfactant was administered at a mean of 37 hours (range 2.3 to 98) post-transplant. Mean graft ischemia time was 376 minutes (range 187 to 625) and cardiopulmonary bypass time 174 minutes (range 0 to 210). Mean Pao(2) [mm Hg]/Fio(2) ratio before and 48 hours after surfactant instillation was 70 and 223, respectively. Significant resolution of radiologic infiltrates was evident in all cases within 24 hours. Successful extubation occurred at a mean of 13.5 days and survival is presently 100% at 19 months (range 3 to 54). CONCLUSIONS Bronchoscopic instillation of surfactant improves oxygenation and prognosis after severe IRI in lung transplant recipients. It represents a cost-effective, relatively non-invasive therapeutic alternative to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
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- F D Kermeen
- Queensland Heart-Lung Transplant Unit, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Fehrenbach H, Fehrenbach A, Dietzel E, Tschernig T, Krug N, Grau V, Hohlfeld JM. Effects of keratinocyte growth factor on intra-alveolar surfactant fixed in situ: Quantitative ultrastructural and immunoelectron microscopic analysis. Anat Rec (Hoboken) 2007; 290:974-80. [PMID: 17516448 DOI: 10.1002/ar.20549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Quantitative (immuno) transmission electron microscopy using design-based stereology was performed on specimens collected by means of systematic uniform random sampling of rat lungs, which were fixed by vascular perfusion to stabilize intra-alveolar surfactant in situ. This procedure ensures that the data recorded are representative of the whole organ. Ultrathin sections of specimens embedded at low temperature in Lowicryl HM20 were labeled by indirect immuno-gold staining for surfactant protein A. We observed that, 3 days after treatment of lungs in vivo with truncated keratinocyte growth factor (DeltaN23-KGF), a potent mitogen of alveolar epithelial type II cells, surfactant protein A associated with the tubular myelin fraction of intra-alveolar surfactant was increased by 47% in comparison with buffer-treated control lungs. Despite the marked type II cell hyperplasia, the relative amount of ultrastructural surfactant subtypes was not significantly affected. Because surfactant protein A reduces the sensitivity to inhibition of the biophysical activity of surfactant by exudating plasma proteins, we propose that pretreatment of lungs with DeltaN23-KGF ameliorates adverse effects observed in acute lung injury following, for example, ischemia and reperfusion.
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- Heinz Fehrenbach
- Clinical Research Group "Chronic Airway Diseases", Clinic of Internal Medicine (Respiratory Medicine), Philipps-University Marburg, Baldingerstrasse, Marburg Germany.
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Markart P, Schmidt R, Ruppert C, Höres C, Silber RE, Börgermann J, Günther A, Friedrich I. Ischemic and endotoxin pre-conditioning reduce lung reperfusion injury-induced surfactant alterations. J Heart Lung Transplant 2006; 24:1680-9. [PMID: 16210147 DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2005.01.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2004] [Revised: 12/16/2004] [Accepted: 01/12/2005] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Pulmonary ischemia/reperfusion injury represents a common clinical phenomenon after lung transplantation, pulmonary embolism, and cardiac surgery with extracorporeal circulation. We investigated the influence of ischemic and endotoxin pre-conditioning on gas exchange and surfactant properties in a canine model of ischemia/reperfusion injury. METHODS Twenty-six foxhounds underwent 3 hours of warm ischemia of the left lung, followed by 8 hours of reperfusion. Ischemic pre-conditioning was performed for either 5 minutes (IPC-5) or by 2 10-minute ischemic periods (IPC-10), before ischemia. For endotoxin pre-conditioning, dogs were pre-treated by a daily intravenous application of increasing amounts of endotoxin for 6 days. No pre-conditioning was performed in the controls. Bronchoalveolar lavage was performed before ischemia/reperfusion injury (baseline) and after the 8-hour reperfusion period in the non-injured right and in the reperfused left lung. Bronchoalveolar lavage fluids were analyzed for the phospholipid-protein ratio, the content of large surfactant aggregates, the phospholipid and neutral lipid profile, the surfactant protein (SP) content, and for biophysical activity. RESULTS Severe surfactant alterations were observed in the ischemia/reperfusion-injured left lung, with increased protein concentrations and depressed concentrations of large surface aggregates, SP-B, dipalmitoylated phosphatidylcholine, and phosphatidylglycerol. Endotoxin pre-conditioning and IPC-5 were both capable of greatly preventing the ischemia/reperfusion injury-related deterioration of surfactant properties. IPC-10 exerted no effects. Endotoxin pre-conditioning and IPC-5, but not IPC-10, also prevented loss of gas exchange. CONCLUSIONS Ischemic and endotoxin pre-conditioning may protect against impairment of gas exchange in ischemia/reperfusion injury by restoring physiological surfactant properties.
