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Characteristics of the pulmonary opacities on chest CT associated with difficulty in short-term liberation from veno-venous ECMO in patients with severe ARDS

Respiratory Research volume 24, Article number: 128 (2023) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

It is clinically important to predict difficulty in short-term liberation from veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (V-V ECMO) in patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) at the time of initiation of the support. The aim of this study was to identify the characteristics of pulmonary opacities on chest CT that is associated with difficulty in short-term liberation from V-V ECMO (< 14 days).

Methods

This multicenter retrospective study was conducted in adult patients initiated on V-V ECMO for severe ARDS between January 2014 and June 2022. The pulmonary opacities on CT at the time of initiation of the ECMO support were evaluated in a blinded manner, focusing on the following three characteristics of the opacities: (1) their distribution (focal/diffuse on the dorso-ventral axis or unilateral/bilateral on the left-right axis); (2) their intensity (pure ground glass/pure consolidation/mixed pattern); and (3) the degree of fibroproliferation (signs of traction bronchiectasis or reticular opacities).

Results

Among the 153 patients, 72 (47%) were successfully liberated from ECMO in the short term, while short-term liberation failed in the remaining 81 (53%) patients. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that the presence of mixed-pattern pulmonary opacities and signs of traction bronchiectasis, but not the distribution of the opacities, were independently associated with difficulty in short-term liberation (OR [95% CI]; 4.8 [1.4–16.5] and 3.9 [1.4–11.2], respectively).

Conclusions

The presence of a mixed pattern of the pulmonary opacities and signs of traction bronchiectasis on the chest CT were independently associated with difficulty in short-term liberation from V-V ECMO in severe ARDS patients.

Background

Respiratory support using veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (V-V ECMO) is an effective strategy for improving the arterial oxygen saturation in patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) receiving mechanical ventilation and has the potential for improving the patient outcomes [1,2,3]. However, analysis of data from a nationwide registry reported that despite use of ECMO where indicated, the hospital mortality remained high at 54.4% [4], indicating that we need to develop better strategies for management of V-V ECMO to improve the patient outcomes.

Prolonged use of ECMO support for patients with ARDS has become more common in the last decade [5]. Considering that long-term ECMO support requires huge amounts of medical and human resources, and may also be associated with many kinds of complications such as bleeding, infection, and muscle weakness [6], it is clinically important to estimate, even at the time of initiation of the support, the difficulty of liberation from ECMO in the short term. It may be a better option to consider immediate transportation of patients in whom liberation from ECMO in the short term is likely to be difficult to the highest volume centers in the country. However, no tool has been established yet for predicting the difficulty in liberation from V-V ECMO in the short term.

ARDS is a heterogeneous syndrome [7, 8], and the characteristics of “bilateral opacities”, based on the Berlin criteria of ARDS [9], are different in each individual patient [10,11,12]. The characteristics of the pulmonary opacities on chest CT are crucial for understanding the pathophysiology of ARDS [13, 14], but there is no study to investigate the characteristics of the opacities on chest CT in patients with severe ARDS requiring ECMO. We hypothesized that we might be able to predict the likelihood of difficulty in short-term liberation from V-V ECMO based on the chest CT findings at the time of initiation of the support. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify the characteristics of the pulmonary opacities on chest CT associated with difficulty in liberation from V-V ECMO in the short term.

Methods

Study design and population

The study included the data of all adult patients (18 years or older) admitted to any of four intensive care units (ICUs) in Japan (named below) who were initiated on V-V ECMO support for severe ARDS between January 2012 and June 2022. All four ICUs, Hiroshima University Hospital, Japan Red Cross Maebashi Hospital, Nagoya University Hospital, and Tsukuba Memorial Hospital are teaching hospitals and have treated more than 10 patients requiring ECMO per year. The diagnosis of severe ARDS was made based on the Berlin definition criteria (PaO2/FiO2 ratio [P/F ratio] < 100 mmHg) [9]. Patients were excluded if they were cases of conversion from initial veno-arterial (V-A) ECMO or had not undergone chest CT examination at the time of initiation of the ECMO support (within 3 days of initiation). The study was conducted with the approval of the Institutional Review Boards of Hiroshima University Hospital, which waived the requirement for obtaining informed patient consent from the study participants to ensure participant anonymity, as stipulated in the Japanese government guidelines.

