Carbon Monoxide to Prevent Lung Inflammation - Full Text View

Sponsored by:	National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Information provided by:	National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00094406

Purpose

This study will examine in healthy volunteers how breathing carbon monoxide (CO) affects lung inflammation. Severe lung inflammation sometimes develops in patients with pneumonia or patients who develop serious blood stream infections. Studies in the laboratory and in animals show that CO can decrease lung inflammation.

Healthy volunteers between 18 and 40 years of age who do not smoke, are not taking any medications, do not have asthma, are not allergic to sulfa- and penicillin-based drugs, and are not pregnant may be eligible for this study. Candidates are screened with a medical history and physical examination, blood and urine tests, electrocardiogram (EKG), and chest x-ray. Subjects are enrolled in either a pilot study or the main study.

Participants undergo bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage to study the effects of endotoxin (a component of bacteria that causes inflammation similar to that in patients with lung infections) on lung function. Before the procedure, a small plastic tube (catheter) is placed in a vein to collect blood samples and another is placed in an artery to check blood pressure. For the bronchoscopy, the mouth and nasal airways are numbed with lidocaine, and a bronchoscope (thin flexible tube) is passed through the nose into the airways of the lung. A small amount of salt water is squirted through the bronchoscope into one lung and then salt water containing endotoxin is squirted into the other lung.

Following the bronchoscopy, subjects are treated with either CO or room air (placebo) for 6 hours. (Subjects in the pilot study receive treatment for only 3 hours). The gas is delivered through a cushioned mask placed over the nose and mouth. The amount of exhaled CO is measured before, during, and after inhalation of the gas. For this measurement, subjects take a deep breath to fill up their lungs and slowly exhale into a mouthpiece connected to a measuring device until they feel their lungs are empty.

After the CO treatment, a second bronchoscopy is done to examine how the lung responded to the CO or room air. This is studied in two ways. To sample the air, a large needle is used to withdraw air through the bronchoscope over about 3 seconds. Then the areas of the lung that were squirted with salt water alone and with endotoxin and salt water and are rinsed (lavage) and cells and secretions are collected.

Condition	Intervention	Phase
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult	Procedure: Bronchoscopy Procedure: Bronchoalveolar lavage Drug: Endotoxin Drug: Carbon Monoxide	Phase I

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Drug Information available for: Carbon monoxide

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Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Treatment, Randomized, Single Blind, Placebo Control
Official Title:	Effects of Inhaled Carbon Monoxide on Pulmonary Inflammatory Responses Following Endotoxin Instillation

Further study details as provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):

Estimated Enrollment:	35
Study Start Date:	October 2004

Intervention Details:

N/A

Detailed Description:

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Of the many potential predisposing factors, sepsis and pneumonia represent the two main causes of ARDS. In spite of an increase in survival in recent years mortality in patients with ARDS is still estimated around 30 to 40%. In this context, development of effective preventive strategies in patients at high risk of development of ARDS is of paramount importance. Unfortunately, the results of studies evaluating prophylactic regimens for ARDS have been mostly disappointing.

The gaseous molecule carbon monoxide (CO) has been traditionally viewed as a toxic metabolic and industrial waste. However, recent studies have demonstrated an important physiologic role of CO in many biological systems. Specifically, strong anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant and anti-thrombotic effects of CO gas administration and heme oxygenase activation (the enzyme that generates endogenous CO gas) have been demonstrated in several animal models.

Previous studies conducted in our department have demonstrated that bronchoscopic instillation of endotoxin (LPS) in healthy volunteers elicits a compartmentalized pulmonary inflammatory response, serving as an excellent model to evaluate interventions directed towards suppression of lung inflammation at its earliest stages.

In the current single blinded, randomized, placebo controlled study, we are planning to evaluate the effects of inhaled carbon monoxide on local pulmonary inflammatory responses following endotoxin administration. Healthy subjects will undergo local endotoxin instillation, breathe CO or room air through a mask for 6 hours, and then a repeat bronchoscopy with lavage will be done at 6 hours to assess the ability of CO to suppress local inflammation in the lung.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	18 Years to 40 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	Yes

Criteria

INCLUSION CRITERIA:

All volunteer subjects, employees and non-employees, must 18 to 40 years of age and must be able to provide informed, written consent for participation in this study. We will not directly advertise the study to employees to avoid the potential for coercion. Eligibility in the study is determined prior to enrollment on the basis of the following inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Normal screening examination including:

medical history and physical examination, nonsmoker, no concurrent medications including aspirin or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, no active medical problems
complete blood count with differential and platelet counts
serum chemistries including creatinine, blood urea nitrogen, glucose, liver enzymes and function tests, electrolytes, prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time, carboxyhemoglobin measured by venous co-oxymetry.
urinalysis
female subjects must have negative urine pregnancy test within one week of participation (this will be repeated immediately prior to beginning the screening procedures due to radiation exposure from the chest x-ray)
electrocardiogram
chest radiograph

Sexually active females not using contraceptive methods will be instructed to abstain from sexual activity or use barrier contraception methods from the time of last negative pregnancy test to 24 hours after completion of the study.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

active tobacco use
baseline caroxyhemoglobin greater than 2%
pregnancy
lactation
medical history of recent clinically significant asthma allergy to both sulfa- and penicillin-based drugs
Allergy to both sulfa- and penicillin-based drugs.

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00094406

Locations

United States, Maryland
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892

Sponsors and Collaborators

National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)

More Information

NIH Clinical Center Detailed Web Page This link exits the ClinicalTrials.gov site

Publications:

Hudson LD, Milberg JA, Anardi D, Maunder RJ. Clinical risks for development of the acute respiratory distress syndrome. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1995 Feb;151(2 Pt 1):293-301.

Baumann WR, Jung RC, Koss M, Boylen CT, Navarro L, Sharma OP. Incidence and mortality of adult respiratory distress syndrome: a prospective analysis from a large metropolitan hospital. Crit Care Med. 1986 Jan;14(1):1-4.

Milberg JA, Davis DR, Steinberg KP, Hudson LD. Improved survival of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS): 1983-1993. JAMA. 1995 Jan 25;273(4):306-9.

Study ID Numbers:	050012, 05-CC-0012
Study First Received:	October 16, 2004
Last Updated:	September 19, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00094406
Health Authority:	United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):

Lung Permeability
Endotoxin Tolerance
Bronchoscopy
Carbon Monoxide Inhalation

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Respiratory Tract Diseases
Lung Diseases
Respiration Disorders
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult

Carbon Monoxide
Acute respiratory distress syndrome
Inflammation

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Antimetabolites
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Pharmacologic Actions

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 16, 2009