Correlation between digital clubbing and pulmonary function in cystic fibrosis

Pediatric Pulmonology - Tập 33 Số 5 - Trang 332-338 - 2002
Craig Nakamura1, Gladys Y. Ng1, James Y. Paton1, Thomas G. Keens1, James C. Witmer1, Daisy Bautista‐Bolduc1, Marlyn S. Woo1
1Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

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AbstractThe correlation between digital clubbing and certain pulmonary function derangements (hypoxemia and FEV1) was previously described. However, the relationship between digital clubbing and other measures of pulmonary function or the presence of liver disease in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) is poorly defined. Hence we compared the digital clubbing index (CI: ratio of distal phalangeal depth to interphalangeal depth) of 100 patients with CF (43 males, 57 females; mean age, 15.7 ± 7.3 years) with that of 100 age‐ and gender‐matched healthy controls. Digital clubbing was defined as a CI ≥ 1.00 (mean + 2.6 SD; 99% of normal subjects). The CI and its relationship to pulmonary function and to liver disease was then evaluated in the CF patients.Digital clubbing was present in 75/100 (75%) of CF patients but was absent in all controls (P < 0.0001). In CF patients, CI was inversely correlated with PaO2 (r = −0.555; P < 0.001), FEV1 (r = −0.499; P < 0.001), and FEF25–75% (r = −0.404; P < 0.001), and was positively correlated with RV (r = 0.285; P < 0.05) and the slope of phase 3 of single‐breath nitrogen washout (SP3N2) (r = 0.532; P < 0.01). There was no significant correlation between CI and age (r = 0.020; P = 0.84), TLC (r = −0.097; P = 0.34), PaCO2 (r = 0.167; P = 0.10), or history of liver disease (P = 0.08).We conclude that in CF, the degree of digital clubbing is related to degree of hypoxemia, airways obstruction, hyperinflation, and nonuniformity of ventilation. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2002; 33:332–338. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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Pediatric Pulmonology

Tập 33 Số 5

332-338

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