Data, including patient demographic information, comorbidities, etiology of ARDS, laboratory test results, chest CT images, clinical course after admission, and outcome were collected retrospectively from the electronic medical charts. The sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score was calculated at the time of initiation of the ECMO support as a scale of the illness severity [15].

Outcomes

The primary outcome measured was difficulty in liberation from V-V ECMO within a short period of time. We defined short-term liberation from ECMO as liberation within 14 days (< 14 days) of initiation of the support [5, 16]. Patients who died before liberation or who were only liberated in the long term (≥ 14 days) were classified as the difficulty in short-term liberation from ECMO group (dsECMO group), while those who were successfully liberated in the short-term were classified into the successful short-term liberation from ECMO group (sECMO group). For patients who needed re-cannulation for ECMO due to recurrent deterioration of the clinical condition, the duration of the ECMO run were calculated by adding the first and second periods of ECMO support. The secondary outcome measured was in-hospital mortality.

Patient management before/during ECMO and weaning from ECMO

The patients were managed in accordance with the guidelines [17, 18]. We mainly employed protective lung ventilation (≤ 6 ml /ideal body weight and plateau pressure ≤ 30 cmH2O) for the patients prior to the initiation of V-V ECMO support. Respiratory support by using ECMO was considered if the patients had hypoxemic respiratory failure with P/F ratio < 150 mmHg on high FiO2 > 0.9 and optimized positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP). While initiating ECMO support, the support of the invasiveness of mechanical ventilation was reduced for lung protection. The preset goals for oxygenation were a PaO2 of 55–65 mm Hg. Accordingly, the tidal volume was decreased so that the plateau pressure did not exceed 30 cm H2O. After improvement of the lung function, the extracorporeal blood flow rate was reduced stepwise to 2.0 L per min. Thereafter, the gas flow was tapered and finally switched off typically for 2–8 h. If the arterial blood gas and respiratory parameters remained stable, the ECMO system was removed.

Interpretation of chest CT

The pulmonary opacities on the chest CT were interpreted by a specialist radiologist (WF) and a specialist intensivist (MN) in a blinded manner, both of whom had more than 10 years’ experience in interpreting chest CT images of patients with ARDS. The concordance rates between the two evaluators are summarized in supplementary Table 1. We confirmed that the concordance rates were acceptable based on a previous report (kappa statistic ≥ 0.4) [19]. Any disagreement was resolved by review by a third blinded specialist in pulmonary medicine (SO).

The pulmonary opacities were evaluated for the following three characteristics: (1) distribution (focal/diffuse on the dorso-ventral axis or unilateral/bilateral on the left-right axis); (2) intensity (pure ground glass/pure consolidation/mixed); and (3) degree of fibroproliferation (signs of traction bronchiectasis or reticular opacities), based on previous reports [20, 21]. The definitions of these findings were based on a reference [22].

Statistical analysis

Chi-squared test and Mann-Whitney’s U test were used to compare categorical and continuous variables, respectively. To identify the chest CT findings associated with difficulty in short-term liberation, we performed multivariate logistic regression analysis with adjustments for 4 variables, including the age, the underlying cause of ARDS, and SOFA score at ECMO initiation as a scale of the disease severity, as well as the interval between the start of initiation of mechanical ventilation and ECMO support (> 7 days vs. ≤ 7 days), which showed a statistical significance in the univariate analysis. All reported P values were two-sided, and P < 0.05 was regarded as denoting statistically significant difference. All analyses were conducted using the JMP Pro software (version 16.0, SAS Institute Inc.)

Results

A total of 165 severe ARDS patients who received V-V ECMO support were included. Of these, 12 patients were excluded as they had been converted from V-A ECMO to V-V ECMO (n = 6) or had not undergone chest CT examination at the time of start of the V-V ECMO support (n = 6), and the data of the remaining 153 patients were analyzed in this study (Fig. 1). Of the 153 patients, 72 (47.1%) were classified into the sECMO group, while the remaining 81 (52.9%) were classified into the dsECMO group (including 35 [22.9%] who died before liberation, and 46 [30.1%] who were liberated in the long term). The characteristics of the analyzed patients, such as the age, sex, and comorbidities, are shown in Table 1. The time difference between the chest CT examinations and start of the V-V ECMO support are shown in supplementary Fig. 1; as shown, the CT examination was performed within 1 day of the start of the ECMO support in the majority of the patients included in the analysis (83.7% [128/153]).

