This is a monocentric, case-control, comparative study aiming at investigating the transition from physiological to pathological pulmonary circulation in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) and chronic lung diseases. The study will include 105 adults participants undergoing lung surgery, divided into three groups, Group A (patients with chronic lung disease and PH undergoing lung transplantation), Group B (patients with chronic lung disease without PH), and Group C (patients without chronic lung disease nor PH). The primary objective is to identify the association between vascular remodeling and PH by measuring the medial thickness of pulmonary arteries. Secondary objectives include multimodal phenotyping (clinical, radiological, tissue, and biological) to explore mechanisms of PH development. Blood, broncho-alveolar lavage, and lung tissue samples will be collected during routine care. The study aims to improve understanding of PH pathophysiology and identify potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
105
22mL peripheral blood will be collected
Collected on resected tissue
Collected on resected tissue
Percentage of pulmonary artery media thickness measured by optical microscopy
Time frame: Surgical intervention
Quantify endovascular (angiophagy) and perivascular (fibrosis, pro-inflammatory cells) tissue lesions.
number of stage I, II and III angiophagia lesions relative to the number of arteries analyzed on a field of anatomopathology slides and classified according to artery diameter; surface area of pulmonary fibrosis relative to the total surface area of the tissue field explored; quantification of immune system cells in interstitial tissue relative to the tissue surface area explored.
Time frame: Surgical intervention
Compare the radiological phenotyping of patients with pulmonary hypertension and without pulmonary hypertension, determined from patient lung scans
Time frame: Baseline
Compare cardiorespiratory functional clinical phenotyping between patients with pulmonary hypertension and without pulmonary hypertension.
Using generalized linear model for assesment of respiratory function tests, 6-minute walk test and echocardiography of patients
Time frame: Baseline
Compare the biological phenotyping of biological lung inflammation from bronchioloalveolar lavage of patients with pulmonary hypertension and without pulmonary hypertension.
Dosage of inflammatory proteins (IL1, IL10, IL6, etc.) and cytological analysis of bronchioloalveolar lavage
Time frame: Surgical intervention
High-throughput proteomic quantification indices of circulating serum from patients with pulmonary hypertension compared with patients without pulmonary hypertension.
Time frame: Baseline
Compare the phenotyping of pulmonary vascular microstructure by microCT in patients with pulmonary hypertension and without pulmonary hypertension.
Time frame: Surgical intervention
Compare protein tissue phenotyping of pulmonary hypertension regulatory pathways in patients with and without pulmonary hypertension evaluated with Elisa tests on lung parenchyma.
Time frame: Surgical intervention
Evaluate the statistical relationships between tissue vascular remodeling and tissue, alveolar, and blood protein alterations.
Time frame: Baseline and surgical intervention
Compare genetic tissue phenotyping of pulmonary hypertension regulatory pathways in patients with and without pulmonary hypertension evaluated with PCR tests on lung parenchyma.
Time frame: Surgical intervention
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