Noninvasive Assessment of Neuromechanical and Neuroventilatory Coupling in COPD

Manuel Lozano-Garcia; Luis Estrada-Petrocelli; Dolores Blanco-Almazan; Basak Tas; Peter Cho; John Moxham; Gerrard Rafferty; Abel Torres; Raimon Jane; Caroline Jolley

doi:10.1109/JBHI.2022.3166255

Noninvasive Assessment of Neuromechanical and Neuroventilatory Coupling in COPD

Manuel Lozano-Garcia, Luis Estrada-Petrocelli, Dolores Blanco-Almazan, Basak Tas, Peter Cho, John Moxham, Gerrard Rafferty, Abel Torres, Raimon Jane, Caroline Jolley

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This study explored the use of parasternal second intercostal space and lower intercostal space surface electromyogram (sEMG) and surface mechanomyogram (sMMG) recordings (sEMGpara and sMMGpara, and sEMGlic and sMMGlic, respectively) to assess neural respiratory drive (NRD), neuromechanical (NMC) and neuroventilatory (NVC) coupling, and mechanical efficiency (MEff) noninvasively in healthy subjects and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. sEMGpara, sMMGpara, sEMGlic, sMMGlic, mouth pressure (Pmo), and volume (Vi) were measured at rest, and during an inspiratory loading protocol, in 16 COPD patients (8 moderate and 8 severe) and 9 healthy subjects. Myographic signals were analyzed using fixed sample entropy and normalized to their largest values (fSEsEMGpara%max, fSEsMMGpara%max, fSEsEMGlic%max, and fSEsMMGlic%max). fSEsMMGpara%max, fSEsEMGpara%max, and fSEsEMGlic%max were significantly higher in COPD than in healthy participants at rest. Parasternal intercostal muscle NMC was significantly higher in healthy than in COPD participants at rest, but not during threshold loading. Pmo-derived NMC and MEff ratios were lower in severe patients than in mild patients or healthy subjects during threshold loading, but differences were not consistently significant. During resting breathing and threshold loading, Vi-derived NVC and MEff ratios were significantly lower in severe patients than in mild patients or healthy subjects. sMMG is a potential noninvasive alternative to sEMG for assessing NRD in COPD. The ratios of Pmo and Vi to sMMG and sEMG measurements provide wholly noninvasive NMC, NVC, and MEff indices that are sensitive to impaired respiratory mechanics in COPD and are therefore of potential value to assess disease severity in clinical practice.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3385-3396
Number of pages	12
Journal	IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Volume	26
Issue number	7
Early online date	11 Apr 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2022.3166255
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2022

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