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Flow diagram of patients

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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of all subjects
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The interpretations of the pulmonary opacities on the chest CT are summarized in Table 2, and typical images for each finding are shown in Fig. 2. The characteristics of the pulmonary opacities on chest CT according to the underlying etiology of ARDS were shown in supplementary Fig. 2. Multivariate analysis identified the mixed pattern of pulmonary opacities, as compared with the pure consolidation pattern, and signs of traction bronchiectasis, but not the distribution of the opacities, as being independently associated with difficulty in liberation from the V-V ECMO in the short term (OR [95% CI]; 4.8 [1.4–16.5] and 3.9 [1.4–11.2], respectively) (Table 3). As sensitivity analysis, by using the data of 118 patients who were successfully liberated from ECMO (excluding 35 patients who died before liberation), we also performed multivariate analysis for difficult short-term liberation from ECMO, which confirmed that the mixed pattern of pulmonary opacities and signs of traction bronchiectasis were significantly associated with difficulty in short-term liberation (supplementary Table 2).

Table 2 Characteristics of pulmonary opacity on chest CT between two groups
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Typical images for each of the characteristic pulmonary opacities on chest CT

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Table 3 Multivariate analysis for difficult short-term liberation from V-V ECMO
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We also evaluated the associations between the characteristics of the pulmonary opacities and the mortality at hospital discharge. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that none of the characteristics of the opacities was associated with the in-hospital mortality, including the intensity of the opacities and signs of traction bronchiectasis, both of which were associated with difficulty in short-term liberation from ECMO (Table 4).

Table 4 Multivariate analysis for in-hospital mortality
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Discussion

In this retrospective study, we found, in regard to the characteristics of the pulmonary opacities in patients with severe ARDS, that the presence of a mixed pattern of pulmonary opacities, as compared with a pure consolidation pattern, and signs of traction bronchiectasis, but not the distribution of the pulmonary opacities, were independently associated with difficulty in liberation from V-V ECMO in the short term. We believe that this study is the first to investigate the characteristics of pulmonary opacities on the chest CT in patients with severe ARDS requiring V-V ECMO support.

Many previous studies have reported the existence of a strong relationship between the chest CT findings and the etiopathology of ARDS [13, 14]. Although it can also be seen in the early phase [23], fibrosis is one of the major characteristics in the late phase of the pathology of ARDS [13, 14] that is linked to the need for prolonged mechanical ventilatory support as well as to worse outcomes [1]. The reason for the significant association of signs of traction bronchiectasis on imaging and short-term liberation difficulty from ECMO, is that this finding may be a reliable index of the degree of fibroproliferation in cases of severe ARDS. Interestingly, the presence of reticular opacities was not associated with the patient outcomes, although it is also regarded as an index of the degree of fibroproliferation; a possible explanation is that as compared with traction bronchiectasis, reticular opacities also represent many kinds of radiological changes, including interlobular septal thickening, intralobular interstitial thickening, and peri-bronchovascular interstitial thickening, which can also be observed in non-fibrotic areas [24].

The mixed pattern of pulmonary opacities was found to be independently associated with an increased risk of short-term liberation from ECMO, as compared with pure consolidation and pure ground-glass opacities. One possible reason is that in the pathology of ARDS, with progression to/of the fibroproliferative phase, the lung volumes shrink, which can lead to an increase in the density of some regions of the lungs in which ground-glass opacities are observed [20]. The intensity of the mixed-pattern opacities may be a marker of progression to the fibroproliferative phase in patients with severe ARDS, similar to the signs of traction bronchiectasis. Another possible reason is that mixed-pattern opacities may be a sign suggesting that the etiology of the severe ARDS is not simple, such as pure bacterial pneumonia (typically pure consolidation) or pure viral pneumonia (typically pure ground-glass), but complex, such as combined bacterial and viral pneumonia, which may necessitate a longer duration of treatment. But further studies to investigate the mechanism underlying the association of mixed-pattern opacities on chest CT with an increased risk of difficulty in libeartion from ECMO in the short term are needed.

On the other hand, to our surprise, no characteristics of the pulmonary opacities on CT were associated with the in-hospital mortality in patients with severe ARDS requiring ECMO after adjustments for confounding factors. Given that some underlying causes of ARDS were found to be independently associated with the patient mortality in our study, consistent with several previous reports as well [25, 26], the etiology of ARDS, rather than the characteristics of the pulmonary opacities, may be a more important determinant of the risk of patient mortality. Our results also suggest the possibility that an increased risk of short-term liberation difficulty from ECMO may not necessarily be associated with an increased risk of mortality, which may imply that these patients can still be saved by appropriate management of ECMO.

