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  • Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a deadly disease with unpredictable progression, and the study aimed to find out if changes in walking distance and oxygen levels during a six-minute-walk test (6MWT) could provide valuable prognostic information alongside other lung function tests.
  • In a study of 197 patients, it was found that oxygen desaturation during the 6MWT was linked to a higher risk of mortality, regardless of reaching the 88% threshold.
  • The study concluded that understanding a patient’s level of desaturation during the 6MWT is crucial for better predicting their prognosis, as different physiological changes indicated varying risks of mortality depending on the desaturation levels observed.

Article Abstract

Rationale And Hypothesis: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a fatal disease with a variable rate of progression. We hypothesized that changes in distance walked and quantity of desaturation during a six-minute-walk test (6MWT) would add prognostic information to changes in FVC or diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide.

Methods: One hundred ninety-seven patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis were evaluated. Desaturation during the 6MWT was associated with increased mortality even if a threshold of 88% was not reached. Baseline walk distance predicted subsequent walk distance but was not a reliable predictor of subsequent mortality in multivariate survival models. The predictive ability of serial changes in physiology varied when patients were stratified by the presence/absence of desaturation < or = 88% during a baseline 6MWT. For patients with a baseline saturation < or = 88% during a 6MWT, the strongest observed predictor of mortality was serial change in diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide. For patients with saturation > 88% during their baseline walk test, serial decreases in FVC and increases in desaturation area significantly predicted subsequent mortality, whereas decreases in walk distance and in diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide displayed less consistent statistical evidence of increasing mortality in our patients.

Conclusion: These data highlight the importance of stratifying patients by degree of desaturation during a 6MWT before attributing prognostic value to serial changes in other physiologic variables.

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