Exploring alveolar recruitability using positive end-expiratory pressure in mice overexpressing TGF-β1: a structure-function analysis
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS(2024)
Abstract
Pre-injured lungs are prone to injury progression in response to mechanical ventilation. Heterogeneous ventilation due to (micro)atelectases imparts injurious strains on open alveoli (known as volutrauma). Hence, recruitment of (micro)atelectases by positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) is necessary to interrupt this vicious circle of injury but needs to be balanced against acinar overdistension. In this study, the lung-protective potential of alveolar recruitment was investigated and balanced against overdistension in pre-injured lungs. Mice, treated with empty vector (AdCl) or adenoviral active TGF-beta 1 (AdTGF-beta 1) were subjected to lung mechanical measurements during descending PEEP ventilation from 12 to 0 cmH(2)O. At each PEEP level, recruitability tests consisting of two recruitment maneuvers followed by repetitive forced oscillation perturbations to determine tissue elastance (H) and damping (G) were performed. Finally, lungs were fixed by vascular perfusion at end-expiratory airway opening pressures (Pao) of 20, 10, 5 and 2 cmH(2)O after a recruitment maneuver, and processed for design-based stereology to quantify derecruitment and distension. H and G were significantly elevated in AdTGF-beta 1 compared to AdCl across PEEP levels. H was minimized at PEEP = 5-8 cmH(2)O and increased at lower and higher PEEP in both groups. These findings correlated with increasing septal wall folding (= derecruitment) and reduced density of alveolar number and surface area (= distension), respectively. In AdTGF-beta 1 exposed mice, 27% of alveoli remained derecruited at Pao = 20 cmH(2)O. A further decrease in Pao down to 2 cmH(2)O showed derecruitment of an additional 1.1 million alveoli (48%), which was linked with an increase in alveolar size heterogeneity at Pao = 2-5 cmH(2)O. In AdCl, decreased Pao resulted in septal folding with virtually no alveolar collapse. In essence, in healthy mice alveoli do not derecruit at low PEEP ventilation. The potential of alveolar recruitability in AdTGF-beta 1 exposed mice is high. H is optimized at PEEP 5-8 cmH(2)O. Lower PEEP folds and larger PEEP stretches septa which results in higher H and is more pronounced in AdTGF-beta 1 than in AdCl. The increased alveolar size heterogeneity at Pao = 5 cmH(2)O argues for the use of PEEP = 8 cmH(2)O for lung protective mechanical ventilation in this animal model.
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Key words
Acute respiratory distress syndrome,Ventilation induced lung injury,TGF-beta 1,Recruitment,Atelectasis,Stereology
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