| 제목 |
Relation between Pulmonary function and Ischemic stroke lesion |
| 소속 |
Kyungpook National University Hospital, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine1, Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine2 |
| 저자 |
Ju Hyun Kim2*, Jae Won Huh1, Hyun Min Oh1, Dae Won Gwak2, Chul Hyun Kim1, Tae Du Jung2† |
Objective
Pneumonia is major cause of post stroke morbidity. And it is important to predict and minimize the risk for pneumonia in stroke patients. Both supra-tentorial and infra-tentorial lesions are all likely to affect the respiratory function of stroke patients. Respiratory function can be impaired in infratentorial stroke patients by involvement of the BÖtzinger complex. In supratentorial stroke, respiratory muscle strength can be weakened. For this reason, Respiratory function would depend on the stroke lesion, so we conducted pulmonary function test(PFT) to evaluate difference in pulmonary function between two different lesions, during in-patient rehabilitation following stroke.
Methods
A total of 26 stroke patients who went through in-patient rehabilitation at Kyung-book National University Hospital were selected for this study. Patients were included if they had a clinical diagnosis of ischemic stroke. No distinction was made of age, sex, race. PFT includes FVC, FEV1, FEV1/FVC.
Results
We compared pulmonary function and performed a Mann-Whitney analysis. Results showed that there was overall reduction of respiratory function in stroke patients, regardless of stroke lesion. And there was no relation between pulmonary function and the lesion affected side is whether supratentorial or infratentorial(Table 1).
Conclusion
No significant correlation was found between PFT result and stroke lesion. It would be helpful to compare peak cough flow which is concerned with expectoration ability for preventing stroke-complication like pneumonia. |
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Table 1. demonstration there was no relation between pulmonary function and the lesion affected side is whether supratentorial or infratentorial
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