Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 63, Issue 1 195-200, Copyright © 1987 by American Physiological Society

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Ventilatory muscle recruitment in exercise with O2 in obstructed patients with mild hypoxemia

G. J. Criner and B. R. Celli

Respiratory muscle dysfunction limits exercise endurance in severe chronic airflow obstruction (CAO). To investigate whether inspiring O2 alters ventilatory muscle recruitment and improves exercise endurance, we recorded pleural (Ppl) and gastric (Pga) pressures while breathing air or 30% O2 during leg cycling in six patients with severe CAO, mild hypoxemia, and minimal arterial O2 desaturation with exercise. At rest, mean (+/- SD) transdiaphragmatic pressure (Pdi) was lower inspiring 30% O2 compared with air (23 +/- 4 vs. 26 +/- 7 cmH2O, P less than 0.05), but the pattern of Ppl and Pga contraction was identical while breathing either gas mixture. Maximal transdiaphragmatic pressure was similar breathing air or 30% O2 (84 +/- 30 vs. 77 +/- 30 cmH2O). During exercise, Pdi increased similarly while breathing air or 30% O2, but the latter was associated with a significant increase in peak inspiratory Pga and decreases in peak inspiratory Ppl and expiratory Pga. In five out of six patients, exercise endurance increased with O2 (671 +/- 365 vs. 362 +/- 227 s, P less than 0.05). We conclude that exercise with O2 alters ventilatory muscle recruitment and increases exercise endurance. During exercise inspiring O2, the diaphragm performs more ventilatory work which may prevent overloading the accessory muscles of respiration.

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