What Causes Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Down Syndrome With Congenital Heart Disease?

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H-E classification and IPVD score. Furthermore, earlier progression of histopathological changes in pulmonary arteriopathy could not be proved in patients with DS despite accounting for age in the histological findings. Previous papers have reported no difference in the incidence of PAH between patients with DS and those without DS. Vázquez-Antona et al showed that results of a hemodynamic study of pulmonary hypertension and vasodilation test with oxygen were similar for patients with DS and those without the chromosomal abnormality, 10 though they did not examine histological findings.Cohort selection, other types of respiratory problems and anatomic variability are other reasons that could explain the results in the current study by Masaki et al. Patients who had undergone pulmonary artery banding were excluded from this study, which might cause underestimation of the severity of pulmonary arteriopathy in the group of patients with DS. Other factors could be contributing to the pathogenesis of PAH in patients with DS. Pandit et al suggest there are many respiratory problems in both the upper and lower airways of children with DS. 11 Anatomic characteristics in DS such as large tongue, small hypopharynx, pharyngeal hypotonia, tonsils and adenoid enlargement, laryngomalacia, and tracheomalacia cause upper airway problems. In addition, gastroesophageal reflux, immunologic dysfunction, tracheal bronchus, airway malacia, CHD, and pulmonary hypoplasia cause recurrent lower airway diseases. 11 Cooney and Thurlbeck showed that 6 of 7 patients with DS had hypoplastic lungs, and 5 had CHD. 12 Patients with DS have a decreased number of alveoli in relation to acini, enlarged alveoli and alveolar ducts, and a smaller alveolar surface area, which can lead to exacerbation of pulmonary hypertension in DS. 12 Bush et al investigated the histologic features of impaired development of the lung vasculature and alveoli and the presence of intrapulmonary bronchopulmonary anastomoses (IBA) in patients with DS using specimens obtained from autopsy. 13 These patients had frequent histologic evidence of impaired lung alveolar and vascular development, D own syndrome (DS) is the most common chromosomal abnormality. A recent study showed that its incidence is 1 in 319-1,000 live births. 1 Approximately half of all newborns with DS have congenital heart disease (CHD): 2 atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD: 45%), ventricular septal defect (VSD: 35%), secundum atrial septal defect (8%), and tetralogy of Fallot (4%). 3 DS strongly associates with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Patients with DS and CHD are thought to develop PAH more rapidly than non-DS patients with CHD. 4 In patients with DS and severe pulmonary hypertension, cardiologists need to determine whether there are surgical indications when they perform the cardiac catheterizations. In those cases, the Heath-Edwards (H-E) classification, and in Japan the index of pulmonary vascular disease (IPVD) 5 proposed by Yamaki and Tezuka, 6 determined from a lung biopsy play an im...

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