There were several limitations of our study. First, even though our study was a retrospective study conducted based on the data obtained from a heterogeneous population of patients admitted to 4 participating hospitals, an even larger multicenter study is still needed. Second, the values of PEEP at the time of the chest CT examination were varied. PEEP-induced alveolar recruitment can transform poorly aerated lung areas into normally aerated lung areas, potentially influencing the results of the interpretations in this study [27]. Although we confirmed the absence of any statistical significant association between the values of PEEP at the time of the chest CT examination and interpretation of the chest CT findings (unpublished data), a prospective study in which the PEEP setting at the time of the CT examination is kept fixed in all the analyzed patients included in the study would be needed to confirm this finding. Third, in this study, as we did not adopt prone positioning during V-V ECMO support in the majority of patients (7/153, 4.6%), we could not adequately evaluate the influence of prone positioning on the duration of ECMO support. However, we do believe that it would be of great interest to investigate this in the near future. Finally, lung transplantation is rarely performed in Japan (none of the cases in this study underwent transplantation), and the management during ECMO support could be different in patients being considered for lung transplantation.

Conclusions

The presence of a mixed pattern of the pulmonary opacities and signs of traction bronchiectasis on the chest CT, but not the distribution of the opacities, were independently associated with difficulty in short-term liberation from V-V ECMO in severe ARDS patients.

Availability of the data and materials

The datasets used and analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

Abbreviations

V-V ECMO:

Veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

ARDS:

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

ICUs:

Intensive care units

P/F ratio:

PaO2/FiO2 ratio

V-A ECMO:

Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

SOFA score:

Sequential organ failure assessment score

dsECMO group:

Difficulty in short-term liberation from ECMO group

sECMO group:

Successful short-term liberation from ECMO group

PEEP:

Positive end-expiratory pressure

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge and honor all of our team members who consistently put themselves in harm’s way during the COVID-19 pandemic. We dedicate this manuscript to them, as their vital contribution to knowledge about COVID-19 and sacrifices on the behalf of patients made it possible. We also want to thank all study participants for making this work possible.

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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Numbers JP 22K09120 and JP 20K08541) and the TSUCHIYA MEMORIAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION, and a Grant-in-aid for multicenter clinical research from Japanese Association for Acute Medicine.

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  1. Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8551, Japan

    Mitsuaki Nishikimi, Shinichiro Ohshimo, Michihito Kyo & Nobuaki Shime

  2. Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

    Mitsuaki Nishikimi

  3. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

    Wataru Fukumoto & Kazuo Awai

  4. Department of Biostatistics, M&D Data Science Center, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tatsuhiko Anzai & Kunihiko Takahashi

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    Takayuki Ogura

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    Toshikazu Abe

  7. Department of Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

    Toshikazu Abe

  8. Advanced Medical Emergency Department and Critical Care Center, Japan Red Cross Maebashi Hospital, Maebashi, Japan

    Mamoru Masuda, Kenji Fujizuka & Mitsunobu Nakamura

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MNi and SO had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. MNi, NS, and SO designed the study. MNi, TAn, WF, KA, TO, and TAb did the data acquisition and interpretation of data. MNi, TAn (statistical part), and SO drafted the manuscript. TO, TAb, MM, KF, MNa, MK, KT, NS, and SO revised the manuscript for important intellectual content. MNi, TAn, KT performed statistical analyses. All authors have read and approved the manuscript.

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Supplementary Table 1: Concordance rates between two evaluators

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Supplementary Table 2: Multivariate analysis for difficult short-term liberation in the patients who were successfully liberated from ECMO

Supplementary Figure 1: Time difference between the chest CT examinations and start of V-V ECMO support

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Supplementary Figure 2: Characteristics of the pulmonary opacities on chest CT according to the underlying etiology of the acute respiratory distress syndrome

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Nishikimi, M., Ohshimo, S., Fukumoto, W. et al. Characteristics of the pulmonary opacities on chest CT associated with difficulty in short-term liberation from veno-venous ECMO in patients with severe ARDS. Respir Res 24, 128 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-023-02425-2

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