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- Philipp Markart
- Department of Internal Medicine, Med. Klinik II, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
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Parekh K, Meyers BF. Primary lung allograft dysfunction: a clinical and experimental review. Transplant Rev (Orlando) 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.trre.2004.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Friedrich I, Börgermann J, Splittgerber FH, Brinkmann M, Reidemeister JC, Silber RE, Seeger W, Schmidt R, Günther A. Bronchoscopic surfactant administration preserves gas exchange and pulmonary compliance after single lung transplantation in dogs. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2004; 127:335-43. [PMID: 14762340 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2002.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Surfactant abnormalities have been implicated in reperfusion injury and respiratory failure in lung transplantation. METHODS We investigated the efficacy of bronchoscopic administration of a bovine natural lung surfactant extract (Alveofact) to improve gas exchange and lung mechanics after heterologous left lung transplantation in foxhounds (+4 degrees C ischemia for 24 hours, conservation with Euro-Collins solution). Animals received either no surfactant therapy (untreated controls, n = 6) or 50 mg/kg body weight (prior to explantation, only graft) and 200 mg/kg body weight Alveofact (immediately after reperfusion, both lungs, n = 6). After lung transplantation, separate but synchronized ventilation of each lung was performed in a volume-controlled, pressure-limited mode for 12 hours, with the animals prone. Small catheters were inserted into the pulmonary veins of both the graft and the recipient's native lung for separate blood gas analysis. In the control group, marked protein leakage, influx of neutrophils into the alveolar space, and pulmonary edema formation (extravascular lung water; wet/dry ratio) were encountered in the transplanted lung but only to a very minor extent in the recipient's native lung. RESULTS Lung compliance values and arterial oxygenation progressively deteriorated in the transplanted but not in the native lungs. Pulmonary hemodynamics did not change significantly. Surfactant administration did not significantly influence the development of reperfusion edema, protein leakage, and neutrophil influx into the grafts. However, surfactant restored the surface activity and the gas exchange (PaO2/FIO2 of 201.2 +/- 20.2 mm Hg vs 119.8 +/- 21.7 mm Hg in controls; P <.05) in the transplanted lungs, and compliance was markedly improved in the surfactant-treated animals (18.8 +/- 1.8 mL/mbar vs 11.5 +/- 1.6 mL/mbar in the controls; P <.05). CONCLUSION Bronchoscopic surfactant administration does not prevent leukocyte influx or vascular leakage but does protect against respiratory failure and improves lung mechanics in single lung transplantation in dogs.
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- Ivar Friedrich
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany.
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Schmidt R, Schäfer C, Luboeinski T, Löckinger A, Hermle G, Grimminger F, Seeger W, Ghofrani A, Schütte H, Günther A. Increase in alveolar antioxidant levels in hyperoxic and anoxic ventilated rabbit lungs during ischemia. Free Radic Biol Med 2004; 36:78-89. [PMID: 14732292 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2003.10.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2003] [Revised: 10/16/2003] [Accepted: 10/27/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Increases in free radicals are believed to play a central role in the development of pulmonary ischemia/reperfusion (I-R) injury, leading to microvascular leakage and deterioration of pulmonary surfactant. Continued ventilation during ischemia offers significant protection against I-R injury, but the impact of alveolar oxygen supply both on lung injury and on radical generation is still unclear. We investigated the influence of hyperoxic (95% O2) and anoxic (0% O2) ventilation during ischemia on alveolar antioxidant status and surfactant properties in isolated rabbit lungs. Normoxic and hyperoxic ventilated, buffer-perfused lungs (n = 5 or 6) and native lungs (n = 6) served as controls. As compared with controls, biophysical and biochemical surfactant properties were not altered in anoxic as well as hyperoxic ventilated ischemic (2, 3, and 4 h) lungs. Assessment of several antioxidants (reduced glutathione (GSH), alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E), retinol (vitamin A), ascorbic acid (vitamin C), uric acid, and plasmalogens (1-O-alkenyl-2-acyl-phospholipids)) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) revealed a significant increase in antioxidant compounds under anoxic and hyperoxic ventilation, with maximum levels occuring after 3 h of ischemia. For example, GSH increased to 5.1 +/- 0.8 microM (mean +/- SE, p <.001) after 3 h of anoxic ventilated ischemia and to 2.7 +/- 0.2 microM (p <.01) after hyperoxic ventilated ischemia compared with native controls (1.3 +/- 0.2 microM), but did not significantly change under anoxic and hyperoxic ventilation alone. In parallel, under ischemic conditions, oxidized glutathione (GSSG) increased during hyperoxic (3 h: 0.81 +/- 0.04 microM, p <.001), but remained unchanged during anoxic (3 h: 0.31 +/- 0.04 microM) ventilation compared with native controls (0.22 +/- 0.02 microM), whereas F2-isoprostanes were elevated under both hyperoxic (3 h: 63 +/- 15 pM, p <.01) and anoxic (3 h: 50 +/- 9 pM, p <.01) ventilation compared with native controls (16 +/- 4 pM). We conclude that oxidative stress is increased in the lung alveolar lining layer during ischemia, during both anoxic and hyperoxic ventilation. This is paralleled by an increase rather than a decrease in alveolar antioxidant levels, suggested to reflect an adaptive response to oxidative stress during ischemia.
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- Reinhold Schmidt
- Medizinische Klinik II, Zentrum für Innere Medizin, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany.
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