Abstract
We investigated the cardiac effects of single and repeated contrast media injections in dogs with heart failure and compared the effects of iohexol with iohexol supplemented with electrolytes (30 mmol/l NaCl, 0.15 mmol/l CaCl2, 0.9 mmol/l KCl, and 0.1 mmol/l MgCl2; iohexol + electrolytes [IPE]). Although it has a higher osmolality than iohexol, IPE appears to be safer when injected through a wedged catheter. Acute ischemic heart failure was induced by injections of small plastic microspheres into the left coronary artery of 16 anesthetized dogs. Iohexol, IPE, and Ringer acetate were injected into the left coronary artery either as a 5-ml single injection or repeatedly five times, once every 10th second. Single injections of iohexol and IPE induced small hemodynamic and electrophysiologic effects. However, repeated injections of iohexol and IPE increased the maximum rate of isovolumetric contraction by 46% and 36%, reduced heart rate by 8% and 7%, and lengthened QTc (the Q-T interval corrected for heart rate) time by 44 and 39 msec, respectively. No statistically significant differences were found in a comparison of IPE and iohexol. During heart failure, repeated injections of iohexol and IPE induced similar additive hemodynamic...Continue Reading
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