Impact of Breathing Maneuvers on the Oxygenation Supply of the Heart Assessed With MRI in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

Summary

Patients with an impaired blood supply of the heart routinely receive oxygen in order to improve or preserve the oxygen supply of the heart muscle in acute cardiac care. In recent studies a new innovative MRI-technique that can detect changes in oxygen supply of the heart was able to show that the administration of oxygen or fast breathing can decrease the blood supply of the arteries supplying the heart muscle with oxygen. Thus, the administration of oxygen may paradoxically impair the oxygen supply of the heart muscle. In this study the investigators want to investigate, whether the administration of exogenous oxygen via a mask alone and in combination with fast breathing leads to a decrease in oxygen supply in regions with already impaired blood supply by a narrowing of a coronary artery of the heart.

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Start

2014-10-01

Primary completion

2017-11-02

Completion

2017-11-02

Publications

• Background Guensch DP, Fischer K, Flewitt JA, Friedrich MG. Impact of intermittent apnea on myocardial tissue oxygenation--a study using oxygenation-sensitive cardiovascular magnetic resonance. PLoS One. 2013;8(1):e53282. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053282. Epub 2013 Jan 3.
• Background Guensch DP, Fischer K, Flewitt JA, Yu J, Lukic R, Friedrich JA, Friedrich MG. Breathing manoeuvre-dependent changes in myocardial oxygenation in healthy humans. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014 Apr;15(4):409-14. doi: 10.1093/ehjci/jet171. Epub 2013 Sep 27.
• Background Guensch DP, Fischer K, Flewitt JA, Friedrich MG. Myocardial oxygenation is maintained during hypoxia when combined with apnea - a cardiovascular MR study. Physiol Rep. 2013 Oct;1(5):e00098. doi: 10.1002/phy2.98. Epub 2013 Oct 11.
• Background Luu JM, Friedrich MG, Harker J, Dwyer N, Guensch D, Mikami Y, Faris P, Hare JL. Relationship of vasodilator-induced changes in myocardial oxygenation with the severity of coronary artery stenosis: a study using oxygenation-sensitive cardiovascular magnetic resonance. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014 Dec;15(12):1358-67. doi: 10.1093/ehjci/jeu138. Epub 2014 Aug 7.
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• Background Momen A, Mascarenhas V, Gahremanpour A, Gao Z, Moradkhan R, Kunselman A, Boehmer JP, Sinoway LI, Leuenberger UA. Coronary blood flow responses to physiological stress in humans. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2009 Mar;296(3):H854-61. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.01075.2007. Epub 2009 Jan 23.
• Background Nakao K, Ohgushi M, Yoshimura M, Morooka K, Okumura K, Ogawa H, Kugiyama K, Oike Y, Fujimoto K, Yasue H. Hyperventilation as a specific test for diagnosis of coronary artery spasm. Am J Cardiol. 1997 Sep 1;80(5):545-9. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9149(97)00419-0.
• Guensch DP, Fischer K, Yamaji K, Luescher S, Ueki Y, Jung B, Erdoes G, Grani C, von Tengg-Kobligk H, Raber L, Eberle B. Effect of Hyperoxia on Myocardial Oxygenation and Function in Patients With Stable Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease. J Am Heart Assoc. 2020 Mar 3;9(5):e014739. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.119.014739. Epub 2020 Feb 22.
• Fischer K, Yamaji K, Luescher S, Ueki Y, Jung B, von Tengg-Kobligk H, Windecker S, Friedrich MG, Eberle B, Guensch DP. Feasibility of cardiovascular magnetic resonance to detect oxygenation deficits in patients with multi-vessel coronary artery disease triggered by breathing maneuvers. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2018 May 7;20(1):31. doi: 10.1186/s12968-018-0446-y.

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