Supplemental Oxygen Improves Exercise Capacity In Ipf Patients With Exertional Desaturation
RESPIROLOGY(2020)
Abstract
Background and objective The efficacy of supplemental oxygen during exercise remains unclear for patients with IPF, as there have been conflicting results from recent prospective studies with small sample sizes.Methods This prospective, single-blind, randomized, crossover trial evaluated the efficacy of supplemental oxygen compared with placebo air during exercise in consecutive patients with IPF without resting hypoxaemia at initial evaluation. Patients with We recruited 72 consecutive patients (median age: 66.5 years, % FVC: 84.6%, % DLCO: 61.4%). Supplemental oxygen significantly increased the endurance time (340-424 s; P < 0.001) and minimum SpO(2) (88.0-94.0%; P < 0.001) compared with placebo air. Furthermore, supplemental oxygen significantly improved dyspnoea and leg fatigue. In a multivariate linear regression analysis, the endurance time on air was an independent explanatory variable of the improvement rate of endurance time (P = 0.02).Conclusion In mild-moderate IPF with exercise-induced hypoxaemia even without resting hypoxaemia, supplemental oxygen during exercise improved the endurance time, desaturation and subjective symptoms. Patients with shorter endurance times with placebo air showed better improvement with supplemental oxygen.
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Key words
dyspnoea, endurance time, exercise-induced hypoxaemia, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, supplemental oxygen
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