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1 From the Unité de Réanimation and Laboratoire de Physiopathologie Respiratoire, Sendee de Pneumologie, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
Background: Phrenic nerve pacing is a recognized substitute to positive pressure ventilation via tracheotomy in patients with high cervical cord lesions or central hypoventilation. Although its indications are infrequent, reliable strategies need to be used in the determinations of patients who may benefit from this treatment; contraindications should be carefully respected.
Study objectives: To determine whether modern and noninvasive means to study the motor pathway to the diaphragm, namely cortical magnetic stimulation (CxMS) and cervical magnetic stimulation (CMS), can contribute to the selection of patients who may benefit from phrenic pacing.
Design and setting: Prospective study (18 months), on a consecutive basis, of patients referred for possible phrenic pacing to a 10-bed ICU associated with a respiratory neurophysiology laboratory.
Patients: Seven patients (high cervical cord injury, n=5; central hypoventilation following neuro-surgery, n=l; idiopathic acquired central hypoventilation, n=l).
Intervention, measurements, and results: Electromyography of the diaphragm and transdiaphragmatic pressure were assessed in response to CxMS and CMS. In three cases, no interruption of the corticodiaphragmatic pathwaywas evidenced, the decision of pacing was postponed, and the patients eventually recovered a spontaneous breathing activity. In two cases, the diagnosis of irreversible peripheral phrenic dysfunction was reached and pacing was denied. In two cases, complete interruption of the corticodiaphragmatic pathway and integrity of peripheral conduction led to the decision of phrenic pacemaker implantation.
Conclusion: CxMS and CMS can be used to refine the assessment of patients proposed for phrenic pacing. CxMS can possibly identify those in whom there is a possibility for eventual recovery, and therefore substantiate a decision to postpone the pacing.
Key Words: central hypoventilation • cervical cord injury • cortical stimulation • magnetic stimulation • phrenic nerve • phrenic pacing
Submitted on March 21, 1996
Accepted on June 17, 2007
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