Exhaled carbon monoxide as a biomarker of inflammatory lung disease

Carbon monoxide (CO) can be detected on the exhaled breath of humans. Exhaled CO (E-CO) originates from the inspiration of ambient CO and from endogenous metabolic sources that include heme metabolism catalyzed by heme oxygenase (HO) enzymes. HO occurs in both constitutive (HO-2) and inducible (HO-1) forms; the latter responds to pro-inflammatory or pro-oxidative stimuli. E-CO may arise in the airways from inducible HO-1 activity in the bronchial epithelium, alveolar macrophages and other lung cell types, as a consequence of local inflammation, and from the alveolae in equilibrium with carboxyhemoglobin (Hb-CO) in the pulmonary circulation. Elevations in Hb-CO in turn may reflect increases in ambient CO, as well as increased HO activity in systemic tissues. E-CO increases dramatically in active smokers and can be used to monitor the smoking habit. Elevations in E-CO have been observed in critically ill or post-surgical patients and those with various pulmonary diseases associated with inflammation, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, cystic fibrosis and infections. Despite improvements in the standardization and sensitivity of methods to detect E-CO, the predictive value of this measurement as a diagnostic tool remains unclear.

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